rotating banners, first idea

Benjamin Lewis ben.lewis at benl.co.uk
Fri Jun 1 19:29:34 UTC 2007


Nice idea! I say go with it.

Karsten Wade wrote:
> We discussed the idea of doing rotating banners on the front of
> fedoraproject.org, once we get over ourselves for the successful F7. ;)
>
> The idea is, once every $TIME_PERIOD, we rotate the front page banner.
> Ideas are proposed and vetted on this list (f-marketing-l), then kicked
> over to the Art team for production.  They drop them into a queue that
> Infrastructure sets up, all around the self-service idea.
>
> Before I go all Wiki on this idea and make a canonical page for it, is
> it a good idea?  Should we do it?  Why not?
>
> And my first proposed idea, from a Linux Watch quote of Max:
>
> 'Spevack concluded, "We'll advertise the most popular spins on Fedora on
> the Fedora site. So, if someone created a very small distribution it
> might be advertised as Damn Small Fedora Linux." This is a play on the
> popular DSL (Damn Small Linux) distribution.'
>
> The first rotated banner promotes either i) that effort (points to a
> special 'popular spins' page), or ii) directly promotes one or more
> popular spins.
>
> - Karsten
>   

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