[maemo-community] [maemo2midgard] requesting proposals for test.maemo.org frontpage

[From: Ferenc Szekely]

Hello,

On 2/9/07, quim.gil at nokia.com <quim.gil at nokia.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> >It would be good to outline who this website is for.
> >Developers? End users?
> >Now we added the application catalog to maemo.org, we can't
> >say it is for developers only!
>
> Do we need to be explicit? The website should be clear enough about its
> offer and contents, so everybody can see if it's interesting for her or
> not.
>
> Right, now we have a catalog but a) not all entries are in a level of
> stability taht can be digested by all users and b) it might be
> dangeraous to put "users" explicitely there and then not be able to
> support properly what users need.
>
> I rather not awake expectations, and concentrate in developer who are a
> clear focus for maemo.
>
I agree with Quim. We can tune our services and make them end-user
ready, but the main focus should be on developers. The application
catalog is a very good initiative and we should make sure that it is
better than any other offering out there. At the end of the day we
will not need to advertise it :) but we have to work hard to get
there.

>
> Things interesting to see in the homepage (in no particular order and I
> reckin puting just some of them requires some thought in the layout):
>
> - Last Planet entries
> - New garage projects
> - Most active Garage projects
> - Last Garage news
> - How many projects hosted / how many apps downloadable
> - Last STABLE applications/versions in the catalog for N800 / for 770
> - Screenshot(s)!
>
> - I would even like to see last top threads in maemo-users and
> -developers, but I don't see how to implement this easily. The previous
> items are based on data easy (I think) to retrieve.
>
> - And why not, a http://del.icio.us/tag/maemo feed and other feeds we
> can get from clever www like
> http://flickr.com/photos/tags/maemo/interesting/ ,
> http://youtube.com/results?search_query=Maemo ...
>
> Ferenc, if you feel like overwhelmed I can suggest a layout for the
> homepage once the items are agreed from all the new proposals in the
> list.
>
These are great ideas, all of them. Maybe if we put all to the
frontpage it will get a little complicated :)
I think the way to go forward is to see concrete mock-ups. Like Niels
and TigerT did for Planet [1], or Marius made for the catalog [2]. I
am thinking about a garage plugin to enable voting, or user surveys.
Until it is available let's discuss these on the list. If you want you
can also submit the ideas to the tracker, or upload images to the
documentation section. But if it too much of a hassle, then just post
here :) I can take care of putting these items the places at garage.

> Quim

Thanks,
ferenc

[1]  http://breet.com/maemo/planet/
[2]  http://mg.pov.lt/maemo-app-catalog-mockup.png