Re: Marketing, GNOME 3.0 and subteams

[Sriram Ramkrishna <sri ramkrishna me>]

How dare you steal my idea. ;)  j/k  I had thought about the app store, but I'm convinced that it won't work if we keep it "just GNOME".  It won't work until you involve distros/KDE/XFCE and completely centralize everything into one place to get cool apps regardless of desktop.  Linux desktop marketshare is so pathetically small that we need to join forces with everyone and work in unison to win people over

sri

On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 1:34 PM, Andreas Nilsson <nisses mail home se> wrote:

Stormy Peters wrote:

Speaking of which, we do very little (if anything?) to advertise GNOME apps. I think users pick operating systems based on apps. They have a task, they pick an app. They don't decide to use Windows or Linux or Mac, they decide to use Photoshop or Gimp or iTunes.

An idea me and Lucas had a while back was the "Not the GNOME App Store". Mockup here [1]
This would be a website with a selection of the coolest GNOME applications. The idea is a place with downloads of these for Windows, OS X and the most popular Linux distributions.
The browser could detect your OS, so some of the software would be disabled if you're running a non-free OS (as they aren't ported over) and would invite people to do the switch to a distribution running the GNOME desktop.

This could either be a short campaign running for 6 months or so, or a permanent place on gnome.org

1. http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/184285/gnome-appstore.png
- Andreas

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