Re: Technologies Page for gnome.org

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Fri, 2015-05-15 at 12:02 -0700, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:
> On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 7:13 AM, Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net> 
> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2015-05-14 at 10:49 +0100, Allan Day wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > We have talked for quite a long time about having something on 
> > > the
> > > website to highlight GNOME's technologies. The specific goal 
> > > here is
> > > to advertise our technology stack to potential partners.
> > >
> > > Yesterday I took a quick shot at putting something together. You 
> > > can
> > > find a screenshot here:
> > >
> > > https://cloud.gnome.org/index.php/s/mvVbE6bP46CfTGq
> > >
> > > The page itself still needs some work, but I wanted to get some
> > > feedback at this early stage. In particular, I'd like some 
> > > advice on
> > > which technologies to feature, as well as how to structure the 
> > > page.
> > > It's already a bit on the long side - it might need additional
> > > navigation, or splitting out into different pages.
> > >
> > > Any thoughts?
> >
> > Based on the v2 version, a few possible changes:
> > - Mention that GIO/gvfs allows access to files shared through SMB
> > (Windows), AppleTalk (MacOS X), Google docs (is that done yet?), 
> > and a
> > number of mobile devices (MTP for Android, iOS).
> > - Mention Geoclue in the connectivity section
> > - Mention ModemManager under the NM section
> > - Mention Bluetooth headsets and speakers support in PulseAudio
> > - Mention hardware decoding under GStreamer
> > - Merge Rygel and UPnP entries as UPnP
> > - Mention grilo under multimedia
> > - Maybe mention fprintd as a way to access Fingerprint readers?
>
> Rygel and UPnP I know has some interest in IoT.  So we definitely 
> want
> to highlight that.  We can also look at what is in the Tizen stack 
> and
> find out who is using our libraries there as examples of GNOME
> technoogy being used if you want to create a separate page.

Got a link to those?