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GNOME In Australia, France, India And Malaysia

Posted by timothy on from the polaroids-by-college-pranksters dept.

Anonymous BillyGoat writes "According to the recently released GNOME summary, a number of number of country specific lists have come up for GNOME advocacy/development/marketing. Countries represented include Australia, France, India and Malaysia.
These lists are a part of the newly created GNOME Marketing project."

15 comments

  1. Is Gnome the commercial alternative to desktop? by FedeTXF · · Score: 1

    So every company aiming to sell linux desktop solutions will use gnome to avoid paying the qt developers for the license?
    You can't sell a program binded to qt without paying?
    What propietary software in novell and others trying to insert in their linux desktops?

  2. Not so comfortable by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Why is GNOME so populated with marketing types? Hell, even their top hackers (Miguel, Nat? Star speakers?) are publicity driven. Compare and contrast to linux kernel development where Linus *the star of the linux world* actively shuns the spotlight. In the GNOME community you have everyone racing to the cameras. Not away.

    I don't want FOSS to become all about the best propoganda. People hackers? Sheesh.

    1. Re:Not so comfortable by stefanlasiewski · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Why is GNOME so populated with marketing types?

      You could have the best product in the world, but if nobody knows about it, then your product will be a failure.

      Compare and contrast to linux kernel development where Linus *the star of the linux world* actively shuns the spotlight.

      That's not an accurate comparison. Linux is hyped up the wazoo by other organizations, IBM pushes 'Linux' during primetime television ads. Gnome has no such marketing.

      In the GNOME community you have everyone racing to the cameras.

      There aren't any cameras to run to. Gnome barely gets any coverage outside of a few geek magazine articles and websites. Most people don't know that it exists.

      --
      "Can of worms? The can is open... the worms are everywhere."
    2. Re:Not so comfortable by trouser · · Score: 1

      You could have the best product in the world, but if nobody knows about it, then your product will be a failure

      What is the criteria for success/failure with a non-commercial product? Certainly not number of units sold. The Gnome developers set about creating a desktop environment which presumably was intended to satisfy certain design criteria. If those criteria are met then the project is a success. If people don't use it it may be disappointing but it's hardly a failure.

      And I use it everyday and it's the best desktop environment in the universe and KDE is stupid and Window Maker is stupider and don't get me started on the alternatives because there aren't any and if you're not using Gnome right now you should be poked with a sharp pointy stick.

      --
      Now wash your hands.
    3. Re:Not so comfortable by Sri+Ramkrishna · · Score: 1

      The goal is to have free software replace proprietary software. Desktop software is one of the biggest drivers to get ordinary people to move to a Free Software OS. Having more people means we get drivers, more developers and better satisfaction that we are making software for all.

      sri

    4. Re:Not so comfortable by stefanlasiewski · · Score: 2, Insightful

      I disagree. Gnome isn't some pointless academic exercise with no end purpose.

      The Gnome developers created Gnome so that people use Gnome. If people don't use Gnome, then what's the point in creating it?

      I agree that the design criteria are also a goal for developers, but that's because we want a well designed product. If the product is well designed, then more people will use it.

      If you want people to use Gnome, then you need to market the product. Even "word of mouth" is a kind of marketing. No shame in that. After all, if marketing works for Linux, it should work for Gnome.

      --
      "Can of worms? The can is open... the worms are everywhere."
  3. speedy gonzales by P145M4 · · Score: 0

    I used Gnome for several years (enlightenment before).
    I liked the eye candy and the nice icons.
    Now, since a few months I use xinerama 3*1600*1200 on an athlon 1.2 with g550+sparkle.
    I love it (xinerama) and don't want to miss it, but the (lack of) speed is horrable. I can't even move a terminal window without trouble.
    But I said, hey, that's the prize for having a 4800x1200 desktop.

    But last week (just out of curiosity) I apt'ed kde 3.1
    Guess what?
    It runs like hell, not even the slightest delay when moving any window. Everything runs smooth now. I'm astonished.
    And it doesn't look bad at all (anymore). It even has a working control-center.
    The only thing that is still slow is mozilla :(

    Now if it only was GPL :(

  4. Well by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    it's been my experience that Gnomes can't climb stairs.

    I love nethack.

  5. personally by ShadowRage · · Score: 1

    with as much gnome bias that floats around opensource and linux, it's like considering microsoft windows as the perfect alternative to microsoft windows.
    in my experience.. gnome has often been slow and bloated (exactly what gnome followers claim about everything else) but the fact remains that, with running just the basics, it eats more ram than kde with add-ons. people like gnome because it doesnt use QT and it's "more free" than kde... (where kde runs up the buck unlike gnome.)

    hell, you can create a perfect desktop environment with icewm and dfm (or something like it)

    if gnome keeps getting pushed and doesnt do something about the bloat.. it'll be hurt by big time competitors.. such as microsoft or apple.. apple will use its quartz argument... microsoft will find little things.. plus the fact it's slow, compare the two.. then trump up the results to make it more dramatic. and when a user uses gnome.. microsoft will look like the heroes of the desktop..

    so the developers need to start trimming down unneeded crap.

  6. You can't have it both ways by dreamchaser · · Score: 1

    Either you want Linux to become mainstream and widely adopted, or you don't. You can't have it both ways. If it is to become a serious presence on the desktop, companies are bound to add proprietary elements to their personal flavors/distributions. That doesn't stop you from using Linux.

    It is exactly this 'well if it isn't 100% free I don't want it involved with Linux' mentality that is keeping Linux from the prime time.

  7. Speed of Gnome by oo_waratah · · Score: 1

    I have run Linux gnome on equivalent hardware to Windows and always found gnome faster than Windows. Also the recent improvements made to Gnome has improved speed and ease of use somewhat.