[openbeos] the new website

(a few thoughts)

Blogging is good, but there's a risk in exposing the general
population to a flood of content that is primarily of interest
to the Haiku developers and hang-arounds. While there has
been consensus to primarily target developers for now, the
centerstage of the website will need to eventually be less 
about the development of Haiku and more about Haiku, the product.

In the future we will have to present Haiku differently to
different target groups. I think, roughly:

1. Pure users
 - task oriented people?
 - applications, lifestyle, entertainment, 
 - peripherals, not just the computer
   printers, scanners, removable storage, voip gear, ...
2. Corporate/education
3. Web developers
4. App developers - classic "third party" developers 
5. Haiku developers - we, the people!
6. Distro makers
(7. Offspring/consulting, like what Wasabi is to NetBSD)

Note the distinction between 3 and 4. Web developers 
make a sizable group with interests that don't necessarily
overlap with those of app developers.

Haiku may not have native solutions for all the needs of
every one of these groups, but that doesn't stop us from 
planning how we'd like to present Haiku to them, and in 
the process learn more about what they expect from us.
(Marcom-territory, I suppose)

First and foremost I think we need to be honest about what
we can and can't offer right now. People will find out if a 
certain must-have is missing, sooner or later. I personally 
appreciate honesty up-front, but I'm not a sales guy at all,
so maybe this is all wrong.

/Jonas.

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