Hello everyone, I am open-source related guy from Lithuania. Of course, I am using GNOME desktop environment with Linux system in my personal life and work, and I am working in local open-source(OS) related company as projects manager. One of our company aims is to increase Linux market share in our country. In our country very small amount of end users even know that OS software exist and even smaller amount use it. Today OS software is really mature to replace commercial alternatives, however, there are some major obstacles that are stopping this process. One of them is lack of good representation of the OS desktop system. I really like GNOME approach, also GNOME marketing approach as it is described in http://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing, however, it's time to show GNOME to all new folks that have no idea about OSS. I can say that gnome.org is really cool OS community website, however, it gives no idea for the end user what GNOME is. We were planning to develop and maintain informational and representative website about open-source system with GNOME desktop environment, however IMO it would be good to collaborate with the gnome.org community and to develop website with these features:
1. It would clearly tell in few words for inexperienced end user who even doesn't know what the operating system is what is GNOME. 2. It would represent general GNOME experience from bright side: there should be well illustrated presentation, maybe with some animation, that user could "feel" what the GNOME is through his web browser. 3. It would have "cool feature" highlight list that end user could read, see and feel why GNOME is better than windows. For example, Deskbar with integrated Beagle search. Bleeding-edge technologies, such as Beryl/Compiz, could also be highlighted/illustrated. 4. .. All other things that could help for first-time visitor to create positive opinion. 5. All the content would be written in simple, easily readable style without any technical details. All the content in this website would be suited for inexperienced end user. Such content layout as in http://www.gnome.org/about/ is not acceptable - lot of text without illustrations confuse end user. 6. Simple, but attractive UI. Our company is ready to invest some resources for this project. It would be interesting to know what do you think about such an idea. I think it would be worth both for us and GNOME to develop such project not on our own, but with all GNOME community. With regards, Justinas _______________________________________________ gnome-web-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-web-list
