Re: Reboot: Strategic goals for GNOME

2010-03-03 Thread Paul Cutler
Hi, On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 04:35 -0600, Andrew Savory wrote: Hi, snip Focussing in on one area that I can talk about: Qt is perceived by some to be stronger from a business perspective due to the 'more complete' offering: extensive documentation and an SDK. Shaun McCance and I were

Fwd: Meeting Minutes Published - February 18, 2010

2010-03-03 Thread Brian Cameron
The meeting minutes for the February 18th board meeting is now public. Refer here: http://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/20100218 Other past board meetings are archived here: http://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes -- text of the latest minutes follows --

Re: Reboot: Strategic goals for GNOME

2010-03-03 Thread Shaun McCance
On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 08:08 -0600, Paul Cutler wrote: Hi, On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 04:35 -0600, Andrew Savory wrote: Hi, snip Focussing in on one area that I can talk about: Qt is perceived by some to be stronger from a business perspective due to the 'more complete' offering:

Re: Reboot: Strategic goals for GNOME

2010-03-03 Thread Richard Stallman
Proposed project vision: Hidden in plain sight: Everyone using GNOME, no-one noticing This proposed goal might be ill-advised, because it's very good to be noticed if one do something good. Especially for a project that needs to attract support from people. We probably could have

Re: Reboot: Strategic goals for GNOME

2010-03-03 Thread Stormy Peters
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Richard Stallman r...@gnu.org wrote: We probably could have had moblin be GNOME Netbook. We probably could have had Maemo be GNOME Smartphone. Or Sugar be GNOME Education. It is fine if they promote GNOME, but remember that Maemo contains non-free

Re: Reboot: Strategic goals for GNOME

2010-03-03 Thread Andrew Cowie
On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 10:09 +0100, Dave Neary wrote: Like I say, I'm not happy with the vision part of this (GNOME everywhere, and invisible) I'm not happy with the invisible part either. We *do* compete with three other desktops: Windows, Mac OS, and KDE. Unless people know what GNOME is,

Re: Reboot: Strategic goals for GNOME

2010-03-03 Thread Jim Gettys
I think there is a major inflection point underway which GNOME should internalize. The combination of technologies going under the name HTML 5 have made/are making web technology based applications finally competitive with those built using conventional toolkits such as Qt, GTK+, and the

Re: Reboot: Strategic goals for GNOME

2010-03-03 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 9:18 PM, Jim Gettys j...@freedesktop.org wrote: The combination of technologies going under the name HTML 5 have made/are making web technology based applications finally competitive with those built using conventional toolkits such as Qt, GTK+, and the Windows and Mac