On Fri, Jan 01, 2016 at 04:15:16PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Leo Famulari <l...@famulari.name> skribis: > > > Some of the video-recorded presentations have been a very nice > > introduction. Perhaps we could embed one on the home-page. If we do > > that, I could help transcribe it, with the slides embedded, to increase > > accessibility. > > There’s already a video on the home page. :-) I wonder if we should > switch to a newer talk, such as <https://gnunet.org/guix2015video>.
Haha, I guess I never scroll down. Everything I need is "above the fold". > > That said, probably few people bother watching a 45mn video “just to get > a feel.” So it may be that we still need to improve the web site’s > message. Yes, I personally hate watching videos and listening to podcasts. I only do it when there is no transcript and I am on a long bus or train ride and can't concentrate on working. I personally found that video to be a very good explanation of the problems addressed by Guix and the solutions offered. As well as the newer video you mentioned. A transcript next to slides [0] can be read in less time than 45 minutes. It can also be skimmed, searched, and anchor-linked. That wouldn't be a perfect solution but it could be done "almost now". A number of the ...unusual questions people have asked about Guix demonstrate a near total lack of knowledge about the project's goals and design. We need an overview like that provided by the videos. The manual is more of a "how-to". I also liked some blog posts by Andy Wingo and Christopher Allan Webber, although those posts don't explain "the whole picture". [0] I like this format, with bigger pictures: http://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm > > Ludo’.
