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GNOME In Australia, France, India And Malaysia
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."
These lists are a part of the newly created GNOME Marketing project."
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."
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."