Thanks, Dave. I sent requests to Owen, Vincent, Lucas, Ross and Paul. (I think some of them are on this list too but it's in their inbox addressed to them now.)
Stormy On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 3:47 AM, Dave Neary <dne...@gnome.org> wrote: > Hi, > > Stormy Peters wrote: > > Marketing folks, > > > > Who would you guys recommend we have talk to Martin? > > Owen Taylor (Red Hat & GNOME Shell), Vincent (also working on GNOME > Shell), Havoc Pennington or Lucas Rocha (from Litl, innovative mobile > user interfaces, as best as I can tell) and Matthew Allum/Ross > Burton/Paul Cooper (Intel, ex OpenedHand, and our star Mobile people). > > On the subject itself, I'm a bit scared about talk of abandoning the > desktop, because it implies to me abandoning the user interface (the > alternative is to adopt a number of form factors & provide user > interfaces for them). The GNOME project has had success because we've > been able to elaborate & explain a very user-oriented vision - free > computing for all - and that has driven our priorities, usability, > localisation, internationalisation, accessibility. > > If we move to providing platform components for mobile & embedded > environment, with, say, a reference UI for netbooks, we'll be abandoning > not just desktop-shaped devices, but also our bision of being > user-oriented rather than technology-oriented. > > Cheers, > Dave. > > -- > Dave Neary > GNOME Foundation member > dne...@gnome.org >
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