Hi, On 4/21/07, Thilo Pfennig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > a) I do not like that this was not discussed at all in the marketing > list. Such major things and announcement have to be discussed with at > least the marketing team
As discussed in foundation-list, it was an initiative that needed certain confidentiality, while marketing-list is public. At least Jeff, Dave and Murray had been involved since the very beginning, and they are regular participants in this list. I don't see the problem here. > b) I fear that this is in fact a movement away from the desktop > platform. I would rahther have suggested to found a new organisation > to do this because mobile devices are not really desktops. Well, the organizations actually working on GNOME in mobile devices think that it's not a movement away, but a convergence needed. Look the components we are talking about and you will see that most of them are part of the very official GNOME release for the desktop, without a single extra patch or fork.. > c) In relation to that i fear that this binds ressources that > otherwise would have been there for the core desktop. Mmm in fact the mobile space has brought a lot of extra resources to the GNOME project already. Only OLPC and maemo have made big contributions in terms of code, stabilization of components and new functionality. > I know - many things are now developed for embedded devices already > and I also think that his is nice and cool but this truely is a whole > different issue. We even did not manage to get our web site updated in > time, wether for GNOME 2.18 nor 2.18.1 - so still many core tasks are > not solved and yet we are going into new directions without further > consultation of the marketing team. No relation between the people working on the wgo revamp andthe organizations supporting the launch of GMAE. Or do you see a link? Please explain. > I would like to know how this decision was made and why. And if you > really think that GNOME can really develop two platforms (mostly > standard desktop and embedded). I dont think so. And to me it looks > like GNOME changes direction. To me it looks like GNOME is following the directions that computers are evolving. You argument sounds like if few years ago GNOME should have not invested in power management optimization or wireless connectivity since GNOME was thought for the traditional desktop, and those features are relevant to laptops and therefore something deviating from the original project. If you have a look at the hardware capabilities and even the software components and applications/services available for UMPCs, tablets and smartphones you will see little differences with laptops (the current ones or from n years ago). Screen resolution and form factor is sometimes really different. They also might have touchscreen... but tablet PCs too. For many components of the GMAE platform this is almost irrelevant, they are common with the official stack. > PS: At least we should discuss now what this really means for us now. > And what it means for marketing GNOME. Here I agree with you completely. -- Quim Gil /// http://desdeamericaconamor.org -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list