Re: Emergency marketing team meeting

["Jason D. Clinton" <me jasonclinton com>]

On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 10:31 AM, Jason D. Clinton <me jasonclinton com> wrote:

Let's meet to discuss candidly on #marketing.

In order to facilitate the meeting going quickly and with a minimal amount of straying off-topic, I would like to hear on this list in advance if there is anyone whom disagrees with the following premise or whom feels that it needs slight modification:

From a marketing perspective we, publicly, cannot promise anything as radically disruptive as proposed by the UX Hackfest brainstorming sessions for delivery *after* Gnome 3.0 (whenever that release may be.) Such a strategy would have the following outcomes:

1. It would make our desktop look like 3.0 is half-baked
2. It would make us look like we're experimenting on our user base
3. It would make our desktop environment look unstable

On the other hand, should such changes happen organically--that is, not part of a narrative about what Gnome 3 is--then so be it.

Please make your feelings known if you disagree in advance of the meeting so that we all start from the same frame of reference.