[osol-mktg] Re: [website-discuss] Home page graphic redesign proposal

[Derek Cicero]

I looked at the tag cloud on del.icio.us and I am confused. I see the 
tag could for OpenSolaris, but I can't publish the cloud *to* 
OpenSolaris. I am also not sure how helpful it is to have links on the 
homepage that drive everybody off of the site.

Or are you are proposing we create a tag could *like* that one and link 
to various places within our site? That might work. Do people like/use 
tag clouds? I can't say that I ever really notice them, but I may be in 
the minority.

As for the artwork selection process, my first questions is 'how many 
people intend to actual submit something?'

If we are going to wind up 3-5 total contributions anyway, it would seem 
that making a heavyweight voting process is unnecessary. I would say 
that anybody that is interested in submitting something should let us 
know by Wed. Everyone would then have X days to make their submission 
and then we would vote. If it's easier to keep the vote to a few people 
then I volunteer for that task.

Also, while I agree that voting on art generally leads to something 
boring, we are really only talking about a small 500 x 130 homepage 
graphic, not a page or site redesign. If submitters try and work within 
the basic look and feel of the site, they should be fine.

My main position is that we should try and have a little fun with this 
and I would personally rather have a rotation of community produced art 
that is serviceable than have the same image up there for a year 
straight (although I think Chandan's original piece was great).

Sorry for the stream-of-consciousness It's Friday. ;)

Derek

Sara Dornsife wrote:

> If this proposal is approved by website-discuss then the tagcloud 
> design could be submitted for approval.
> Sara
>
>
> Venky wrote:
>
>>> Or, a tagcloud. That would be visually appealing, educational, 
>>> community driven.
>>
>>
>> Okay, okay!  +1 for the tagcloud! :)
>>
>> Venky.
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Derek Cicero
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Solaris Kernel Group, Software Division