Re: What is GNOME?

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Tue, 2009-09-08 at 11:24 -0600, Stormy Peters wrote:
> I met with Denise last week and she pointed out:
>       * It's very hard to tell what GNOME is from our web pages. If
>         you don't know when you land on gnome.org, you aren't likely
>         to figure it out. An "easy to understand desktop" doesn't
>         really mean anything to non desktop/OS developers. When you go
>         to About GNOME, you get a list of our values/features but not
>         a definition, screenshot or list of projects.
>       * It's very hard to find a list of projects in GNOME.
>       * No where do we say what GNOME stands for.
>       * No where do we say why we have a foot print as a logo.
>         (There's mention of how it came about in a history here,
>         http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/gnome-history.html, but no
>         mention of why we/they/he thought the foot was
>         representative.)
> Our current web pages are pretty much for people that already know
> what GNOME is, but we might want to rethink that as we roll out the
> new webpage.
>
> I think it's a marketing problem. Thoughts?

Aren't these points addressed by the new website content already?
 
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