<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 1:32 PM, Jorge G. Mare <<a href="mailto:jorge.g.mare@gmail.com">jorge.g.mare@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> Howdy, <div class="im"> On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 7:11 AM, Mike Holstein <<a href="mailto:mikeh789@gmail.com">mikeh789@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > ALL ARE WELCOME to attend the meeting this sunday, april 3rd, @ 10am, easter > standard time. PLEASE LET ME KNOW if you have trouble finding out what time > this is in your local time zone... eastern standard time is US/new york.. > for example: > 10:00:00 a.m. Sunday March 6, 2011 in America/New_York converts to </div>I will try to participate. Although being Sunday @ 7:00AM here in California, I cannot guarantee. :) If possible, I would like to discuss the new website (mainly trying to get better insight of what the goals are). Cheers! Jorge -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list <a href="mailto:Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com">Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel</a> </blockquote></div> Hi Jorge, I would like to address your comment about the new website before the meeting in hopes that the meeting will become more fruitful. My view is that the website would mainly target people who are completely ignorant about Ubuntu Studio and users with little or moderate experience with Ubuntu Studio, but for (somewhat) differing purposes. This isn't to imply that other audiences cannot or should not visit the website, just that the intended majority purpose of the website is not tailored to them. For those who have only heard about this "Ubuntu Studio thing" we would provide the following: * Introductory Videos * Feature Walkthough * FAQ * Download Links * Support Descriptions and Links (IRC, forums, mailing lists, <a href="http://help.ubuntu.com">help.ubuntu.com</a>*) The purpose of addressing this audience is to entice people learning about Ubuntu Studio to convert to new users. Those with little or moderate experience I think we provide: * Workflows* * Tutorials* * Tutorial Videos * Download Links * Support Descriptions and Links (IRC< forums, mailing lists, <a href="http://help.ubuntu.com">help.ubuntu.com</a>*) * News/updates (with RSS feed) The purpose of addressing this audience is to help new users develop competency and keep them informed. To summarize, I think the following baseline pages are needed for the website update: * home page * news/updates (with RSS feed) * introductory videos page * feature walkthrough pages * FAQ * download page * support page * workflows* * tutorials* * tutorial videos After the website is updated we may consider further potential improvements such as including user made content (audio, video, graphic), screenshots, a user "suggestion box" (because they tend to avoid mailing lists I believe), and a "help the developers" page. But if we made it through what I consider "base line" (i.e. the ones enumerated above) then I believe the website would be very functional. This next point is for a larger discussion, perhaps the meeting would be a good place. You may have noticed that I appended a few items with the asterisk (*) above. I would like to ask people's opinions on where they would want to make information available to users. We could keep using the <a href="http://help.ubuntu.com">help.ubuntu.com</a> wiki or we could start putting more information on the website. I don't have a particularly strong view on either consideration at this point and would like to hear what others think/feel. I don't particularly like the format of the h.u.c wiki and I think that having information in one location would be beneficial, so I suppose that I am leaning to including as much documentation on the new website. However, anyone with a Launchpad account can update a wiki page at h.u.c and the website would be relatively closed to most people to edit. So I admit there are deficiencies to keeping everything on the website. Lastly, I wanted to point out the perspective from where my comments are derived and their import. I acknowledge that I am project lead and I believe I have been the most consistently involved with developing this update. However, this doesn't mean that my suggestions, comments, and thoughts are either correct or the best for the update. I don't develop websites and I am not a student of the sociology of websites. If I am wrong or if someone has a better suggestion that I ask that people speak up :) My ultimate goal for the website is to have comprehensive and helpful website that users will use, not stroke my ego. Please let me know your thoughts and I look forward to the meeting. ScottL