Curtis Olson wrote:
> I wish to second this! FlightGear has never really gone on a marketing
> offensive. Marketing takes a lot of time and effort, so it's hard for
> people who are developing code or aircraft or working on other aspects of
> the project to find a lot of additional time to do marketing on top of
> everything else.
Well, at least a minor step into a reasonable direction would be _not_
to dedicate prominent areas of the "flagship of the projects' marketing
tools" - the main website - to 3rd party advertisement, and to let
knowledgeable people develop not only a better design for the site but
also a better concept for dealing with, updating the content.
Let's be honest, in its current state the site isn't well suited to be
shown around as an appealing intro into learning what the project is
about. If we're seriously going into competition for headlines, then we
should make sure, _beforehand_, not to have a primary web site which
has such an embarrassing look (and feel) as the current one.
BTW, it's generally understandable that nobody wants to dive deeply
into developing a nice web representation for FlightGear if they don't
see a change of getting the result accepted as the new site.
While I'm uncertain wether I agree with every detail of Pete Morgan's
proposal for a web site re-design, I think he deserves a real chance of
getting his work accepted as The New Site, if he's doing a proper job.
As far as I can tell, he'll be able to recruit people supporting (t)his
effort, thus he doesn't have to shoulder all the work himself.
Cheers,
Martin.
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