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Today is 90210 day. http://bit.ly/aBysnN I really have nothing witty to say about that.

Tuesday, March 10 2009

Year of the gnome desktop talk

I promised to put up my previous presentation as soon as I had some time. Well that took a bit longer then excepted but here it is.

the year of the gnome desktop.odp
the year of the gnome desktop.pdf

You are free to use and adopt this presentation as you see fit and I will try to explain the story that goes with it.

Slide 1: I start up explaining why the question "The year of the Linux Desktop" is very relevant to gnome, and can equally be stated as "The year of the gnome Desktop". I reference to various distributions and their preference of shipping gnome as the default.

Slide 1-9: These are basically a joke in which I show that the question is a very old one. When ending on number nine i take some time to recall some issues those articles have stated for linux not being ready yet for the desktop.

Slide 10: This slide shows some adoption numbers from the gnome marketing page. I make the point here that while the articles are saying one thing, there are governments and companies that are investing in linux as a desktop solution.

Slide 11-12: Here i pose the question, is linux ready for the desktop. I go over some issues that have been resolved and go over some issues that are still problems.

Slide 13: I talk about suppliers who are already delivering linux desktops to the public.

Slide 14: I talk about the software needs of people, what people are getting from windows/Mac and what they will expect to find.

Slide 15-16: I show the solutions for the previously shown needs. I also work in a little joke by changing firefox to Epiphany

Slide 17: I pose the same question as before, but directed not at Linux but at users. I also talk about about some usability work that has been done for gnome.

Slide 18: I end with a novell linux commercial.

The above talk is about 30 minutes based on how much you can tell at each slide. But it could easily be filled up a bit with more recent developments to get in more time.