Glynn Foster wrote: > Hey, > > Over the last few months there has been various discussions around the > possibility of creating a more user focused site, namely opensolaris.com. > I've > written up some thoughts on it here - > > > http://blogs.gnome.org/gman/2008/03/16/thoughts-on-a-probable-opensolariscom/ > > Based on increasing interest from Sun, it's looking like this will become a > reality, and it would be good to start discussing things more formally and > start > figuring out what would and wouldn't work on such a site.
Glynn, I think having commercial oriented sites for opensolaris is a great idea, and I really like the look and feel of http://www.ubuntu.com/ and it's simplicity. I've also been impressed by what Sun has done to http://mysql.com/ since merging with MySQL. It can only help make the OpenSolaris community more robust and successful to give Sun marketing, education, PR... a place they can control to do their thing. And, giving an OpenSolaris user a website that allows them to get started with a distribution within one mouse click is essential. And, making opensolaris.org even more developer centric (with a bunch of cross links) is cool. Also, I think other OpenSolaris distribution owners should be encouraged to do similar websites, which have the effect of funneling qualified and interested contributors to opensolaris.org. Maybe a section on the new website can focus on this to help them be successful both financially and in terms of OpenSolaris advocacy. In addition, it would be good to have OpenSolaris applications be a key area on the commercial site, with more focus on OpenSolaris application development on the development site. Applications should be a high level tab or link. I think there are many great implementation examples out there. For now I would focus on the high level site map, like you are doing. The key will be to limit redundancy, so content editors don't have to update two places all the time. Maybe we need to start even higher, like at website charter statements to make sure we are all on the same "page". Cheers, Jim _______________________________________________ website-discuss mailing list [email protected]
