On Feb 21, 2012 7:08 AM, "Christian Giordano" < [email protected]> wrote: >… > Since the last release the last slide (mainly used for support) changed. While the copy still talks about askubuntu.com, instead of the typical screenshot layout now the slideshow background is visible and there is a Twitter feed. > > I am not sure when this change happened and who did it, but my understanding is that it is serving the purpose of acknowledging the user about the breath of the install base (many languages many topics). > > Being the last slide it is quite important so it would be great if we can discuss this solution further. > > > While I understand the motivation of advertising something different than askubuntu for not English speaker, I think that a moderation will be necessary. My concern is that when a moderation will be in place, this breath of users (especially because moderating in different languages is very difficult) will get missing. > > Because we are close to release, and because such moderation is not in place yet, I wonder if we should just revert back to the slide how it was in 11.10. > > > What do you think guys? > > > Cheers, chr
Just to be clear, that Twitter thingy was my doing. It is still a work in progress, but the rest of that work is low priority for 12.04. You're right about moderation limiting the assortment of users we see. In fact, I have implemented moderation - in the current revision (and my preview web page at http://people.ubuntu.com/~dylanmccall/ubiquity-slideshow-ubuntu/preview/). The way moderation works is quite reliable: there's a list of accounts we like attached to a twitter account called hello_ubuntu, and the slideshow gets tweets from that list. We can edit the list at any time. The list also has retweets, so that works nicely to give us some extra breadth, but it's specifically pulling from English places. It's possible to expand on this in a bunch of ways, but, indeed, rushing would end in teers. Hopefully it can be cleverer next cycle, if the feature sticks around! With that said, English works, and it should be pretty cool. Especially for an exciting release like this one! I'd like to show it for English installs and hide it otherwise - same way it behaves when there's an error or no internet connection. It isn't ideal, but I think it's better than nothing :) (And don't worry: that's already three quarters implemented). Dylan
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