Re: Marketing Minutes December 13, 2012

[Seif Lotfy <seif lotfy com>]

I would like to correct something here. Zeitgeist is not a file
browser and has no UI anymore. It is just a History storage for the
user. What you are talking about is the Activity Journal, which is now
not needed and thus dead.

On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 7:21 PM, Dave Neary <dneary gnome org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Sorry I couldn't attend - a sick son & bedtime meant that 8pm yesterday was
> rush hour in the Neary household.
>
>
> On 12/14/2012 03:24 PM, Emily Gonyer wrote:
>>
>> Sri: Theres a common wisdom that GNOME will throw out features and are
>> unfriendly. We've let others tell our story for us. As a result, most
>> of the press we receive is negative, focusing on GNOME 3's failures
>> and shortcomings.
>>
>> Andreas: Whats the biggest drawback of this perception?
>
>
> I would say that the biggest draw-back of this perception is that we are not
> growing as a developer community, because we're seen as a conservative
> project where code is as likely to be rejected as accepted once the work is
> done, it's not clear how to get pre-approval before developing something
> that it'll be accepted.
>
> We have also had a couple of examples of new applications being built which
> compete with existing apps, and the process for choosing has been unclear -
> Photos & Shotwell comes to mind, as do Files and Zeitgeist. I think this is
> also hurting the GNOME ISV community (such as it is).
>
> In addition, the reputation of GNOME as a conservative project is worse in
> the platform, with the result that we have few developers working on the
> foundations of the project at this point.
>
> I don't have any good answers to how to turn this around, but it seems to me
> that these are the biggest costs of the reputation - because if we don't
> figure out how to grow our developer community, the rest doesn't matter.
>
> Cheers,
> Dave.
>
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