Re: [question to candidates] GNOME OS

[Pockey Lam <pockeylam gnome org>]

On 05/25/2011 02:24 PM, Frederic Peters wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> GNOME OS has been mentioned and questioned repeatedly in recent
> discussions on desktop-devel-list, about its definition itself[1],
> and the changing (or not?) role of the GNOME project with regards
> to distributions (based or not on the Linux kernel).
>
> What are your thougths on this?[2] Do you think this is a foundation
> job to answer those questions? If not, is this a responsibility of the
> release team? Or something that is best left unanswered, as pieces are
> put into positions by different persons?

My contributions being mainly in the promotion and marketing areas (as I 
am a non-technical contributor) I have difficulties to fully understand 
what GNOME OS exactly means. It surely is a great marketing term but 
does it mean we become a GNOME/Linux distribution or does it mean we 
tightly integrate with a specific kernel where functionalities provided 
merge deeply with that kernel? Or does it mean something else?

I tend to care more about the visible parts of GNOME and how accessible 
we make our desktop to all kinds of people, leaving the technical bits 
to the experts.

Now, to answer the second question I believe the foundation is here to 
represent its members and assist them in their endeavors whichever those 
are (to some extend and within the GNOME project). I find it very 
unrealistic for the foundation to dictate technical decisions if the 
foundation doesn't have manpower to implement them.
The community (each and everyone voicing their opinion) should come up 
with an idea of what GNOME OS is and the foundation should make it 
understandable to our users and people outside of the project, promote 
it and support that idea.


Thank you.

Pockey


> Thanks,
>
>          Fred
>
> [1] http://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS doesn't help, the only laid out
>      plan I know was in Jon McCann "Shell Yes!" talk at GUADEC (now
>      locked on slideshare.net)
>
> [2] this question comes first but in terms of candidacies to the
>      board, I believe the next ones are even more important.
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