Re: Revamping Friends of GNOME: help with web page text (with updated text!)

["Stormy Peters" <stormy gnome org>]

So Google launched their Project 10^100 and I think we can borrow some of their layout ideas. From looking at http://www.project10tothe100.com/index.html, things I liked that I can see us adding in the future: 

• Menu on the left gives quick links to "Why" and "How"
• Video on the front page gives quick overview.
• Get Started button on the front page - we have this with our options on the front page but there's is much more obvious.
• FAQ

I think probably the quick links to Why and How and the FAQ would be reasonably easy to add.

In the FAQ we could address:

- What is GNOME?

- Why is GNOME free?

- Who uses GNOME?

- What will my money be used for?

- How much money does GNOME need?

- What are GNOME's plans for the future?

- How will I know how my money has been used?

- How do I cancel my monthly payment?

- How do I change the amount that I'm donating every month?

- Who decides what is done with my money?

- How else can I help GNOME?

- ...

I'll work on the answers as well.

Stormy

On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 10:40 AM, Brian Cameron <Brian Cameron sun com> wrote:

Stormy:

Looks good.  Some testimonials would also be nice if we could find the
appropriate people to provide them.  Perhaps we could send pings to the
appropriate mailing lists to see if we could find users who benefit
from GNOME who could provide them.

Brian

Ok, I updated the text with some of the comments. We should still add
pictures with quotes and it'd be nice to have a campaign slogan but I think
we should go ahead and put together the web pages with the current text.
Perhaps, we could think about where pictures could go as we get them - we
could have a different one on every page.
Stormy

On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 12:47 PM, Brian Cameron <Brian Cameron sun com>wrote:

It would also be nice to build up a collection of photos of people
using GNOME A11y technologies, and testimonials from people who find
GNOME makes a difference in their lives.  I'd think this would be a
great addition to the Friends of GNOME website.  Are there people
in the GNOME a11y community who could help with this?

Also, lets try to collect photos that have good Creative Commons free
licensing, so we can use them freely as needed for other things
(presentations, etc.)

Brian



 That's a great idea. Pictures and quotes would be awesome. Do we have

people that could easily reach a few kids in Peru and take some pictures
and get a fun, short quote? (I can take one of my stepson but I don't
think that would send the same message. :)

I imagine that Pia Waugh would be able to give us some photos from the
pacific, and I am guessing that we can get publicity photos directly
from OLPC for other countries.

 And not just One Laptop Per Child. Maybe at GNOME.Asia we can get a few

pictures and quotes from people using GNOME in other languages.

Why wait? I think that you might be able to reach some foreign GNOME
users (and also get some screenshots & photos of projects) through this
list and the gugmasters list.

Cheers,
Dave.