Re: evangelist users- the other key note from LCA marketing BOF

[Luis Villa <luis villa gmail com>]

On 5/19/05, Marcus Bauer <mbauer tiscali fr> wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 15:37 -0400, Luis Villa wrote:
>
> > > Gnome does not really promote its ease of use.
> > releases), people's jaws drop, as you saw when you pointed out n-c-b.
> "jaws drop" - that's absolutly exactly what it was (that person had
> kicked several hundred pictures he needed for an insurance claim into
> nirvana without having a backup).
>
> > We should be doing more, though I'm not sure how to structure the
> > website and other materials to do that better.
>
> I had a look into apple/osx and believe it is close to perfect.
>
> > > Havoc's README that comes
> >
> > Which part?
>
> The FAQ section.
>
>
> > This is part of why I like the 'heart of the desktop' theme; we get to
> > take credit for things like gimp, inkscape, etc.
>
> I really like the 'heart of the desktop' :)

It was pointed out to me that it sounds pretty cheesy, which I readily
admit to. Alternatives from my thesarus:*
 + core
 + center
 + soul
 + hub

None of those sound particularly appealing to me either, though.
Perhaps we have to fall back to 'the desktop of choice'?

*gogogadgetAbiword!

> > * work with the Ubuntu folks to make the first truly accessible Linux liveCD
>
> What do you mean with "truly accessible"?

Ah. By default, you can't use the liveCDs to demo accessibility
technology- many things aren't installed, aren't configured, etc.,
etc. Some details here:
https://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/AccessibleHoaryLiveCDDerivative

> > * work with the monoppix folks (or others) to make the best mono liveCD
>
> In a more general way: target audience developers = developer show case
> (ide etc.) and some nice examples? Sounds good.

Yes. Currently there is a monoppix (good) which defaults to KDE (!!!).
We need to fix that; I've talked with them a bit but they aren't
really moving actively in my direction.

Luis