Re: happy birthday GNOME website!

[Diego Escalante Urrelo <diegoe gnome org>]

Hola Juanjo,

On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 6:52 PM, Juanjo Marín <juanjomarin96 yahoo es> wrote:
> Germán Poó has some old virtual machines. Maybe it would be good idea to offer a virtual machine to try it. 
> He has GNOME 1.0.56, 1.2 and 1.4. They are based in Red Hat. Version 1.0.56  (qemu image) and 1.2 (linux 
> 2.2, vmdk) are tricky to run. Version 1.4 (linux 2.4, vmdk) is easy to run, so I think is perfect for us. 
> The user is gnome, password gnomehistory (same for root). If people like the idea, we can prepare other VMs 
> of the other GNOME versions based on different distros. I think if we do this, we should use the OVF/OVA 
> format.

If this is doable, great. But I fear that we will not be able to get
the tricky ones on time.
A funny thing to do would be to make this images available in GNOME
FTP. As a "geeky toy" for people who want to try them. But even then,
I would not go further back than 1.4.

> As a side note, reading an old interview to Miguel de Icaza in GNOME 1.X days, I really like this reply:
> http://tech.slashdot.org/story/00/04/03/2344211/miguel-de-icaza-tells-all
>
> "I understand that for a seasoned Unix user GNOME might not bring a new
> paradigm for their way they work, but you have to think differently.
> You have to think how many people have or will be able to run free
> software on their desktops because it is easier to use.
> We do plan on continuing improving GNOME, and catering to the needs of
> the people who are just starting to use computers and just starting to
> use GNU/Linux."

This is a great quote. Perhaps we can chase Miguel to update it.

Action items? I can contact Chema and the GUADEC team about the
history of GNOME video.

Would you like to start writing the memories for each release? Like I
said, I would only do a few releases, not all. See my previous
proposal.

Andreas perhaps might want to chime on what would be cool to gather
for the design: screenshots? old icons? the video?