www.gnome.org - Get Started
Summary
The new structure for the www.gnome.org site (defined in the completed GnomeWeb/NewWgoStructure goal) calls for several subsections. 'Get Started' is one of them.
This goal depends on GnomeWeb/NewWgoStructure. This goal is related to GnomeWeb/LayoutPlanning (which defines how the pages will actually look) and GnomeWeb/CmsSetup.
We are currently in the planning phase. See GnomeWeb/DevelopmentTimeline to know more about the 2.18 release schedule. See GnomeWeb/Goals for a complete list of goals and their status.
Starting points
The earlier goal defines the following structure:
Get Started - Try GNOME: desktop, applications, development platform.
- OSs and distros
Windows&Mac downloads
- LiveCD
- Intro for developers
Intro for sysadmins/deployments.
- Learn more
Tasks
The basic task is to plan and write this section of the www.gnome.org site.
- Plan the content of the pages in more detail, starting from the structure defined in the previous goal.
- Research the information needed
- Which Distros do we want to feature? Contact them, get information about them.
- What can we offer Windows and Mac users? Who in GNOME knows this?
- Do we even have a LiveCD team? Who are they? Is it up to date? Where can it be downloaded?
- What do we want for developers? What's been our material on this so far? Ask developers what they want.
- What do we want for sysadmins/deployments? What's been our material on this so far? Ask sysadmins/deployments what they want.
- Write the pages on the CMS
- Create images and screenshots as needed
Requirements
Related GnomeWeb/UseCases:
- All audiences including hobbyists
- What is a LiveCD
- I'm looking for free downloads, I'm a Windows/Mac user, no idea what you mean with the beer and speech thing
- What relation does GNOME have with my [freeOS/distro]
- How can I try the GNOME desktop
- Help me choose the distro that suits me best
- I need help to install and start using GNOME applications / desktop
I want to know about the latest & coolest unstable GNOME software (??)
- ISDs
- Where is the documentation for developers
- We want to use library X, where is all the documentation
Best practices, known issues & common mistakes
- How can we get free / paid support
- Overview of the GNOME architecture and development platform
- Public Sector
- We want to know about deployments howto's, institutional reports and recommendations
- How to work together
- How to provide quality feedback based on our GNOME experience
Participants
- Your name here...