Re: GSM

[Juanjo Marín <juanjomarin96 yahoo es>]

--- El lun, 2/8/10, Sriram Ramkrishna <sri ramkrishna me> escribió:

On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 1:09 PM, Andre Klapper <ak-47 gmx net> wrote:

Am Montag, den 02.08.2010, 12:26 -0500 schrieb Nathan Willis:

> I was wondering if someone could tell me what the latest is with the
> GNOME Software Map....

Can you please elaborate on the term "Software map"?

The project used to maintain a list of Gnome software back in the day, but it fell into dis-use and Eugenia's http://gnome-files.org/ kind of became the new software map.  There was at one point some work afoot to either make gnome-files an official software map or someone was going to make another website to replace.  It possibly might have been some work rolled into the new Gnome website.  (is that done yet?)

I think we had discussed some portal similar to the android marketplace where we can highlight these applications but that will require some significant resources.  Probably something we should target for Gnome OS (4.0).  

sri

I think Sri is talking about the Jon McCann proposal about GNOME OS in his Shell Yes ! talk at GUADEC. [1]

Another talk with a proposal for a sort-of GNOME Market at GUADEC was Alberto Ruiz "GNOME's next place in the industry" [2]. He talk about a "Federated GNOME Application Marketplace" [3].

The creation of a GNOME Marketplace seems to be an action with a lot of marketing sense and these talks at GUADEC shows, at least, some intererest in the community, but as Sri stated, it seems to be a resource consuming task that involves both technical and human resources.

IMHO, I think it is worth some discussion about this.

Just my 2 cents,

    -- Juanjo Marin

Links:
[1] http://blogs.gnome.org/mccann/2010/08/01/shell-yes/
[2] http://www.guadec.org/index.php/guadec/2010/paper/view/106
[3] http://www.flickr.com/photos/jjmarin/4839518833/