Re: Marketing, GNOME 3.0 and subteams

[Andreas Nilsson <nisses mail home se>]

Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:
> 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
Hi Sriram!
As I mentioned earlier, This is NOT a App Store. :)
Anyway, I saw your e-mail about the app store, but forgot to reply to it 
for several days in a row.
The idea here is not to compete with the Apple, MS or Android stores, 
but show off a small subset of cool GNOME apps to people currently 
running Windows and OS X. Ie. more of a marketing stunt than a actual 
service.
The other thing sounds cool too and is important for other goals, but at 
the same time, I think it's going to take a _lot_ of time and effort to 
get that up and running (and let me know if you need any design help 
with that once the wheels are set in motion).
The NOT-Store would be pretty easy to hack up and would probably consist 
of only a handthful of good applications.
- Andreas
> sri
>
> On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 1:34 PM, Andreas Nilsson <nisses mail home se 
> <mailto: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 <http://gnome.org>
>
>     1. http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/184285/gnome-appstore.png
>     - Andreas
>
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