Re: Actions

[Dave Neary <dneary free fr>]

Hi,

Glynn Foster a écrit :
> > Can we get some concensus behind a few outstanding points for overall 
> > strategy?
> >
> > 1) Main target audiences: Existing GNU/Linux users, public 
> > administration (both of these are huge and growing markets - they may 
> > even be too wide)
> > 2) Main selling point: Ease of use
>
>
> Hrm, what about universities?

Do you mean students (which would kind of fit into a potential 
contributor target audience (1)) or IT department heads (which would 
pretty well fit into the public administration target audience (2))? Of 
course there are special points to address with university IT 
departments. Often they are interested not just in costs, but in 
relevancy. So we would need to show (at the stage where we start sending 
people to do presentations and demos) that GNOME can provide the 
framework they can use for courses, and can provide the type of 
experience that students will need in the marketplace.

When I said "existing GNU/Linux users", I actually meant potential 
contributors - which is more broad than "early adopters".

> Better still, it would be nice if we
> could get some GTK+ programming courses up and running [could people be
> coaxed with C#, C++ or Java bindings?]

It's not my place to decide, but I am of the opinion that colleges 
should be toolkit and platform agnostic, and should teach neither 
windows or GTK+ programming.

> As for the list, I think it would be helpful if someone could flesh out
> those bullet points a little bit more - then you might get more people
> volunteering for tasks.

Which bullet points?

The stuff in the list was a list of things which we have had discussions 
about on the list. They didn't quite come out of the blue :) I suspect 
they all have at least one wiki page already :)

Cheers,
Dave.

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David Neary
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