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Ian, everybody involved here,
We need to know what is it exactly that we want to accomplish with the Freenet site. I can think immediately about several issues that need clarification:
1. What is the intended audience? Techies, freeloaders, general public, existing users, potential new users? Which of these or other groups gets the priority?
2. How should the website be used? Will one visit be enough to convey the point or do we want people to keep comming back? If yes for what reason? Regularily or sporadically?
3. Should it provide more information, or be more appealing to make people "give freenet a try"? Or should it have more free speech advocacy? Should the information provided in the directly accessible pages (FAQ, Architecture) be detailed and oriented for the tech crowd or should it be more general. If so, where should the in-depth info be published?
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Input from everybody appreciated. Is it possible to create a poll with TWiki?
-- ZaB - 07 Jan 2002
> What is the intended audience?
I think that our intended audience should be all of those mentioned above. The goal should be that each of these types of users can get the information they need easily.
Once 0.5 is released, our focus should be to give freenet a try. Until then, it should be to persuade people to come back once 0.5 is released.
> Or should it have more free speech advocacy?
It should advocate free speech in-so-far as it explains why people might want to use Freenet. There are many other sites on the web which do a great job of free speech advocacy for its own sake, and there is no point in duplicating their efforts.
> Should the
> information provided in the directly accessible pages
> (FAQ, Architecture) be detailed and oriented for the
> tech crowd or should it be more general. If so, where
> should the in-depth info be published?
The FAQ should have different sections for the different types of users. The Architecture page should probably be targeted at those already familiar with Freenet and interested in its internals (ie. people interested in becomming developers on the project).
There is no reason that the website shouldn't be able to accomodate several different types of users.
-- IanClarke - 07 Jan 2002
> It should advocate free speech in-so-far as it explains why people might want to use Freenet. There are many other sites on the web which do a great job of free speech advocacy for its own sake, and there is no point in duplicating their efforts.
While there are many free speech advocacy groups on the internet, Freenet is unique in the fact that it is pure free speech, and not "free speech except when it's speech that breaks the law". I urge people to give testimonals regarding their use of freenet, and what it means to them.
-- TomLongson - April 11th, 2002
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