On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 10:14:26AM -0400, Andrew Hudson wrote: > > > >you and the other beos / haiku developer , user, see the beautiful of > >the system, but new humans and younger humans have not clue about > this. > >He see old goals for a old os. > >He so on the website, some working stuff but not the beautiful stuff > he can it it. > >Sometime its good to make new goals and new vision and present it all. > >personality when i see the webpage, i have not the feeling, wow thats > nice, i will work for this. > >Please do not misunderstand, i see (i am not alone) the haiku project > >need a little bit polish. And it is not a problem, to say, "we have a > >problem" we need more from the crazy ones humans. > >I am very interested to have a os thats work on for more years, > development never stops. > > > I agree with Ralf that we can do a better job showing off the cool features > of Haiku. > I have seen a number of nice demos done on youtube. This is a great avenue > for > presentations. When we are getting the next release ready I think we should > have > some sort of welcome package to go along with the base release. I will be > happy to > coordinate this when the time is nearer. I think some original video, images, > sounds, music in a multimedia presentation would be appropriate. Also, telling > the story of Haiku internals, Haiku ideals, and Haiku history. Every release > is a great > opportunity to tell the story. We do have a welcome page and it's the start page in the web browser when you do a fresh install: http://cgit.haiku-os.org/haiku/plain/docs/welcome/welcome_en.html Help improving the user guide is welcome. This is one of the many ways non-developers can make Haiku better. -- Adrien.