Hi Allan, This message is about gnome marketing issues. So, the best place to discuss it is marketing-list. ;-)
p eace --lucasr 2005/10/10, alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi all! > > This is my first post to the ml so please go easy on me :) (I hope its > the right place, I sent to the gnome-list but it seems to be unused i > think) > > I was just thinking about gnome and making it more widespread and I > realised that the windows vista release is an ideal opertunity for > gnome (and other Free Software) to get noticed by the wider public. > > Is it likly that a windows version of gnome (even a basic, light > version) will be available when vista is released? The way I see it is > this, people will look at the advertising and see all these cool > features that vista supposedly offers them but they will also notice > the price and the fact that their old 2GHz system just does'nt cut it > so they have to upgrade that too! What better time to have a huge > publicity drive which shows people "Look! we can give you all this, AND > all this other cool stuff, on your existing windows > computer without the need for expensive hardware upgrades! And guess > what? It's FREE!! (As in Freedom and as in beer)" > > All the publicity wont matter if gnome is'nt able to do "all this" > though so maby we could have a bit of a recruitment drive right now and > find people with the time to tackle some of the bigger tasks (porting, > new aplications etc). > > I know most of this is allready coverd in the > roadmap etc but I just want to tell people what I would like to see > happen! Im learning mono c# at the momment so maby I can even help in a > couple of months. > > variant > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list > _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
