I've drawn a diagram: http://live.gnome.org/data/GnomeWeb(2f)NewWgoStructure/attachments/gnomeproductpages.pdf As I see it: www.gnome.org/evolution or www.gnome.org/inkscape are product information pages. One illustrated page with links, if possible without scrolling. They don't aim to be product/project homepages, but producte featured pages, like reviews. projects.gnome.org/evolution or inkscape.org are product/project websites, with the whole thing as they wish to have it. We can come up with recommendations in the future, but this is out of scope in the current release. Claus, I think we need to have a GNOME software page listing which is the software we care of and we put in our quality assurance. I agree user Joey don't care, but he is not our only user profile. We have at least ISDs and public sector wanting to know at least exactly what is GNOME and why it's worth choosing us instead of whoever else. We can have other partial listings much more visible in i.e. the homepage such as "GNOME Software to pimp Joe's computer" or the examples provided by Jeff (embedded, etc). Product featured pages are useful for all these cases. More about the product featured pages: El ds 05 de 08 del 2006 a les 20:34 -0600, en/na Gezim Hoxha va escriure:
OK. With this, I disagree. We're basically wanting developers and/or volunteers to duplicate the information they have about the project.
No. We are featuring products and linking to their product websites. A product featured page will follow a common structure, tone of voice, marketing goals, etc. A product featured page won't aim to substitute or shadow the product website: it will introduce the product in a brief and tasty way like the trailer of a film or the review of a book.
Then, when time comes, to delicately update the information (in their "official" site and in their wgo/apps site).
The product featured pages won't get into many temporary details. Since the pages are translated we have another reason to build cool texts able to last. You can explain Inkscape, Evolution or gnome-applets with a text that lasts a some years, maybe with only small little changes every 6-12 months. We can work on some RSS to provide the news about the product, syndicated from the product website (and therefore not translated, but well).
I'm all about making developers lives easier and duplicating information will not help them out, unfortunately.
It's not duplicating information. It's packaging a source to serve better different purposes and audiences. Distros help developers packaging their software, and so we do with their product/project information.
why don't we ask developers as to what they want for their project home page.
Interesting, but currently almost an utopia. You have product websites on CVS, several CMSs, in the GNOME servers, out there, under wgo/projects, with own domain, some developers won't have strong opinions about their website, other will have, some will be happy following a common rule, some will want to be differentiated from the rest... I don't think we are going to get ever an harmonic strategy from those website (nor I think we should). But at wgo we need a to build a consistent strategy to introduce these products, and this is the reason to have product featured pages.
I see "translated" in the future, I'll probably be sceptical.
wgo will be translated in supported languages. "Supported language" means that the content of wgo is translated, and this includes the featured product pages. If a language can't reach all the pages then it's not a supported language (it's another thing we need to define). I'm using Epiphany in Catalan, this means that there is a Catalan translation team caring about Epiphany and means also that there is a possibility that the Catalan translators would like to translate a page about Epiphany. It is up to them to decide if they can and want to have Catalan as wgo supported language or not. Same thing for the rest of languages. This is another very important reason to have a small wgo with amazing content, apart of the big volumes of information product websites and other GNOME subsites can generate. PS: Feel free to play with the diagram: http://live.gnome.org/data/GnomeWeb(2f)NewWgoStructure/attachments/gnomeproductpages.odg -- Quim Gil /// http://desdeamericaconamor.org | http://guadec.org
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