Re: Reboot: Strategic goals for GNOME

[Andrew Savory <andrew savory limofoundation org>]

Hi,

On 3 Mar 2010, at 09:09, Dave Neary wrote:

> Proposed short-to-mid-term goal: Make the GNOME platform exciting to
> alpha-dog application developers & thought leaders.
> 
> We probably could have had MeeGo be "GNOME Mobile", but our project
> wasn't the obvious place to go, because we don't seem to know what we're
> providing any more. And so we're losing stewardship (and control) of
> these great GNOME-related projects to the Linux Foundation, or to Intel
> & Nokia, or to distributions.

Focussing in on one area that I can talk about: Qt is perceived by some to be stronger from a business perspective due to the 'more complete' offering: extensive documentation and an SDK.

Perhaps more focus on and promotion of GNOME's developer tools/sdk offerings would be a useful meta-goal for the coming year? Somehow enunciating the proposition that you don't need to be an alpha-dog developer to get engaged with GTK etc.

For example, I only recently found out about Anjuta: it's presumably a fairly important tool for people developing using GNOME technologies, but look at the results at http://www.google.com/search?q=anjuta&as_sitesearch=www.gnome.org (Yes, I know there's a ton of stuff at library.gnome.org, I'm being devil's advocate here ...)


Andrew.