Thanks for this Federico. Federico Mena Quintero wrote: > On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 17:37 +0200, Dave Neary wrote: >> We just need to figure out how the GNOME project provides a direct and >> demonstrably significant benefit to the arts or the environment.
<snip> > The GNOME Project's software is widely used in the public and private > sectors in many countries, including schools and universities. It has > become one of the dominant desktop environments used in GNU/Linux > systems. I think we can concentrate on this a little - GNOME in higher education. Specifically, http://live.gnome.org/GnomeScienceCD the GNOME Science CD which contains a list of software targeted for universities, and the schools/school districts in http://live.gnome.org/MarketingTeam/GnomeDeployments > [contribution to the arts; this comes from http://www.gtk.org/success/] > > GNOME allows custom software to be written, such as the National > Gallery's VIPS image processing system > (http://www.vips.ecs.soton.ac.uk), which is used in the VASARI project > for archiving and cataloging of artwork in museums worldwide > (http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~km/projs/vasari/). This is a great example, but we would be hard pressed to justify that GNOME did this - we do provide the infrastructure, but "GNOME allows custom software to be written" seems a bit weak. Cheers, Dave. -- David Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
