Hey guys,
I've been invited as a representative of the GNOME-A11y team to participate in the upcoming GNOME Marketing Hackfest on November 10-11 right here in Chicago! I'm still in shock that something actually happens in Chicago (aka Windowsland)
Essentially, its a hackfest to examine current material used to market GNOME to the masses and update/create new material.
While I am there as a representative of GNOME-A11y, I still thought it would be useful to get all of your thoughts from an openSUSE GNOME perspective on what you think needs to be considered for marketing.
Your thoughts (No, Magnus... Not *those* thoughts!) and comments are truly welcomed.
Thanks,
I've been invited as a representative of the GNOME-A11y team to participate in the upcoming GNOME Marketing Hackfest on November 10-11 right here in Chicago! I'm still in shock that something actually happens in Chicago (aka Windowsland)
Seriously! Oh man, I wish I had known in more in advance, I would have taken time off for that. We need more Open Source events in the mid-west / rust-belt.
Essentially, its a hackfest to examine current material used to market GNOME to the masses and update/create new material.
There is material to market GNOME? :) That is partially tongue in cheek, only partially. KDE seems to have more zealots - although GNOME is clearly the superior platform.
While I am there as a representative of GNOME-A11y, I still thought it would be useful to get all of your thoughts from an openSUSE GNOME perspective on what you think needs to be considered for marketing. Your thoughts (No, Magnus... Not *those* thoughts!) and comments are truly welcomed.
I'm not much of a marketer, but the new-ish www.gnome.org is a big step in the right direction.
On Tuesday 03 November 2009 14:13:09 Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
There is material to market GNOME? :) That is partially tongue in cheek, only partially. KDE seems to have more zealots - although GNOME is clearly the superior platform.
Now now, we're all friends here. Both desktops have plenty of passionate supporters and labelling the other desktop's supporters zealots while your favoured desktop's people are rational marketeers just raises temperatures unnecessarily.
Anyway, I'm representing the openSUSE 11.2 desktops in my role as an openSUSE Booster at a launch party in Germany in a couple of weeks' time and I'd like to know some cool things, especially non-obvious Desktop Hacks, in our GNOME to talk about then. As a KDE z^Hbunny I know what to talk about there. Any suggestions?
Will
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Le mercredi 04 novembre 2009, à 13:14 +0100, Will Stephenson a écrit :
Anyway, I'm representing the openSUSE 11.2 desktops in my role as an openSUSE Booster at a launch party in Germany in a couple of weeks' time and I'd like to know some cool things, especially non-obvious Desktop Hacks, in our GNOME to talk about then. As a KDE z^Hbunny I know what to talk about there. Any suggestions?
I'm really short in time, unfortunately :/ I'd love if other people could help by listing more new things or elaborate on how some of those changes are relevant to users:
+ GNOME 2.28 (update from 2.24) http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/2.28/ http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/2.26/
+ VoIP in pidgin and empathy (even video in empathy)
+ GNOME 3 Preview mode, especially with GNOME Shell
+ packages closer to what upstream ships thanks to work to upstream patches, remove useless divergence in settings, etc.
+ move to DeviceKit (-disks and -power) => for power at least, it means that at lot of the things that were done in hal or in g-p-m but in some different ways are now consolidated in one place
+ move to PolicyKit 1, and move a bit more things to use PolicyKit in general
+ addition of gwibber for people wanting to use twitter
Vincent
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