Re: "Why GNOME?"

[Stuart Lowes <stuart lowes ntlworld com>]

On Sat, 2003-12-20 at 14:40, Peter Bowen wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-12-19 at 13:56, Aaron Weber wrote:
> > Here's a page I think we should link from the front page, or at
least
> > from the "About" page ... 
> > 
> > "Why use GNOME?"
> 
> This looks a lot like www.gnome.org/about/; maybe it could get merged
> instead of being a separate page?  Or maybe about should be something
> different?
> 
> Thanks.
> Peter

I think we need to think about who we are aiming at with this page and
in general on site. "Why choose GNOME?" mixes the different user groups
up too much. As it says in the first paragraph GNOME "has numerous
advantages for end-users, system administrators, and developers" but a
end-user isn't going to be interested at all in language binding and see
this will probably be put off reading the page at all.

A simple solution would be having different pages for each user type.
Each of these pages then can focus on the advantages for each user type
and can be written in the correct language (i.e. plain english for
end-users and more technical for developers).

I think for end-users especially having a showcase of the Gnome desktop
for people who have no idea what it is (or whats new in a release) can
actually see it and see what you can do in it and all its cool stuff
(especially for 2.6, can't wait for 2.6 :-D). This would be great
showing off such this as accessibility too.

In general I personally think this would be great and quite simple to do
and give more user focus to the site as generally the GNOME site at the
moment is quite developer centric.

Ideas? comments?

Stu