Re: GNOME OS Goals

[Allan Day <allanpday gmail com>]

"GNOME OS" has proved to be a useful rallying point for the GNOME
community itself, I think, since it describes the goals we've been
talking about and avoids aimless long-term planning discussions. That
said, we don't necessarily have to promote GNOME OS outside of our own
community.

Each of the goals associated with GNOME  OS have different
deliverables, interested parties and time spans, and they can be
promoted separately. Thanks to Colin's work, the testable initiative
is making good progress, and the main people we need to engage there
are developers working on the core as well as the Release Team. The
core UX work is also ongoing and we need to keep reaching out to the
community to push that forward (hence my recent blog post [1]).

The next step, imo, is to connect with key people in the effort to
develop a plan for application sandboxing and deployment - something
that the developer experience hackfest [2] might help with. If and
when we make some progress with that, we'll need to talk to
application developers. But that's something for the future.

Allan

[1] http://afaikblog.wordpress.com/2012/11/20/the-next-step/
[2] https://live.gnome.org/DeveloperExperience/Hackfest2013