Re: Another online survey

[Dave Neary <dneary free fr>]

Hi,

Claus Schwarm a écrit :
> On Mon, 09 May 2005 13:59:44 +0200
> Dave Neary <dneary free fr> wrote:
> > Simos Xenitellis a écrit :
> > > The real fight to get GNOME even higher is to win more distros.
> > Right. Anyone have any idea how we can go about that? 
>
> Is the basic assumption correct?

Yes. Most people get their desktop from a distro. Being on more distros 
means more users. More users means more happy users.

> Given the political issues surrounding
> the question (UserLinux rejecting KDE, Ubuntu adding Kubuntu), you'll
> have a hard time trying to convince a distribution to change its
> desktop default.

That's not necessarily the goal - equal status would be a good improvement.

> It seems more promising to promote GNOME to end users (institutional and
> private), and feature those distributions that use GNOME as default.

I disagree. Your target audience is much larger and more varied. We have 
a problem concentrating on a central message. Bigger target audiences 
(like "institutional and private end-users") is a big part of that 
problem. Let's stop trying to be all things to all men.

> For
> example, remember Davyd's blog entry about GetFootware:

Our goal should be to get all distros that matter on that list, and the 
bigger ones on the top part of it.

Cheers,
Dave.

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David Neary
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