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
1) 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.
2) 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
3) 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.
4) 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 ;-)