<html><head><meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1"><meta content="Group-Office 2.18" name="GENERATOR"></head><body><p>Here is an idea from me...</p>
<p>The first is the "home" page:</p>
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<p><a href="http://samoff.maemobox.org/maemo_redesign/samoff-maemo.org-redesign_idea_0006.png">http://samoff.maemobox.org/maemo_redesign/samoff-maemo.org-redesign_idea_0006.png</a></p>
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<p>As you'll see, I've taken much of Andrew Flegg's idea (and a few others) and designed it more around the "community" aspect (likewise, I designed it so that most of the "important" info can be seen on the tablet's screen without scrolling. The text needs a little more thought (especially the intro -- which was taken from the current maemo.org site), but it's close. Many of the "links" are redundant, but I think that's important -- we need to do what we can to guide new users into community participation. <em>(Note that the upper header should butt-up against the top of the browser window, rather than float a few pixels under it like most browsers insist on displaying images.)</em></p>
<p>The second is the right sidebar from the above example (admittedly, taken from my Community Improvement idea on the wiki):</p>
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<p><a href="http://samoff.maemobox.org/maemo_redesign/samoff-maemo.org-redesign_idea_0006-sidebar.png">http://samoff.maemobox.org/maemo_redesign/samoff-maemo.org-redesign_idea_0006-sidebar.png</a></p>
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<p>It shows what could be done in that space with a variety of information-types.</p>
<p>Tim</p>
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<strong>Subject: </strong>Re: maemo.org redesign<br />
<strong>From: </strong>Dave Neary <dneary@maemo.org><br />
<strong>To: </strong>"List for community development" <maemo-community@maemo.org><br />
<strong>Date: </strong>10/01/2008 10:38 am<br />
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Hi again,<br />
<br />
Quim Gil wrote:<br />
> I wonder how useful is to prioritize users that don't know what is Maemo<br />
> or why they ended up in our website.<br />
<br />
Let me just reiterate the various use-cases which I think we need to<br />
address in maemo.org:<br />
<br />
* A tablet user is looking for software to install on his tablet<br />
* A developer is interested in developing or porting an application to Maemo<br />
* An enthusiast is looking for ways he can participate, give feedback,<br />
complain and contribute to the direction of the project<br />
* An existing community member, the press or an interested by-stander<br />
wants to find out what's new & what's been happening in the community<br />
* An existing developer is looking for some reference documentation<br />
* A tablet user has a problem he wants help fixing<br />
* Community members want to communicate with the rest of the community<br />
<br />
Of these, all will know what the tablet is, but roughly speaking you can<br />
break them into 2 groups: those who are already part of the Maemo<br />
community and those who aren't (in Berlin, you referred to this as<br />
"people who know where they're going and people who don't").<br />
<br />
Not community members:<br />
* Downloading software<br />
* Looking for news & info (press, by-stander)<br />
* Wants to give feedback and contribute<br />
* Looking for help getting started with development<br />
* Has a problem that he wants help with<br />
<br />
Community members:<br />
* Looking for news (community member)<br />
* Looking for reference documentation<br />
* Wants to communicate<br />
<br />
Each one of those non-community-members (with the possible exception of<br />
the ones downloading software and those looking for info on what is<br />
Maemo and what's new) have a high potential of becoming community<br />
members. Someone who gets help on a forum or in Bugzilla might stick<br />
around to help others. A developer looking for docs on getting started<br />
or a contributor looking to complain about his pet feature is someone<br />
ready to engage the community. And I believe we need to cater to those<br />
more than the existing community member.<br />
<br />
I hope this clear things up - I hope you'll see that you're being unfair<br />
in suggesting that I think we should prioritise "people who don't know<br />
what Maemo is" - I think we should focus on people who know what Maemo<br />
is, but don't know where they're going.<br />
<br />
> You and me know the problem very well: is http://www.gnome.org/ homepage<br />
> showing how exciting is to be part of the GNOME community?<br />
<br />
I agree that the GNOME site has many problems. Most of them come from<br />
the fact that on the front page, no-one has analysed the type of person<br />
who might arrive there, and the types of questions they might have that<br />
would need answering.<br />
<br />
> You tell me my proposal is overloaded, I tell you your proposal is<br />
> oversimplistic... They are different approaches and we need to agree on<br />
> the approach we want, or go for a tender based on both models. :/<br />
> <br />
> But I insist on one thing: "a new user coming into the site who doesn't<br />
> know what is are looking for" shouldn't be our primary focus.<br />
<br />
Let me put it differently - I think that the site needs to focus more on<br />
potential community members than existing community members.<br />
<br />
Cheers,<br />
Dave.<br />
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