Re: Reboot: Strategic goals for GNOME

2010-03-03 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 9:18 PM, Jim Gettys 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 > equivalents. >

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 Wi

Re: Reboot: Strategic goals for GNOME

2010-03-03 Thread Tristan Van Berkom
2010/3/3 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.

Re: Reboot: Strategic goals for GNOME

2010-03-03 Thread Paul Cutler
On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 11:15 -0600, Jason D. Clinton wrote: > On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 3:09 AM, Dave Neary wrote: > vision for GNOME 2.x did.Back in February, I posted the > following - it > kind of got lost in the ensuing thread; but I think it's worth > breaking >

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 Stormy Peters
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Richard Stallman 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 softwa

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 had

Re: Reboot: Strategic goals for GNOME

2010-03-03 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 3:09 AM, Dave Neary wrote: > vision for GNOME 2.x did.Back in February, I posted the following - it > kind of got lost in the ensuing thread; but I think it's worth breaking > out into a new discussion (marketing list CCed). Like I say, I'm not > happy with the "vision" pa

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, > > > > > > > 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' > offer

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 -- Minu

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, > > > 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 tal

Re: Reboot: Strategic goals for GNOME

2010-03-03 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Dave Neary wrote: > vision for GNOME 2.x did. >it doesn't offer a destination - it doesn't help anyone make > decisions about what's important - in the way that the "simple, usable, > beautiful" But perhaps it's the beginning of a vision that we can work on? This was supposed to be: ...it

Reboot: Strategic goals for GNOME

2010-03-03 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, vision for GNOME 2.x did.Back in February, I posted the following - it kind of got lost in the ensuing thread; but I think it's worth breaking out into a new discussion (marketing list CCed). Like I say, I'm not happy with the "vision" part of this (GNOME everywhere, and invisible) because it

Re: GNOME: lack of strategic roadmap

2010-03-03 Thread Olav Vitters
Closing the thread. -- Regards, Olav ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list