Re: [ART] Website mockup rev1

[Luis Felipe López Acevedo]

El jue, 19-02-2015 a las 14:27 -0500, Mark H Weaver escribió:
> Hi Luis,
> 
> Luis Felipe López Acevedo <address@hidden> writes:
> > Here is a revision of the last website mockup [1].
> >
> > White header
> > http://sirgazil.bitbucket.org/static/temp/img/guixsd/home-view-white-rev1.png
> 
> The design is beautiful, but at this stage in our development, I think
> it targets the wrong audience.  It will probably be at least a few years
> before we can target the "Average Jane", and we shouldn't try anytime
> soon.

Years? I was was overly optimistic then :P

> For example, it would be a tremendous drain on us to draw a bunch of
> people to our IRC channel who may not even be able to start their own
> IRC client software.  At this stage, forcing users to run their own IRC
> client is a helpful barrier to entry that we should not try to overcome
> with an easy web interface.
> 
> Also, you have replaced "Dependendable, Hackable, and Liberating" with
> "Libre, gratis, secure, and malleable".  I prefer the words we emphasize
> on our current web page.  Ludovic has given several talks and had many
> discussions with other GNU hackers, and settled on the words he chose,
> and the language used to describe them, based on his experiences.  For
> the audience we currently need to attract, I think that we should stick
> with his language.
> 
> So, for now I think that our page should be aimed at skilled developers
> and sysadmins, and so instead of headlining things like clip art of a
> computer monitor, we should instead headline the unusual technical
> features that we offer, with links to the best documentation, papers and
> talks where they can find out more, and with information on how to get
> involved without trying to lower the barriers to entry more than is
> appropriate.
> 
> Does that make sense?

It does make sense :)

> That said, our current web page could definitely use graphic redesign
> and reorganization of its content, and I think you would be a great
> person to help with that, if you can do so while retaining its technical
> focus.
> 

I would like to adjust the current mockup then to fit the
devs-and-sysadmin target audience. For example, replacing the monitor
with a recent FOSDEM video, and adding the other, and more appropriate,
wording and content, indicated by Andreas Enge and you.

Also, I'm assuming the GuixSD website is going to be available at a
different place than <http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/>. For example,
<http://guixsd.gnu.org/>, but if that is not possible for now, I think I
can try doing something in the current GNU Guix page anyway.

> Thanks again for all of your help.  We are fortunate to have such a
> talented artist helping :)
> 
>       Mark

Thanks for the kind words. I'm glad to help :)