Re: KOffice team is looking for webmasters

On Tuesday 28 October 2008 22:44:48 Thomas Zander wrote:
> On Tuesday 28. October 2008 22:08:48 Cornelius Schumacher wrote:
> > How do you think they would find KOffice? By the domain koffice.org? By
> > Google? By links on external sites? What else?
>
> you sound a bit surprised that koffice actually has brand recognition :)
> Krita has even more brand recognition.

I'm actually not that surprised ;-) I also don't want to make the brand 
KOffice or any of the application brands less visible. My question is only 
about the technical implementation of the web site.

So do you think it's important to have the domain koffice.org in the url of 
all pages about koffice, or would it be enough, if people would get to the 
KOffice main page by typing koffice.org in their web browser or koffice in 
google?

Brands are important and the identity of teams and own communities related or 
part of KDE as well. That's not the question and I really want to provide any 
support necessary to maintain that.

The only question I have in this context now is, how does this relate to the 
technical implementation of the web site? If we can maintain the information 
which is on the koffice home page in userbase and techbase and make sure that 
people reach that information by the domain, by google, and whatever else is 
relevant, would this be a solution for the koffice team?

And as additional point. I think it's very true what Anne said. It's valuable 
to think about what content we provide in terms of userbase, i.e. the 
information users are looking for and what helps users. We are mostly so 
focused on our development stuff and the community perspective that we 
neglect that we have millions of users who might look for information without 
having any of this background. If we can provide a friendly and valuable 
interface for them, we can win a lot.

> And thats a good thing; we have to leverage that brand recognition and
> *also* leverage the brand recognition that kde has.

Yes.

> So different people find the same content coming from different angles.

Exactly. If we know what angles people are coming from, we can make sure that 
they find what they are looking for.

-- 
Cornelius Schumacher <[email protected]>
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