[Ambassadors] Just an idea...

[Manuel Escudero]

2010/8/3 Neville A. Cross <nacross at gmail.com>

> 2010/8/3 Manuel Escudero <Jmlevick at gmail.com>:
> >
> > I think we can Mix the Mahmoud dbus idea with the RSS Feed one...
> > I agree in not using IRC, well because my principal idea was based in the
> > use of RSS or ATOM feeds to build an app
> > (Just as you do to build a "feed-gadget" for your blog) and well also
> maybe
> > we can just reconfigure or build a RSS Client to
> > parse that Feed for the user and we can enable the autostart for this app
> in
> > future versions, by example we can do something
> > like the OpenSUSE idea: when you start opensuse in the live cd and after
> the
> > installation it shows a small window talking about
> > SUSE, Novell and KDE communities, then the user closes it and never
> appear
> > again. I think we can create the app and "enable"
> > this kind of idea, so the future versions of fedora can show an intro to
> the
> > O.S. and can also give information about the notifier, so the user
> > can choose to enable and configure it or not. it would be better if we
> can
> > do this in anaconda, being clear:
> > 1) We build the app and include it in future versions
> > 2) We ask the user during the installation process in anaconda if he/she
> > wants to enable the notifier.
> > 3) If the user agree, We ask him/her to configure the options (For
> example,
> > what kind of news he/she wants to recieve)
> > 4)Finishing the installation, the app starts if the user agreed to use it
> > and give him a "warm welcome" giving some tips for it's use.
> > This is just a "workaround" to it.
> > Also, If the app will need an account it can be IRC or FAS or whatever
> you
> > want to function but I think this is not necessary. If you like the IRC
> idea
> > we can use "built-in" IRC integration by adding something like a TAB that
> > connect into the Webchat Freenode IRC... Don't Know...
>
>
> I think that now this idea has a lot of similarities with fedora tour
> project
> https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-tour/
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora-tour
>
> As far as I view this topic, the core idea is a way of helping desktop
> user unrelated directly to the project to get important announcements.
> I think it is a valid concern. I also think that may be a good
> component of the fedora-tour or at least fedora tour may be the best
> way of asking the user if they want the annoucements provided by other
> app.
>
> Best regards
>
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So well, What would be the course of action for this? What is neccesary to
get done in order to let this idea move on?

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