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[Christian Giordano <christian.giordano@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Dylan, in case the Twitter feed is missing you would use the same
layout? Wouldn't you switch to the previous one with the picture of
AskUbuntu?

The twitter feed is pretty cool, I am just not sure about its purpose. The
"support" slide is quite important for new users (so maybe using the same
layout as the intro slide is not a bad idea). I fear the user will be
distracted by the feed instead of gathering the useful information on the
left.


Thanks, chr


On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 7:54 AM, Dylan McCall <dylanmccall@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> On Feb 21, 2012 7:08 AM, "Christian Giordano" <
> christian.giordano@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >…
> > Since the last release the last slide (mainly used for support) changed.
> While the copy still talks about askubuntu.com, instead of the typical
> screenshot layout now the slideshow background is visible and there is a
> Twitter feed.
> >
> > I am not sure when this change happened and who did it, but my
> understanding is that it is serving the purpose of acknowledging the user
> about the breath of the install base (many languages many topics).
> >
> > Being the last slide it is quite important so it would be great if we
> can discuss this solution further.
> >
> >
> > While I understand the motivation of advertising something different
> than askubuntu for not English speaker, I think that a moderation will be
> necessary. My concern is that when a moderation will be in place, this
> breath of users (especially because moderating in different languages is
> very difficult) will get missing.
> >
> > Because we are close to release, and because such moderation is not in
> place yet, I wonder if we should just revert back to the slide how it was
> in 11.10.
> >
> >
> > What do you think guys?
> >
> >
> > Cheers, chr
>
> Just to be clear, that Twitter thingy was my doing. It is still a work in
> progress, but the rest of that work is low priority for 12.04.
>
> You're right about moderation limiting the assortment of users we see. In
> fact, I have implemented moderation - in the current revision (and my
> preview web page at
> http://people.ubuntu.com/~dylanmccall/ubiquity-slideshow-ubuntu/preview/).
> The way moderation works is quite reliable: there's a list of accounts we
> like attached to a twitter account called hello_ubuntu, and the slideshow
> gets tweets from that list. We can edit the list at any time. The list also
> has retweets, so that works nicely to give us some extra breadth, but it's
> specifically pulling from English places.
>
> It's possible to expand on this in a bunch of ways, but, indeed, rushing
> would end in teers. Hopefully it can be cleverer next cycle, if the feature
> sticks around!
>
> With that said, English works, and it should be pretty cool. Especially
> for an exciting release like this one! I'd like to show it for English
> installs and hide it otherwise - same way it behaves when there's an error
> or no internet connection. It isn't ideal, but I think it's better than
> nothing :)
> (And don't worry: that's already three quarters implemented).
>
> Dylan
>