Re: Gnumeric still available?

["Karen Sandler" <karen gnome org>]

On Mon, February 13, 2012 8:44 am, Emily Gonyer wrote:
> What if we kept the list (and added to it) and then rotated through it on
> a
> monthly (or even weekly) basis, highlighting one application at a time,
> with a top bar that says "Coming Next week/month _____" with the name of
> whichever application will be featured next, perhaps the same thing below
> only 'Last week's featured application ____' and have each one archived,
> so
> that when you click on the name of the program you get whatever was
> written
> up on it when it was last featured. This would give us a reason to write
> short articles on each, and a way to ensure that they all stay up-to-date
> -
> as they rotate through the 'featured' section, we'd go back to each set of
> developers and ask 'whats changed/new/etc'. It would also allow for some
> of
> the lesser-known applications to be highlighted in turn, and thus allow
> them an exposure that they haven't had.
>
> Actually, as I think about this more, I think weekly (or perhaps
> bi-weekly)
> would be better than monthly, so that we could get through them all each
> year and thus they could be kept significantly more up-to-date. It would
> also give people a reason to come back and checkout the website more
> often.
>

I love this idea, but I worry about its implementation and also keeping it
up to date. I don't really know anything about how easy it is to create a
page like this, but I know how tough it is to make sure you've got good
current content for websites when you don't have a staff of writers. We
could write a lot of these out in advance, so that we have a lot of
"safety" entries for times no one feels like writing. It looks really bad
when you've got a feature that relies on new content when there is no new
content to be published!

karen


> Emily
>
> On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 5:09 AM, Dave Neary <dneary gnome org> wrote:
>
>> 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
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>> dneary gnome org
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