Re: Our self-presentation, not just on our website. (Was: Re: GS based app release: djay by Algoriddim in Beta)

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi Lars!

lars.sonchocky-helldorf@hamburg.de wrote:
> - We are not Window Maker and "Window Maker is not GNUstep“ (add a 
> link to WINGs here: https://www.windowmaker.org/docs/wings.html )
> - We are a cross platform implementation (Linux, BSDs, Windows) of 
> Cocoa, formerly OpenStep (link the Cocoa and OpenStep specs here too)
> - We are up to date (link to latest release and GitHub)
> - We are themable
> - We have software (link to software index)
>
> everything as link/anchor to a section further down the page where we 
> explain it in more detail but not to extensive, about five to eight 
> sentences per section should be enough. If there is more to explain 
> link a subpage, like 
> https://gnustep.github.io/experience/Theming.html in that section.
>
> We don’t need a myriad of subpages. Keep it as minimal as possible.

I agree that these concept should be present on the site and quickly 
accessible - but as explained in other mails - disagree they should all 
be direclty on the homepage.
It is bad to define yourself with what you are not! and I disagree 
putting it prominently on the homepage. It is a one-click away.
The link you mentioned was added though, since the WINGs acronym is 
always cited.

The Software Index is still there but broken - all our dynamic part of 
the site is still down, thus both the wikipedia list as well as software 
index. We should accelerate on that. Next think to discuss with Ivan and 
Fred at his retour, I propose.

> >     I answered that GNUstep already has themes, but when searching
> >     for https://gnustep.github.io/experience/Theming.html I found out
> >     that this page is nowhere linked from the front page, so I knew
> >     it exists but I had to google it. All in all our web presence
> >     (while looking somewhat sleek) is in a kinda sorry state: It
> >     doesn’t get those messages around:

The page (to be updated itself... started work on that) is both 
experience and development interesting, so it needs to be linked by both 
areas. Did so.


> As I said: Our Website is the key to this. This would include to 
> finally get a SSL-certificate from https://letsencrypt.org/ since the 
> link https://gnustep.org/ is still not working (just 
> http://gnustep.org/ ). But who am I to demand things here, I can only 
> ask friendly … :)

It is on our todo list, Ivan said he would work on it... we shall remind 
him of that.

Riccardo