Proposals for Open World Forum

2009-06-19 Thread Dave Neary
Hi all, There is a call for content currently open for the Open World Forum, which will be held in Paris in October: http://www.2020flossroadmap.org/non-menu-pages/open-world-forum/ http://www.2020flossroadmap.org/2009/06/16/open-world-forum-2009-call-for-conferences-submissions/ They're

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

2009-06-19 Thread Stormy Peters
I think this is a problem that will have to be solved with all the distros in a room. Unless we come up with a solution that is so elegant end-users just use it. Saying we shouldn't do an installer because each distro is different, is ignoring a user problem. apt-get and yum are beyond the

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

2009-06-19 Thread Alberto Ruiz
2009/6/19 Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org: I think this is a problem that will have to be solved with all the distros in a room. Unless we come up with a solution that is so elegant end-users just use it. Saying we shouldn't do an installer because each distro is different, is ignoring a user

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

2009-06-19 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Not to promote, but Linux Plumbers Conference is exactly about solving this kind of stuff. If someone was willing to write a paper about PackageKit or something like that would be really good so that we can highlight this problem. Then we can work on it together to move Linux forward. Does that