Hi all! This is my first post to the ml so please go easy on me :) I was just thinking about gnome and making it more widespread and I realised that the windows vista release is an ideal opertunity for gnome (and other Free Software) to get noticed by the wider public. Is it likly that a windows version of gnome (even a basic, light version) will be available when vista is released? The way I see it is this, people will look at the advertising and see all these cool features that vista supposedly offers them but they will also notice the price and the fact that their old 2GHz system just does'nt cut it so they have to upgrade that too! What better time to have a huge publicity drive which shows people "Look! we can give you all this, AND all this extra stuff vista doesnt offer, on your existing windows computer without the need for expensive hardware upgrades! And guess what? It's FREE!! (As in Freedom and beer)" All the publicity wont matter if gnome is'nt able to do "all this" though so maby we could have a bit of a recruitment drive right now and find people with the time to tackle some of the bigger tasks (porting, new aplications etc). I know most of this is allready coverd in the roadmap etc but I just want to tell people what I would like to see happen! Im learning mono c# at the momment so maby I can even help in a couple of months. variant _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
