wgo pages

[Paul Cutler <pcutler foresightlinux org>]

Hello marketing team!  Let's chat briefly about what pages are needed to launch the new www.gnome.org (wgo) when GNOME 2.28 is released.

Hopefully you've had a chance to review the Content page on lgo at http://live.gnome.org/GnomeWeb/TwoPointTwentyseven/Content and / or the test site with these pages and the first draft of the content at http://gnome.rehfisch.de/.  If you look at the lgo page, you'll see the current recommendation:

• /Get Started - Try GNOME: desktop, applications, development platform.

  • Live Demos
  • New Developers
  • GNOME on Windows
  • GNOME on MacOS

• /Get Involved - Who can help and why, stressing several types of users and tasks apart from developers-hacking. Where to meet us, online (lists, forums IRC) and offline (local groups, events).

  • Spread GNOME - Marketing actions
  • Donate - Friends of GNOME and donations interface
  • Bring your project - Hosting, bugzilla, GNOME "certification", how to get into the release.

• /About - The basics of the GNOME software: mission, desktop, applications, development platform, link to roadmap.

  • Software - Descriptions of release sets and the wide world of GNOME software.
  • Teams - List of GNOME teams with short descriptions and links to web page and contact info.
  • Local Groups - List of GNOME groups with links to web page and contact info.
  • Foundation - Overview, advisory board members and link to foundation.gnome.org.
  • Press - Press kit, free media files, press contacts (general and by country/language).

  • Contact - Contacting the Foundation, website feedback + links to support feedback (lists & forums).

Now is the time to talk about what pages should be in or out, or changed.  You can see pages that are out of scope for this release at:  http://live.gnome.org/GnomeWeb/TwoPointTwentyseven/Content#head-ac09955de28119ba913234a27e77a6f8c0adc240.   Just because they're marked as delayed until 2.30 doesn't mean we can't move them up, but we have to be realistic about time and resources.  (Stormy, please note that those pages include Success Stories).

One thing I might recommend is to break out Friends of GNOME and / or "Donate" from "Get Involved".  To me, Get Involved is about helping and writing code, docs or translations.  While the Friends of GNOME program could fit in here, do we want a more prominent position that includes Friends of GNOME, and some of the discussion about corporate partners (including different levels of donations for them and a page of their logos) similar to the discussion that's being discussed on the marketing list.

This bug opened by Quim (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=463746) talks about expanding the "Bring Your Project" page under Get Involved as well, but this more about content.

What other ideas or recommendations come to mind?

Paul