Le jeudi 01 décembre 2005 à 14:58 +0900, Kalin KOZHUHAROV a écrit :
[...] > Second on that. > Target a single linux distro (my favorite is Gentoo) and provide all the > neded packages to install a > full blown enterprise wide solution. Add to that different OS/platform client > support and > integration with other products (e.g. groupware such as Zimbra). Add some > HOWTOs and other > documentation. Maintain one distro, others will follow soon. > > Actually that will be my job, once I start (hope it is soon) trying to deploy > GM in our company. > Don't hesitate to talk about it once you are doing it :) > > Damien Sandras wrote: > >> Hello to all, > >> > >> > >> I have some doubts about the future of the project. I know that it is a > >> recurrent subject with me since I started it back in 2000... > > :start > doubt=think, get new ideas > do=act > test=debug > release the better thing > GOTO start > > Absolutely normal! > > >> That means that GnomeMeeting has a small "market share" (the GNU/Linux > >> Desktop users) and that "market share" is even smaller if we think to > >> the market share represented by the fraction of those users who want a > >> softphone. Things would be so different on WIN32... > Yup, unfortunately most users today are stuck to the other OS, so "marketing" > GM there will bring > more succes for sure. > > >> There are today 4 categories of users : > >> > >> 1) A majority of users want simple audio/video chat. Kopete recently > >> started allowing this with Yahoo and MSN, and GAIM is on the road to > >> offer it too. Projects like Telepathy/Farsight will offer a > >> GStreamer-based alternative to GAIM and Kopete. > most Win32 users are like that. > > >> 2) Another big part of the users want a Skype-like software supporting > >> SIP. Some big companies, with loads of money, are developing full-time > >> on such solutions, like Wengo, or Gizmo, or even others. > >> > >> 3) Another part of users just want something that works and will use > >> Skype despite the risks that are involved. > "Skype is hype" (citing you :-) as you said, so one thing to do is > evangelism, educating users and > showing them how Skype really works and what is bad in security. I never skip > an opportunity to do that. > BTW, anybody has a good article for non-technical people "N reasons why you > should NEVER use Skype?" > or something? I have no link, but there are several articles about that. > > > >> 4) Finally, on the corporate side, where there are less users at least > >> on GNU/Linux, you have big companies offering solutions like XTEN, > >> developed full-time by talented developers, even though being > >> proprietary. But corportate users often do not care about the Open > >> Source aspect of things, and big corporations are already offering their > >> own softphone working with their IPBX. > Corporate and even goverment is clearly moving forward in that respect. My > (small) company is very > open to OSS and tries to use it extensively. Unfortunately, very few of us > are at the level that > they contribute back (I am educating people on that, but it takes time). > Everybody heard about a few goverments moving away from M$ office formats, > and M$ was pushed to do > something in that respect. The outcome is yet to come, but it is significant > enough that there a > powerfull people that realize the problems with closed standards/formats. > > >> GnomeMeeting is playing in those 4 fields, but there are now so many > >> alternatives, that I wonder if there is still an interest to develop > >> GnomeMeeting after 2.00 will have been released. Two years ago, you had > >> to use GnomeMeeting if you wanted to do 1), 2), or 4). Currently, there > >> are so many alternatives that GnomeMeeting is perhaps unuseful. > Yeas, they are. One teduous, though productive thing to do is gather > information and systemathize it > , make it public so that people (both developers and managers!) can compare > GM to others. > It iwll give us ideas on where do we need to improve, to "whack the > competition". I still beleive > that GM has the potential to be far better that a well funded non-OSS > solution released for free > (e.g. Skype). > > >> Should I start another project and develop slowly on GnomeMeeting, or > >> should I continue full-speed? > Please stay with GM, we (I) will try to help as much as I can. > Thanks! > For a free, OSS-driven Internet future! > > Kalin. -- _ Damien Sandras (o- GnomeMeeting: http://www.gnomemeeting.org/ //\ FOSDEM 2006 : http://www.fosdem.org v_/_ SIP Phone : sip:[EMAIL PROTECTED] sip:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ GnomeMeeting-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnomemeeting-list
