[General] [Proposal] Product Description for Landing Page

[Philippe Bossut]

+1 for the whole thing. I feel that "For people who use their Inbox as 
their task list" captures what we've been doing with the Dashboard, 
email, etc... quite well.

Cheers,
- Philippe

Mimi Yin wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have finally pulled together an elevator pitch and product 
> description for the landing page. I imagine this can also be reused in 
> various forms on the wiki.
>
> *Highlights:*
> + Anchored product description around Inbox. 
>
> + Described main workflows in ways that hopefully resonate with 
> people: Yea, I wish I could do that. OR Yea, I have that problem.
>
> + Tried to define sharing in more concrete terms, as opposed to 
> generic collaboration.
>
> + Concrete description of what the product is, including open source 
> and standards-based for those who care.
>
> + Also thought it'd be good to define what we mean by Preview, or at 
> least what we expect to get out of it and why we're bothering with a 
> Preview release, as opposed to shooting straight for an 1.0.
>
> Mimi
>
> ===
>
> *Run with it.* For people who use their Inbox as their task list, 
> Chandler picks up where your Inbox leaves off.
>
> Manage everything from a *central Dashboard*. *Stay focused* without 
> losing track of the things you can't get to right away. *Tickle* items 
> to cycle back into focus automagically.
>
> *Schedule* meetings and events across multiple calendars.
>
> *Send, edit and update *messages to work with others on specific 
> tasks. *Share Dashboards and Calendars* that are integrated into your 
> personal work space yet easily accessible to others on the web.
>
> Chandler consists of a desktop client and Chandler Hub, a sharing 
> service and web application. Chandler is open source and standards-based.
>
> Our goal for Preview is to test drive Chandler and collect feedback 
> that will in turn, guide our efforts to a more robust and responsive 1.0!
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