Re: Design document [Draft 1]

[Ryan Muldoon <rpmuldoon students wisc edu>]

My thoughts (for now) are about sections 2 and 3:

> 
> 2. Audience and goals
> 
> The GNOME websites span a rather large range of audiences (and corresponding
> goals), including users, developers, members of the press, representatives of
> companies considering supporting GNOME, and so on. The goals can be broken
> down as follows:
> 

I think one of the main goals should be the issue of integrating new
members of the GNOME community.  What I mean by this is encouraging
people to get involved in improving GNOME.  The best way to accelerate
the rate of improvement of GNOME is to get more people involved.  


> 3. Navigation structure/usability


To further my suggested goal, I think that we should have a "get
involved" (or "projects of the week") top level link.  This would
basically lead to a section of the website that lists needed tasks from
each of the various projects.  conceivably it could include teh bugzilla
link to the wishlist item.  It would also have a contact email address
for each task.  These projects would let people wishing to contribute to
quickly get started doing little things without much effort overhead.  I
think that this is really very important: GNOME should try and integrate
as many new members as it can.  We should push the fact that we're an
open project that welcomes newcomers (as is stated in the GNOME
foundation charter).  

If we want to push it even more, we can publish the accomplishments of
new members in the "People" section that you propose, to give people a
fame incentive to participate.


    --Ryan