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Originally Posted by qgil View Post
The missions that nobody will accomplish better are:

- For users: apps that won't be at Ovi, community help, peers discussion and power use (whatever is not written in the manual)

- For developers: genuine community developer discussion and support, all the unofficial offering, the development project infrastructure and the Extras distribution channel.

- For everybody: Maemo community unique services e.g. Bugzilla and Brainstorm plus the community involvement from rating apps and news to the QA testing, attending to events as sponsored contributor, being elected to the counil...

To me the goal of the Intro page is to give this big and broad and simple picture to everybody, and the links to know more.
Agreed. Users -> learn about community, pointers on how to listen in, links to tutorials and HOWTOs. Developers -> learn about community, links to places where they can get started with an SDK, writing or porting an application, helping make the platform better.


If there is agreement that the introductory pages in the wiki are better than the "Intro" section, then we could just use those (once they settle to a steady state & meet editorial standards) & have all links from there go into the wiki directly.

maemo.org/intro devinitely needs to cater to developers - but if we can have a big red button with a label "Developers and über-geeks go here!" which brings them somewhere else, that might do.

To me it's important for a new person coming to maemo.org to know in the intro that this is a community project, and be pointed to places where they can join in and listen to the conversation also.

Cheers,
Dave.
 

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