On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 8:13 AM, Sriram Ramkrishna <s...@ramkrishna.me>wrote:
> > > On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 7:29 AM, Brian Cameron > <brian.came...@oracle.com>wrote: > >> >> For a long time, The GNOME Foundation has been discussing how to make >> it more possible to partner with other organizations. Lately we have >> been talking about how to better promote organizations that do GNOME or >> GTK+ consulting. There is also value in providing some way to promote >> organizations that wish to donate or provide resources to The GNOME >> Foundation. Perhaps we should be working to solve the larger problem? >> >> > I was thinking about the thread Martyn started earlier based off the > minutes and of course how to get organizations that do consulting for GNOME > and GTK+ involved and I thought that a mailing list on how to integrate > GNOME into your environment or device might be an appropriate channel for > these things. Companies and individuals like sysadmins can talk about how > to integrate GNOME into their customer environment. Using a .sig, > individuals or companies can advertise that they are available for hire as > an option. > > I don't know how successful it will be, but I know on gnome-shell-list we > do have a lot of people who are sysadmins and they do talk about issues of > integration for what they are doing which is which lead to my inspiration > about having something involving sysadmins, hardware experts etc. > > As Brian pointed out, it will require some infrastructure to be able to > advertise and encourage this kind of thing. Building up a set of experts > who can help integrate I think would help a lot of smaller companies adopt > GNOME for their desktop and embedded devices need and also build a market > for consulting, but we need a central place to allow for that kind of thing. > > Since, nobody has responded. I'm going to assume this is a good idea and I'm going JFDI. I'll probably need to figure out a charter for this mailing list. Details on the blogs, and I'm going to do some recruitment. sri
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