On 2009-07-30 01:51:40 PM, Paul W. Frields wrote: > One of the issues the Board has been discussing recently is the state > of our various download pages for Fedora. This topic springs directly > from the process of getting to the heart of Fedora's goals. Along the > way we've determined that one of the steps we can take is to improve > the clarity of how we present the Fedora distribution. The way many > people come into contact with that presentation is through our > download site, which needs to provide a first-rate experience for > everyone who uses it. This topic clearly falls into the Board's > domain, because it's to do not with the production of the Fedora > distribution, but rather with the way it's presented, and with the > design of one of the essential public-facing pieces of the project. > > A good, user-centric design must be simple and easy to follow, and > provide a route for all users to reach what they want. The most > effective route for new users of the website is usually very different > than for experienced ones, but all routes must be attractive and > effective for the people using them. The experience we currently > provide for both these groups on our download site is not terribly > attractive or effective, and needs revision. Thanks to some dedicated > community members, there was some work done to redesign these > experiences in the past, but for a variety of reasons those efforts > didn't fully succeed. The Board and I want to see them back on the > front burner, so that we are providing the best possible presentation > of the many faces of Fedora, whether that presentation is more of an > introduction to free software, or intended for experienced users. Hey, this would be great to discuss at tomorrow's websites meeting if any of you can make it - it'll be at 17:00 UTC in #fedora-websites on Freenode (unfortunately this is at the same time as the FESCo meeting). For those on fedora-websites-list, the full message that I mercilessly trimmed here is at https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-advisory-board/2009-July/msg00088.html :-) Thanks, Ricky
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