On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 4:42 PM, James <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, 2012-12-23 at 15:43 -0800, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > > Hi James! > > > > Welcome! Glad you applied! That's really great that you're deploy > > GNOME to users, > Thank you! > > > it would be great to hear feedback from your users on what they think > > of GNOME and what gaps there might be. > I have a good amount of mental notes, but you're right that it would be > a good idea to write this down somewhere. I'll try to do this in the > future. > > > > > > I actually thought about an a gnome-integration mailing list. (I > > actually already created it) as a way for other sysadmins to discuss > > how best to integrate GNOME into a corporate or school environment. > > Knowing the issues and helping to resolve them would be a great > > community action I think. > This is a good idea! I hope to release a bunch of code in the coming > months. After this is out there, maybe I can take more time to look into > this. > > I've encountered a lot of broken/old GNOME deployments. I have a number > of puppet scripts and infrastructure (that I'm working on) that aim to > provide an easy/sane deployment process to help avoid bad installs. Many > users are still using ~2.18 era GNOME because of overly busy sysadmins. > I can help make this easier. >
There is a GNOME sysadmin guide, but I don't think it goes to the full extent. There are a lot of things in a large deployment we would want. For instance, a method to push applications automatically to desktops, that kind of thing. Understanding how dbus, packagekit, and gconf/dconf works is a must in doing a full scale deployment to a large number of users. So, if people are interested in solving this problem then please subscribe here: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-integration-list And let's talk about how to do a quality large scale deployment for GNOME 3 and maybe GNOME 2. sri > On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 11:14 PM, James <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dear foundation-list, > > > > I would like to introduce myself, my name is James Shubin, and > > I'm a > > sysadmin/developer from Montreal, Canada, and a new GNOME > > foundation > > member. (Thanks membership committee!) > > > > I've been a GNOME/Linux user since the early days, although I > > wasn't > > very proficient back then! I currently use GNOME, and support > > and deploy > > it for users. I work on Free Software tools to help sysadmins > > do this, > > and I write about it and other things on my technical blog: > > https://ttboj.wordpress.com/ > > > > I'm 'purpleidea' on irc, although often afk, so a ping there > > or an email > > here is best to be able to contact me. I'm happy to answer (in > > particular) technical questions (my blog should help you to > > know my > > skillset) and I hope to improve GNOME and contribute a lot of > > useful > > tools for GNOME sysadmins/users. > > > > On a personal note, I'm proud to now be a more official > > contributor, and > > I hope my work is useful to you. Let me know, > > > > James > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > foundation-list mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list > > > > > > > >
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