On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 12:38 PM, Lefty <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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? >
Reminding people of the guidelines stated in the Code of Conduct and warning them when they might have -unwillingly- said something flamish; that's what we can do and what we should. > 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... > Agree that it has not worked, not being an expert on mobile topics I can only think of some of the basic things like: having /something/ concrete to sell, a really really easy SDK, getting our stuff to devices... I guess these are really "obvious" things but we haven't really done them anyway. _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
