Re: GNOME's Target Markets

[Sriram Ramkrishna <sri aracnet com>]

I agree completely.  We can't start a marketing campaign of any
sort if our main marketing tool, our home page, continues to be
stale and devoid of dynamic content.

How many of you visit the gnome web page regularly?  My guess is
maybe once a month?  Why?  Because it's not the center of GNOME
activity.  Planet, gnomedesktop.org, and other areas are the primary
places I go to for GNOME koolaid.

The GNOME home page should be, to use a corporate expression, "job 1".

sri

On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 07:43:38PM +0100, Claus Schwarm wrote:
> On Thu, 01 Dec 2005 13:15:08 +0100
> Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com> wrote:
>
> > Time to revive this thread again.
> >
> > We don't have
> > accurate numbers and survey results, but that doesn't mean that we don't
> > know who are customers are, or what product we want to give them. There
> > are 150-200 sold-on-the-idea people on this list ready to be part of a
> > grassroots firefox-like campaign.
>
>
> A grassroots campaign needs a proper GNOME homepage: What other goals
> could a campaign pursue that pushing people to our webpage?
>
> But before we start, there's some low-hanging fruit to do, IMHO:
>  
>  * We could activate the GNOME tour. What's missing here?
>
>  * We could start changing the headers links according to
>    http://live.gnome.org/MarketingTeam_2fWebsiteUpdates
>    
>    I've written two pages four months ago (support and community, I
>    believe) and sent them to Luis but never got an answer. Maybe someone
>    with CVS access could just upload them. Not much but a start.
>
>  * Jeff Waugh promised to fix the page that should appear under
>    'Download', namely start/ but didn't yet as far as I see.
>
>  * Maybe someone with an idea how the current web page works could fix
>    the right-side navigation issue: We need a sub-navigation that
>    changes according to the header links. That's not possible right now
>    it seems.
>
> With this done, we just need a usual web page ad size graphics. I'm
> sure Andreas could do them in a week or less.
>
> Cheers,
> Claus
>
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