Re: Gnumeric still available?




Another interesting point is that our lawyers recommended that we
find ways to better associate the GNOME logo with various GNOME
products.  For example, we added a GNOME foot logo on the GNOME
Mobile page so that we could make it more clear that the GNOME
logo relates to mobile.

It would be better if GNOME projects had a more clear relationship
to the GNOME brand.

The GNOME Office front-door is a particularly bad example of poor
brand association:

  https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOffice

It really isn't even clear if there is a "GNOME Office" suite, or if
we are just recommending various cool free software.  I'd only guess
it is the former since it doesn't mention "LibreOffice" or "OpenOffice"
at all.

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Brian

On 02/13/12 04:09 AM, Dave Neary wrote:
Hi,

(list only, CCing marketing-list, setting follow-up there)

On 02/13/2012 10:48 AM, Andre Klapper wrote:
On Sun, 2012-02-12 at 16:22 -0800, Steve Talley wrote:
I just went to your website, and it wasn't clear to me how to
download Gnome, which I did some months ago, and which provided
Gnumeric and many other free applications.

If you go to http://www.gnome.org/gnome-3/ there is a "Find out how to
get GNOME 3" link at the bottom leading to
http://www.gnome.org/getting-gnome/ which includes a "Distributions"
section.

If you would "just" like to download Gnumeric I would recommend
http://projects.gnome.org/gnumeric/ as a start.

This raises an interesting point about the GNOME web page - we don't
currently provide an easy way to find/find out about GNOME applications
(hosted on gnome.org) which aren't part of the GNOME desktop, outside of
the few applications we promote on gnome.org/applications

http://projects.gnome.org/ gives an index, looking through the list,
some interesting apps we could promote are Abiword, Balsa, Banshee, Déjà
Dup, Dia, F-Spot, GIMP, Gnumeric, GNU Cash, Hamster (although I think
this is included in GNOME now?), Inkscape, Nanny, PDF Mod, Planner,
Rhythmbox, Tasque, X-Chat...

Some of these are not hosted on gnome.org - Banshee, GIMP, GNU Cash,
Inkscape, X-Chat all have their own websites, and for good reason. Some
of them are on Launchpad (Déjà Dup, for example). And several excellent
GNOME applications (like Shotwell, SimpleScan, Sound Juicer, for
example) don't get a mention on the progects.g.o page at all.

It'd be nice if we could help these projects with their SEO and get them
more visibility as the "headline" GNOME applications - those we know
make users happy and have great integration and a decent degree of
functionality and maturity. On that score, I would exclude Dia and
GNUCash because they haven't kept up with the platform, but the others
are all excellent GNOME apps.

Perhaps gnome.org/applcations is the place for us to promote these
applications? How can we do so in a sustainable and SEO-friendly way? We
already promote some GNOME applications there - including apps like
Cheese which are included in the desktop but which benefit from people
knowing what they are.

Cheers,
Dave.





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