2012/2/9 Karen Sandler <ka...@gnome.org>: > On Thu, February 9, 2012 6:57 am, Allan Day wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 11:55 AM, Karen Sandler <ka...@gnome.org> wrote: >>> On Tue, February 7, 2012 3:30 pm, Christy Eller wrote: >>>> Hi- >>>> >>>> I have been gathering some more info about recent deployments. Thanks >>>> to >>>> Marina, I have added several more current deployments to our >>>> Deployments >>>> wiki page, https://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/GnomeDeployments, >>>> including a one using GNOME 3.0.2. >>> >>> Thanks for working on this, it's great to have some current information >>> there >>> >>>> My suggestion is that we split off the older deployments to another >>>> page, >>>> called GNOME Deployments 2000-2008. I would prefer to have that info >>>> available, but I agree with Joanie that seeing a list of really old >>>> deployments could send a negative message. I would rename the current >>>> page >>>> to Current Gnome Deployments, and would refer to the older deployments >>>> page >>>> there. I chose those dates, because I want to make sure that the >>>> current >>>> page has enough data not to look too sparse. >>> >>> That sound really great to me. I agree with you and Joanie that it >>> doesn't >>> look good to have such old information on that main deployments page. >>> >>> I'm trying to track down info on another couple of deployments I know of >>> too. >> >> What's this page used for? Is it worth the effort of ongoing maintenance? > > In the most general way, I think it's important to have a place where we > show people where GNOME is being used. More specifically, I have wanted to > point potential new partners to this page but have hesitated because it's > so out of date. It's nice to be able to show folks that GNOME is used > successfully in real endeavours. Were the page somewhat current, we could > also use it as a reference for grant applications and the like. > > karen
Depending on the efforts that may be put here, I would suggest performing some 'call for contributors', and to try to engage them as deployment-study's maintainers. Just as with the software! As a maintainer, the marketing team would encourage you to keep updated the deployment-study, with annual revisiones, for example. I really think it could succeed providing some deployment-study templates, just for avoiding misleading the newcomer contributors about what kind of document is desired here. Because of my job, I'm in contact with the core-team of two big GNOME deployment on a daily basis: * Guadalinfo: 754 Telecenter network in Andalusia running GNOME 2.28 * Valencia public education's classrooms: Running GNOME 2 on every single primary and secondary classroom If you found this interesting I would offer myself as guinea pig. Regards! > -- > marketing-list mailing list > marketing-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list -- J. Félix Ontañón Carmona -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list