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This is an old revision of PublicRelationsIdeas made by CalumMcAlinden on 2014-08-24 09:32:55.
User Story 1:
Sally comes to opennicproject.org, sets her computer up with the correct nameservers. She then fills out one form and receives a domain name and a user account for the CMS/Forum so she can discuss and ask for help. Sally is happy with that and gets on with filling her new sally.geek site with content. This exclusive content drives some of her friends to join the OpenNIC community too.
User Story 2
Alice comes to opennicproject.org, sets her computer up with the correct nameservers. She then fills out one form and receives a domain name and a user account for the CMS/Forum so she can discuss and ask for help. Alice is really keen on networking and finds the 'advanced' site. She learns about how OpenNIC works and helps out running the infrastructure.
User Story 3
John has a blog at john.wordpress.com. His friend, Sally, leaves a comment on a post. "I am not surprised you had trouble catching Salmon in those boots, you need a pair like mine, see sally.geek.opennicproject.org/boots.png". John goes to sally.geek.opennicproject.org/boots.png but since he does not have the nameservers setup, he is redirected to a "Join OpenNic" page.
[ apart from the fact that John may well be p$$%^ off by the unwarranted re-direction of his browser, *sally.geek.opennicproject.org* happens to a sub-domain of a standardTLD, just like *john.wordpress.com* is, so tell me .. why exactly would John need to go to the trouble of changing his nameservers, let alone want to wear Sally's boots??? ]
A mockup of the front page. Concentrated on Actions. Tell potential users what to do.
Welcome to OpenNIC.
The goal of OpenNIC is to "establish and maintain a global DNS system which guarantees equal access and influence to all people on the Net". More
1. Setup your computer.
2. Join OpenNIC and get a free .geek domain
Redirect idea
On the opennic public site there is an intelligent redirect page. So a .geek user can link to his/her content in the legacy internet. So a user goes to sally.geek.opennicproject.org, the redirect page runs client side code (e.g. Javascript), it tests if the page sally.geek exists, if it does it redirects the user to it, if it does not exist (i.e. the user does not have the nameservers set up), then the user is forwarded to a helpful page saying "Join OpenNIC to see this content".
Something like (pseudocode):
if( !get("http://www.weblionx.geek") ) {
This way the users of Opennic will naturally market the community, just by hyperlinking.
Aggressive promotion
I also gave this task to brianko, but to bolster the content available in our namespace I believe we should contact websites and ask them to setup a domain alias.
Essentially the amount of work is minimal and the gains should outweight the amount of work necessary, mainly since they gain another domain (redundancy).
--AlNo deepy
