Hi, This is mainly a personal opinion as such might not be like other people but I'll try to be superficial enough to keep things simple... I would probably treat the slideshow as if it was a TV premier commercial time. This means, doing a triage of the stuff more important you have on your showcase. From a Marketing perspective, I would probably claim that using this space to "educate" your users could be nice. It's in fact one of the main variables for any service marketing. Education, in a way we should have a pedagogic behavior towards the audience. As you say, and very well in my opinion; it's a good idea to face it from a 'look what you can do with your opensuse' then exactly from a more 'dead' perspective such as 'look we feature all this cool software' and no one remembers later. I don't know the time frames involved, but maybe a small brainstrom through a collaborative tool and try to create something like a 30 sec pitch for any of the features you guys want to highlight and start from there? I like the invitation part, and honestly this should be a good thing and actually being done... but there's something I would like to remember first about this 'invitation' we should have already to go alongside with it a small 'place' or something that could work as a easy start up ramp. Imagine you get people attention, then what? you are going to send them into a wiki ? you are going them into mailing lists? foruns ? I mean that idea should actually be far more explored and the concept developed. I would strongly go for the 'invitation', I believe it might become a win. Another thing I would like to comment, or maybe I'm wrong... but it's just how I see it from lurking. The Ambassadorial initiative is having a lot of positive sinergies. I would also consider taking one slide to helping it getting a boost and some more visibility... In a way, Ambassadors are the community front office. I believe it's a good investment in promoting Ambassadors, specially in such a flashy thing as in an installer. I believe it will pay off well. There is one 'another thing' also I can point... For people who are already in a way familiarized with another distro or even first comers... getting access to packages and repositories for me was somehow tricky. It was in a way easier with Fedora because I was already familiarized with 'yum' and their own repository, rawhide was also a place where I shopped around... rpmfind... and barely I needed something out from there. When I landed on openSUSE with a more serious approach, I had to get familiarized with zypper, your software repo's and some browsing adventures searching other repo's. I would eventually spare some space on slides for some tools that help people who are for example changing from another distro. Zypper is a good start... osc is a must in my opinion. And it's probably a good hook to link to build and studio, which without doubt should be present. I believe that investing on this tools could actually trigger more interest in people that are trying openSUSE and are already familiarized with another flavour. Some $care for repo's info and a little intro could also be fun either for first timers, casuals... nelson On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 13:44 +0200, S.Kemter wrote:
Hello,
as some of u know, I try to redesign the installer of ur distro. Some time ago I did a blogpost about the slideshow in it.
http://karl-tux-stadt.de/ktuxs/?p=2587
I think the text information in the slideshow, and which slides we show, should be reimproved too. So I made a little brainstorm what should the slideshow contain and in which order should they showed. U can find it here: http://karl-tux-stadt.de/tmp/yast-installer2.png
1. project should be a little introducion what openSUSE is and how its created 2. one of my points was, that in the old slideshow would showed many slides with what the installed distro has, u never keep all names of the programs in ur mind during the install process, so better make a generally slide that says, u have all installed what u need and can find more. And show a way how to find the programs 3. in the old slideshow openFATE wasnt mentioned, I think thats not good because a user who work with ur ditro all day can sometimes have good ideas what we can do better. So we should give him a whole slide 4. How u can find help, should be contain some words to openSUSE wiki and forums and so on 5. How u can help, should descirbe that we are a project from contributors and that there is a way to contribute too 6-7. 2 slides with ways to contribute 8. Build ur own should be a slide about SUSE Studio 9. a slide about the OBS 10. a last slide, for short repeat and invite to be part of openSUSE
The only problem is, I dont like to do this alone without a discussion, second reason I am not really good wit english texts ;)
So would u help me with this? As I know Jos created a piratepad or something like that.
br gnokii
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