Re: Thoughts on the future of gnome

[Lucas Rocha <lucasr at mundo gmail com>]

Hi Allan,

This message is about gnome marketing issues. So, the best place to
discuss it is marketing-list. ;-)

p eace

--lucasr

2005/10/10, alan <root variant me uk>:
> Hi all!
>
> This is my first post to the ml so please go easy on me :) (I hope its
> the right place, I sent to the gnome-list but it seems to be unused i
> think)
>
> I was just thinking about gnome and making it more widespread and I
> realised that the windows vista release is an ideal opertunity for
> gnome (and other Free Software) to get noticed by the wider public.
>
> Is it likly that a windows version of gnome (even a basic, light
> version) will be available when vista is released? The way I see it is
> this, people will look at the advertising and see all these cool
> features that vista supposedly offers them but they will also notice
> the price and the fact that their old 2GHz system just does'nt cut it
> so they have to upgrade that too! What better time to have a huge
> publicity drive which shows people "Look! we can give you all this, AND
> all this other cool stuff, on your existing windows
> computer without the need for expensive hardware upgrades! And guess
> what? It's FREE!! (As in Freedom and as in beer)"
>
> All the publicity wont matter if gnome is'nt able to do "all this"
> though so maby we could have a bit of a recruitment drive right now and
> find people with the time to tackle some of the bigger tasks (porting,
> new aplications etc).
>
> I know most of this is allready coverd in the
> roadmap etc but I just want to tell people what I would like to see
> happen! Im learning mono c# at the momment so maby I can even help in a
> couple of months.
>
> variant
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