A bright future for GNOME

Xan LópezJuan José Sánchez

How is GNOME doing?

Good things

Open development + Free Software = Level playing ﬁeld

15 years of experience delivering software

Community

Modern UX for everybody: simple usable accessible internationalized

Powerful and mature core technologies (GNOME platform)

GNOME 3 is awesome!

Bad things

Focus on the traditional desktop

Lack of direction and vision

Stop energy

Lack of corporate involvementFragmentation / Freeloaders Limited resources

Bad developer story

Brain drain / Losing users

Opportunities

iOS / Android They have the marketBut not everyone is happy

Other open alternatives failing(Maemo, Moblin, Limo, Meego,...)Tizen? OpenWebOS? FirefoxOS?

Solutions

We need A PLAN

More GNOME 3More focus on mobileGNOME as an OS/distro

An ambitious plan for 3.8 - 3.12 Roadmap

GNOME 3.12 = GNOME 4.0 = GNOME OS March 2014

Shell + Core apps mature and polished (4.0)

Touch enabled mobile UX (4.0) GNOME on tablets

OS / Installer / Updater (4.0)Q&A / Buildbots (4.0)

SDK (4.x)

Distribution channels and support for: Native applications (4.x)Web (hosted and packaged) applications (4.x)

HW available with GNOME 4.x preinstalled (4.x)

Enable (new) sustainability models

Hardware related business modelsCloud servicesApp storeSupport / Consultancy

We need to discuss and deﬁne this plan

BoardDesign teamRelease teamModule maintainersGNOME companies and volunteers

Lets make it happenAnd start during this GUADEC

Come to the GNOME OS BoF/hackfest(30th of July, room 2.1a, 10am)Talk to us!

Make no little plans. They have no magic to stirmens blood and probably will not themselves berealized.Daniel Burnham

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by juanjosanchezpenas on Jul 27, 2012