Re: Gnumeric still available?

[Dave Neary <dneary gnome org>]

Hi,

(list only, CCing marketing-list, setting follow-up there)

On 02/13/2012 10:48 AM, Andre Klapper wrote:
> On Sun, 2012-02-12 at 16:22 -0800, Steve Talley wrote:
> >   I just went to your website, and it wasn't clear to me how to
> > download Gnome, which I did some months ago, and which provided
> > Gnumeric and many other free applications.
>
> If you go to http://www.gnome.org/gnome-3/ there is a "Find out how to
> get GNOME 3" link at the bottom leading to
> http://www.gnome.org/getting-gnome/ which includes a "Distributions"
> section.
>
> If you would "just" like to download Gnumeric I would recommend
> http://projects.gnome.org/gnumeric/ as a start.

This raises an interesting point about the GNOME web page - we don't 
currently provide an easy way to find/find out about GNOME applications 
(hosted on gnome.org) which aren't part of the GNOME desktop, outside of 
the few applications we promote on gnome.org/applications

http://projects.gnome.org/ gives an index, looking through the list, 
some interesting apps we could promote are Abiword, Balsa, Banshee, Déjà 
Dup, Dia, F-Spot, GIMP, Gnumeric, GNU Cash, Hamster (although I think 
this is included in GNOME now?), Inkscape, Nanny, PDF Mod, Planner, 
Rhythmbox, Tasque, X-Chat...

Some of these are not hosted on gnome.org - Banshee, GIMP, GNU Cash, 
Inkscape, X-Chat all have their own websites, and for good reason. Some 
of them are on Launchpad (Déjà Dup, for example). And several excellent 
GNOME applications (like Shotwell, SimpleScan, Sound Juicer, for 
example) don't get a mention on the progects.g.o page at all.

It'd be nice if we could help these projects with their SEO and get them 
more visibility as the "headline" GNOME applications - those we know 
make users happy and have great integration and a decent degree of 
functionality and maturity. On that score, I would exclude Dia and 
GNUCash because they haven't kept up with the platform, but the others 
are all excellent GNOME apps.

Perhaps gnome.org/applcations is the place for us to promote these 
applications? How can we do so in a sustainable and SEO-friendly way? We 
already promote some GNOME applications there - including apps like 
Cheese which are included in the desktop but which benefit from people 
knowing what they are.

Cheers,
Dave.

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Dave Neary
GNOME Foundation member
dneary gnome org
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