Jan Wielkiewicz <tona_kosmicznego_smie...@interia.pl> writes: > Dnia 2020-08-16, o godz. 16:39:12 > Samuel Thibault <samuel.thiba...@gnu.org> napisaĆ(a): > >> Hello, > Currently the latest news on the website are "2016-12-18-releases". > I'm not talking about news from https://darnassus.sceen.net/ , because > it is not accessible from the official website and is dead half of the > time, for example now. > The lazy solution to this would be: > "The Hurd is still alive, check out our git repository and mailing > list!" > I could write some short notes if my English is good enough.
I thought you were a native speaker! Your English is superb! > >> I will probably never understand the reasoning behind "graphically >> appealing => is alive", but I guess that's the world we live in. > How we present the project to the world and its appearance is extremely > important to success of the project, a good example of this can be seen > in the animal world: > Some animals pretend to be dead in order to trick predators into > thinking something is wrong with them: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apparent_death > We don't want the Hurd to be as successful in pretending we're dead as > these animals, do we? :) > People are simple - they see an old website, with latest news from 2016 > and assume the project is dead. Not everyone is as curious as me to > check the mailing list or git repo. > I started contributing to Guix, just because the website convinced me > the project is worth it, also because it is a GNU project, but the > website was more important. > professional website = people thinking the project is professional > By just saying on the main page "we're looking for developers for X" we > can gain new contributors. Just because I told my friend about the > Hurd, he's now willing to contribute. > This is the power of presentation. Really, I had to tell people all > around the Internet, the Hurd is still alive, because they thought > otherwise! This is pretty true. That's kind of the main reason I started playing with GNU Guix too! > >> It is already a wiki. > Yes I know, what I mean by this is we could make the main page with sole > purpose of showing the Hurd is cool and still alive and a candy shop > people want to come and from this cool main page, there would be a link > to the wiki, the current web page we don't want to show anyone but > maintainers. This would save the current maintainers from headaches. > The navigation on the website is also hard, but I'm not sure I'm > competent enough to reorganise the wiki more logically and the main > goal of making the new website is what I said above - showing the Hurd > is cool. I have thought about this for a long time! That's a fantastic idea! > > >> Samuel > > Jan Wielkiewicz > -- Joshua Branson Sent from Emacs and Gnus