GNOME mobile and Limo Foundation - was (Re: Meeting Minutes Published - February 1st, 2011)

[Frederic Muller <fredm gnome org>]

On 02/17/2011 10:50 PM, Andrew Savory wrote:
> That's a good summary. I worked hard to help prepare the business case to justify continuing involvement, but I was not involved in the final decision making process. I'm personally sorry that our involvement with GNOME was so brief and that we did not have a chance to really fully engage with GNOME. On the plus side, we did manage to secure $10k from LiMo to GNOME for the 6 months we were advisory board members, so it's not all bad! I hope those funds can help GNOME go from strength to strength.

Dear Andrew,

Did the Limo foundation have any specific expectation? I know that a few 
of us are definitely into mobile and would like to see GNOME more 
successful on this front.

You're also well aware that most of us are volunteers or paid developers 
to work on specific tasks. Sometimes clarifying what one expects can 
wake up hopes and motivations among us (and our employers).

Maybe we could work toward some specific goals in the coming 12 months, 
which could make the Limo foundation reconsider its involvement with the 
GNOME project.

I'm saying that because we are currently trying to get feedback on how 
to give more satisfaction to organizations using GNOME technologies and 
getting responses is not always simple.

This is of course one of the ideas to explore, we could also try to 
organize hackfests focused on mobile topics/development. Hackfests work 
very well with GNOME developers and yeld both interest, relevant crowd 
and great results.

As a side note we're organization a conference in Bangalore[1] (together 
with a hackfest) for the GNOME 3.0 release. Bangalore is one of the 
biggest software development of the world and maybe we could try to run 
a mobile session as well. I believe that with clear objectives we can 
get both the developers and the local community more involved in the 
mobile side of GNOME and kick start some of the exciting things the Limo 
foundation was expecting. I am definitely up to lead the effort 
(assisted by some of the GNOME mobile gurus) if someone from your side 
is interested.

Thanks a lot.

Fred

[1] http://www.gnome.asia - March 28 - April 3