Re: Meeting Minutes Published - March 29th, 2011

[Martyn Russell <martyn lanedo com>]

On 26/04/11 15:29, Brian Cameron wrote:
> Martyn:
>
> On 04/26/11 02:11 AM, Martyn Russell wrote:
> > No comments from anyone on this?
>
> Here are my thoughts...
>
> > I could put something a bold on the gtk.org website, but I would rather
> > we had something more centralised on gnome.org for all companies?
> >
> > I get the feeling there isn't much interest in this?
>
> I think there is a lot of interest, actually.

[snip]

> Another example is that sometimes organizations do things like donate
> a server or computer to The GNOME Foundation. The GNOME website does
> not currently have a nice place to say thanks about such things. The
> Friends of GNOME has a page to thank previous donors[1], but it does
> not seem the right place to thank organizations, and does not seem
> particularly inspired anyway.

I think (as said before) "Support" is quite an expansive word and 
everyone can think of different meanings for that word.

What I had in mind, was more along the lines of:

  http://qt.nokia.com/services-partners

In my experiences using technologies like GTK+ at former companies, 
businesses want to know there is a place they can go to if they need 
(professional) help. For Qt, it's their website and a number of 
certified partners. If you take that further, you then can provide a 
service phone number, etc as Bastien mentioned.

I don't think you can just do this in one place (i.e. a gnome.org url), 
I think you also need to do this on project websites too (like gtk.org). 
It's the first place I would expect to find something.

Right now, there is nothing AFAICS which a potential business could find 
(easily or at all) by going to gtk.org or gnome.org.

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Regards,
Martyn