[Mageia-dev] What do you think about create a Mageia Welcome Center?

Thu Sep 30 14:19:57 CEST 2010

On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 08:06, Thorsten van Lil <tvl83 at gmx.de> wrote:
+>
+>
+> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
+> Von: mageia-dev-bounces at mageia.org [mailto:mageia-dev-bounces at mageia.org] Im
+> Auftrag von Wolfgang Bornath
+>
+>>2010/9/30 atilla ontas <tarakbumba at gmail.com>:
+>>>
+>>> Why we' re talking about a survey? Do we need this? We are not a
+>>> company and think about customer happiness. I thought this thread is
+>>> about a informational and/or assistance application for newbies.
+>>>
+>
+>>Agreed. Surveys are a nuisance anyway.
+>>1. A large part of survey participants do not tell the truth.
+>>2. A large part of users do not participate so you will not get any
+>>real information anyway.
+>>3. If something is wrong with the project, the distribution, user
+>>satisfaction or whatever you will know it by user postings in the
+>>forums earlier than by surveys.
+>>
+>>So, at the end of the day,
+>>What do you get by surveys to take away?
+>>More work to implement and to read them, that's all.
+>
+> Surveys are quite reasonable. You get a standardized conclusion. Many people
+> use a distribution without ever being registered at a forum. In a forum you
+> will only get the extremes (good and bad) but not the small papercuts that
+> may disturb the user, ... . There are many reasons for surveys (ask some
+> marketing guys or psychologists).
+>
+> But that’s for the fine tuning. We can think about such things, if we
+> released some versions. And I think it never should bother the user. Maybe a
+> button in the welcome center "Your opinion is important for use" but not
+> with a autostart after the first boot.
+>
+> Regards,
+> TeaAge
+>
+
+Ok, so no survey, because they're a pain.
+
+How about that Welcome Center now?
+I mentioned the Linux Mint example earlier, it seems flexible to me...
+They use HTML and WebKit, i think, to render it. We could probably
+include links to applications too.
+
+
+-- 
+later, Robert Xu
+