Re: Marketing Summary

[Adam Fedor]

On Sep 29, 2004, at 2:21 AM, Dennis Leeuw wrote:

> To make sure all noses are pointing in the same direction, a little 
> summary from the last couple of days:
>
> Everybody that reacted agrees on the fact that GNUstep needs more 
> attention from the "outside world".
>
> Almost every body responded in a fashion that more or less indicated 
> that GNUstep without a real environment (Desktop, Developer or 
> whatever other name) is causing problems for marketing and 
> positioning.
> Banlu suggested an DE under the GNU umbrella.
> Adam, could you respond to this?
> Could you indicate what your point of view is?

Well, sure. I think we're all confused by what GNUstep is. We should 
try to define it better. I see that there is a developer side and a 
user side. It would be nice, for instance, to have to sections of the 
web site, or preferably two web sites that cover each side separately.

On the user side, we need to decide as well, what parts will be handled 
by GNUstep itself (i.e. owned by the FSF) and what parts will be left 
up to others in order to define a desired desktop environement 
(Backbone, etc).