Re: GNUstep web site and marketing thoughts

[Damianos Sidiropoulos]

Lars: Thank you for the links. I'll take a look through those.

Daniel Boyd: As far as the philosophical question vs the marketing question. You need to know the answer to the first question. Target audience will affect the answer to the marketing question

To everyone else:

I didn't realize there was disagreement to the idea of GNUstep being a framework vs something else. This would explain some of the decisions made for the current web site.
I think that the "just a framework" question needs to be answered by the project before a website update can start.

I will say this. If the project does decide to go down the road of being just a framework. There will be advantages and it doesn't mean that anything needs to be lost in terms of the desktop apps related work.
It's just that apps would exist in whatever official desktop GNUstep wants to create or endorse. The web properties for both framework and desktop would be more focused as one would focus on developers (creating software), the other would focus on end users (consuming software).
There could even still be mention of desktop building on the GNUstep framework site by having a section that is about platform building, but this too would be developer focused.

The point is from a marketing point of view, things can be simplified because there would only be a single audience GNUstep is trying to reach.

WIth that said, my ultimate goal here is to help with the GNUstep website and get the word out about GNUstep.
In order to do that, there needs to be agreement about what GNUstep actually is and who it is trying to cater to.

On Thu, Jul 11, 2024 at 8:10 AM Daniel Boyd <danieljboyd@icloud.com> wrote:

I think it’s important to make sure we are all answering the same question. There’s a philosophical question, “what is GNUstep?” And there’s a marketing question, “how do we present the project to the public in order to grow the project?” I think the second question is more important.

I also think gnustep can be a framework and still have reference applications. I don’t think anyone would argue that GWorkspace hurts GNUstep’s cause. On the contrary, it is a vivid illustration of how powerful gnustep (the framework) is.