Re: Do-Gooders and Other Free License Recipients...

["Guy Lunardi" <glunardi novell com>]

Roberto,

This would be fantastic! I am a firm believer in mockups and have been
using Balsamiq Mockups for quite some time now. I am quite happy with
their software. 

Stormy suggested we reach out to the usability team to see what they
think.

To me mockups have a significant potential marketing value. Having
documentation elements early is great to convey the potential of GNOME
software.

Best regards,
-Guy

On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 17:48 +0200, Roberto Galoppini wrote:
> Balsamiq would be open, maybe if this makes sense we might consider to
> let people know GNOME uses their product, and get free licenses from
> them. Let me know if you want me to help with this, I know the
> company.
>
> Best,
>
> Roberto
>
> 2009/10/11 Guy Lunardi <glunardi novell com>:
> > All,
> >
> > While I realize that their software doesn't use any GNOME technologies,
> > it is still a very useful tool that I personally use often for projects.
> >
> > I was wondering if anyone thought that contacting Balsamiq and asking
> > them to consider donating licenses to GNOME Foundation members would be
> > useful?
> > http://www.balsamiq.com/products/mockups
> >
> > Having used their software for quite some time, I know that the projects
> > we used it for had a much great user experience focus during the early
> > development cycles because of it.
> >
> > It might be a great opportunity for GNOME to increase its emphasis on
> > user experience. We could for example use this software as part of some
> > of our outreach programs (collect feedback earlier on designs).
> >
> > Please let me know what you think.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > -Guy