Dear Everyone, Having mentioned once again the announcement about the alternative website design, aiming, as far as I can see, more of uniform appearance, I would like to suggest a little change to the content of front page for the current or any alternative design.
ATM we have "Debian GNU/Linux provides more than a pure OS: it comes with over 25000 packages, precompiled software bundled up in a nice format for easy installation on your machine." which, upon click on Packages, leads user into the wealth of software we manage. Unfortunately, even list of sections and corresponding software, is not imho convincing, as why Debian should become the OS of the visitor's choice. As some of you might know, we have a project http://wiki.debian.org/DebianPureBlends where Blend is described as "a subset of Debian that is configured to support a particular target group out-of-the-box. ", and that I think, is a very powerful machinery which could be used to make Debian look appealing to any target audience. Within blends, there already exist an alternative listing of packages with imho much better visual and informational appeal -- blend's task pages, e.g. [Debian-Science] http://blends.alioth.debian.org/science/tasks [Debian-Med] http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/tasks/index [Accessibility] http://blends.alioth.debian.org/accessibility/tasks/index [Debian-Junior] http://blends.alioth.debian.org/junior/tasks and others [Blends] http://blends.alioth.debian.org So, why not to make the face page, more visitor-attractive in terms of the content? The simplest one could be changing that sentence to something like Debian GNU/Linux provides more than a pure OS: it comes with thousands of ready to be installed packages[LINK]. Debian is as a great OS for Juniors [Debian-Junior] as for the scientists [Debian-Science]. Debian has being used in Medicine [Debian-Med] and to help people with disabilities [Accessibility]. But there is even more of Debian -- see other "blends" [Blends], "Ports" [Ports page], and packages [LINK]. Most of the blends have icons, which could be used to spice up the wide Debian logo at http://www.deb.at/ and then used with image map to direct to a particular blend. Since I am not subscribed to -www or -blends, I could have missed already existing discussion about the same or similar idea. Then just count my email as "+1" for it ;) P.S. I am BCCing (to avoid cross-posting) also debian-ble...@lists.debian.org , lets see if it gets there ;) -- .-. =------------------------------ /v\ ----------------------------= Keep in touch // \\ (yoh@|www.)onerussian.com Yaroslav Halchenko /( )\ ICQ#: 60653192 Linux User ^^-^^ [175555]
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