Re: linux.org.il Let's be more constructive - write in action-items format, and use the contact links on the site instead of posting here.
See comments below On 9/25/06, Amos Shapira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Slick graphic > excution does not have any added value for this site. There are two levels in which I disagree with this statement: 1. The current page at linux.org.il doesn't help first-comers to navigate between the other sites it points to - why would a non-technical home user looking to understand "what's all this Firefox all about" decide to click on a web site described as "a site of some kids with a scar the shape of a penguin"? Or why would an owner of some comercial site trying to understand why someone asks him more money to make a web site "standard compliant" might be worth it decide to click on linux.israel.net's icon? Or how would a lawyer thinking about switching his office to use Linux servers and OpenOffice.org bring himself to listen what the people on Linmagazine have to say? If I were them I'd turn around and run!
Translation: the captions under those banners are not good enough. Anyone with better suggestions - please use the feedback form http://www.linux.org.il/contact
2. Addressing (1) would be a big advantage over the current site but having a less spartan look (and it shouldn't take much - just copy CSS of some other good looking site or some FOSS CMS template) will help keep people in.
Not that there's anything wrong with current design (except maybe the links in the right sidebar, which IMHO should not be left-aligned), but there *are* shared FOSS designs out there publicly available for us to pick See e.g.: http://www.oswd.org/designs/browse/ A specific choice (recommend use this and that stylesheet) would probably be more constructive than just "get better design".
At the end of the day, I think that we all share the goal of helping as many people as possible to understand and start using FOSS. The current web site can do a better job in doing this. I already have a mental image of what a document describing my proposal and what the layout should look like but haven't got around to sit down and write it. Hopefully tonight I'll have some time to put down a proposal in writing and offer this to the community.
Oh, good. But for people with short comments etc. - why not use the feedback form on the page instead of writing here?
> Getting iglu.org.il back online does. What's so special about iglu.org.il?
That it's currently offline, for one thing. That makes the prominent link at the top of linux.org.il main page broken (broken links->bad user experience->...) btw, the "get" page needs some work. Specificly, Mandrake, Yellow Dog, Kazit and Kineret don't have any info (probably went outdated), and some others are not just there - seems that we need people to post some contents. Other possibility: maybe just point to some other site's "distros" page? http://www.whatsup.org.il/modules.php?pagename=%E1%E7%E9%F8%FA%20%E4%F4%F6%E4&op=modload&name=phpWiki&file=index http://www.penguin.org.il/doku.php?id=%D7%9E%D7%93%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%9B%D7%99%D7%9D:%D7%A2%D7%9D+%D7%90%D7%99%D7%96%D7%95+%D7%94%D7%A4%D7%A6%D7%94+%D7%9C%D7%94%D7%AA%D7%97%D7%99%D7%9C (hmm... maybe we need a hebrew DistroWatch?)
Just to stress one thing - I do not intend to attack anyone of the people who run any of these sites, on top of all Ilya who's description of his goal pretty much fall in line with my idea of the proper function of linux.org.il and who I see as done more to the community than I - after all he shells out the expenses to put this site in the first place.
Always good to state that explicitly :-) ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
