RE: February banner; take 2

[Stuart Lowes <stuart lowes ntlworld com>]

On Tue, 2004-01-27 at 11:08, Murray Cumming Comneon com wrote:
> > I haven't heard anything back from anyone about the tentative 
> > new banner/splash image for w.g.o. 
> > (www.viralata.net/gnome/bugs.png). As much as I would like to 
> > assume that this means that you all found it brilliant and 
> > are still looking for words to describe this overwhelming 
> > feeling of joy and inner peace you felt seeing it, I must 
> > entertain the possibility that it may not be so. ;-) 
> > Seriously, regardless of your opinion on this specific 
> > design, we do need to think about a new banner, don't we? I'm 
> > still very much willing to try designing it but I'd need a 
> > little feedback.
> 
> www.gnome.org isn't just for developers who know about the release process.
> Personally, I'd hate it if the first impression people got of GNOME was
> "BUGS!".
> 
> Murray Cumming
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On Tue, 2004-01-27 at 11:08, Murray Cumming Comneon com wrote: 
> > I haven't heard anything back from anyone about the tentative 
> > new banner/splash image for w.g.o. 
> > (www.viralata.net/gnome/bugs.png). As much as I would like to 
> > assume that this means that you all found it brilliant and 
> > are still looking for words to describe this overwhelming 
> > feeling of joy and inner peace you felt seeing it, I must 
> > entertain the possibility that it may not be so. ;-) 
> > Seriously, regardless of your opinion on this specific 
> > design, we do need to think about a new banner, don't we? I'm 
> > still very much willing to try designing it but I'd need a 
> > little feedback.
> www.gnome.org isn't just for developers who know about the release process.
> Personally, I'd hate it if the first impression people got of GNOME was
> "BUGS!".
> 
> Murray Cumming
> www.murrayc.com
> murrayc usa net
> _______________________________________________
> gnome-web-list mailing list
> gnome-web-list gnome org
> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-web-list

I think that's a fair point I'd like to expand on that a bit and say
that in general for a Joe user the site is lacking. It is understandable
very developer focused.

It would be good to see the site have more for the general user. I would
like to see the User doc w.g.o/learn to be more prominent and easier to
get to.

It would also be nice especially with 2.6 coming up to have a area for
users to see 2.6 in action, showing off the new technologies and
features of the release, there's lots of groovy stuff coming. I think
http://www.apple.com/macosx/ is a good example of the kind of thing i'm
taking about.

Most of the content already seems to there so taking the content and
making a visual gnome intro wouldn't be that hard. Any ideas, thoughts?

Apoligies if I've taken the thread too far off topic.

Stuart