On Mon, February 13, 2012 8:44 am, Emily Gonyer wrote: > What if we kept the list (and added to it) and then rotated through it on > a > monthly (or even weekly) basis, highlighting one application at a time, > with a top bar that says "Coming Next week/month _____" with the name of > whichever application will be featured next, perhaps the same thing below > only 'Last week's featured application ____' and have each one archived, > so > that when you click on the name of the program you get whatever was > written > up on it when it was last featured. This would give us a reason to write > short articles on each, and a way to ensure that they all stay up-to-date > - > as they rotate through the 'featured' section, we'd go back to each set of > developers and ask 'whats changed/new/etc'. It would also allow for some > of > the lesser-known applications to be highlighted in turn, and thus allow > them an exposure that they haven't had. > > Actually, as I think about this more, I think weekly (or perhaps > bi-weekly) > would be better than monthly, so that we could get through them all each > year and thus they could be kept significantly more up-to-date. It would > also give people a reason to come back and checkout the website more > often. >
I love this idea, but I worry about its implementation and also keeping it up to date. I don't really know anything about how easy it is to create a page like this, but I know how tough it is to make sure you've got good current content for websites when you don't have a staff of writers. We could write a lot of these out in advance, so that we have a lot of "safety" entries for times no one feels like writing. It looks really bad when you've got a feature that relies on new content when there is no new content to be published! karen > Emily > > On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 5:09 AM, Dave Neary <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> (list only, CCing marketing-list, setting follow-up there) >> >> On 02/13/2012 10:48 AM, Andre Klapper wrote: >> >>> On Sun, 2012-02-12 at 16:22 -0800, Steve Talley wrote: >>> >>>> I just went to your website, and it wasn't clear to me how to >>>> download Gnome, which I did some months ago, and which provided >>>> Gnumeric and many other free applications. >>>> >>> >>> If you go to http://www.gnome.org/gnome-3/ there is a "Find out how to >>> get GNOME 3" link at the bottom leading to >>> http://www.gnome.org/getting-gnome/ which includes a "Distributions" >>> section. >>> >>> If you would "just" like to download Gnumeric I would recommend >>> http://projects.gnome.org/gnumeric/ as a start. >>> >> >> This raises an interesting point about the GNOME web page - we don't >> currently provide an easy way to find/find out about GNOME applications >> (hosted on gnome.org) which aren't part of the GNOME desktop, outside of >> the few applications we promote on gnome.org/applications >> >> http://projects.gnome.org/ gives an index, looking through the list, >> some >> interesting apps we could promote are Abiword, Balsa, Banshee, Déjà Dup, >> Dia, F-Spot, GIMP, Gnumeric, GNU Cash, Hamster (although I think this is >> included in GNOME now?), Inkscape, Nanny, PDF Mod, Planner, Rhythmbox, >> Tasque, X-Chat... >> >> Some of these are not hosted on gnome.org - Banshee, GIMP, GNU Cash, >> Inkscape, X-Chat all have their own websites, and for good reason. Some >> of >> them are on Launchpad (Déjà Dup, for example). And several excellent >> GNOME >> applications (like Shotwell, SimpleScan, Sound Juicer, for example) >> don't >> get a mention on the progects.g.o page at all. >> >> It'd be nice if we could help these projects with their SEO and get them >> more visibility as the "headline" GNOME applications - those we know >> make >> users happy and have great integration and a decent degree of >> functionality >> and maturity. On that score, I would exclude Dia and GNUCash because >> they >> haven't kept up with the platform, but the others are all excellent >> GNOME >> apps. >> >> Perhaps gnome.org/applcations is the place for us to promote these >> applications? How can we do so in a sustainable and SEO-friendly way? We >> already promote some GNOME applications there - including apps like >> Cheese >> which are included in the desktop but which benefit from people knowing >> what they are. >> >> Cheers, >> Dave. >> >> -- >> Dave Neary >> GNOME Foundation member >> [email protected] >> Jabber: [email protected] >> -- >> marketing-list mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list >> > > > > -- > Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, > power > and magic in it. - Goethe > > Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter > and those who matter don't mind. - Dr.Seuss > > Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts > can be counted. - Albert Einstein > -- > marketing-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list > -- marketing-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
