Re: GNOME deployments

[Toady <toady gscore org>]

Claus Schwarm a écrit:

> > Now I got questions, I think it's quite something but I still can give
hum, s/can/can't/

> > answers to that when I hear people/companies:
> > - What kind of support for Gnome they can have (who should they ask, 
> > pay... ?)
> > - How can they learn using Gnome (a "Gnome for dummies" book ?) ?
> > - How did the success story became a success : what kind of people to 
> > hire ? how they convinced the local authorities ? where did they get
> > the money for ?
> >
> > To me, I got no real answers to that. How can we make this becoming 
> > clear as crystal for folks ? (a nice web page talking about it ?)
> >
> >    
>
> Indeed, very interesting questions. I never thought about it this way.
> It might be worth discussing.
>
> 1.) Most institutional users would get GNOME support by their Linux
>    vendor, I guess (RedHat, Sun, Novell, or a local one).
I'm not sure about this, really. Linux can be download from internet, 
and people providing software should (must?) deliver services too ( yes, 
us ;) ).
All right, if Novel/Sun or RedHat installed, they might fit.
I think we can tell them to go knock on those companies' doors maybe. 
But we must have a list (something like: find your Gnome support near you).

> 2.) It's quite hard to make such a book - JDS still uses GNOME 2.2
>    (or used until recently, I believe). How can you educate
>    users/ office workers about GNOME when there are up to four versions
>    in the wild?
Nice issue hey ? :)

>    Such a book is complicated because of the different vendor versions
>    of GNOME, too. Are you going to explain all the little differences
>    between JDS, RedHat's GNOME, Novell's GNOME, etc... to users?
>    Probably not.
It's not our responsability.
However, we can provide documentation for the Gnome that _WE_ provide.

>    Additionally, I'm not a book vendor but I guess it take a few years
>    to sell a complete edition of a book. A GNOME book would be outdated
>    soon after it was published.
And maybe no customers... I don't know.

>    How to educate a large number of users is still an unsolved problem,
>    and the costs associated with it is probably the largest barrier to
>    Linux adoption.
Yeah, but the issue remains, so I repeat the question :)
-> "How can people learn to use Gnome ?"

(and for developers, I see to way to get started developing with Gnome 
(no no, http://developer.gnome.org isn't good enough to get started I 
think))

> 3.) I'm not sure if I understood your remarks, here. Whom do you mean by
>    "local authorities"? The management?
>
>  
Politicians, management, whatever people our have to talk to/convince.


Bye,
Sébastien.