Re: The path is a bit long to find you

["Diego Escalante Urrelo" <diegoe gnome org>]

Hey

On 2/8/08, Lloyd Budd <foolswisdom gmail com> wrote:
> Hello bug bashers,
>
> I have some fresh eyes, and wanted to record my experience before
> getting used to how it works.
>
> The path is a bit long to find you
>
> Repro: always
> Steps:
> 1. Go to http://www.gnome.org/
>
> 2. Click Contribute tab -> http://www.gnome.org/community/
> Note: this page may have a bit of an identity crisis. Is this "The
> GNOME Community" or "How to contribute". Its presentation is likely
> overwhelming to a person new to GNOME. Compare this to the experience
> at Ubuntu Community > Get Involved
> http://www.ubuntu.com/community/participate
> Note to self: need to propose better experience for
> http://wordpress.org/ . There is a clue in that Ubuntu URL as well, I
> also prefer the term "participate", as it is inherently more active
> than "contribute"
>
> 3. Sucker! You really want to be at http://live.gnome.org/JoinGnome
>
> 4. Here lies a fork in the road http://live.gnome.org/Bugsquad or
> http://live.gnome.org/BuildBrigade . BuildBrigade short description
> could explicitly say "test automation" near the beginning or similar,
> and the route to it is probably from within both testing and
> development.
> Note: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeLove seems misplaced in the whole
> participate experience.
>
> Actual results:
> Took at least one more step, probably two, to find you then I would expect.
>
>
>
> Now, I can already here some of you saying, "Well its easy for you to
> point out problems, lets get solution oriented!", or "It's a wiki, so
> update it." Sorry, for now, all I got is problems.
>

Well, in my opinion your report is positive since it includes
suggestions and not only problems.
Thanks for the time to tell us about this, on a quick look I agree
with most of your comments, we should try to make a very
straightforward path for anyone interested in contributing, something
with huge buttons and little text.

I personally like the idea of "profiles", let's say "I'm an artist" so
you are presented with options for an artist to help, etc.
There's a nice video about something very similar done with the
simpsons characters in a Debconf, it's in Spanish though.

What do others think? Any opinion from the web team (cc'd)?

greetings!


Diego