What is GNOME is NOT a mission statement. Is a project description, the difference is that a mission statement is focused on what the project want to achieve while project description is a well.. what the project is about (not touching goals on the long term).
Mozilla delegates the mission statement to the 'about' which OpenOffice.org also have (is even the first option). http://www.openoffice.org/about.html My roomate who is a person who NEVER went into the OOo site worked as the perfect guinea pig. First thing he expressed is how cluttered is that page. Also that is hard to follow and he doesnt know where he should start. First need he wanted is to know how to download the program. He also got NO idea of the OOo donuts and told me the image is too small to actually tell what it is. He told me that the site was boring and that more graphics could be included. He also expressed that he would rather want to see some 'demos' about the product before he download them. quote "If this is a replacement of MSO I want to know what are the comparisons right away". I really like this quote from Jean Hollis: """ The most important thing about a website, especially the first (or > "home") page, is *usability*. The site must *meet the needs of > visitors*. It's not what you want to tell them, but *what they want to > know*, """ -- Alexandro Colorado Co-Lider of OpenOffice.org Espa�ol http://es.openoffice.org/ Quoting Nicu Buculei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
