On Sat, 2009-06-13 at 11:01 -0700, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > Actually, the original idea I had about this is to do away with our > platform (eg the apps that make gnome.. after all the whole thing is a > distro decision these days anyways) Instead we would promote them via > adsense and drive traffic to these apps thus using them as marketing > tools. That might make people work harder to get themselves into > compliance in a particular niche.
I agree to the idea that we would not need an default "GNOME applications" package. A list of suggested apps would be sufficient. But spending money on an Adsense campaign would be wasted. Look at the Rhythmbox homepage, for an example: From a sales point of view, the page is simply bad. It mentions no benefits. It triggers no curiosity to find out more. There's no social proof. There's no call-to-action. Even if there would be a call-to-action: What would it be about? Download the tarball and compile yourself? As long as application developers fail to understand how important a decentralized installer is for marketing, promoting their apps or even improving their homepages is basically just a waste of time. Sorry if that sounds harsh, but that's just the way it is. Best regards, Claus -- marketing-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
