On Mon, 12 Oct 2009, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 16:45 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote: > > That's kind of my point. Our project mission statement makes no > > indication of what we actually do or that we even have a product at all. > > Being involved in Fedora it seems fairly obvious to me that one of the > > things the Fedora Project does is produce the Fedora OS product. I picked > > desktop specifically because that seems to be overwhelmingly what people > > are looking for. > > What "people" though? If we're concerned about new users finding Fedora > and thinking they would like to use our distro, pointing them to > our /project/ mission statement is entirely wrong. Pointing them to > the /product/ page for a Desktop spin, or KDE spin, or Education spin is > entirely right. > > If we're talking about contributors, then the product page isn't quite > for them. The project page is more about why we are doing these things, > why we are producing the various products and what purpose the entire > thing serves. > > Simply put, the Project page should not be the landing page for users. > Agreed, it should be the page that directs our contributors. To create a usable, general purpose desktop. -Mike _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
