Am 02.01.2014 22:05, schrieb Richard Frith-Macdonald: > > On 2 Jan 2014, at 20:27, Gregory Casamento > <greg.casame...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I disagree with Riccardo here in the sense that the current look >> is not "proven" at all. What needs to happen is a radical >> redesign of the site and an entirely new way of presenting the >> information on it. > > I agree with this ... current design is not proven (and while > radical redesign may not be necessary, it seems worth trying). > >> I hate to sound like a business person, but our recent discussion >> on the list with Doc O'Leary did yield a few unpleasant >> revelations. One of which is that our message is entirely >> confusing and that the website is a big part of that.
I think the Wine project has a somewhat similar audience and similar development targets as GNUstep. Their website is always very mature and clean: http://www.winehq.org/ You see: just one sentence about what the project is, then a couple of links which easily fit into the smallest screen. If somebody wants to learn about details, he'll happily click through a few links. If GNUstep can't explain what it is in a single sentence ... then that's a problem. On the PPA page I currently use this: > GNUstep is a free implementation of Apples Cocoa (Foundation, > AppKit, etc.) coming along with many additions, like WebObjects, and > is written in (of course) Objective-C. It is known to work on Linux, > *BSD, MS Windows and also (using Apples own libraries) on Mac OS X. > Extending support to iOS' UIKit appears to be not impossible. For my taste not perfect, but reasonable. - - - > If there's one thing I've learned about business/marketing, it's > that people tend to screw up by taking complaints too seriously. When > you change to address complaints it's all too easy to make things > worse by losing the things a majority like in order to deal with the > criticism of a noisy minority. This partly matches my experience. You screw up easily if you do exactly what these people suggest. Still they point out a problem and you should have addressed this problem; their way or another way. Markus -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. (FH) Markus Hitter http://www.reprap-diy.com/ http://www.jump-ing.de/ _______________________________________________ Gnustep-dev mailing list Gnustep-dev@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnustep-dev
