Re: Kiss this Gman when you meet him

[Paul Cooper <pgc openadvantage org>]

Hi Quim,

----- Quim Gil <qgil desdeamericaconamor org> wrote:
> See http://www.gnome.org/~gman/blog/31072006
>
> Download http://www.gnome.org/~gman/gnome-update.pdf
>
> Enjoy!
>
> Glynn, can I ask how much time did you invest producing this
> presentation? 
>
> At the end Murray is right. We can plan and discuss and plan a second
> iteration and discuss more... but a complementary strategy is: JFDI.
>
> Sure, Glynn's presentation doesn't really explain what is the GNOME
> software to the OSCON attendees. But it makes me feel part of it, and
> I
> can imagine others seeing it and wanting to know more and, perhaps,
> be
> part of it. Like the TV adverts that ring better our bells.

I was there, and the presentation was great and it certainly got me thinking things for the Gnome-UK booth at 
Linuxworld UK. We'd already decided that our focus at LW-UK was to drive membership / involvement in Gnome-UK 
as opposed to pushing the usage of Gnome over any other type of desktop. I'm thinking, and I haven't proposed 
this to G-UK yet, that we should develop some posters based on these slides, other Guadec photos, and Luis' 
Gnome is people collage. Emphasise the fun and the community.

The other thing is that, to me anyway, the presentation stood out because it was different to all the others 
- not simply a list of features X, Y, Z we have added this year. However the general 'project update in 5 
mins' was good and it might be worth doing for Guadec with the various Gnome subprojects.
 
> BTW, did you get any feedback from non-GNOME people at OSCON or
> wherever?

Can't speak for Glynn but I had a few people ask about AIGLX and Gimmie running on my laptop - while Xgl and 
AIGLX are great at generating interest, we then have the old problem of that there is never one answer to; 
how do I get that on my laptop, do I go with AIGLX or Xgl, etc, etc. People thought Gimmie as intersting but 
too experimental for usage at the moment.

As Glynn said on his blog the conferece was dominated by OS X - there were a few Mac's running linux (and 
Gnome). Of the non-Mac hardware, sadly the majority were still running Windows. The majority of Linux 
machines were running Gnome, followed by a collection of plain old WM's (WindowMaker, mostly it seems). All 
of this is highly unscientific, based purely on me 'eyewigging' other people laptops, so I might just be 
seeing what I want to see.

One other thing - nearly all of the talks, especially the keynotes were done on OS X. It would be good if we 
could get some more high profile converts (to follow the likes of Pilgrim, Doctorow, Bray - although he was 
still using OS X in his talk) using Gnome in their keynotes (no wonder Jobs used that name for their 
presentation app).

Paul

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