Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-marketing (33 mails)

["Rupert Horstkötter" <rhorstkoetter@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Zonker,

2008/7/2 Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier <jbrockmeier@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> Rupert Horstkötter wrote:
> > What do you do when starting firefox for the first time after a fresh
> > installation of openSUSE 11.0? I for myself change the homepage to
> > something else (google). I think that the default startpage
> > http://www.opensuse.org isn't very useful for the average user in
> > everyday's use. I thought about implementing something like
> > http://start.ubuntu.com/8.04 for openSUSE 11.1 - on the one hand this
> > page offers the ability to search the web - IMO the most commonly used
> > homepages (google, yahoo or whatever) nowadays, on the other hand it's
> > a great way to promote openSUSE especially to new users not that
> > familiar with the openSUSE services.
>
> The first thing I do is to change it to iGoogle as well. We could definitely
> use a more useful start page with search and more resources.
Yeah, so let's get started in collecting specific ideas :) The RSS
feed you came up with is a great one IMO. What do you think about my
"promoting at lizards.o.o-idea" once it's done?

> > Ok, we have that greeter at the first boot, but I think most users
> > will instantly click close and that's it :)
>
> There's been discussion of getting rid of the greeter, and I think the idea
> to use the start page to replace the greeter might be a good one.
>
> I've opened a bug here to track this:
>
> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=405773
>
> Note that I'm not against people changing the start page -- a lot of new
> users will probably have a start page that they like using already (I'd keep
> using iGoogle because I have it personalized with stuff I use frequently...
> but we can make it a more useful default for users who don't have a
> preference.
That's what I was thinking about. At least to users without a
preference we should provide something useful. And for everybody else
(especially n00bs) it's at least an eyecatcher before they decide to
change it to something else. Kinda.. ah, I could get help here, I
could contribute to openSUSE that way and stuff like that :)
I got so many n00b questions in the forums lately - I was just curious
that so many n00bs aren't familiar with the very basic services
openSUSE has to offer (the OBS for example).

> Thanks for bringing this up, Rupert. :-)

Thanks for opening the bug. Should we discuss there or here or on both
channels? I could maybe come in touch with Robert to ask him if he
could allocate some ressources once we have a raw concept.

Best
Rupert

> Best,
>
> Zonker
> --
> Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier
> openSUSE Community Manager
> http://zonker.opensuse.org/



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