[advocacy-discuss] Thoughts on an opensolaris.com

[Glynn Foster]

Ben Rockwood wrote:
> Clearly you've put a lot of thought into the content layout and flow.  
> On my first glance it looks good.  I agree with the "reduce mouse 
> clicks" model you note.  Frankly, I'd like something more inviting, 
> organized, spacious and much more attractive.

Contrary to what you might believe, I haven't done a lot of thought into it. I'm 
just trying to classify what types of information that might be useful.to 
present to the new user. I didn't really explain what thoughts I had for the 
home page, or how we might invite the user.

I'd be really open to discussion on what others might think would be good to 
think about.

> Given that there is very little community involvement with the current 
> site I'm very curious how much this new .com site would have to do with 
> the OpenSolaris community.  Can you clarify on that front a bit?

Depends what you mean by community involvement? Most people who have proposed 
projects or community groups are those responsible for updating their parts of 
the site. I think what you're suggesting is that the other bits that fit outside 
that don't have much involvement - and I'd agree.

I personally haven't thought too much about what involvement people would have 
with a .com site. I think apart from a few key pages, not much would change - it 
would be relatively static content. It would be a launch pad into allowing them 
to easily download and install a binary artifact, or start to associate 
themselves from an advocacy perspective, or then start to introduce them to the 
active contributing part of the community (in which, I'd suspect opensolaris.org 
would still have a strong part).


Glynn