distributions contacts - was(Re: Contractor status update: last week & next steps)

[Frederic Muller <fredm gnome org>]

On 04/15/2011 08:58 PM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote:
> Who are our liaisons with particular distributions?  Do we have any such
> liaisons?  Ubuntu 11.04 is out on the 28th, OpenBSD on 1 May, Fedora 15
> on 24 May, Mandriva on 13 June (dates according to DistroWatch), and if
> we can provide them our GNOME 3 materials (screenshots, videos, FAQs,
> etc.). That way they can redistribute them to their users.  If we don't
> have any particular distro liaisons, then Allan and I should find their
> marketing people and liaise.

I suppose we have different contacts for different things. There is a 
distributor-list gnome that comes to mind (though it's not quite popular 
- YET).

I am in touch with some people but for mainly technical and packaging 
issues so I don't think they would be so relevant (apart from forwarding 
the information maybe). They are all on the distributor list now I believe.

They might as well want to make their own branded materials. There was 
quite an active discussion on the fedora test list about the lack of 
Fedora branding on their current GNOME 3 version, with a people not so 
happy about it.

And then there are the people on the advisory board representing 
distributions too.

That's what I'm aware of on my end of the spectrum.

Fred