Hi all, In the context of organising a stand in a conference next year, I have launched the idea of having a number of prepared storyboards for demos that we could reuse to show certain aspects of GNOME in a good light.
This is just the start of an idea for the moment - we actually need to nail down what features we show, in what order, and what prerequisites are needed to do the work - we could even collaborate on having a gig or so of demo material in the form of stock photos, music & video files for multimedia demos, etc. Here's my initial idea for demo themes and the kinds of things we could usefully demo - the great absentee here is GNOME Mobile - but actually doing a demo of the mobile stuff isn't as easy as it might be (although showing off GPE2, Dates, Tinymail, Maemo, OpenMoko, etc would be interesting). Theme: Universal Access * Translations - the desktop available in many languages & scripts * RTL languages - Someone could show off Arabic and Hebrew support side by side? Need to make sure all the needed fonts are installed - could also show off Chinese & Japanese * Accessibility - Configure LSR or Orca to do screen reading & have a blind person demo the desktop (web page, edit a document, say). Use Accerciser to show how to tell if an application is accessible or not * Input methods - Dasher, GOK, ...? * High contrast themes Theme: Personal desktop * Office work - use Gnumeric, Abiword as Excel/Word "Lite" - Show Powerpoint, Excel & Word import/export from OO.o * Note taking with Tomboy - note synchronisation? linking notes, link creation for email addresses, URLs, filenames, using plug-ins... * Managing photos with F-Spot - sending photos by email, exporting copies, ordering prints, editing photos in 3rd party apps (photo versioning), import from a camera, upload to Flickr * Cheese - take photos and apply effects with a webcam * Multimedia - Rhythmbox as a jukebox application: Last.fm integration, browse by artist, genre, album, display album artwork & song lyrics, podcast & iPod support, Jamendo/Magnatune support, rip & burn audio CDs - Totem for video needs - playing film, subtitles, language support, play a DVD Theme: Developer * Create GUIs with Glade * Use libglabe to do RAD with scripting languages (talk about bindings) * Demo Vala * Show off DevHelp & library.gnome.org * Also browse developer.gnome.org * Show how Accerciser is used as a developer tool * Maybe show how to compile a GNOME application in Eclipse? Theme: Sysadmin * Lock-down with Pessulus * Profile management with Sabayon * Menu editing with Alacarte * Talk about GNOME on thin clients - LTSP, Sunrays * Talk about GNOME in distros with big roll-outs: SLED, RHEL, Ubuntu * Virtualisation - GNOME integration of VMWare Player It's a start - feedback & ideas welcome. If people think it's worthwhile, we can get the basic storyboards started in the Wiki, and start filling out some demos - functionality to show, prerequisites, and then plan the running of the demo. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list