Re: Marketing, GNOME 3.0 and subteams

[Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>]

On Mon, 2009-04-27 at 16:37 +0100, Alex Hudson wrote:
> Stormy Peters wrote:
> > + Identify our target audience(s). Do we want to communicate with 
> > existing GNOME users, all free desktop users, or try to reach out to 
> > non-free-desktop users? (I think we can safely leave communicating 
> > with developers up to the developers themselves.)
> > + Identify our key messages. What's new/interesting/cool about GNOME 
> > 3.0. Who will it benefit? How?
>
> I'd like to proffer an observation on the above two points: part of what 
> people are talking about being cool about GNOME 3.0 is the developer 
> platform being streamlined and modernized. Although we want to 
> evangelise the benefits, the most powerful message wouldn't be GNOME 
> saying that stuff (we would, wouldn't we?) but having a series of other 
> projects saying that.

It would *really* help to have top-notch developer
documentation to push our platform.  I'm not talking
about API references here, though those are important
as well.  I mean hands-on tutorials and conceptual
overviews.

Our platform has been lambasted for having inadequate
documentation in the past.  We have an opportunity to
overcome our previous shortcomings with a bang.  Let's
not waste it.

--
Shaun (aka Mr. Broken-Record)