On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 02:10, Mark McLoughlin wrote: > * Who pays for the bandwidth ? > > * We would need to ensure we were rock solid legally before opening it > up - we couldn't just write a script to parse yahoo.com and hope they > don't notice. > > * If we did set it up, how long would we be talking about supporting it > for ... 5 years ? > > * Before some GNOME distributors could ship the software which used the > service, they may require some guarantees around availability and long > term support. Would be be prepared to give such guarantees ? Perhaps some of the traditional 'weather providers' would embrace this opportunity. I'm not sure of all the details here, but if there is a standard XML interface for weather, let's ask someone like weather.com if they'd support it. If it currently doesn't have it, I think perhaps including an icon of where your getting the weather info. from and perhaps an option for 'More Weather' that would go to their website would be nice. That could be the GNOME default, and then individual distributors (Sun, Ximian, etc) could get their own info and point their clients to that. I think that anything that would get more people clicking on their website would be good for them. I don't know if there is a good international default though... --Ted
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