Fwd: GNOME desktop to the next level

[Nacho <gnacho gmail com>]

In case can be interesting for anybody, I'd love to discuss my ideas :)

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From: Nacho <gnacho gmail com>
Date: 2017-04-01 12:28 GMT+02:00
Subject: GNOME desktop to the next level
To: board gnome org, membership-committee gnome org

Hi guys,

In advance I'm sorry if any of you feel this email/document unappropiate or just unnecesary.

I just wanted to attach my impressions about GNOME and how I think it can be the next desktop together with Windows and MacOs (ChromeOS?).

I wrote it very fast, with some ideas that were in my mind already, and there are probably a lot of mistakes and omissions (english is not my language neither). I just want to see if there's any feedback and it is worth to dedicate more time.

I understand every point I mention has to be seriously developed, (like in a 2 years plan) but that can be done, it's just a matter of resources and motivation.

Some of the points are simply my opinion as a user, other points I tried to figure what users whould like the most.

My main goal is to reach with this document the right people in GNOME so they can evaluate some of the ideas there and decide if it's worth to make the document more complete.

I truly love opensource/libre software, but there are two things that seriously piss me off about it:

1. Rowing in many directions:

I understand and appreciate the multiple efforts to have such a great and rich ecosystem of differents developers and apps, but the truth is that in the end, most of the efforts got deprecated. As long as there is a war with other systems, we should try to motivate people and make the talents work together to create such an strong community for each software that even when the leader leaves the work can continue.

2. Lack of resources

Having contributors, volunteers, and people helping is great, should try to catch as many as possible. But like every Foundation, having talented people working and giving 100% of their time should be rewarded with a payroll. So make the incoming as higher as possible to have as many people and resources working 100% of the time should be also a goal. (I throw some basic ideas in the document).

Just take a look and if you see anything interesting, I'm glad to help.

Many thanks for doing such a great software as GNOME is :)

Regards,

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