A bright future for GNOME

Xan López

Juan 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:

simpleusable

accessibleinternationalized

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 involvement

Fragmentation / Freeloaders

Limited resources

Bad developer story

Brain drain / Losing users

Opportunities

iOS / Android

They have the market

But not everyone is happy

Other open alternatives failing (Maemo, Moblin, Limo, Meego,...)

Tizen? OpenWebOS? FirefoxOS?

Solutions

We need A PLAN

More GNOME 3

More focus on mobile

GNOME 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 models

Cloud services

App store

Support / Consultancy

We need to discuss and define this plan

Board

Design team

Release team

Module maintainers

GNOME companies and volunteers

Let's make it happen

And 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 stir men's blood and probably will not themselves be realized.

Daniel Burnham

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