Hi, if you need marketing, just make OS X, Cocoa, Foundation and Core Foundation (and later Core Graphics, I hope) implementations in GNUstep the main topic of the home page.
Honestly, with all the Linux/Unix desktop environments in the world, few people outside of GNUstep care about GWorkspace or Etoilé, despite how good they may be. The same applies to writing GNUstep-based apps *for Linux/Unix*. No reason to do that when you have Qt and GTK+. Think about Mono - apart from people under de Icaza's influence, most people wouldn't choose Mono for native development on Linux/Unix. "Bring your OS X applications to Linux or Windows" - is the sort of motto that catches random people's attention. That's passive marketing. Active marketing would be pushing news like "Our AppKit is now compatible with OS X 10.x" to sites like Phoronix. ...just my 2 cents. I certainly don't want to force any vision upon you. Luboš On 08/09/2013 01:28 AM, Gregory Casamento wrote: > I just read the article in English. I believe he removed the claim that > GNUstep is not maintained because I don't see it in that version of the > article. Still, we must get our website redesigned and updated so it > gives a better impression. > > On Thursday, August 8, 2013, Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf wrote: > > "GNUstep is abandoned" seems to be a common misconception. I read > this today here: > > http://www.golem.de/news/darling-mac-os-x-anwendungen-unter-linux-1308-100858.html > > The author of that piece (which is mostly a translation of > > http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/08/os-x-apps-run-on-linux-with-wine-like-emulator-for-mac-software/ > ) added only this bit of "information": "Allerdings wird GNUStep > kaum noch aktiv gepflegt." which translates to: "however, nowadays > GNUstep is barely maintained". I wrote a mail to the author but > didn't get a response up to now. > > We definitely need to do something about our public reception. > > > cheers, > > Lars > > Am 08.08.2013 um 22:58 schrieb Gregory Casamento: > > > The comment is typical of those I see on a daily basis on twitter... > > > > He began by saying the site makes the project look abandoned. I > asked what he thought could be improved... his responses are below. > > --- > > Keith Smiley @bheron I’d love to help with this if there’s > something that needs it. > > > > @bheron I also think a nice getting started would help. Jumping > into wiki pages can be a bit daunting. Just a 0 to hello world. > > > > @bheron I’m glad you’re still working hard. I think the website > needs an update. It just looks a little dated the screens as well > > --- > > One of our biggest issues is that people just don't know what > we're all about or that we're still around. > > > > We have the best framework out there, but if we don't get the word > out people just won't use it. _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list Discuss-gnustep@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
