On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 2:45 PM, Debarshi Ray <rishi...@lostca.se> wrote: ...
> To me the new website still doesn't convey what GNOME is. It is better > than the previous one, which used really abstract terminology, in > that it prominently features a laptop running GNOME. However, just > saying that it is "an easy and elegant way to use your computer", or > that it "has been designed from the ground up to help you have the > best possible computing experience" is still vague. > > When I go to "learn more", I see some nice screenshots and text, but > it still expects my to read between the lines to figure out that GNOME > is a client side OS (or a desktop environment for the more technically > savvy) for laptops and desktops. ... The updated design is mostly a relayout of the previous site. It's a big improvement and something that was long overdue. My hope is that it will mark the start of a more active period of development for the website. There are lots of things that could be improved. I largely agree that we have more work to do to properly introduce and describe the project. However, I don't think the answer is to state that GNOME is simply a desktop environment or a client side OS (an obvious question - how do you describe these to someone who isn't familiar with that terminology?) The difficulty is that GNOME is a number of things - an OS/desktop UX, a stack, an application platform, a collection of technologies (that can be repurposed), an effort to integrate and test. We're not just about our own code, but other people's code too. And we're more than code - we're a project, an initiative, a community, a set of values. We could communicate these things in a few different ways. One option we've considered in the past is to have a more value-driven banner as the first thing you see on the home page. Another alternative might be to give the different aspects of the project (UX, technologies, mission) a more prominent place on the home page, with more equal weighting. tl;dr version - it's not a trivial issue, but it would be good to figure it out! Allan
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