Re: Communicating to users what GNOME 3.0 is

[Paul Cutler <pcutler gnome org>]

On 01/13/2010 11:28 AM, Stormy Peters wrote:
> I've heard quite a few concerns from very happy users that GNOME 3.0 is all
> about GNOME Shell and will force them to use GNOME Shell. For example, see
> this thread that a Friend of GNOME sent me:
> http://gnomesupport.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=13782.
>
> I think we need to counter this with a "What is GNOME 3.0" message. We are
> working on this with the material from the marketing hackfest but perhaps we
> could all start tagging GNOME 3.0 blogs and interviews that we do in
> del.ico.us or sharing them here so we can all expand on it.
>
> While change happens, and we can't stay the same forever, we need to make
> sure we listen to our existing happy users, make them feel listened to and
> address their needs as much as possible.
>
> I think it would be beneficial if the release team and the marketing team
> started coming out with blog posts and articles about what GNOME 3.0 is. If
> people are willing to write those articles, I can help find publications
> willing to host them.
>
> Stormy

Thinking about this a bit more, we should engage Jon McCann and the
GNOME Shell team about this as well - some positive blog posts on the
design process and how / why they're working on the concepts they're
doing would be helpful.  Jon has also written a design document [1] on
Shell too.

Paul

[1] http://www.gnome.org/~mccann/shell/design/GNOME_Shell-20091114.pdf