On 01/13/2010 11:28 AM, Stormy Peters wrote: > I've heard quite a few concerns from very happy users that GNOME 3.0 is all > about GNOME Shell and will force them to use GNOME Shell. For example, see > this thread that a Friend of GNOME sent me: > http://gnomesupport.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=13782. > > I think we need to counter this with a "What is GNOME 3.0" message. We are > working on this with the material from the marketing hackfest but perhaps we > could all start tagging GNOME 3.0 blogs and interviews that we do in > del.ico.us or sharing them here so we can all expand on it. > > While change happens, and we can't stay the same forever, we need to make > sure we listen to our existing happy users, make them feel listened to and > address their needs as much as possible. > > I think it would be beneficial if the release team and the marketing team > started coming out with blog posts and articles about what GNOME 3.0 is. If > people are willing to write those articles, I can help find publications > willing to host them. > > Stormy > >
Thinking about this a bit more, we should engage Jon McCann and the GNOME Shell team about this as well - some positive blog posts on the design process and how / why they're working on the concepts they're doing would be helpful. Jon has also written a design document [1] on Shell too. Paul [1] http://www.gnome.org/~mccann/shell/design/GNOME_Shell-20091114.pdf -- marketing-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
