First, a link to the page under discussion:
http://cyntss.github.io/opensuse-landing-page/
Now, back to a proper bottom post.
On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 3:03 AM, Henne Vogelsang
finally some real discussion about this :-)
On 03.08.2015 04:23, Manu Gupta wrote:
First of all, the design of the landing page is awesome!!!! Kudos to everyone who worked on it.
I can only concur. I like how it turned out visually! :-)
I have always believed that the openSUSE Project is different from the openSUSE Distro. By calling openSUSE as a Linux OS, we are ignoring the fact that the we are not just a distro. One may argue that Tools describe other projects but then we come off more strongly as a distro rather than a community.
It's a matter of what you are trying to sell, and to whom.
You can create a landing page that tells people who visit it the whole truth and nothing but the truth about openSUSE. A story about all the different aspects of our community, all the nitty gritty details.
Or you can try to think about why people most likely come to this page and then try to satisfy this "need". And maybe, in the course of doing that, draw them in further to things that matter to us.
A large percentage of the ~45K/day users who visit that page are looking for information about our distribution. All of the data (Referrer, Keywords, Exit pages) that is available to us through our tracking (piwik) supports this. So www.opensuse.org should try _very hard_ to 'sell' our distribution. Selling in this case means of course that people _WANT_ to download the iso to install it. The rest (project, community, tools, news etc.) is not really important to the visitor, only to us.
Sadly neither the old page nor the new page do a very good job at that. The page in it's current form is pretty obscure what openSUSE is about (packages? distribution? tools?) and the _main_ action (download the iso!) is hidden behind a choice I can't possibly make as openSUSE beginner. Not even I myself am sure, with 15+ years contributing to openSUSE under my belt, if I should use Tumbleweed or Leap!
Second, the contributions corner. It is uninviting for non-technical contributors. There is no mention of it and it does not help at all with the issues we are already facing
It's again a matter of focus. What do we want that the majority of people that visit this page do?
I hope the people who are working on it give thought about it.
I'm not even sure that they read this list...
Henne
It was good to open with a simple design, but not good to hide the fullest descriptions of Tumbleweed and Leap behind a hidden button that only appears with an interaction. It's like we expect the first time visitor to enjoy looking for treasures. Display the treasures in all their glory! The descriptions are good, feature them and then name what to download when the visitor has decided what they want. As has been said many times, Code and Hardware are not the only way to contribute to openSUSE. And, as Carlos noted, it needs to follow the accessibility guidelines. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org