On Monday 08 June 2009 09:30:45 pm Satoru Matsumoto wrote:

Rajko M. wrote:

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Kay gave few valid comments that can help us focus efforts to structure wiki, so I forward the message to opensuse-wiki mail list as a base for discussion.

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Subject: Re: [opensuse-project] Meeting Minutes openSUSE Board Meeting, May 20 2009 Date: Monday 08 June 2009 From: Kay Schenk To: opensuse-project@opensuse.org

Hi. I am new to this project, have not yet read your archives, so I hope you'll take my comments with a bit of patience, see below..

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Of, if by infrastructure you mean the website design, here are some comments, for starters...

* I find the site, http://en.opensuse.org/Welcome_to_openSUSE.org really unfriendly to "new" users. * Before a user would want to download, it seems they would want to know a LOT more about the product: features, software included, system requirements, what hardware is supported, etc. Eventually, you CAN get to this information, but it is very difficult. So, this initial page needs work. I actually did think to edit it a while back, but with my login, I couldn't. So???? I would really like to help with this, but don't have the means to do it at the moment.

* I guess my point is what do you feel your audience is for this first page? It seems mostly designed for people already familiar with the project/product that simply want upgrades or something, not new users.

IIRC, proposals and opinions for improving Welcome page are frequently posted and we've discussed on this subject not once or twice. But up to today, we haven't come up to the *Best* solution for that.

So, how about making so-called 'dummy Welcome pages' ready to be edited by everyone who has ideas to improve the Main page ? For example, http://en.opensuse.org/Wiki_Team/Draft/Mainpage/foobars_proposal

I think this can make ideas more visible so that we can discuss more efficiently and effectively on this subject.

If there are already such pages that can be used for the purpose, the link to those pages should be easily found in Wiki_Team page.

Best,

Old project before current solution: http://en.opensuse.org/Frontpage_redesign It has few subpages http://en.opensuse.org/Frontpage_redesign/List_of_Proposal_Pages http://en.opensuse.org/Frontpage_redesign/The_Present_Status_Breakdown http://en.opensuse.org/Frontpage_redesign/Enhancements It can can be refreshed, or written from scratch, taking few ideas fro old one. Though, we really should start thinking on new users that come to that page, openSUSE and Linux, for the first time. What they would do, what they are looking for. -- Regards, Rajko http://news.opensuse.org/category/people-of-opensuse/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-wiki+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-wiki+help@opensuse.org