On Mon, 2010-04-19 at 20:48 -0500, Paul Cutler wrote: > Hi, > > We're just a couple of weeks away from the Marketing Hackfest. One of > the ideas that's come up is to have a GNOME 3.0 specific website (or > subsite). I don't know if this means it will use the new Plone CMS > that's currently being set up or something else, but for the moment > that's not important. > > I'd like to gather community feedback (that's you!) on what you'd like > to see a GNOME 3.0 website feature. > > Please reply to the list - everyone's feedback is welcome! > > Thanks. > > Best, > > Paul > For me, I've seen 3.0 demonstrations a couple of times, including at the last Marketing hackfest in Chicago. And honestly, I couldn't quite grasp what 3.0 is truly about. A lot of cool exciting words thrown about, but it looked also like something that requires quite a bit of learning curve if you're used to the old way and are a creature of habit (like me!)
Learning is always the single biggest challenge in any adoption. So I suggest marketing 3.0 by teaching how to use it right off the bat. Create some simulations on the website where people can abe guided step by step. Not a read-through tutorial, but an actual simulation. "if you do this step, watch what happens. Bravo. Now let's try another trick.... Bravo... Next.. " and so on. People can get a rudimentary feel for how to use 3.0 and feel less intimidated than when they try it out of the box. This would reduce telling people "RTFM, dude!" (which I hate) and would help close the gaps between the knows and dont-knows. It also can give a user experience to those out there who haven't tried GNOME/FOSS and can get a little taste of it before actually trying GNOME/FOSS. That's my thought right out of the gate here. How easy it is to actually create such a simulation? I wouldn't know. :-) Bryen -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
