Christoph Haas wrote: > On Tuesday 05 September 2006 04:16, Matej Cepl wrote: > > Paul Belanger wrote: > > > After all, the point of any distribution is to sell it to a user. > > > > It is not. For example, Debian Developers usually don't care how many > > users is Debian sold to. And that is a good thing. > > If you think of the monetary aspect: okay. But if you think of "selling > something to someone" in the meaning of promotion then I'll definitely > second that debian.org's web site is not very appealing. It does its job > and is functional - but it is not very nifty. And by the way I *do* care > how many users use my packages or Debian altogether. It's nicer to > maintain something that 1000 people use than something that is just > rotting in the archives. > > I remotely remember that the last time this topic came up the thread was > closed with a "this is not a high priority - we are dedicated to deliver > the best operating system, not the best web site" statement. No doubt > about that. But people like something nice for their eyes, too. When I > started playing around with Debian I was surprised about debian.org. So > many people used Debian privately and professionally but the web site just > didn't reflect that. Many people judge a product (or in our case: an > operating system) by the first look. And as Debian is technically well > done I believe it deserves a good public appearance, too. > > I'm not a member of the web team but I could imagine contributing to it > even though I'm not the greatest web programmer of all times. Perhaps a > contest may be nice. (But if the result looks as ugly as Ubuntu's web site > I'm scared already. ;) ) Whatever it turns out I'm pretty sure that it's > time for a redesign. Perhaps not pre-Etch though.
Well, you can always checkout the current website, improve it and apply patches. On <http://www.debian.org/devel/website/> is described how it works. I'm interested in patches and proposals. Regards, Joey -- Linux - the choice of a GNU generation. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
