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Their personalised screensaver-and there are plenty of screen-savers toĬhoose in GNU/Linux! Watch. The immediate they tend to choose to customise are ones that don't affect theĪctual usability of the system they are (a) the Desktop background, and (b) Watch somebody (aĬo-worker or family member) getting a new computer-the first thing they willĭo is start customising the options they have to make it their own personal The next step is getting people hooked on a new toy. This indirect-effect is significant, it is something unique that a user wants,īut that cannot get with their present GUI, it sparks interest.

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Too?" in turn they discover Free software and in turn GNOME. Has caught their attention and the follow question has been "how get I get that Xscreen-savers have caused people to switch to a Free desktop. Paul Sladen wrote: On the Ubuntu lists, we've heard tales of how the incredible selection of.These switcher applications help users package up their Desktop wallpaper, their address books and other personal information and bring it with them.

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Similar applications already exist to help users switch to Mac OS, and some commercial tools for businesses migrating to GNU/Linux already exist. What applications would be the act as the best showcase of what Gnome has to offer and most help us gain users?ĪlanHorkan: A switcher application to help users package their settings from other systems and migrate to Gnome. It could also help reinforce Open Standards. This would make them part of the Gnome marketshare and perhaps encourage them to use more Free Software and maybe even consider changing Operating System. So we need a sort of automatic 'delete' if its users didn't log in for half a year or so.Īnyone able to check if CivicSpace could be used to deliver the functionality?ĪlanHorkan: Cross platform applications could help users to discover Free and Open Source Software. While Nations, and Events can be kept up-to-date by a team, Universities, schools, and companies can not.

Companies: Which companies deliver staff teaching, and support for GNOME based distributions, and in-house development using the GNOME dev.

Schools: Where do we have representatives for presentations, distributing GNU/Linux CD's, local smalltalk etc?.

Universities: Do we have representatives in each for presentations, distributing GNU/Linux CD's, etc? What percentage of universities do they cover?.

Events: Where do we need to be present to showcase GNOME to potential users?.

Nations, and their language: Do we have a local user group for each? What percentage of people do these cover?.

The wiki is insufficient for collecting a large number of similar data. I presume one could use the GnomeLiveCd to do the demonstrations to get uniform look and feel for the actual GNOME desktop.ĬlausSchwarm: I agree. The site could also provide useful documents for these presenters, news about upcoming GNOME features, Interviews, Press releases, in short give GNOME a human face. Note: this will be cleaned up every once in a while to focus on things GNOME can do.ĭavidNielsen : I would like to propose that we follow the excellent example set forth by the Firefox users and setup some sort of momentum user portal, let's for sake of argument call it, here we could list users who were willing to, for free, demonstrate GNOME at local schools, companies, community centers and the likes.

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Ideas on how to find out what our current market share/number of users are can be found on the CountingUsers page. To reach 10% global market share until the end of 2010, we need to grow with an average annual rate of 50% in scenario B. Ideas about how to more accurately estimate number of GNOME users are being discussed on CountingUsers. Let's assume the web polls underestimates our market share, and GNOME has 50% market share among GNU/Linux desktops. Or 0.78 percent global market share, with Let's assume the web polls draw a nearly complete picture: GNOME has a 30% market share among GNU/Linux desktops. Linux's share is 2.6 percent, and Microsoft holds the rest of the pie.", see MacNewsWorld. See for the state of play in 2004.Īccording to Dan Kuznetsky of IDC, "OS X has a 2.7 percent market share of client operating environments worldwide. In March 2005, the Computer Industry Almanac (C-I-A) estimated the number of personal computers at 820 million, growing to 1 billion until 2007.