Hi, David I have an idea of this.
When you install Ubuntu you have to select which region you live in. I think it would be a good idea if you then got package-suggestions for region-specific softare. An example is bank-id as is used in Norway too, but also region-specific scopes and lenses. -- Best regards Malin Krosby Bruland On Wed, 2012-05-02 at 11:36 +0200, David Henningsson wrote: > As I understand it, several countries have "special apps", that are very > useful to that country. > > As an example, for Sweden, we have BankID, which is used to log on to > several government sites, declaring taxes etc. > > Other countries have other favorites which are local to that country but > still very important to have. I've heard Brazil has something similar > but different, for example. > > The degree of Linux support of these are of course varying, but in the > BankID case there is a Linux version, but it could be easier to install, > if we could get it into either Ubuntu Software Center as an app, or > maybe into the partner repository. That would also bring the advantage > of automatic updates, which would be attractive to the app developer (in > the case of security related applications, even more so). > > So, how do we > - Identify what applications are important for a particular country? > - Reach out to the developers of that application? > - Help them out with integrating their apps into Ubuntu? > - Get them into Ubuntu Software Center, the partner archive, or > something similar? > > The LoCo teams could be a valuable resource here, I assume. > > -- > David Henningsson, Canonical Ltd. > https://launchpad.net/~diwic > -- Vennlig hilsen Malin Krosby Bruland -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
