Re: Gnumeric still available?

["Karen Sandler" <karen gnome org>]

On Mon, February 13, 2012 8:44 am, Emily Gonyer wrote:
> What if we kept the list (and added to it) and then rotated through it on
> a
> monthly (or even weekly) basis, highlighting one application at a time,
> with a top bar that says "Coming Next week/month _____" with the name of
> whichever application will be featured next, perhaps the same thing below
> only 'Last week's featured application ____' and have each one archived,
> so
> that when you click on the name of the program you get whatever was
> written
> up on it when it was last featured. This would give us a reason to write
> short articles on each, and a way to ensure that they all stay up-to-date
> -
> as they rotate through the 'featured' section, we'd go back to each set of
> developers and ask 'whats changed/new/etc'. It would also allow for some
> of
> the lesser-known applications to be highlighted in turn, and thus allow
> them an exposure that they haven't had.
>
> Actually, as I think about this more, I think weekly (or perhaps
> bi-weekly)
> would be better than monthly, so that we could get through them all each
> year and thus they could be kept significantly more up-to-date. It would
> also give people a reason to come back and checkout the website more
> often.

I love this idea, but I worry about its implementation and also keeping it
up to date. I don't really know anything about how easy it is to create a
page like this, but I know how tough it is to make sure you've got good
current content for websites when you don't have a staff of writers. We
could write a lot of these out in advance, so that we have a lot of
"safety" entries for times no one feels like writing. It looks really bad
when you've got a feature that relies on new content when there is no new
content to be published!

karen


> Emily
>
> On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 5:09 AM, Dave Neary <dneary gnome org> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > (list only, CCing marketing-list, setting follow-up there)
> >
> > On 02/13/2012 10:48 AM, Andre Klapper wrote:
> >
> > > On Sun, 2012-02-12 at 16:22 -0800, Steve Talley wrote:
> > >
> > > >  I just went to your website, and it wasn't clear to me how to
> > > > download Gnome, which I did some months ago, and which provided
> > > > Gnumeric and many other free applications.
> > >
> > > If you go to http://www.gnome.org/gnome-3/ there is a "Find out how to
> > > get GNOME 3" link at the bottom leading to
> > > http://www.gnome.org/getting-gnome/ which includes a "Distributions"
> > > section.
> > >
> > > If you would "just" like to download Gnumeric I would recommend
> > > http://projects.gnome.org/gnumeric/ as a start.
> >
> > This raises an interesting point about the GNOME web page - we don't
> > currently provide an easy way to find/find out about GNOME applications
> > (hosted on gnome.org) which aren't part of the GNOME desktop, outside of
> > the few applications we promote on gnome.org/applications
> >
> > http://projects.gnome.org/ gives an index, looking through the list,
> > some
> > interesting apps we could promote are Abiword, Balsa, Banshee, Déjà Dup,
> > Dia, F-Spot, GIMP, Gnumeric, GNU Cash, Hamster (although I think this is
> > included in GNOME now?), Inkscape, Nanny, PDF Mod, Planner, Rhythmbox,
> > Tasque, X-Chat...
> >
> > Some of these are not hosted on gnome.org - Banshee, GIMP, GNU Cash,
> > Inkscape, X-Chat all have their own websites, and for good reason. Some
> > of
> > them are on Launchpad (Déjà Dup, for example). And several excellent
> > GNOME
> > applications (like Shotwell, SimpleScan, Sound Juicer, for example)
> > don't
> > get a mention on the progects.g.o page at all.
> >
> > It'd be nice if we could help these projects with their SEO and get them
> > more visibility as the "headline" GNOME applications - those we know
> > make
> > users happy and have great integration and a decent degree of
> > functionality
> > and maturity. On that score, I would exclude Dia and GNUCash because
> > they
> > haven't kept up with the platform, but the others are all excellent
> > GNOME
> > apps.
> >
> > Perhaps gnome.org/applcations is the place for us to promote these
> > applications? How can we do so in a sustainable and SEO-friendly way? We
> > already promote some GNOME applications there - including apps like
> > Cheese
> > which are included in the desktop but which benefit from people knowing
> > what they are.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Dave.
> >
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> > dneary gnome org
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