On 24/09/2012 15:41, Jon Robson wrote:
That is an intriguing concept that could indeed work quite well to get people interested, but how many will remain interested after they encounter gerrit?
That's a separate problem.. haha!
Derric - in reply to your concerns... just a few points
- The mediawiki homepage puts ME off. This is mainly because I'm more
interested in doing things with the data on wikipedia rather than the software that runs Wikipedia. I think this is the problem we are trying to solve - there are many different types of developers out there and we need something generic to appeal to as many of them as possible.
- I agree personal appeals need to be well written - but I feel we
have lots of expertise around to help us with that if that is something we want to do
- Agreed with presentation - the wall of text approach doesn't work.
I should have stated in my original mail that people should focus on the text itself rather than presentation. I would expect us to reuse the fundraiser presentation style. There is no way this alone would suffice.
- I don't think this would attract so many memes - several reasons -
one it is a link on the bottom of the page and out of most of people's view - two we don't even have to show photos - we could show people's avatars or the apps/extensions people have built instead.
Also if we do attract memes maybe that is a measure of success as it shows we are successfully attracting people to our developer page ;-)
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Brief appeals, with a bunch of big linkey thingies to categories of thingies! It could work! Thingies make everything better. Mainpage needs more thingies too. Or perhaps less. Or maybe just better ones. I guess my point is I agree about 1, although for me it's more just because it's ugly and confusing than anything else.