Re: On Epiphany marketing, and income opportunities

[Alberto Ruiz <aruiz gnome org>]

2009/7/20 Alex Hudson <home alexhudson com>:
> On 20/07/09 11:39, Alberto Ruiz wrote:
>>
>> I wanted to draw attention on an issue that it's been mentioned
>> before. Which is trying to get some money out of the default search
>> engine used in epiphany. Obviously, we won't get as much money as the
>> Mozilla Foundation out of this, but it'll be worth knowing how much
>> can we make out of it and there are other upsides about it besides the
>> income.
>>
>
> I think the basic problem with this plan is that GNOME has very little
> branding control. Most of what gets deployed is re-branded in some way, and
> the main GNOME desktops a. don't come with Epi and b. already have
> customised, branded search. Firefox has _much_ stronger control over its
> user experience.

Well, I don't think this is all about branding control. I was just
talking about promoting Epi among our own community. In any case this
problem is orthogonal to the proposal I'm making.

> Personally, I think that GNOME should exert more pressure on downstream, but
> I think from a marketing perspective the value of Epi is very limited in
> terms of what people might be willing to pay.

Well, as I said, I think we should target our own community for a
start, and I don't think we should actually try to push distros to use
Epiphany at this point. Pretty much none of us use epiphany, and this
would be a great opportunity to empower the application within power
users and developers. We can think on what do we want next after that.

Even if the money was very little, it could help to fund
webkit+accesibility/plain webkit/epiphany hackfests. I would be more
than happy if that was the only achievement.

> Sorry this is a negative reaction, but that is my initial thought. Probably
> still worth asking, though.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Alex.
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Un saludo,
Alberto Ruiz