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To spread or not to spread 3

A few days ago, SpreadGNOME has been launched. While it is a good idea to split developer-pages and marketing-pages, as like Mozilla does it with mozilla.org and SpreadFirefox, pages like SpreadGNOME should have the appeal of a marketing-page. There should be funky screenshots, big headings, concise texts – the page should give the visitor the impression of cool people, writing sexy software which is much better than the thing he currently uses. Just ask yourself: is this the impression you get when you visit SpreadGNOME?

Update

There is a new design but this does not look like a »The most important thing you miss in your life is using GNOME«-page, sorry. Putting links to a tech-orientated news-portal, a wiki-page for developers and gnome.org is not that imaginative.

As they are calling for suggestions, they could have them:

• Create some really good-looking images for example similar to central ones, which are displayed on gnome.org
• Make nice screenshots of good-looking GNOME-applications. Focus on usability (yes, show how smart the configuration dialog for epiphany is), localization (GNOME in Arabian, RTL, LTR), features (show integration of Evolution and the calendar-applet for example), helpful applications (tomboy, deskbar-applet)
• Transport the spirit of GNOME
• Make sure, you are achieving your visitors. It is not a page for techies, it is a page for users. They should have the feeling of »the most important thing I miss in my life is using GNOME«
Don’t launch until this points are fixed and hurry up to make your blamage forgotten

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   posted on August 28^th 2006, 12:10:34 am Free Software and marketing

   This friday, there were two driver releases for linux graphics hardware. A new proprietary driver from nvidia and a new free driver for ati cards. The release of the new nvidia driver was spread over all major news-pages. It’s main new feature was the

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1. dogbert returns:

   published on August 28^th 2006, 02:09:39 am

   Dieser Meinung bin ich auch. Die Webseite wurde offenbar ziemlich lieblos hingepflanzt und keine schönen Blüten und Blätter, die in der vorhandenen Sonne glänzen können. Ich befürchte, dass die Sonne sich bei deren Anblick erschrickt und verschwindet und so die Pflanze vollends verwelken läßt.
   Schade um den Diamant Gnome Desktop. Dieser hat es nicht verdient. Aber die Hoffnung stirbt zuletzt.

   Blumige Gruesse, DogBert

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2. Stefan Horning means:

   published on August 28^th 2006, 02:40:08 am

   Schau an, schau an, es tut sich was. Anscheinend kam da noch mehr Kritik.

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