2009/9/8 Stormy Peters <sto...@gnome.org>: > I met with Denise last week and she pointed out: > > It's very hard to tell what GNOME is from our web pages. If you don't know > when you land on gnome.org, you aren't likely to figure it out. An "easy to > understand desktop" doesn't really mean anything to non desktop/OS > developers. When you go to About GNOME, you get a list of our > values/features but not a definition, screenshot or list of projects. > It's very hard to find a list of projects in GNOME. > No where do we say what GNOME stands for. > No where do we say why we have a foot print as a logo. (There's mention of > how it came about in a history here, > http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/gnome-history.html, but no mention of why > we/they/he thought the foot was representative.) > > Our current web pages are pretty much for people that already know what > GNOME is, but we might want to rethink that as we roll out the new webpage. > > I think it's a marketing problem. Thoughts?
I think we should break it down to these: A project that aims to make computer accessible to everyone (in the wider possible meaning of accessible, 0 cost, accessible, localized...), this is the BIG meaning. Then this big meaning gets broken down to these 3 main approaches to achieve the goal: * An opensource desktop environment for open source operating systems. (This needs a non-geeky wording approach though) (Freedom for users) *A complete set of tools for developers to create apps for such environment. (Freedom for developers) * An online, world-wide community of people joined together for the pursue of GNOME's goals. My two cents. -- Un saludo, Alberto Ruiz -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
