Re: Meeting Minutes Published - February 1st, 2011

[Juanjo Marin <juanjomarin96 yahoo es>]

On Thu, 2011-02-17 at 08:50 -0600, Andrew Savory wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 16 Feb 2011, at 22:09, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 2:02 PM, Dave Neary <dneary gnome org> wrote:
> > 
> >> LiMo uses GNOME technology. They continue to support the foundation's
> >> activities on a case-by-case basis, but their executive director did not
> >> consider that the advisory board position was giving the foundation
> >> value for money. We have been informing their advisory board
> >> representatives of the great stuff we have been doing around hackfests,
> >> training programmes, GNOME 3 plans, support for GTK+ on mobile, etc. but
> >> Mr. Gillis was not convinced that the foundation was sufficiently
> >> focussed on mobile to make the $20K a year worth paying. Obviously, I
> >> disagree with him.

I know it's a hard time for companies, but, IMHO, from the marketing
side it gives the impression that LiMo is an insignificant player in the
mobile arena if they don't have the money that other organizations with
GNOME products/services have. LiMo needs visibility about their
technology approach, and a seat in the Foundation Board really helps. 

Apart from that, if LiMo wants better GNOME mobile technologies, they
need to lead this action and support developers for adding the features
they miss and working upstream is the more intelligent action, of
course, IMHO. Working this way LiMo could benefit of contributions from
the community. 

Anyway, thanks LiMo for being part of the Advisory Board for some
months, and I hope they will show their support to GNOME in any other
way.

Cheers,

  -- Juanjo Marin