Re: Ensuring GNOME 3 is a Success

[Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu sugarlabs org>]

On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 02:22, Brian Cameron <brian cameron oracle com> wrote:
>
> Foundation Community:
>
> You let us know overwhelmingly that ensuring that GNOME 3 is a success
> is the #1 priority that the GNOME Foundation should be working on
> according to the survey Stormy ran last January.[1]
>
> Although this is clearly a high priority, there has been very little
> discussion on the foundation-list about what this means, how the GNOME
> Foundation community could better work together to ensure that GNOME 3
> is a success, or about GNOME 3 in general for that matter.  Therefore,
> I think it would be good to have some discussion about this amongst
> the Foundation members and to think about what we can be doing as a
> community to help in this area.
>
> To help in this area, the GNOME Foundation has already been working on
> the following:
>
> - Organizing hackfests of relevance to GNOME 3.
> - Promoting GNOME 3 at events whether this is done by Stormy, board
>  members, or others by arrangement of the GNOME Foundation.
> - Negotiating with advisory board members to make sure we are on track
>  for GNOME 3, and working with them to resolve issues they may have
>  with updating.

Does it include working with the downstreams that are in the AB to
make sure GNOME 3 matches what they want to deliver to their users?
What about the distros that aren't represented in that board?

Was it discussed what those downstreams could do to help with the
GNOME 3 effort besides packaging it?

Regards,

Tomeu

> - Preparing GNOME 3 Marketing Materials.
> - Working with the press and media to promote GNOME 3.
> - Managing coordination between teams where there are issues.
> - Managing communication on various forums.
>
> It would be good if we could get some feedback from the community
> about the following:
>
> - How are we doing with the above tasks?  Any suggestions about
>  what we could be doing more effectively.
> - What additional things can the GNOME Foundation community do to
>  help ensure that GNOME 3 is a success?
> - The GNOME Foundation has been working to ensure that the right
>  information about GNOME 3 is being made available.  Much of the
>  work done so far has been in relation to marketing.  It would
>  be helpful to get some perspective from the community about
>  what more we can do to ensure that the right information is
>  being broadcast to the right forums.  What are people's
>  expectations for success in this area?
> - There has been some suggestion that the GNOME Foundation could
>  get more involved with helping the release team.  However, it
>  is not clear what this might involve.  So if people have any
>  suggestions, it would be good to hear about.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Lastly, I would like to encourage people to consider getting more
> involved to help.  For example:
>
> - The marketing team could use help putting together the GNOME 3
>  marketing plans and materials.  Consider joining the
>  marketing-list gnome org mailing list and helping out.
> - The documentation team is surely feeling the burden of updating
>  all the GNOME documentation for the new release.  Consider
>  joining the gnome-doc-list gnome org mailing list and helping out.
> - Any other suggestions of teams that particularly need help at this
>  time to help make GNOME 3 a success?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Brian
>
> [1]
> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/private/board-list/2010-January/msg00556.html
>
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