(this one goes to gnome-marketing and kde-promo)
I have thougth about marketing GNOME for some time and came to this conclusion:
We do not want to sell GNOME and we don't want to fight against KDE.
So there is only one solution. We must market FreeDesktop instead! I
would suggest to market GNOME
Ahoy,
On Friday 06 January 2006 16:45, Thilo Pfennig wrote:
I don't know if freedesktop.org would be the right place to start with
this kind of collaboration or if this is the right time or if people
involved really want that?
I definitely think this is worth discussing and I've had a few
How about a freedesktop marketing list? (eg a marketing list hosted on fd.o)
sri
On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 05:37:41PM +, Tom Chance wrote:
Ahoy,
On Friday 06 January 2006 16:45, Thilo Pfennig wrote:
I don't know if freedesktop.org would be the right place to start with
this kind of
Quite often the topic of GNOME 3.0 comes up among the GNOME user
community. To me, the gist of the response from the developer community
seems like bad PR: don't hold your breath. I was thinking about
GNOME 3.0 recently from a marketing perspective, and what it would
mean if we approached 3.0
this sounds great, really.
i only disagree with multimedia being one of they key features to
advertise, because i don't think we'll ever be able to offer a
complete multimedia experience out-of-the-box, for licensing reasons.
mp3 will continue being patented, the dmca will continue criminalizing
On Friday 06 January 2006 17:45, Thilo Pfennig wrote:
(this one goes to gnome-marketing and kde-promo)
I have thougth about marketing GNOME for some time and came to this
conclusion:
We do not want to sell GNOME and we don't want to fight against KDE.
So there is only one solution. We must
I like the idea, for a simple reason: Many people associate 3.0 with a
break; developers with the API break, and users with a break of the
usage model.
Both is bad, and talking about 3.0 just spreads fear, uncertainty, and
doubt. Introducing 3.0 for no apparent reason may stop this for a
while.
