Hi !
On the public IRC Board of Directors meeting [1] was disscused the topic "Strategic roadmap for GNOME: long term goals". One of the actions agreed was to write a SWOT analysis for generating ideas for strategy and I was charged of this. Here you are the document [2]. I've tried to get together all the concerns about the GNOME project I've found everywhere. This kind of documment is a high level one, not technical. I think a good starting point for defining the strategy lines. So now we can start to discuss the actions we can affort to improve the situation. There are a few on going efforts on areas where SWOT analysis points to. Please, relink existing efforts into the action plan with its status, roadmaps, etc. There are a lot of marketing related staff that I think it is worth to be discussed on this list. I'm going to send a message like this to the desktop-devel-list and the foundation-list as well, so if you want to discuss a something about development or more general issues go to these lists instead. Of course, it is impossible to improve everything at once, so there will be areas where we can focus on the near future and other ones will be left for later. After that, we will write a document about the strategic lines we are working. I think it is a s good idea to find a person to be in charge of the evolution of every strategic line. There are some open issues about the management of the strategic lines that I hope we can discuss now (if we need to define a strategy-making body, when we have to evaluate again the situation, how to sync the strategic lines with our releases, etc). Best regards, -- Juanjo Marin [1] http://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/IRC20100227 [2] http://live.gnome.org/SWOT -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list