Le jeudi 26 mai 2011 à 10:38 -0700, Lefty a écrit : > First: Since the issue of "divisive attitude[s] such as Richard > sometimes seems to [promote?] when he talks about 'GNU/Linux'" came > up, I'd be interested to know what, if anything, candidates for the > Board propose to do to address the ongoing waste of time and energy in > the community over trivia like "Linux" versus "GNU/Linux", "free" > versus "open source", and the like. This extends to things like > "litmus tests" on mailing lists derailing discussions into > observations about which email clients or operating systems > participants might be using at the time they post, for example. > > Attempts to divide the community and delegitimize individuals and > their viewpoints are common, and becoming increasingly so in the past > few years. Bad feelings have driven many away from the level of > involvement in the community they've previously had. Do candidates see > this as a problem? Do they have any proposals for addressing it?
If I'm elected, I will ensure that the GNOME foundation sell popcorn and maybe some VIP seats for those who want to watch such fights. This will be a fun way to raise funds. :-) > Second: Do candidates have any view as to how the disastrous attempts > at engagement by GNOME with the mobile space might be improved on? The > "GNOME Mobile and Embedded Initiative" went nowhere, and arguably > handed the mobile device space to Google and Android by forfeit. Since > that time, there have been various attempts to get community-based, > mainstream open source onto mobile devices, all of which have pretty > much died. The sole remaining effort seems to be MeeGo, and GNOME has > no apparent direct involvement there. > > Do candidates have any thoughts on the future of GNOME with respect to > the mobile space? It's the fastest-growing portion of the general > computing device market, and the main platform choices are proprietary > or as good as. One of the issues raised by Canonical with respect to > the GNOME 3 shell for Ubuntu was that it wasn't felt to be as > appropriate for tablets and the like as Unity... You raise a very good point. The GNOME Mobile initiative isn't exactly what I would call a success. I think that the reasons are: - Lack of product (There was no way to simply download GNOME mobile and start developing for it) - Lack of market vision (who was behind GNOME mobile? Was there any support for it? Who was the intended customers?) I have some background in the automotive industry and I can say that GNOME mobile was seriously considered by some car makers but was not adopted because of those two points. I think that this is part of my broader vision to address that. By involving more the GNOME companies, it will promote GNOME as a more professional platform. I also secretly hope to improve the collaboration between all the GNOME companies. This could help to address the aforementioned issues. I'm definitely seeing huge opportunities for a well defined GNOME mobile platform and I believe that the board should support that. Lionel _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
