Subject: Re: Kiss this Gman when you meet him - msg#00296

Hi Quim,

----- Quim Gil <qgil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> See http://www.gnome.org/~gman/blog/31072006
>
> Download http://www.gnome.org/~gman/gnome-update.pdf
>
> Enjoy!
>
> Glynn, can I ask how much time did you invest producing this
> presentation?
>
> At the end Murray is right. We can plan and discuss and plan a second
> iteration and discuss more... but a complementary strategy is: JFDI.
>
> Sure, Glynn's presentation doesn't really explain what is the GNOME
> software to the OSCON attendees. But it makes me feel part of it, and
> I
> can imagine others seeing it and wanting to know more and, perhaps,
> be
> part of it. Like the TV adverts that ring better our bells.

I was there, and the presentation was great and it certainly got me thinking
things for the Gnome-UK booth at Linuxworld UK. We'd already decided that our
focus at LW-UK was to drive membership / involvement in Gnome-UK as opposed to
pushing the usage of Gnome over any other type of desktop. I'm thinking, and I
haven't proposed this to G-UK yet, that we should develop some posters based on
these slides, other Guadec photos, and Luis' Gnome is people collage. Emphasise
the fun and the community.

The other thing is that, to me anyway, the presentation stood out because it
was different to all the others - not simply a list of features X, Y, Z we have
added this year. However the general 'project update in 5 mins' was good and it
might be worth doing for Guadec with the various Gnome subprojects.

> BTW, did you get any feedback from non-GNOME people at OSCON or
> wherever?

Can't speak for Glynn but I had a few people ask about AIGLX and Gimmie running
on my laptop - while Xgl and AIGLX are great at generating interest, we then
have the old problem of that there is never one answer to; how do I get that on
my laptop, do I go with AIGLX or Xgl, etc, etc. People thought Gimmie as
intersting but too experimental for usage at the moment.

As Glynn said on his blog the conferece was dominated by OS X - there were a
few Mac's running linux (and Gnome). Of the non-Mac hardware, sadly the
majority were still running Windows. The majority of Linux machines were
running Gnome, followed by a collection of plain old WM's (WindowMaker, mostly
it seems). All of this is highly unscientific, based purely on me 'eyewigging'
other people laptops, so I might just be seeing what I want to see.

One other thing - nearly all of the talks, especially the keynotes were done on
OS X. It would be good if we could get some more high profile converts (to
follow the likes of Pilgrim, Doctorow, Bray - although he was still using OS X
in his talk) using Gnome in their keynotes (no wonder Jobs used that name for
their presentation app).

Paul

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