Re: What is GNOME?

[Stormy Peters <stormy gnome org>]

On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 8:13 AM, Claus Schwarm <clschwarm googlemail com> wrote:

Just because one can point out some objections, doesn't mean it's worth
listening.

It's not easy to find a list of projects? What about visiting the
homepage and -- watch out, this is going to be complicated: -- clicking
the link called "projects"?

Maybe I didn't express this one well. And actually, your point makes it clear to me I've not been thinking about it the the right way.

It's not clear that GNOME is a bunch of projects. We don't say "GNOME is a group of projects that make an easy to use, free and accessible for all desktop." We say GNOME is a desktop.

I'd say most people that use GNOME are unaware that it also includes a lot of projects.
 

Also, in all these years I'm reading online discussions about GNOME, I
never ever noticed someone who asked: "Does anyone know why GNOME's logo
is a foot print?"

Is this really important stuff we should could care about?

I don't know. It's feedback. From somebody who was really curious about what GNOME is and was having trouble figuring it out.

Personally, I think logos are just logos and it doesn't really matter after a while. But for someone trying to figure out what GNOME is, perhaps it's confusing. It's always valid to say "we heard your feedback and we decided not to do anything."

The new version of the homepage content is in the wiki for months now.
Did anyone tried to help fill the missing bits? Or proof-read?

Sorry, I've been meaning to help with the edits.

I've wasted countless hours to move the content from common HTML pages
to the wiki so that people can participate -- just to learn that one
doesn't get "the flow" now and the rest silently ignores every call for
participation.

I didn't get that people were complaining about the new website. I think the conversation actually transitioned into a "who do we target" which is a very good marketing question to answer.

At least, someone could have had the idea to check whether these
non-issues apply in the current 'development' version.

I'll take that as a constructive suggestion and check it out.

Someone not being able to figure out what GNOME is, is not a non issue unless we decide we aren't targeting that type of user. And we said on this list that we are targeting newbies.

Also, I get a *lot* of questions and random, very random, feedback. I'm trying to pass on the feedback to places it makes sense. And screen those that wouldn't be useful. Some I answer, some I delete, some I pass on to the board, some to marketing, some to mobile. In this case I was trying to pass on feedback to marketing.

Stormy