Actions (was: Surveys at conferences..)

2005-05-09 Thread Dave Neary
Hi Sri, My reaction to things like this is starting to be great idea - who's going to do it? We have lots of ideas currently lacking people following up on them - from collecting press contacts, to getting posters t-shirts designed, through surveys and market research. What we really need is

Re: Actions

2005-05-09 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Glynn Foster a écrit : Can we get some concensus behind a few outstanding points for overall strategy? 1) Main target audiences: Existing GNU/Linux users, public administration (both of these are huge and growing markets - they may even be too wide) 2) Main selling point: Ease of use Hrm,

Re: Actions

2005-05-09 Thread Dave Neary
Hi Claus, Claus Schwarm a écrit : On Mon, 09 May 2005 09:49:51 +0200 Dave Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: GNOME Journal (Jim, Sri) Upcoming conferences (Claus) Please note that I got active for the GNOME Journal lately, and I don't know how long I'll need to do it. I just tried the other format of

Another online survey

2005-05-09 Thread Dave Neary
http://www.desktoplinux.com/articles/AT2127420238.html This one showing GNOME losing ground against KDE? which has 60% of the readership of the site in question. Not a very healthy trend... Dave. -- David Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org

Re: Promoting Gnome in Portugal - aLANtejo 2005

2005-05-09 Thread Bruno Teixeira
Rodrigo, Rodrigo Moya wrote: On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 01:36 +0100, Bruno Teixeira wrote: Rodrigo, I'm sorry it took me so long to back you. I believe the Kde representative that will be at the round table speaks both portuguese and english, but not spanish. I think english is the best option. Maybe

Re: Another online survey

2005-05-09 Thread Claus Schwarm
Dave, check the discussion. The poll has been advertised in the Yoper forums and it showed in the results (18.3 %). The organizers cleared the results from this, but it's not clear yet if they also cleared the results of the other parts of the poll. Yoper is a default KDE distribution so it

Re: Another online survey

2005-05-09 Thread Simos Xenitellis
Dave, In addition, the 2004 survey does not include Ubuntu Linux which comes by default with GNOME. One can expect the link distro-graphicalinterface. The real fight to get GNOME even higher is to win more distros. In the page they also mention the 2005 survey that will start soon... Simos

Re: Another online survey

2005-05-09 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Simos Xenitellis a crit : The real fight to get GNOME even higher is to win more distros. Right. Anyone have any idea how we can go about that? It would be nice to have a 5 minute pitch for distros... in fact, someone could try to come up with one and give it as a lightning talk at GUADEC

Yet another link

2005-05-09 Thread Dave Neary
OK - the second slashdot link of the day. I know I shouldn't send these, but right now we don't appear to have a good place to shove this kind of thing in the Wiki. http://www.tes.co.uk/2094985 Obviously someone in the dept of education is deciding people should move to free software. Would be

Re: Another online survey

2005-05-09 Thread Claus Schwarm
On Mon, 09 May 2005 13:59:44 +0200 Dave Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Simos Xenitellis a écrit : The real fight to get GNOME even higher is to win more distros. Right. Anyone have any idea how we can go about that? Is the basic assumption correct? Given the political issues

Re: Another online survey

2005-05-09 Thread Steve George
Hi Dave, I know you have distributions as one of your target customers and I can see your thinking. However, for those distributions that already have a default desktop I think you have a difficult task. From their perspective if they add another desktop all they are looking at is a more

Re: Another online survey

2005-05-09 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
BTW Lets not forget Foresight Linux which ships GNOME by default and has been gaining in popularity. In fact, Ken Vandine, the person who built the distro is also a GNOME Journal contributor and a big GNOME person.. I think we're going to see some good things from this distro.