Hi, joined the list a few days ago. The sources Yves points out are a great starting point, but I fail to see why we need a separate site for that? Why not just beef up the foundation site? I'm a (front end) web developer and I can help with all things web-related, even information architecture. So for "Communication and outreach", I'm in.
Two great text resources: * http://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/TalksAndPresentations/AvailableMaterial -> PDF from page 15 and on * https://www.freedomboxfoundation.org/goals/index.en.html /Robin On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 10:21 PM, Yves L <[email protected]> wrote: > Le 05/09/2011 14:43, John Walsh a écrit : > > <...> >>>> >>>> I would strongly recomment set up a website which is appropriate to >>>> the 21th century >> >> IMHO, I think the Foundation website looks quite modern. > > <...> > >>> >> However, Jonas's response reminded me how confusing the freedombox message >> was to me the first time I heard about FreedomBox. > > <...> > >> >> Off the top of my head, we need to do a better job at selling our message >> and I have the following suggestions; >> >> The FreedomBox is our product and it deserves a domain of it's own rather >> than be a wiki page of Debian. I am only saying hide that we are using >> Debian infrastructure. Is that possible? >> >> On the FreedomBox domain we could have an About Us page, which would tell >> the FreedomBox story. In a nutshell, it would say Eben started the project >> with the aim... Additionally, the About page would explain we are a Debian >> Blend which is a part of Debian. Finally, the About page would document >> the >> Foundation as the custodian of the FreedomBox, linking to Foundations >> website. I'm in two minds if the About page should mention the role of the >> TAC or should that remain on the Foundation website? >> >> >> Currently, everything is (accidently) in the name of the foundation rather >> than the freedombox, which gives the impression that foundation drives the >> project. >> >> I think you get the idea that we need to better sell the box and we >> probably >> can't do that until we protect the product name. At the same time, I think >> we need to de-emphasize the Foundation so that it feels more like our >> project. >> >> One of the great things about this proposal is that the majority of the >> work >> (web page text) can be done by non-developers \0/ although we would still >> need the help of web developers to structure the website. Maybe we could >> tart up wiki pages, but that would make the site insecure? >> > <...> >> >> Kind Regards >> >> -- fiftyfour >> > Hi > > I'm Yves and have been lurking on this list for some months awaiting a time > when I could make myself useful, not being a developer nor packager. > > I cannot agree more with fiftyfour on the "marketing" aspect that is missing > for the freedombox project to stir up interest and attract more developers. > It reminds of what the getfirefox.com page did some time ago to do exactly > that, while being run by a volunteer (the address now points to official > Mozilla) > > While the freedombox foundation website does an adequate job for the like > minded individuals coming from the open source/privacy world it is a bit dry > at advocating "the dream" to the average Joe and lacks pedagogy: why is it > important, why should I care, why is it difficult and so on. > > I am very much willing to buy a domain name (for instance : > freedomboxworld.com) and set up an initial website to help get this > attention. Here are the sources I think we can build upon to flesh up the > site. > > - Explaining the reason of the freedombox > - Explaining the technology and hurdles discussed on this mailing list in > layman's terms (the "Hi five" challenge to use mobile phone to share GPG > keys to a trusted friend, the reason current DNS is a problem, how to > maintain contact with the "oldworld" internet, why email is problematic...) > - Rebound on news items underlining the need for a freedombox > - Syndicate news of other or similar project > - live tweeter, facebook, identica feeds citing the project > All while pointing to existing resources when already there (the speeches by > eblen, the wiki, mailing list and so forth.) > > It would help to have someone with strong graphics skills (that I lack) to > beef up the look and feel (again Mozilla does a superb job at it but with a > different budget) > > This would make a nice starting point for a "Communication and outreach" > working group, what do you think ? > > Regards > > Yves > > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedombox-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss > _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss
