Join Fedora

[Rahul Sundaram]

Hi,

Apparently the "OS Developer" icon in join Fedora page doesn't translate 
well into "testing" or "maintaining packages" for many people. There was 
a brief discussion in fedora-devel list starting at

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2008-December/msg02553.htm...

To summarize, maybe "Fedora Developer", "Developer" or "Developing/ 
Testing" or individual icons for these that point to the same section 
might be better.

Rahul

[Ricky Zhou]

On 2008-12-29 03:01:32 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Apparently the "OS Developer" icon in join Fedora page doesn't translate  
> well into "testing" or "maintaining packages" for many people. There was  
> a brief discussion in fedora-devel list starting at
>
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2008-December/msg02553.htm...
>
> To summarize, maybe "Fedora Developer", "Developer" or "Developing/  
> Testing" or individual icons for these that point to the same section  
> might be better.

Thanks for passing this one - we actually discussed this at our last
meeting, and Marc Ferguson sent out a couple of emails asking for
feedback for our join page.  It has been pretty quiet for now (holidays,
I guess), but our next big goal for this release is to improve our
join-fedora page (much like we improved get-fedora last time).

Thanks,
Ricky

[Rahul Sundaram]

Ricky Zhou wrote:
> On 2008-12-29 03:01:32 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > Apparently the "OS Developer" icon in join Fedora page doesn't translate  
> > well into "testing" or "maintaining packages" for many people. There was  
> > a brief discussion in fedora-devel list starting at
> >
> > https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2008-December/msg02553.htm...
> >
> > To summarize, maybe "Fedora Developer", "Developer" or "Developing/  
> > Testing" or individual icons for these that point to the same section  
> > might be better.
>
> Thanks for passing this one - we actually discussed this at our last
> meeting, and Marc Ferguson sent out a couple of emails asking for
> feedback for our join page.  It has been pretty quiet for now (holidays,
> I guess), but our next big goal for this release is to improve our
> join-fedora page (much like we improved get-fedora last time).

Sorry, I am not following meeting notes much these days.

Does the goal include improving http://spins.fedoraproject.org?
Personally, I would put that as a higher priority than join page. We 
have a increasingly large number of spins and the traffic directed 
towards them has clearly gone down with the new Get Fedora page because 
the spins are more or less invisible for the large majority of users.

Rahul

[Ricky Zhou]

On 2008-12-29 03:11:50 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Does the goal include improving http://spins.fedoraproject.org?
> Personally, I would put that as a higher priority than join page. We  
> have a increasingly large number of spins and the traffic directed  
> towards them has clearly gone down with the new Get Fedora page because  
> the spins are more or less invisible for the large majority of users.

Not really - there was some planning work done for spins.fp.o at the
last FUDCon and a fedorahosted project was started for it, but it seems
to be blocking on the development work for a spins web app (as the spins
site was planned to be more complicated than just a set of static
pages).

Thanks,
Ricky

[Rahul Sundaram]

Ricky Zhou wrote:
> On 2008-12-29 03:11:50 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > Does the goal include improving http://spins.fedoraproject.org?
> > Personally, I would put that as a higher priority than join page. We  
> > have a increasingly large number of spins and the traffic directed  
> > towards them has clearly gone down with the new Get Fedora page because  
> > the spins are more or less invisible for the large majority of users.
>
> Not really - there was some planning work done for spins.fp.o at the
> last FUDCon and a fedorahosted project was started for it, but it seems
> to be blocking on the development work for a spins web app (as the spins
> site was planned to be more complicated than just a set of static
> pages).

I think there is a FUDCon session planned on spins and if we are not 
getting a web app by the end of it, a simple set of static pages might 
be way better than what we have at this point.

Rahul