Howdy all, Just wanted to give you the output for the Northwest Linuxfest, about 8 days ago. NWLF was a pretty cool conference, located near the border of Washington and Canada. The crowd was pretty mixed, since the conference was free we had a lot of families, plenty of kids, teenagers and wives etc. So it was nice to see a diverse crowd of non-techs attending as well as technical people. My talk went fairly well. I didn't get a lot of questions and certainly nothing that would be construed as controversial. I tried to get in front of any controversial topics and discuss them before hand. Overall a pretty nice experience. I'll be doing another talk at Open Source Bridge in Portland and possibly one at Linuxcon in Vancouver.
A couple of issues: I need more screenshots. What I had wasn't enough. I need screenshots for: 1) the old GNOME 2 desktop 2) screenshots of overview/workspaces 3) screenshots of login screen 4) screenshot of rhythmbox controls (persistent notifications) 5) screenshot of evolution 6) screenshot of rhythmbox I could do this myself, but I think there is a particular process to make them look good I think, right? Some feedback from the talk: 1) No clear delineation of what GNOME 3 in comparison to GNOME 2. It didn't have a particular feature comparison. My wife said she didn't really know enough about GNOME 2 to say why GNOME 3 is better. A summary of features of GNOME 2 what it did right, what it did wrong. 2) More screenshots to give context 3) some of the screenshots had stuff at the bottom that most people could not see. I think that's pretty much it for now. The talk was recorded so you can see how I did. :-) I will be putting up my slides lgo so that others can also talk about it. I hope that people will add to it so that it can be used as a standard for discussing the design for GNOME 3. Here is the link to the videos at Northwest Linuxfest. The two relevant ones are: 1) What's New in Fedora (15) by Adam Williamson 2) GNOME 3, What to expect with the next generation user friendly desktop by Sriram Ramkrishna Feel free to critique. Adam did a nice talk and that ended up giving a demo of GNOME 3. So if you attended both our talks you get a design view of GNOME 3 and then a practical view from Fedora end. The Linuxcon one is going to be a collaboration between myself and Adam and we'll discuss the design and then the outcome from a distro point of view. For instance, how much problems did people have with graphic cards and what not. I think there are some logistical issues that we can work on once GNOME 3 is released on fedora that we can present. sri
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