Hi all I have been following the discussion here (and elsewhere) about "what is GNOME" and "Who are our customers (Target Markets)" for some time now.
I'm wondering if it's time for some new ways of thinking about these questions. Try this for size: GNOME is a network organisation that interacts with other network organisations. GNOME is a bunch of companies and a bunch of individual people who create software and services that enable ***people*** to ***interact*** with their ***computer***; and with other ***people*** and organisations through the ***medium*** of their computer. (Sorry about the asterisks. I feel a rant coming on...) People use computers to create and maintain value for themselves. Also, organisations use computers and software to create and maintain value for themselves. How can GNOME enhance the value-creation processes of these people and their networks? And how can GNOME enhance the value-creation processes of the network of people and organisations that is GNOME? That's the big picture. Perhaps it would be helpful to draw our network as a directed graph in some public space? I'm not sure we can do this on the live.gnome.org wiki (other than creating our own graphs and uploading them). Does anyone know of some interactive "whiteboard" type service (note: service, not software! ;-) ... ) we could use for this? peace and love, John -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list