Re: [Fwd: [Fedora-marketing-list] idea on explaining the mp3 question]

[John Poelstra <poelstra redhat com>]

Sam Folk-Williams said the following on 10/02/2006 02:01 PM:
> On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 13:48 -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 18:16 +0100, Dimitrios Glezos wrote:
> > > Sam's following mail gave me an idea: Provide the user with Fedora "tips
> > > of the day" somewhere in the browser splash page (of course nothing
> > > splashy or popup).
> yeah this came up on the marketing list last week iirc. Paul's plug in
> works great..
>
> > What this is *really* telling me is that, as soon as the capability
> > exists to host langified spaces on fedoraproject.org, we should use the
> > browser splash to simply redirect online when possible to the fp.o front
> > page.  If people can't use *THAT* as a home page/starting up point,
> > there is something VERY WRONG with it.  (Like, blocker bug level.)
> I agree we should do this. If we improve the fp.o front page to make it
> have more attractive usability (and more useful info, less linkage
> maybe) it could be a great starting page...

Hooray for reducing some of the information and overabundance of links at http://fedoraproject.org  It looks better than a few days ago.  This page: http://www.ubuntu.com/community does a great job of simplicity, friendly, and intuitive navigation :) Others have commented on the "darkness" of the Fedora theme... comparing the two pages I agree, while understanding some of this is simply personal taste.

In terms of being part of the solution, I tried to sign up for a Fedora account a few weeks ago, but got lost in the morass of different registration forms, cross-linked pages, accounts, and requirements.  I plan to give it another shot when I get some time :)

John