Jeff Fortin Tam <[email protected]> wrote: ... > Methinks it might be time to retire the "discover GNOME 3" concept and > turn it into "What is GNOME?" page. It's not 2011 anymore, it's not like > we're still comparing ourselves to GNOME 2 :)
I think it's important to provide an overview of the actual UX that we provide. We never had that in the GNOME 2 days, and the lack of user-facing information was something that people frequently complained about. There are different ways you can answer the question "what is GNOME?" One is to talk about the technology. The other is to talk about user experience. Another still is to talk about values and goals (Mozilla is the example that always comes up here). The latter is something that we've increasingly tried to do in the Engagement Team. I agree that the current about us page could be better. There's too much text, and it's a bit of a grab bag. And I agree that it should talk more about the technology (the technologies page that I recently started will be useful in this respect). That said, it doesn't have to be one thing or the other - I think we can talk about technology, and user experience, and values. A page with a clearer structure would help here One final point - something we've tried to do with the current page (I don't think we've been entirely successful here, but that's another story) is emphasise the impact that GNOME has outside of our project. One of our hallmarks is that we work across the stack, fixing bugs as we find them, in order to create something cohesive. Not only is this something that differentiates us from other Free Software projects (good thing), but it is also a way to emphasise our value to potential partners. While I'm certainly not opposed to saying more about what our tech actually is and does, I wouldn't want to lose this aspect of our identity in the process. I seem to be poking at the website right now, so I'll see if I can come up with designs for a better About Us page... (no promises though!) Allan _______________________________________________ engagement-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/engagement-list
