Re: Maybe GNOME needs some Marketing?

[brady <bradyh bitstream net>]

>mailer) and incorporate those ideas into Gnome. Maybe sending the Gnome
>software round a few well chosen magazines would help?

Does this make sense in light of the fact that Gnome is freely downloadable?

First of all I want to point out that Gnome *is* getting pretty good press
in relation to KDE.  I read an article recently where the reviewer called
KDE "an older system using inferior technology" - I love Gnome (and I will
probably never use KDE) but even I cringed when I read that.

What about this?  Would it be cheating or wrong somehow to have somebody
who's job it is to help reviewers get setup and using Gnome?  This person
would be listed on www.gnome.org somewhere and if contacted they would
check the persons credentials then if it turned out that person really ia a
reviewer of some sort this person would answer all their questions in
minute detail so that they didn't screw up their installation.  I can see a
few things wrong with this but I also see some things that would be good.
I'm sure Microsoft does this or similar.

One advantageous side-effect of this is that this would be a good pipeline
to novice users.  As a software developer myself I know that often novice
users don't report problems (that only a novice user would encounter)
because they don't know the procedure for reporting problems and don't want
to take the time.

I would volunteer for this (if people think it's a good idea) but it should
probably be somebody with:
a.  Slightly more knowledge of Gnome.  Though this person could probably
pass on tough questions to Miguel, Havoc or whoever seemed most appropriate.
b.  Slightly more freetime than me (I have a fulltime job, a kid and a
website.)
c.  Someone with more experience in different distros - all my experience
is with Redhat.  Though perhaps it would be good to have different people
doing this for different distros. And people for different languages too.

hope this wasn't a waste of bandwidth,
Brady

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