What to do with start.fp.o?

[Sijis Aviles]

Hi all,

I wanted to start a discussion on what is the goal/purpose for
start.fedoraproject.org. There has been some push on redesigning and
freshening up its 'look and feel' which some of that work has been
completed. However, the problem is we need to answer what is the purpose of
start.fp.o?. Without answering this question, we can't redesign it without
having a target audience in mind.

I think that this site can be a very visible, since that's one of the two
sites that load upon launching FF for the first time. Currently I feel that
it lacks a purpose and its sorta out there with no target in mind. My
current view is to do something like a '1 page release notes' or 'New things
in Fedora X' type thing, something very simple and only 1 page. The other
idea is to just drop the site completely and/or use fp.o.

Here is a link to a few unorganized ideas about the redesign [1]. Any
ideas/suggestion/thoughts?

Thanks,

Sijis

[1] - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Start.fpo_redesign

[Stephen John Smoogen]

2011/6/17 Sijis Aviles :
> Hi all,
>
> I wanted to start a discussion on what is the goal/purpose for
> start.fedoraproject.org. There has been some push on redesigning and
> freshening up its 'look and feel' which some of that work has been
> completed. However, the problem is we need to answer what is the purpose of
> start.fp.o?. Without answering this question, we can't redesign it without
> having a target audience in mind.
>
> I think that this site can be a very visible, since that's one of the two
> sites that load upon launching FF for the first time. Currently I feel that
> it lacks a purpose and its sorta out there with no target in mind. My
> current view is to do something like a '1 page release notes' or 'New things
> in Fedora X' type thing, something very simple and only 1 page. The other
> idea is to just drop the site completely and/or use fp.o.

Personally I think a page of tutorials like  "HOW TO USE THE FEDORA
DESKTOP" would be a good thing. Heck make it part of the release
process. If you want something to be included as a feature for release
N+1 it needs to have material to be added to start.

Even if the content is linking to tutorials and such on KDE, GNOME,
systemd etc sites.

Or to make a tl;dr

I think start should be for making it easier for users to "start" using the OS.