Hey, > > Hrm, what about universities? > > Do you mean students (which would kind of fit into a potential > contributor target audience (1)) or IT department heads (which would > pretty well fit into the public administration target audience (2))? Of > course there are special points to address with university IT > departments. Often they are interested not just in costs, but in > relevancy. So we would need to show (at the stage where we start sending > people to do presentations and demos) that GNOME can provide the > framework they can use for courses, and can provide the type of > experience that students will need in the marketplace.
Sounds like you have them covered. I just think it's an important area where we already have a good deal of support. > It's not my place to decide, but I am of the opinion that colleges > should be toolkit and platform agnostic, and should teach neither > windows or GTK+ programming. Generally they teach what they know and what is topical - seems like it's worth trying to influence that. > The stuff in the list was a list of things which we have had discussions > about on the list. They didn't quite come out of the blue :) I suspect > they all have at least one wiki page already :) Ahh, ok - if that's the case, then it would be useful to provide the wiki page, and/or discussion links. I'm just seeing it from a high level, that those task are pretty hard to pick up on from a casual observer. Feel free to ignore me though ;) Glynn -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list