Re: [GnomeMeeting-devel-list] GnomeMeeting 2.0 Promotion/Marketing (was: Interest for GM 2.00)

[Damien Sandras <dsandras seconix com>]

Some comments inline.


Le jeudi 01 décembre 2005 à 14:11 +0100, CJ van den Berg a écrit :
> Well here are some more thoughts on GM promotion:
> 
> 1. Get GM 2.0 into Gnome 2.14
> 
> This is by far the most important way to raise visibility of any Gnome
> related application. I know from watching the Gnome lists that there is
> a lot of excitement over GM 2.0 and I'm sure they will mention SIP
> prominently in their new features list if GM 2.0 is ready for 2.14.
> Gnome releases have a *huge* chain reaction marketing effect and if GM
> 2.0 with SIP support gets into 2.14 I'm sure you'll see literally
> hundreds of articles world wide mentioning GM 2.0.

It will be in 2.14. You are right about this.

> 
> 2. dbus interfaces and developer docs / examples
> 
> dbus is all the rage with the Gnome crowd and a working dbus interface
> to a SIP endpoint in Gnome 2.14 will attract a lot of integration into
> Gnome applications for 2.16. This should raise the project's visibility
> a lot and could make GM more attractive. Developers are pretty good at
> getting excited about other people's software when they have the ability
> to quickly add it as a feature to *their* project.

Julien?

> 
> 3. Simple (really, simple) end user configuration help
> 
> Most users don't care about GM or VoIP or SIP or anything really - they
> just want to make calls. A prominently placed webpage that shows in
> simple steps how to configure GM for various popular VoIP providers
> would be very encouraging to new end users. It also serves as a sort of
> documentation of which VoIP providers GM is known to work with, which
> is also positive no-bull marketing.


I will write that.

> 
> 
> And last but definitely not least...
> ... and I hate to say it...
> 
> 4. Change the name!
> 
> I know it's difficulty and no-one really wants to go through the
> hassle, but GnomeMeeting *really* needs a better name. NetMeeting is
> dead (at least in the public mind) and GnomeMeeting is *not* just a
> clone anyway. The -Meeting name really associates the project too much
> with video conferencing which is a niche application (at least compared
> to VoIP) and will always stay that way. Simple is good though too, so I
> would suggest something simple and catchy that says *exactly* what GM
> does/is. For example, GnomePhone, GnomeVoice, GnomeTalk, etc.
> 
> If you really want to keep a strong association to the GnomeMeeting
> name perhaps condensing it and adding a suffix or prefix might work too.
> For example, GM-Voice, GM-Talk, VoIP-GM, etc. 
> 

I'm not sure about this one. On one hand I agree, on the other hand I
fear losing some popularity and most of all, I haven't found a good name
to replace GM yet. I planned to add "NG" to the name, to clarify that it
is GnomeMeeting Next Generation. 

Also, GAIM is more than an AIM client, and people know it. It is the
same with GM.

But I agree, really.

> Anyway, as you probably noticed, none of these items are actually
> *new*. They have all been talked about before and are AFAIK are on the
> program from the GM 2.0 release. So I guess what it boils down to is,
> push hard to get GM 2.0 out the door.
> 
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