Interview 3

[Jonathan Roberts]

Hi all,

Before I put this interview up, would some people take a look over the
video I've put together for it...worried it's a bit vague/lacking
direction - some feed back would be welcome!

The address is:

http://questionsplease.org/online-desktop.ogg

Thanks all,

Jon

[Rahul Sundaram]

Jonathan Roberts wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Before I put this interview up, would some people take a look over the
> video I've put together for it...worried it's a bit vague/lacking
> direction - some feed back would be welcome!
>
> The address is:
>
> http://questionsplease.org/online-desktop.ogg

There are a number of features you seem to be missing out on this demo. 
http://blog.mugshot.org/ has some of this listed out.  Mugshot 
application stats and the ability to install a application off the 
webpage by calling yum in the background can be interesting to show off.

You might also want to show this to the developers you are interviewing 
on this topic and ask them what features are attractive.

Rahul

[Jonathan Roberts]

> There are a number of features you seem to be missing out on this demo.
> http://blog.mugshot.org/ has some of this listed out.  Mugshot
> application stats and the ability to install a application off the
> webpage by calling yum in the background can be interesting to show off.

Thanks for the feedback :D

The video has been updated and includes a few more features that I
neglected to show off last time!!

I've also moved all the text over to fp.org/wiki/Interviews/ and I'm
about to start promoting it around the net in the usual manner unless
there's anything I've missed/stuff people think I should do before
this...

Best wishes,

Jon

[Jonathan Roberts]

Hey,

I noticed that Rahul had made a few corrections to the wiki page,
posted to digg etc so a big thank you!

Have you sent LWN etc or would you like me to do those? Maybe if a few
of us submitted to slashdot we might be able to get on there as well -
though I doubt it as it seems incredibly hard to do!

Anyhow, thanks for the help, it's hugely appreciated :D

Jon

[Rahul Sundaram]

Jonathan Roberts wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I noticed that Rahul had made a few corrections to the wiki page,
> posted to digg etc so a big thank you!

NP.

Digg link at

http://digg.com/linux_unix/Fedora_8_and_Online_Desktop

I have posted to Fedora forum news section which appears in the front 
page. Also to osnews where it has been accepted a few minutes back

http://osnews.com/story.php/18705/Fedora-8-and-the-Online-Desktop
> Have you sent LWN etc or would you like me to do those?

Already done. You could do it on Lxer and Linux Today too as well as blog.

Maybe if a few
> of us submitted to slashdot we might be able to get on there as well -
> though I doubt it as it seems incredibly hard to do!
>
> Anyhow, thanks for the help, it's hugely appreciated :D

I think slashdot might be interested since GNOME online desktop 
initiative was posted there and got a lot of comments. Feel free to try.

Also note that there are a list of new features which are pretty nice 
but hasn't been in the feature list.

system-config-firewall which is a entirely new firewall tool, compiz 
fusion and potentially a games spin among others. The earlier release 
notes mentions some of them.  The feature list process is new for this 
release and hopefully will get more comprehensive over time but that 
isn't the only place to look for new and interesting features.

Rahul