Re: new module decisions [was Re: gnome-screensaver]

2006-02-17 Thread John Williams
On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 13:33 -0700, Elijah Newren wrote: For completeness, I should also note that there are two other big problems involved which I don't know how to solve on a short timescale (e.g. before 2.16): - Havoc's recent points about identifying our target audience is important in

Re: Trying to reach consensus for the proposed modules

2006-01-11 Thread John Williams
On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 22:47 +, Bastien Nocera wrote: + gnome-screensaver: people want this. I'd say we should go with it and I believe it's the general consensus, but maybe some people think it's not ready yet? Drop-in replacement for xscreensaver, but with a decent UI. I'm in.

Re: gnome-about-me

2005-08-02 Thread John Williams
of assumption (1)? Can we get ANY HARD DATA on assumption (2)? Anyone lurking who works for a major distro? Bottom line: it probably is not worth arguing too much about the perfect place for this functionality. What really matters is that it happens. -- John Williams Research Analyst Department

Re: Modifying GNOME-About to count users

2005-07-06 Thread John Williams
On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 16:48 -0400, Luis Villa wrote: Join Friends of GNOME and celebrate easy to use software for $OS! (email form) What question are we asking? :-) I *think* we're asking 'how many users of GNOME are there', not 'how many discovered gnome-about in their panel and

Re: Modifying GNOME-About to count users

2005-07-05 Thread John Williams
On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 16:49 -0700, Rob Adams wrote: If it's off by default we may as well not bother to include it, since it will be utterly useless in counting measures. We'd just as well have a web poll to track market share. Well, I'm not so sure. (But I take your point seriously.) The

Re: Modifying GNOME-About to count users

2005-07-05 Thread John Williams
On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 20:33 -0400, Robert Love wrote: It is exactly the latter that we want to avoid, by making this toggle button off by default (as explained on the wiki page). The latter. It is slashdot. I don't think it matters if it is off by default and requires the spleen of a

Re: Modifying GNOME-About to count users

2005-07-05 Thread John Williams
On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 00:16 -0300, Steven Garrity wrote: This is especially true since we sure aren't going to be able to write any code that tells us how many *total* computers there are in the world - another key variable in determining market share. It's about counting users, not

Re: Modifying GNOME-About to count users (OT)

2005-07-05 Thread John Williams
On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 13:28 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: what if there was a level of the Friends of GNOME programme that did not require a donation? It would be like a users arm of the GNOME Foundation (non-voting). The gnome-about form could point to a join Friends of GNOME web page... I'm

Modifying GNOME-About to count users

2005-07-04 Thread John Williams
Hello all We in the GNOME Marketing team (http://live.gnome.org/MarketingTeam) have been discussing ways to estimate the number of GNOME users worldwide. A summary of our discussions can be found at http://live.gnome.org/CountingUsers. Essentially we propose modifying the GNOME About box to

Re: Product specific guidelines for triaging bugs

2005-06-22 Thread John Williams
for their module triaged. Evolution and related modules seem to be missing from this list. Is there anyone willing to take on this task? -- John Williams Research Analyst Department of Marketing, Otago University http://www.commerce.otago.ac.nz/marketing/staff/williamsj.html