Hi guys, I know lately I have been quiet, but since the majority of decisions were contrary to my beliefs, I didn't want to push too much. However, I feel this is VERY important to mention now, before it gets completely out of scale. As before, I'll let you decide, but I am really against some decisions we already made and I want to let you know that.
So, I'll go through the topics I mentioned first in the subject: *Website* It looks really good Jonathan, but I believe there are a couple of things we must change: - So, if we want Hope, green logos and such why is the theme red/pink/purple? The purpose of keeping the logo black/white/minimalistic was exactly to allow us a greenish color scheme in our website, right? :) - Why is the letter size so small? Can we increase it? - White backgrounds and grey text does not work. Can we change the text color to black? - Why do we have a section named Open Source? Please guys, even though Kibo uses open source technologies, that doesn't mean we must keep showing it to everyone that we use open source technology. That is a huge part of our business model, since we don't need to spend hundred thousands of dollars/euros on software. So, ToriOS and Ubuntu mentions should be posted only to the blog. Agree? - I noticed the Thumbnail in the browser spacer is Google's "g". Can we change that to our K? - I am not comfortable to share our own websites in the social media. If we're going to have a LinkedIn account and YouTube, that it only makes sense to show them. I understand that might have been a test, but if we're not going to use them, then I guess we can cut them out. The about and team page should not have detailed explanations about who we are nor profile pics. What people will want to see is what we have made so far. That, of course, will come with time and with an excellent community surrounding us. Besides, having these such pictures, would imply having highly formal photographs. I'm thinking maybe we should introduce ourselves in our blog, under a "team" category. Something to do in the future, maybe, with pre-prepared interviews. I've added content to all pages. Feel free to edit it however you like it. Not website-related, but web-related: Someone has to take care very soon. *Mailing List* So, even though this has been discussed and Jonathan has gone through a lot to get us running a proper mailing list, I have, once again, to oppose to that. Here are some of my reasons: - While I was adding some content to the website, I felt completely lost looking for the stuff we've already made in our Google Drive folder. Sorry, but that can't never happen. Again. Any cloud-project management SaaS offers a decent integration where I can observe discussions and where are whichever files I am looking for. Please re-consider. - I already said this, but nobody "listened". Here's a print of my Gmail's labels, without spam and these are all important emails: http://prntscr.com/5tte9e. In 6 days, I have 6 emails to mention the server and mailing list. Once again, I'm sorry, but that makes no sense. And this situation will repeat itself over and over again. I'm not blaming A, or B, but this will make us waste a significant amount of time checking our email on a daily basis. Email is outdated nowadays and almost every firm has migrated to other cloud-based solutions, precisely because it is way more organized. Of course, some have developed their own type of internal service. Some of you may say you won't trust them and I respect that. But if you wish to pursue such thought, bear in mind that a lot of people will have to trust us to do business and yes, we will have a load of information about a lot of people. - In regard to the last bullet, I vote for Trello or Slack, even though Slack isn't free. Sorry, but I am not excited to base a firm in a mailing list. That leads to a huge load of links associated with Kibo (Drive, Mailing List, I can't find emails, all emails mention the same topic, and so on and so forth) and I don't find that very sustainable in the long-run. Feel free to comment anything I said and don't think I'm only here to deny stuff. I'm willing to discuss everything, but, as I usually say, there is a reason why the majority of people follow the same thing. Sometimes it's not the best, but some it is. Besides, when I mention majority, I mean those who should be considered - like interesting entrepreneurs, not banks and corrupted people. -- Best Regards / Obrigado e com os melhores cumprimentos, Gustavo
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