>Louis Suarez-Potts wrote: >>>On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 23:21:41 +0200, Alexandro Colorado >>>I think the mission statement is and has been the worst thing on the >>>front page for the last four years. However, I seem to remember Louis >>>arguing that it had to be there, for political reasons. I hope this is >>>my long-term memory playing up. >>> >> >> There were indeed political considerations. I'm not committed to it >> being there now. As I metioned before, the MS was a big effort on the >> part of the community and when we did take it off for a while there was >> a fair amount of complaint. >> >> But let's see it off for a test. If lots of complaints, we can do what >> we did last time: put it back. > >i think the mission statement should stay on the front page. more, i >think it should be made more visible. however, i'm for a rewording, >because i don't consider "provide access to all functionality and data >through open-component based APIs and an XML-based file format" >something very friendly for first time visitors. as an example, i kind >of like the mission statement on the Gnome website (the "What is >GNOME?" box) - http://www.gnome.org
Re-wording? Sure.... The wording took, and I am not kidding, months. That said, we can try, but a) new subject line; and b) not now. It really depends on what audience you wish to reach. The MS reflected, when it was done, the community: mostly developers. It was a statement about the product by them and for them. We can have, of course, a friendlier statement about what OOo is for users, and have the MS inside. And in fact we used to have such a statement for users--it got put inside, to free up the homepage. Basically, the current homepage was designed, with the tabs, etc., to provide key information for users and developers. It's always been our problem: do we cater to users? or developers? We'd like to do both. Mozilla, to use the usual example, now caters primarily to users, but it didn't always. Are we to follow Moz? I'd say yes. After all, as has been pointed out before, developers don't really look at the website/homepage. cheers Louis --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
