Re: "Deployments" page sends the wrong message

[J. Félix Ontañón <fontanon emergya es>]

2012/2/9 Karen Sandler <karen gnome org>:
> On Thu, February 9, 2012 6:57 am, Allan Day wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 11:55 AM, Karen Sandler <karen gnome org> wrote:
>>> On Tue, February 7, 2012 3:30 pm, Christy Eller wrote:
>>>> Hi-
>>>>
>>>> I have been gathering some more info about recent deployments. Thanks
>>>> to
>>>> Marina, I have added several more current deployments to our
>>>> Deployments
>>>> wiki page, https://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/GnomeDeployments,
>>>> including a one using GNOME 3.0.2.
>>>
>>> Thanks for working on this, it's great to have some current information
>>> there
>>>
>>>> My suggestion is that we split off the older deployments to another
>>>> page,
>>>> called GNOME Deployments 2000-2008. I would prefer to have that info
>>>> available, but I agree with Joanie that seeing a list of really old
>>>> deployments could send a negative message. I would rename the current
>>>> page
>>>> to Current Gnome Deployments, and would refer to the older deployments
>>>> page
>>>> there. I chose those dates, because I want to make sure that the
>>>> current
>>>> page has enough data not to look too sparse.
>>>
>>> That sound really great to me. I agree with you and Joanie that it
>>> doesn't
>>> look good to have such old information on that main deployments page.
>>>
>>> I'm trying to track down info on another couple of deployments I know of
>>> too.
>>
>> What's this page used for? Is it worth the effort of ongoing maintenance?
>
> In the most general way, I think it's important to have a place where we
> show people where GNOME is being used. More specifically, I have wanted to
> point potential new partners to this page but have hesitated because it's
> so out of date. It's nice to be able to show folks that GNOME is used
> successfully in real endeavours. Were the page somewhat current, we could
> also use it as a reference for grant applications and the like.
>
> karen

Depending on the efforts that may be put here, I would suggest
performing some 'call for contributors', and to try to engage them as
deployment-study's maintainers. Just as with the software! As a
maintainer, the marketing team would encourage you to keep updated the
deployment-study, with annual revisiones, for example.

I really think it could succeed providing some deployment-study
templates, just for avoiding misleading the newcomer contributors
about what kind of document is desired here.

Because of my job, I'm in contact with the core-team of two big GNOME
deployment on a daily basis:
* Guadalinfo: 754 Telecenter network in Andalusia running GNOME 2.28
* Valencia public education's classrooms: Running GNOME 2 on every
single primary and secondary classroom

If you found this interesting I would offer myself as guinea pig.
Regards!

> --
> marketing-list mailing list
> marketing-list gnome org
> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

-- 
J. Félix Ontañón Carmona