Re: [gnome-summary] Gnome Summary Future Plans

[Sayamindu Dasgupta <sayamindu clai net>]

On Tue, 2004-02-17 at 16:16 -0800, Sri Ramkrishna wrote:

> > It's interesting that you talk about focusing on the user. That is just
> > one of the audiences you can target. I was expecting though that you
> > would be targeting business types more though with a Gnome Journal type
> > publication. For example things such as case studies, or perhaps an
> > article focusing on current hot issues withing business (where an IT
> > solution can help of course).
> 
> I'm less interested in business users because we have Sun to do all the 
> marketing to the business user.  It's the common man we want to attract 
> and less the typical slashdot type person who really wants to micromanage 
> his environment.  (They see a computer less as a tool, but more like the 
> office)  
> 
> > The other audience is the developer. In much the same format as
> > Microsoft's MSDN Magazine you could have discussion, articles about new
> > technologies or perhaps short 'developer guides'.
> 
> Hmm..that would require a lot of manpower in trying to chase down 
> developers to write things.  I had thought about a hacker version of gnome 
> summary that only reports on things like API changes or like in the 
> recent g-s, where there was a story regarding gnomefilechooser.  However, 
> how that can be done is problematic.  It would be nice if they could 
> communicate it through a blog but not everyone has one.
> 
> > There are many possibilities. I'm quite interested to know who people on
> > this list think we should be focusing on in terms of who you would be
> > best promoting Gnome to.
> 
> Me too. Adding new people here I hope will add to the list of ideas and 
> developing something interesting to show to people.
> 


Another thing that comes to my mind is an Answer Gang like thing - used
at Linux Gazette - http://www.linuxgazette.com/node/view/211/showterm/89
People ask questions - the Answer Gang answers them - someone gets the
questions and answers together in a format that makes sense, and then we
publish them.
Also, if you are thinking about getting a March issue of 
The GNOME Journal out - I can give my "Diving into GNOME 2.5" article
for that. Also, we may also bug Sri for a "Getting to know libbonoboui"
article.

<evil grin...>

-sdg-