On 8/10/07, Murray Cumming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe you could give a quick example of something that we wrote in the > past that was suitable for end users but not for enthusiasts.
Good exercise. Note that it is not only about writing but also about how you organize and prioritize the information. Taking as an example http://www.gnome.org/start/2.16/ and pages underneath: - Everything before "Getting GNOME 2.16" tells nothing new to anybody not new to GNOME. Always the same, yawn. Then the Get Footware reference is good but the rest (building GNOME) is of little use of 95% or people. My conclusion: the /start page hasn't served well our primary targets. - The whole http://www.gnome.org/start/2.16/notes/en/ is dedicated to potential people new to GNOME. It even says "If you're already familiar with GNOME, you may want to skip ahead". Second page in the sequence that has failed to serve our primary targets. Two extra clicks before you get into the real stuff. - http://www.gnome.org/start/2.16/notes/en/rnfrontpage.html is a good page. I would only add a message more specific to distro maintainers since they were the main ones to build GNOME with the new Metacity effects. - http://www.gnome.org/start/2.16/notes/en/rnfeatures.html is relatively ok. Well, normal end users are clearly taken in mind in the first place. That page could serve better our main targets by having less text like "a powerful new note-taking application called Tomboy." (Tomboy was not new at all for our targets" and more like "By providing hooks via standardized DBUS methods, other programs are able to interact with power saving...". Developers talking to developers about why the new cools stuff is cool. - http://www.gnome.org/start/2.16/notes/en/rnusability.html is also ok but also has primarily end users in mind. What about a mention to application developers about how these usability improvements affect their development and how can they benefit from them? - http://www.gnome.org/start/2.16/notes/en/rnbackend.html - this is what I'm talking about! - http://www.gnome.org/start/2.16/notes/en/rni18.html ok, good one. - http://www.gnome.org/start/2.16/notes/en/rnlookingforward.html not bad, and now with the roadmapping work it will be much better. Let's concentrate in the novelties our primary targets are waiting for. -- Quim Gil /// http://desdeamericaconamor.org -- marketing-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
