[maemo-community] Maemo outreach flyer - round 3

[From: Randall Arnold]

response below


  ----- Original message -----
  From: "Tim Samoff" <samoff at gmail.com>
  To: "List for community development" <maemo-community at maemo.org>,
  "Ville M.Vainio" <vivainio at gmail.com>, "Randall Arnold"
  <texrat at ovi.com>
  Subject: Re: Maemo outreach flyer - round 3
  Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 06:52:33 -0600

  Hi,

  ----- Original message -----
  > > I am still looking
  > > for guidance here, but it's helpful if anyone who has issues with
  content
  > > explain why they don't think it works, and/or offer alternatives.

  > Why not enumarate the programming languages you can use BTW? That's
  > the stuff developers will be attracted to.
  >

  Good idea.

  > If I was doing the flyer for a "smaller audience", a backhanded
  > "Objective C and Java not officially supported" slap too, but that
  > might be a bit too snarky ;-).
  >

  Yeah, way too snarky. ;)

  My comments:

  I like the layout of the first tso pages, but not the website design.
  But, I like "connecting" the flyer to the website. Let me explain...

  Keep the top-most gray bar and the Maemo logo. Remove all of the
  other web elements in the header, including the gray subbar. Where
  the login area is, put the tagline (whether it be "The Future of
  Mobile Computing" or whatever it becomes).

  Then...

  Keep the first paragraph of explication and remove the rest. Then,
  add the programming languages under the first paragraph with a clever
  heading (maybe "Choose Your Medicine," "Choose Your Future," "Choose
  Your Own Adventure" -- something slightly funny, a pun, or
  something). Then, after the list, put the "nirvana" sentence -- while
  Maemo may not be development nirvana yet, being able to choose almost
  any programming language is.

  At this point everything can move up. You can make the N900 photo
  bigger... And, what about a screengrab of the SDK, or some code in
  the Eclipse environment? (Could be the same app in the screengrab as
  on the N900?)

  Thanks!
  Tim

  --

  http://samoff.com

  These are great ideas!  In fact Tim I had already been thinking along
  the same lines so it's good to get some validation.  : D

  Thanks for the feedback Tim and Ville!

  Randall (Randy) Arnold
  maemo.org community council
  http://tabulacrypticum.wordpress.com/

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