GUADEC 2012 presentation. More details: https://www.gpul.org/indico/abstractManagment.py?abstractId=46&confId=0

1. A bright future for GNOME

2. Xan López
Juan José Sánchez

3. How is GNOME doing?

4. Good things

5. Open development
+
Free Software
=
Level playing field

6. 15 years of experience
delivering software

7. Community

8. Modern UX for everybody:
simple
usable
accessible
internationalized

9. Powerful and mature core technologies
(GNOME platform)

10. GNOME 3 is awesome!

11. Bad things

12. Focus on the traditional desktop

13. Lack of direction and vision

14. Stop energy

15. Lack of corporate involvement
Fragmentation / Freeloaders
Limited resources

16. Bad developer story

17. Brain drain / Losing users

18. Opportunities

19. iOS / Android
They have the market
But not everyone is happy

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

21. Solutions

22. We need A PLAN

23. More GNOME 3
More focus on mobile
GNOME as an OS/distro

24. An ambitious plan for 3.8 - 3.12
Roadmap

25. GNOME 3.12 = GNOME 4.0 = GNOME OS
March 2014

26. Shell + Core apps mature and polished (4.0)

27. Touch enabled mobile UX (4.0)
GNOME on tablets

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

29. SDK (4.x)

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

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

32. Enable (new) sustainability models

33. Hardware related business models
Cloud services
App store
Support / Consultancy

34. We need to discuss and define this plan

35. Board
Design team
Release team
Module maintainers
GNOME companies and volunteers

36. Let's make it happen
And start during this GUADEC

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

38. Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir
men's blood and probably will not themselves be
realized.
Daniel Burnham

39. 20x20