Hi Pat ! Thank you for the effort you are putting into this. I myself am busy to take a careful luck now - but a far as I can see you are taking the right decisions.
Would you mind pinging me later this week? I think I can come up with some text for the "programing algorithms" part. Regards, js -><- On 23 August 2015 at 23:28, Pat David <patda...@gmail.com> wrote: > So, I'm currently poking at the main page for the WGO redesign. I had > mentioned in a previous mail the product vision from the vision briefing > whose main points concerning the product vision were: > > A. HIgh-end photo manipulation > B. Creating original art. > C. Production elements (graphical design) > D. Programming algorithms. > > Alexandre mentioned that there were some complaints about tasks > specifically relevant to desktop publishing not being mentioned in the > vision. > > I am looking for any input if anyone would like to offer some on the > verbiage of a few key places on the site right now (http://static.gimp.org). > > First, the introductory text in the very first section after the name, > Wilber, and a download link. It currently reads: > > === > ## The Free & Open Source Image Editor > > This is the official GIMP website. > GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is the Free and > Open Source, cross platform image editor available for GNU/Linux, OS X, > Windows and more. It contains information about downloading, installing, > using, and enhancing it. This site also serves as a distribution point for > the latest releases. We try to provide as much information about the GIMP > community and related projects as possible. Hopefully you will find what > you need here. Grab a properly chilled beverage and enjoy... > === > > I feel that it gets the most important points up front (official site, GIMP > is an acronym..., cross platform, image editor). Are there other points > that need to be made in that first introductory paragraph? > > The next few sections I had broken out to hopefully address/illustrate each > of the vision statement points. I can use any input for those sections as > well if anyone has thoughts: > > === > ## High Quality Photo Manipulation > > GIMP provides the tools for needed for high quality image manipulation. > From retouching to restoring to creative composites, the only limit is your > imagination. > === > > and (A big thanks to David Revoy for allowing use of some of his images), > > === > ## Original Artwork Creation > > I have nothing for this section yet to address original artwork creation. > === > > I still have to make: > > === > ## Production Elements (graphical design?) > === > > === > ## Programming algorithms (i seriously have no idea what to put here) > === > > I think it might be nice to also include something to place GIMP within the > context of a F/OSS workflow for multiple use-cases, photography, web > production design, and desktop publishing - I'm still thinking on this. > > So, anyone care to unleash their inner marketing-Hemingway? Otherwise I'm > going to take my best guess at things and just hope I don't screw up too > bad... (I just realized that almost my entire life can be described in > that one sentence... :) ). > > pat > _______________________________________________ > gimp-web-list mailing list > gimp-web-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-web-list _______________________________________________ gimp-web-list mailing list gimp-web-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-web-list
