Re: Marketing, GNOME 3.0 and subteams

[Andreas Nilsson <nisses mail home se>]

Stormy Peters wrote:
> Speaking of which, we do very little (if anything?) to advertise GNOME 
> apps. I think users pick operating systems based on apps. They have a 
> task, they pick an app. They don't decide to use Windows or Linux or 
> Mac, they decide to use Photoshop or Gimp or iTunes.
An idea me and Lucas had a while back was the "Not the GNOME App Store". 
Mockup here [1]
This would be a website with a selection of the coolest GNOME 
applications. The idea is a place with downloads of these for Windows, 
OS X and the most popular Linux distributions.
The browser could detect your OS, so some of the software would be 
disabled if you're running a non-free OS (as they aren't ported over) 
and would invite people to do the switch to a distribution running the 
GNOME desktop.

This could either be a short campaign running for 6 months or so, or a 
permanent place on gnome.org

1. http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/184285/gnome-appstore.png
- Andreas