Re: [gNewSense-users] Sugestion on Website

[Sam Geeraerts]

Karl Goetz wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 22:48 +0200, Sam Geeraerts wrote:
> > Koh Choon Lin wrote:
> > > Hi!
>
> > If we want to reach a broad audience and do some marketing, then a good 
> > look at Ubuntu is in order. It would be nice if we could come up with a 
> > short catchphrase that just about captures the essence of the project 
> > (like "Linux for Human Beings"). That should be on the front page, with 
> > some fancy design (didn't we already have a new design by the way?) and 
> > the logo. Slap some buttons on there to link to:
>
> eg "Free as in Freedom", which is on the splash screen when you install?
> kk

D'oh, I already forgot about that one (look at me, taking freedom for 
granted).

On the one hand it might not be obvious to a beginner how freedom and 
'some computer program' are related. On the other hand it might be an 
incentive to click through to find out more. Like "Linux for Human 
Beings" it references a friendly, familiar, positive concept (Human 
Beings/Freedom). Unlike it, there's no scary unknown (Linux). Our 
catchphrase is also more to the point, less fluffy.

OK, I've convinced myself that it's good (although I knew that already). 
Lucky thing, because it's too late to change it anyway. :)