On 2009-07-30 01:51:40 PM, Paul W. Frields wrote:
One of the issues the Board has been discussing recently is the state
of our various download pages for Fedora. This topic springs directly
from the process of getting to the heart of Fedora's goals. Along the
way we've determined that one of the steps we can take is to improve
the clarity of how we present the Fedora distribution. The way many
people come into contact with that presentation is through our
download site, which needs to provide a first-rate experience for
everyone who uses it. This topic clearly falls into the Board's
domain, because it's to do not with the production of the Fedora
distribution, but rather with the way it's presented, and with the
design of one of the essential public-facing pieces of the project.
A good, user-centric design must be simple and easy to follow, and
provide a route for all users to reach what they want. The most
effective route for new users of the website is usually very different
than for experienced ones, but all routes must be attractive and
effective for the people using them. The experience we currently
provide for both these groups on our download site is not terribly
attractive or effective, and needs revision. Thanks to some dedicated
community members, there was some work done to redesign these
experiences in the past, but for a variety of reasons those efforts
didn't fully succeed. The Board and I want to see them back on the
front burner, so that we are providing the best possible presentation
of the many faces of Fedora, whether that presentation is more of an
introduction to free software, or intended for experienced users.
Hey, this would be great to discuss at tomorrow's websites meeting if
any of you can make it - it'll be at 17:00 UTC in #fedora-websites on
Freenode (unfortunately this is at the same time as the FESCo meeting).
For those on fedora-websites-list, the full message that I mercilessly
trimmed here is at
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-advisory-board/2009-July/msg00088.html
:-)
Thanks,
Ricky
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