Hi Ian, On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 10:52 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: >> I would say the problem is a lack of concrete discussion; I'm sure >> that if someone put forward a [specific] suggestion about what they >> think would be good to have on the homepage / some other page(s) on >> the OOo website, they won't be ignored. > > I'm just thinking back to a few years ago when this sort of discussion was > much more common. Nothing happened so pretty well all those involved > appear to have moved on to other things.
That's why I was careful to write *concrete* discussions - discussions which result in action (at least more often than inaction). > [...] > The solution is simply > one of delegation. Give the marketing leads control over the front page of > the web site. That is a simple decision but it requires trusting the > marketing project leads - but why have them if they can't be trusted with > some real influence? What does democracy mean in the project? Both marketing project leads have access to the front page. Florian has been updating the news items on the home page for a long time. The idea for the action statements came from Graham, a member of the marketing list, and there was input on other areas from marketing members on the website-dev list... so other than the website-dev list, I would say that the marketing list (or at least some of its members) has had the biggest influence on the front page of the website. In line with the original goals of the homepage (to get users to the more specific page they want more quickly and easily), I think the 'why' website would be a much better focus for topical marketing campaigns, with a news item on the homepage to promote it. But that would take a co-ordinated effort which has been lacking. If there is a push from this list, is there any reason why you couldn't harness the talents of the website-dev and art lists to help create a great marketing campaign? Regards, Ivan. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
