On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 22:31:06 -0600, Patrick Barnes wrote > Websites Team, > > There's been a thread going on in fedora-list regarding our transition > to fedoraproject.org. It brings up an excellent point. Except among > ourselves, we have done a poor job of advertising what we are doing to > the rest of the community. Although more and more resources are > becoming available on fedoraproject.org, and more links are pointing to > it, we haven't done much to tell people that we are now focusing on > fedoraproject.org. With our recent revamp of fedora.redhat.com, we > removed a great deal of content and left little more than a basic set of > pages in place, but we didn't directly tell users where the information > had gone. Many of the links there do now point to fedoraproject.org, > but there's no explicit declaration of what is happening. I'd love to > hear suggestions about how we can best remedy this oversight. > > I also know that a lot of people have asked why we don't have more > content on the front page of fedora.redhat.com. I've been trying to > find a reasonable way to publish news there that is synchronized with > the news from fedoraproject.org. Beyond that, I'd love to hear > suggestions for other valuable content that could go on the front page. > Karsten, Greg and I haven't really heard a whole lot of feedback on the > new fedora.redhat.com, so if each of you would take a few minutes to > browse the site and return to the list with your insight, that would be > great. > > Even if we are going to finish moving content away from > fedora.redhat.com, we need to come up with key content to remain there, > and the main content will likely be moved to fedoraproject.org (which we > will need to advertise better). Whatever CMS (or non-CMS) solution we > choose, we need to maintain our static content, and we need to tell our > userbase what we are doing. > > -- > Patrick "The N-Man" Barnes > nman64@xxxxxxxxx > > http://www.n-man.com/ > -- > Have I been helpful? Rate my assistance! http://rate.affero.net/nman64/ Here is my feedback. Now that we have an official approval from Greg to use new fedora logo, let's actively put it in use. As a start, I would like to see "Fedora Logo Design" image right on the main page. Then, we could point to following useful sites: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Overview http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAQ Merry Christmas and Happy *Fedora* New Year! :) -- Thomas Chung http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ThomasChung
