brainstorming for UDS-N - Ubuntu the Project

[Manish Sinha]

On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 4:00 AM, Dylan McCall <dylanmccall at gmail.com> wrote:

> This may be more suited to the “other” category, but earlier in the
> Maverick cycle there was a bit of talking about release notes. That it
> would be really cool to have a “what's new” page on the web, aimed at
> current users, to get them all energised and excited about the next
> release. It could also appeal to developers by going over the new
> tools they have available and what they're all about. (Done right, it
> would help developers get their apps well integrated with the latest
> stuff in Ubuntu without needing to hunt).
>
> Blender does this amazingly well, for example. Their non-technical
> release notes are educational and exciting to read and they act as
> perfectly good marketing tools as well. They solve a lot of problems
> users and developers can bump into when upgrading. And, as we all
> know, excited users are HAPPY users, and happy users are potential
> contributors.
>

I would also suggest looking at the  release notes of Firefox
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.6/releasenotes/
It's simple and straight-forward

Another problem I had was that whenever in our college LUG we used to
promote Ubuntu, I never had a complete list of changes. Reading Ubuntu's
release notes is like finding a needle in the haystick. The only details we
have about Ubuntu is this http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop which actually is
what all Ubuntu has and not what new Ubuntu has.

If the release notes is simple, then LoCo will have a better time promoting
Ubuntu as many of them are not able to catch up regularly with the
development all over the 6 months.

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Manish
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