Re: www.gnome.org - content, scope, structure

2006-08-04 Thread Gezim Hoxha
On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 15:00 +0100, Joachim Noreiko wrote: > Hi everyone :) > > I've signed up for two of the goals for 2.16, because > they're closely related: > * Define the content and scope of www.gnome.org > * Define a clear structure for www.gnome.org > > So... before I willy-nill

Re: WGO : GNOME Software Map

2006-08-04 Thread Jeff Waugh
> BTW, is there truly a need to re-invent the wheel and create a new > software map? There isn't, and that's hopefully not what we're doing. I don't know why Claus is interpreting the direction of the discussion that way. - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2007: Sydney, Australia http://lca200

Re: WGO : GNOME Software Map

2006-08-04 Thread Jeff Waugh
> However, since gnomefiles is running well, we should really ask ourselves > why we should introduce another one. It doesn't seem like, after some thought about what we want to achieve for ourselves and our users, that anything like gnomefiles is what we want to introduce on wgo (partly because

Re: WGO : GNOME Software Map

2006-08-04 Thread Claus Schwarm
Hi! On Fri, 04 Aug 2006 21:33:53 +0200 Gergely Nagy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'd say the major "mistake" is that everybody assumes something > different :) Hehe. That's not a mistake, that's a feature! ;-) Seriously: I admit 'mistake' was not the right word. However, isn't that one of t

Re: WGO : GNOME Software Map

2006-08-04 Thread Eugenia Loli-Queru
>Why compete in the first place? BTW, sorry if I misunderstood (it's not clear what the Software Map really is). Is SoftwareMap a generic gtk/gnome software repository, or specific official Gnome "product"-app pages? Eugenia -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail

Re: WGO : GNOME Software Map

2006-08-04 Thread Eugenia Loli-Queru
I have also removed the big main ad on gnomefiles for now (I did that a few days ago). It may come back only if the expenses of the server go to the roof. BTW, is there truly a need to re-invent the wheel and create a new software map? I have complied with Gnome's main requests, so why gnomefil

Re: WGO : GNOME Software Map

2006-08-04 Thread Eugenia Loli-Queru
>Gnomefiles has an unfriendly url scheme. Try guessing the app id... Fixed: http://www.gnomefiles.org/app.php/SSH+Tunnel+Manager >Also, gnomefiles.org is _not_ authoritative I am not sure what this means. >and not translated. No, and it will never be, because the developers only write their NE

Re: WGO : GNOME Software Map

2006-08-04 Thread Jeff Waugh
> The main goals site [1] says: > * Be the primary resource of information and materials about the GNOME > project > > According to this, I would assume the goal of such apps pages is to be > the one-stop authoritative info source on gnome applications Yeah, modulo the expansive view of 'produ

Re: WGO : GNOME Software Map

2006-08-04 Thread Gergely Nagy
> Here's what I believe is the major mistake in the discussion: Everybody > seems to assume that an ordinary user is interested in reading all this > stuff on our main page. I'd say the major "mistake" is that everybody assumes something different :) IMHO what causes the confusion is that the goa

Re: WGO : GNOME Software Map

2006-08-04 Thread Claus Schwarm
Hi! On Fri, 04 Aug 2006 16:10:03 +0200 Gergely Nagy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > What's the policy on hiding appnames? For Average Joe it's not > trivial to find out that the file manager is nautilus or the movie > player is totem... > [snip] Here's what I believe is the major mistake

Re: WGO : GNOME Software Map

2006-08-04 Thread Joachim Noreiko
--- Jeff Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think we need to get beyond the idea of "software > map" or "projects" and > start thinking about how we can best serve the needs > of our users - and our > software maintainers! Some things that we should > think about can not even be > boiled down t

Re: WGO : GNOME Software Map

2006-08-04 Thread Jeff Waugh
> Looks like a good start! Here are my thoughts: Hey - this all gets into technical details very quickly, without much in the way of problem definition before the fact. I've mentioned this before about the proposed shift to projects.gnome.org, and wished I'd had time to write something concrete

Re: WGO : GNOME Software Map

2006-08-04 Thread Gergely Nagy
On Fri, 2006-08-04 at 13:06 +0200, Simon Rozet wrote: > I am in charge off the GNOME Software Map. I wrote a draft [1] on the > wiki but I need your opinion about what I wrote to start. > [1]: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeWeb/SoftwareMap Hi, Looks like a good start! Here are my thoughts: Organizat

WGO : GNOME Software Map

2006-08-04 Thread Simon Rozet
Hello, I am in charge off the GNOME Software Map. I wrote a draft [1] on the wiki but I need your opinion about what I wrote to start. So... please have a look at it and let me know your ideas/opinions. Thanks in advance. [1]: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeWeb/SoftwareMap -- Simon Rozet -- ma

Re: [Fwd: [Foundations] EuroOSCON .org day]

2006-08-04 Thread Marcus Bauer
On Fri, 2006-08-04 at 17:44 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > > > EurOSCon is reserving place for free software projects to present in > > Amsterdam this year - is there any interest in a GNOME stand there? > > Amsterdam just sounds cool, but isn't it in Brussels? :^) > > My initial feeling is "no"

Re: [Fwd: [Foundations] EuroOSCON .org day]

2006-08-04 Thread Jeff Waugh
> EurOSCon is reserving place for free software projects to present in > Amsterdam this year - is there any interest in a GNOME stand there? > > My initial feeling is "no" - from what I've seen, the OSCons aren't > particularly desktop oriented, or necessarily free *nix oriented. In the past, I

[Fwd: [Foundations] EuroOSCON .org day]

2006-08-04 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, EurOSCon is reserving place for free software projects to present in Amsterdam this year - is there any interest in a GNOME stand there? My initial feeling is "no" - from what I've seen, the OSCons aren't particularly desktop oriented, or necessarily free *nix oriented. But if someone is wil