[maemo-community] maemo.org redesign

[From: Tim]

	This sounds good... And, was something I was a little confised about
prior to your email -- so thanks. 

	So, maybe maemo.org should veer slightly towards the "dev" side
(without becoming too bogged down in dev-oriented issues right off the
bat). I think that a good "standardized" type of recipricol linking
system needs to be devised for both maemo.org and maemo.nokia.com that
posints vistors towards the "conjoined" sites (maybe the same type of
"button," but different colors?). Anyway, users of maemo.org need to
be made aware of maemo.nokia.com and vice versa. 

	Tim 
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 ----- Original Message -----
 Subject: RE: maemo.org redesign
 From:  jussi.h.makinen at nokia.com 
 To: maemo-community at maemo.org
 Date: 09/29/2008 2:24 am
 Hi,
 As the guy responsible of giving life to maemo.nokia.com (and other
 consumer marketing as well..) there's couple of things I'd like to
point
 out about the maemo.org redesign. It's important that the both sites
 have their own mission and now is the good time to plan out how they
can
 help out eachother in this.   
 The way I see it that maemo.nokia.com represents the Experience
while
 maemo.org the Intelligence of Maemo Software. By experience I mean
the
 what end-users can do with a device running Maemo software and
different
 applications, creating a good pull-in effect to boost the sales of
the
 devices running Maemo. This also includes high-lighting the best
 community applications from the maemo.org. New users should always
find
 and land first to maemo.nokia.com to learn about Maemo and from
there
 continue to maemo.org to get involved. Therefore maemo.nokia.com
banner
 etc. needs to be strongly present in the Maemo.org frontpage.    
 I'd also like to encourage new & potential users coming to
 maemo.nokia.com to join the maemo.org community. In order to        

 maemo.org to expand as community beyond developers, it needs to
actively
 lower the barrier to get people involved. There needs to be guidance
and
 improvements for users to "file bugs" for instance. It maybe should
be
 called something entirely different because users might find it a
bit
 uninviting to "file a bug" while for developers this is basic stuff.
It
 would be really good if there would be kind of "introduction" page
at
 Maemo.org where there would be easy to follow, step-by-step
instructions
 on how they can start contributing to the community.
 What do you think? If you have any ideas or thoughts about the
 relationship between maemo.org and maemo.nokia.com, just let me
know.   
 ' Jussi  
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