Re: Marketing Brief

2009-06-14 Thread Claus Schwarm
This looks good! I especially like how it's formulated. I guess the paper should serve as an overview to others? I have three suggestions for improvement (two my typical ones): 1.) Mention GNOME's different products. At least, the desktop and dev platform should be mentioned. We might also add

Re: promoting good gnome apps via news.gnome.org

2009-06-14 Thread Claus Schwarm
On Sat, 2009-06-13 at 11:01 -0700, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: Actually, the original idea I had about this is to do away with our platform (eg the apps that make gnome.. after all the whole thing is a distro decision these days anyways) Instead we would promote them via adsense and drive

Re: promoting good gnome apps via news.gnome.org

2009-06-14 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 5:34 AM, Claus Schwarm clschw...@googlemail.comwrote: Sorry if that sounds harsh, but that's just the way it is. I can always depend on you to get to the heart of the matter, Claus. :-) I don't think your comments are harsh, but does reflect a reality behind my

Re: promoting good gnome apps via news.gnome.org

2009-06-14 Thread Claus Schwarm
On Sun, 2009-06-14 at 08:02 -0700, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: So maybe a modification is to create our own product page for each promoted app with a link to the original page? I still think the foundation of the ideas is sound which is to drive interest in products that compete with others

Re: promoting good gnome apps via news.gnome.org

2009-06-14 Thread Andre Klapper
Am Sonntag, den 14.06.2009, 20:11 +0200 schrieb Claus Schwarm: Thus I also argued to have a separate projects.gnome.org to manage project homepages more easily. This has happened in the meantime. andre -- mailto:ak...@gmx.net | failed http://www.iomc.de/ | http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper

GNOME 3.0 Roadmap - Promotion/Marketing

2009-06-14 Thread Lucas Rocha
Hi all, We're working on the roadmap for GNOME 3.0 now. The idea is to have a more concrete set of goals for 3.0 and bring more clarity and transparency to the 3.0 general plans. Instead of doing a current per-module roadmapping process, we're trying to use a more topic-based approach. One of

Re: GNOME 3.0 Roadmap - Promotion/Marketing

2009-06-14 Thread Paul Cutler
Lucas, thanks for the email. I had been taking a slightly different approach, but I think we can figure it out. For the BoF Stormy and I are giving at GUADEC, my hope had been to be able to share out our plan with the community at that time based on discussions on the list. I sent the Brief out

Re: Marketing Brief

2009-06-14 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Paul Cutler wrote: I can understand that. There's just no quantitative information I can find. In general I don't think it's useful tp talk about market share of desktop environments on Linux, given that overall market share of Linux on the desktop is 1%. I didn't comment on any of

Re: GNOME 3.0 Roadmap - Promotion/Marketing

2009-06-14 Thread Paul Cutler
I'd love to hear the community's thoughts on Lucas' email. I would personally recommend for the objective: To introduce existing GNOME users to GNOME 3.0, including it's features, benefits and changes Why existing? I think we need to be aware of scope, and our first mission should be to help