Re: promoting good gnome apps via news.gnome.org

[Andreas Nilsson <nisses mail home se>]

On 06/13/2009 08:01 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:
> Actually, the original idea I had about this is to do away with our 
> platform (eg the apps that make gnome.. after all the whole thing is a 
> distro decision these days anyways)  Instead we would promote them via 
> adsense and drive traffic to these apps thus using them as marketing 
> tools.  That might make people work harder to get themselves into 
> compliance in a particular niche.
>
> Probably might be that this might not scale if there are a lot of apps 
> out there or if there are competing apps and of course there is the 
> money situation.  Anyways, something to think about.
>
> In the mean time, this looks like a nice idea, Andreas.  (and why not 
> Rhythmbox..)
I wasn't able to find something resembling a newsfeed for Rhythmbox on 
http://projects.gnome.org/rhythmbox/
It's a well known GNOME app, so if there is a newsfeed, I think it 
should be added.
- Andreas