Re: Contribution to GNOME Journal

[Sriram Ramkrishna <sri aracnet com>]

On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 08:52:01PM +0200, Sebastian Dziallas wrote:
> Hi Sriram,
> 
> > New and special GNOME software sounds like a pretty decent idea.
> > Or you could pick a class of software that you could concentrate on.
> > We had one that did burning software for instance.
> 
> I thought on writing about media players like Totem and Banshee
> or about photo management software - like F-Spot...

Well, I think we have articles on at least f-spot.  Check the archives.  I'd
like to try to move it towards new items.  For instance, I think Alex is 
working on some new stuff with online desktop.

Or I know that we are weak like trying to author slide shows and
videos on DVD.  Maybe focusing on applications that we don't have as 
opposed to the latest media or photo management software.  We have
a lot of choices in media but not a lot in DVD authoring or some other
thing that.

> > I'm less thrilled on surveys and this is just my personal opinion,
> > it's hard to find the right mix of people and the questions needs to
> > be worded where it reflects the GNOME desktop as a stock product
> > as opposed to the modifications done by the distro.  Anyways,
> > don't let me discourage you.  It might be that you have the right
> > set of questions.
> 
> In the future - if you agree - I could try to work out a survey
> (discuss the questions here first and then publish it)...

You don't have to have my agreement.  If you write a good article
on it we'll accept it.  It's like writing good code.  I dont' want
to shoot down new ideas you come up with.  But it would be good idea
to discuss the survey and probably not just with us.  I'm sure the
marketing-list folks would also be interested in such a survey.
> 
> But currently I can stick with one of the above mentioned groups.

Sure thing.

> Maybe you could tell me if there is yet someone writing articles on one of
> these groups...

None that I know of.

sri