On 8/19/05, Murray Cumming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The GNOME Tour is meant to show what the GNOME Desktop _software_ is and > the important things that it can do. This is for new users and requires > us to imagine how they feel when discovering GNOME. > > I started the text some time ago, and now I have the build structure > working, so it puts the HTML online (guess where, but don't link to it > yet, please) and allows people to translate it via .po files. Many > thanks to Danilo: > http://live.gnome.org/MarketingTeam_2fGnomeTour_2fTranslating > > However, I doubt I'll have time to finish this in time for the GNOME > 2.12 release, so I'd like someone else to take over ownership. That > means, > 1) Writing a little more text, and/or improving what's there. > 2) Adding some screenshots. > 3) Getting feedback from people and making improvements. Give people a > deadline for feedback. > 4) Declaring it string-frozen and asking the gnome-i18n to translate it. > Tell them in advance when it will be string-frozen. > > I think you can feel quite free, though I think this requires a native > English speaker. I'd personally hope that the writer > > - does not use wishy-washy vague language. Instead, stick to the facts, > and explain what's on the screen. Let them see how simple and good it > is, without always telling them what to think. > > - does not use overly-verbose language. It isn't a high-school essay, so > you should be concise and try to be interesting. Don't repeat yourself > in different words just to fill up the paragraph. > > - does not try to make minor things seem more impressive than they are. > > - does not get technical. Remember these users don't know their Word > from their Windows. > > Any volunteers? I hope this is the start of a regular thing. We can > review it for every release.
It would be cool, as an aside, if someone whipped up a stylesheet to turn this into an s5 presentation (http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/) so that it could easily be jammed onto the liveCD as a presentation. [Would probably be more usable on the webpage that way too.] Luis (not volunteering to take it all over, though might do a pass for the liveCD at some point) -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list