On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 7:46 AM, Robert Lihm <rl...@suse.de> wrote: > Hello all! > > I even send the setting copies to the print house. So, from now we can > discuss the future ;-)
Good. Because I'd like to open an etherpad page to write the texts anew, starting with a focus on who our target users are etcetera. I think the easiest thing would actually be to kind'a copy the ideas we did in the KDE team, as that has been thought out fairly well. IOW make a leaflet for complete newcomers and one for potential contributors/developers/etc I don't want to hurt any feelings, but the one we made now is bad. Not the design, that's great, but the text is unfocused and bad. This folder contains a weird mix of focusing on developers/contributors (Build Service), completely-new-to-linux-users (the Free Software part) and something which doesn't make sense at all (operating system). Moreover, the form (leaflet) doesn't fit with the amount of text at all. So that doesn't work. First of all, if you're targeting completely-new-to-linux users don't waste time on talking about Free Software, they don't care. It sucks but that's the truth. Focus on what is cool and good about openSUSE, what we have. Again, see the KDE poster (the users focussed one) as a good example. For contributors you can and should go a bit deeper, again focus on what's cool and try to take away what makes them NOT contribute: the perceived high barrier to entry. So if we can decide who this is target and then write the texts, this could be great. Doing something like this in 3 days is just plain impossible, sorry - it needs a bit more thought. You don't need a million IRC meetings or anything, a few ppl CAN do it in a few days as soon as the goals are clear, but those must be discussed first. Sorry to be so negative. I'm more than willing to help (as I said before) and I hope my feedback doesn't give ppl the feeling this was a waste of time - again, I like the design, and openSUSE needs folders and stuff like this a lot! Cheers, Jos > Thank you for your time and feedback, it was very helpful! > > Have a nice day, > > Robert > > --- > > Robert Lihm, Webdesigner - openSUSE Boosters Team > SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, D-90409 Nuernberg > Tel: +49-911-74053-0 - rl...@suse.de > ____________________________________________________________ > SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) > ____________________________________________________________ > SUSE - a Novell business > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscr...@opensuse.org > For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+h...@opensuse.org > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscr...@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+h...@opensuse.org
