Re: Marketing, GNOME 3.0 and subteams

[Andreas Nilsson <nisses mail home se>]

Shaun McCance wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 22:34 +0200, Andreas Nilsson wrote:
>   
> > 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
>
> Do you have more design ideas around this?  Would we want
> to have more software listed than could reasonably fit on
> a front page.  Maybe a dozen on the front page and a link
> for more?  Should there be an actual overview page for
> each application?  I don't want to over-complicate, but
> we could offer a bit more pretty easily.
>   
I think it would be nice with a "more details" page for each app where 
you could see some screenshots and a short bullet point list with what 
the application have to offer and how it will make your life easier and 
better. Will fix a mockup of this. Bringing in Pulse does indeed sounds 
like a good move in the long term.

I think the safest route right now would be to collect a small list of 
really nice GNOME apps applications (some cross platform, some not). I 
imagine this would end up as a terrible bike shed, so while I'm happy to 
receive suggestions on apps that would go in, don't count on me adding 
them :)
So, anyway, small list of apps at first, if successful, we'll add some 
more. However, I don't want this to turn into gnomefiles.org or 
gtk-apps.org. Lets keep it small and focused.
> I could whip up a functional system to run this in an
> evening, probably.  If you have more ideas, could you
> do more mockups?  If I do the design, it'll be as ugly
> as Pulse. ;)
>
> Seriously, we could make this happen in a week.
>   
I can't promise it to happen during next week, but I'll do my best. I'll 
get in touch with you on IRC so we can put this together.
Thanks for the great feedback!
- Andreas