I fully support the values being expressed put the ratio of talk to action on the website is not great.
It looks like a website from 2007 for a custom fork of a Ubuntu distribution.
Again, I think the initiative, the funding, the rollout of technologies is the important thing and I'm perfectly fine with there being an aspect of public communication that gives it the kind of visibility that bureaucrats need so that it matches their own personal mental model of what a project is. So I at the end of the day those things, rather than the website, are what's important, but I could have hoped for a better first impression for sure.
There's something about the font that looks awful but having a 2007 look and feel is fine, in my opinion. There's something charmingly retro about the gradients and AJAX era of Web 2.0 before apps ate everything.
I asked chat gpt to criticize a screenshot of this website. I wont paste the full response here, people can do this themselves. But very briefly, it had a lot to say about inconsistent spacing, typography, use of colors, images, etc.
In short, this is not a great website, to put it mildly. I'm not even close to being a good designer but I've seen good designers make a difference. And nobody that I would qualify as such was involved with this website. Tiny serif fonts, yellow on white CTA, etc. It all makes a bit of an amateurish impression. And that suggests the rest of the thing also might need a bit of work.
I glanced through both the article and the website and it seems all a bit waffly and aspirational at this point and raises more questions than it answers. A lot of good intentions, preaching the virtues of OSS, etc. But not a lot of actionable information for someone that might want to take the logical next step of getting this on their phone. The CTA just leads to a "free your phone" section without links or useful information. It suggest twelve organizations are involved (who?) and lists some shared values. That's it.
