Re: Initial draft of GNOME Mobile annual report article



Hi Stormy,

Thanks for the suggestions! I prefer congratulating individual efforts
where possible - of course there may be some who feel left out, but I
don't think that's a valid reason not to congratulate individual
mobile-related efforts. I'd be happy to give credit where due in other
areas.

For all of the content related suggestions, would you mind making the
changes directly in the wiki page? I appreciate your feedback, but as
usual, I'm not sure when I'll get around to integrating it.

Some comments & feedback inline.

Cheers,
Dave.

Stormy Peters wrote:
>     The year started with a bang, as LiPS, the Linux Phone Standards
>     group, an industry group which aimed to define a set of
> 
> Did LiPS have anything to do with GNOME Mobile? If it does, we should
> state that up front. If not, we could start out with something like
> "Some of the alternative solutions are already moving towards GNOME
> Mobile. For example, ..."

LiPS included many GNOME-related interfaces in its specs, it depended on
GTK+, DBus, GStreamer and more. Lefty was the active LiPS guy with GNOME
Mobile.

>     year, and with it, a significant announcement - Intel had agreed to
>     acquire OpenedHand <http://live.gnome.org/OpenedHand>, specialists
>     in mobile free software application development, and developers of
>     Matchbook, Poky Linux, Clutter and Pimlico. Ubuntu Mobile and Ubuntu
>     Netbook
> 
> and in the core group of GNOME mobile (or just state that they have
> worked on many of the GNOME Mobile tecnologies.

Perhaps better to identify core GNOME technologies that they work on,
and identify some higher-profile individuals?

>     The software platform has not stood still either.
> 
> This sentence seemed a bit strange to me since I thought the whole
> article was about software. (I know we were just talking about devices ...)

Yeah - I imagined the article having 4 main themes:
Adopters
Devices
New technologies
Core platform

So start with companies now working with GNOME Mobile, then identify
GNOME Mobile based devices to hit the market this year, follow up with
cool new technologies coming onto the radar, and finish up with great
work being done in the core platform. You might be right that it's
better to either rearrange, or drop the line in the edit & just talk
about the platform.

also, I am sure that I am missing some important work htat's been done
by GNOME Mobile participants on core GNOME technologies - I'd appreciate
those who have made significant contributions letting me know now
(rather than criticising their exclusion after publication ;-) ).

> Can we put our goal/vision/mission statement here that we worked out as
> a group?

Sounds good.

Cheers,
Dave.

-- 
Dave Neary
GNOME Foundation member
dneary gnome org


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