I think you have a weak point in your strategy for users adoption of itsme. In its current form your “venues” interface is set to replace the two major interfaces in Linux, GNOME and KDE, and the whole Windows shell for Windows users.
To have success, you’ll need to convince users to switch away from their comfortable and known habits, and that will never happen (at least in the large scale you’ll need to survive). I’ve seen several projects trying the same, and now I can’t even remember their names.
A more sensible strategy would be to release your interface not only...
In the last days we exchanged some internal email about Google Chrome OS: we found some similarities with the basic ideas of itsme, and some radical differences. I'll try to summarize the discussion for your benefit, so you can tell us what you think about it.
A few highlights (from google chrome OS presentation) to start with:
the operating systems that browsers run on were designed in an era where there was no Web;
the software architecture is simple — Google Chrome running within a new windowing system on top of a Linux kernel;
it is being designed to power computers ranging from small netbooks to...
Those following the news about linux developments on the desktop platform may wonder if the "semantic desktop" concept (i.e., the idea of sharing information among applications and the Web to enforce synergy and produce in-edit results) is going to become a reality in relatively short time or not: the discussion is lively, often with enthusiastic tone, and many people claim that the evolution is proceeding fast. However, the latest discussions on some of the developers' mailing lists, where the direction of the effective future of free-software has been taken in practise, shows us that we(developers) are just at the beginning...
Last week we had a technical workshop at itsme: the topic was Guglielmo, what we formerly called back-end. At some point, we realized we had to decide when to set up a public repository for our code. You know we have a working prototype for our user interface, but it is only (currently) for internal testing and we don't actually know under what license we'll release it. On the other hand, Guglielmo will be released under GPL, so we will make the code public... but should we wait to have something really working, or can we ask the open source...
Incase you were wondering about the open source approach that itsme has adopted, or simply curious about how we are planning the system architecture extending a standard GNU/Linux system, then I have found a perfect link for you. Vincenzo, Marco and Michele wrote a scientific paper Guglielmo: An open source approach to the development of a smart Linux extension . This paper is a quick read and answers most of your queries regarding the subject. Why Guglielmo? Discover this in the paper as...
We recently updated the ongoing design activity document with the technical deliverables, revealing the itsme OS software architecture, and other details such as the choice of the development platform (language, libraries, environment..etc.). All related to the first demonstrator. The first demonstrator will then be followed by the development of a prototype.
The itsme operating system (seen above) will expand the linux operating system beyond its current horizons. It will consist of two main parts: a front end based on the stories and venues metaphor and a backend, situated between a standard linux operating system and the front end, delivering the services...
4 brilliant software developers joined our team this Jan and its high time we introduced them to you, so say hello to...
Roberto "MadBob" Guido
Software developer for job and passion, free software advocate by vocation.
Member of various groups spreading GNU/Linux to the masses (as the Torino
Linux Task Force) and
Maintainer for a number of projects such as the Lobotomy Project
Fabio Erculiani
I am a 23 years old guy, living in Trentino, on top of the Garda lake. I love mixing jokes (thus fun) with daily work (thus my job), I sometimes feel like "Luigi Pirandello"(if you know what I mean). I was 18...
