[advocacy-discuss] [indiana-discuss] [trademark-policy-dev] [osol-discuss] screwdrivers - Re: Project Indiana and the OpenSolaris name

[Derek Cicero]

Brandorr wrote:
> Derek
> 
> Possibly I am misunderstanding. I thought the minisite, was not a
> "distro minisite", but was rather a cleaner and simpler homepage to
> capture the growing number of non-developers that are being attracted
> to the community.
> 
> IE: a simpler OpenSolaris homepage. Not a new distro homepage.

Yes and no. The idea was to make the home page reflect what the majority 
of users want do, which is download the OS and perhaps some 'getting 
started' type documentation. The page would have links to the the 
developer site, blogs and other places of interest but it would be very 
streamlined and focused on downloading, similar to Firefox or Fedora.

Derek


> 
> At least this is what I had in mind when I initially proposed a new
> "user facing" website as a summit topic.
> 
> -Brian
> 
> On 11/4/07, Jim Grisanzio <Jim.Grisanzio at sun.com> wrote:
>> Derek Cicero wrote:
>>
>>> As I mentioned at the summit and on the website-discuss list, once this
>>> project gets out of the 'preview' phase we'll probably move the
>>> OpenSolaris distro to a separate mini-site on os.org and revert the old
>>> /os/ home page back.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> I like this idea.
>>
>> Jim
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Derek Cicero
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Solaris Kernel Group, Software Division