Re: [Haifux] [HAIFUX Workshop] The Web Rant Workshop

2010-04-27 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 26 April 2010 09:46, Amos Shapira amos.shap...@gmail.com wrote: I'd appreciate to see a summary of the meeting and if there are any follow-up actions here or maybe one of the foss web sites. (I might have joined you on-line but it'll happen in my middle of the night of a work day). Hi

Re: [Haifux] [HAIFUX Workshop] The Web Rant Workshop

2010-04-26 Thread Amos Shapira
I'd appreciate to see a summary of the meeting and if there are any follow-up actions here or maybe one of the foss web sites. (I might have joined you on-line but it'll happen in my middle of the night of a work day). Cheers, Amos On 4/25/10, Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com wrote: I wish that

Re: [Haifux] [HAIFUX Workshop] The Web Rant Workshop

2010-04-26 Thread Amos Shapira
And another tool for the evening - browsershots.com might help getting screenshots of the web sites on various browser/os combinations. -Amos On 4/26/10, Amos Shapira amos.shap...@gmail.com wrote: I'd appreciate to see a summary of the meeting and if there are any follow-up actions here or

Re: [Haifux] [HAIFUX Workshop] The Web Rant Workshop

2010-04-26 Thread Orr Dunkelman
Hi Everybody, To allow more people to join the rant workshop (even those who cannot come to the meeting physically), we shall broadcast the list of websites we're approaching using three means: 1. www.haifux.org/233/website.txt (which will be updated whenever we move to a new website - do not

Re: [Haifux] [HAIFUX Workshop] The Web Rant Workshop

2010-04-26 Thread Dotan Cohen
If you would like to have other means of communicating the current target, please let me know by private email. Orr, we should _not_ all write to the websites at once! It will be obvious that a small group of zealots is targeting them. Rather, it should appear to the sites that there are

Re: [Haifux] [HAIFUX Workshop] The Web Rant Workshop

2010-04-26 Thread Orr Dunkelman
Dotan hi, Even though we haven't tried as a community to approach such webmasters on a regular basis, history shows that people approached webmasters as individuals, and usually it did not succeed. Maybe trying as a group would have a better effect. Now, approaching several websites at the same

Re: [Haifux] [HAIFUX Workshop] The Web Rant Workshop

2010-04-26 Thread Dotan Cohen
Even though we haven't tried as a community to approach such webmasters on a regular basis, history shows that people approached webmasters as individuals, and usually it did not succeed. Maybe trying as a group would have a better effect. I disagree. I have contacted tens of sites, and in

Re: [Haifux] [HAIFUX Workshop] The Web Rant Workshop

2010-04-25 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010, Oron Peled wrote about Re: [Haifux] [HAIFUX Workshop] The Web Rant Workshop: E.g: the COO may get really pissed off to find that with all the money thrown at the company website, the result cause ~20% of potential visitor to stay out. But can you honestly tell him

Re: [Haifux] [HAIFUX Workshop] The Web Rant Workshop

2010-04-25 Thread Boris shtrasman
On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 10:27 AM, Nadav Har'El n...@math.technion.ac.ilwrote: On Fri, Apr 23, 2010, Oron Peled wrote about Re: [Haifux] [HAIFUX Workshop] The Web Rant Workshop: E.g: the COO may get really pissed off to find that with all the money thrown at the company website, the result

Re: [Haifux] [HAIFUX Workshop] The Web Rant Workshop

2010-04-25 Thread guy keren
Nadav Har'El wrote: On Fri, Apr 23, 2010, Oron Peled wrote about Re: [Haifux] [HAIFUX Workshop] The Web Rant Workshop: E.g: the COO may get really pissed off to find that with all the money thrown at the company website, the result cause ~20% of potential visitor to stay out. But can you

Re: [Haifux] [HAIFUX Workshop] The Web Rant Workshop

2010-04-25 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 11:20:39AM +0300, guy keren wrote: this may be true for monopolistic sites that have no alternative (e.g. government sites, possibly your bank's site, etc.). for sites that have competition, users with firefox will likely go to whichever of them that has firefox

Re: [Haifux] [HAIFUX Workshop] The Web Rant Workshop

2010-04-25 Thread Dotan Cohen
I wish that I had seen this message sooner. I have been contacting sites about this issue for years. I hope to be there at 18:30, there is a lot that we as a group can do together to convince these sites to change. -- Dotan Cohen http://bido.com http://what-is-what.com

Re: [Haifux] [HAIFUX Workshop] The Web Rant Workshop

2010-04-23 Thread Oron Peled
On Thursday, 22 בApril 2010 10:47:42 Orr Dunkelman wrote: Dear all, Next Monday, 26.4.10, at 18:30 we are going to have a rant workshop Great event! where we will try to contact as many webmasters as possible and try to convince them to offer a better support for FOSS browsers. It would