Re: "Why GNOME?"

[Luis Villa <louie ximian com>]

On Mon, 2003-12-22 at 13:27, Aaron Weber wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-12-20 at 14:40, Peter Bowen wrote:
> > > 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?
> 
> That makes sense-- most of those reasons are already there.
> 
> On the other hand: 
> 
> On Sun, 2003-12-21 at 13:09 +0000, Stuart Lowes wrote: 
> > 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).
> 
> We could have about/index.html be a short page, with links to "GNOME
> For Developers" "GNOME for business" "GNOME for Everyone" It's even
> possible that, if we keep it short, we can fit it all into one page.
> Then we could link to testimonials and success stories... 

That's a great idea.

> And screenshots. Gotta have screenshots.

I still want a 'GNOME for historians' with links to ancient gnome
screenshots. ;)

thanks for putting this work in, Aaron- it's much appreciated.
Luis