[rant] Target audience for calligra-suite.org

[Cyrille Berger Skott]

Hi,

calligra.org (not anymore calligra-suite.orgt ;P) is our front page for our 
users, right ? Then we have to identify our current users and the one we are 
targetting in the next few monthes (not the one in the next few years).

Here is the deal, our current users (ignoring Krita and possibly Kexi) and 
next few months are:

* power-users, usually KDE users, free-software oriented and linux geeks
* ISV (Nokia and some other customers of KO Gmbh)

Those might not be our target dream users, but that is the people we want to 
"sell" calligra to _now_. In a few months, when the desktop version of 
calligra gets better and our user taget changes we can update that list.

So calligra.org is there to provide news and information to those people. 
Incidently, they expect the same kind of news: technical details on the 
progress of the software.

Now there are ways to present technical progress and ways. And I am rather 
convinced that we can do it in an user friendly way.

That is for the audience part.

Now when it comes to the content, lets say it like this, we don't have anyone 
working on that at the moment. Which is the real problem, and the reason why 
we still have news from April on the front page. Unless someone volunteers to 
do that part of the work, I don't really see a solution.

The way I see, it boils down to three tasks:

1) diggs interesting stuff
2) write an article about it, make a screenshot
3) reviewer

Lets face it, 1) can only be done by developers, because they are the one who 
knows what is going on, and especially when a feature is ready. So if people 
are willing to ping me on the cool new features (especially user visible, 
whether a new tool, dialog or an important bug fix in document rendering), I 
can do 2) (a maximum of once a week and hopefully at least once a month). But 
I would need someone to do 3).

Other than that, I don't think that the website is too developer oriented. 
Like Boudewijn said, we release beta because we want people to test our 
applications, and if the only way to install those packages is a command line, 
well I would say that it is still better to give the information than to not 
give it.

As for the "presentation", the website still feel a bit too much bloglike, and 
I would like it to move in the way of the getkde.org thingy (and we have a 
beta for that here http://www.calligra.org/homebeta/ besides a few minor CSS 
issues, the addition I would like is to have the banner become a slide show, 
but I did not find the correct combo of time/motivation for that).

And I am sure we can make some other adjustment. But generally, I am rather 
satisfied by the look of it.

-- 
Cyrille Berger Skott