Expanding the branding and marketing of spins?

[Matthew Garrett]

We don't do a great job of marketing spins at the moment - a naive user 
has to click "Download" and then do something other than click the large 
obvious "Download now!" button. Clicking "Desktops" gives a list of 
desktops with no real information about what they are - users have to 
click through to the spins site. Non-desktop spins are hidden under a 
tab marked "spins", which is Fedora-specific terminology. Even once you 
get to spins.fedoraproject.org, every spin is forced into a format that 
gives little opportunity to differentiate. There's no integration with 
upstream branding.

The board is considering whether the current situation meets the needs 
of the spins. Do people feel that they would benefit from the 
opportunity to have a stronger individual identity for their spin, with 
its own website and branding (still obviously tied to Fedora, but 
potentially also tied to upstream)? Or is the feeling that the current 
situation is acceptable?

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59(a)srcf.ucam.org

[Joerg Simon]

On 10.07.2014 19:00, Matthew Garrett wrote:
>  Do people feel that they would benefit from the
>  opportunity to have a stronger individual identity for their spin, with 
>  its own website and branding (still obviously tied to Fedora, but 
>  potentially also tied to upstream)? Or is the feeling that the current 
>  situation is acceptable? 
of course i can not talk for all spins,
for the Fedora Security Lab we found a home within fedora hosted for
content and where we can expand the idea to be more than just the Fedora
Security Spin ...

https://fedorahosted.org/security-spin/

imho good enough for me and the people who are more interested in FSL.

We also have a social presence in g+ as "Fedora Security Lab"

Matth
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[Luya Tshimbalanga]

On 07/10/2014 10:00 AM, Matthew Garrett wrote:
>  We don't do a great job of marketing spins at the moment - a
> naive user
>  has to click "Download" and then do something other than click the large
>  obvious "Download now!" button. Clicking "Desktops" gives a list of
>  desktops with no real information about what they are - users have to
>  click through to the spins site. Non-desktop spins are hidden under a
>  tab marked "spins", which is Fedora-specific terminology. Even once you
>  get to spins.fedoraproject.org, every spin is forced into a format that
>  gives little opportunity to differentiate. There's no integration with
>  upstream branding.
>
>  The board is considering whether the current situation meets the needs
>  of the spins. Do people feel that they would benefit from the
>  opportunity to have a stronger individual identity for their spin, with
>  its own website and branding (still obviously tied to Fedora, but
>  potentially also tied to upstream)? Or is the feeling that the current
>  situation is acceptable?
>  
Design Suite is very close to Fedora Desktop (based on gnome shell) but 
aimed to be like Adobe Creative Suite using latest  computer arts 
applications with very minimal configuration.
I will explore the suggestion but am content with the available tools. 
Spins will need some refresh in order to make it professional for a much 
broader audience.


Luya Tshimbalanga
Fedora Design Team