> My main point is that I think this is a far bigger barrier to adoption than 
> lack of personability of the NH dev team.
> -Michael

Putting photos + bios on the home page will help win trust with new
visitors. It gives the message that NHibernate is a team of seasoned
developers, not some rabble of spurious open source hackers (decision
makers often fear the worst!). By winning trust, it will also increase
adoption. That's my thinking at least.

The failing links, duplicate forums and stale content might be solved
by creating gravity around the latest resources. Creating gravity
means doing things that pull visitors back time and time again (google
forum, nhforge.org etc).

One thing we could do to give nhforge.org gravity would be to make the
home page as official as possible. This would leave no room for
confusion, so people know it's the place to come to. My hope is that
putting developer faces on nhforge.org home page will help to make it
more official, and therefore reduce the confusion, and ensure visitors
keep coming back.

Tobin

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