You should blog this on the CC site...but we shouldn't take, IMO, a
hostile approach towards these projects, but show our community how we
have been working hard and that its paying off...
Hook it up!
Jon
On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 00:18 +0100, Joel Holdsworth wrote:
...oh yeah, and I love "inkscape,sodipodi" -
http://www.google.com/trends?q=inkscape%2Csodipodi&ctab=0&geo=all...
and "inkscape,microsoft Expression"
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From: "Joel Holdsworth" <joel@...1709...>
To: "bulia byak" <buliabyak@...400...>; "Inkscape List Devel"
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Trends
> That's really interesting. Also interesting when you compare
>
> For example - "inkscape,macromedia fireworks". No contest - inkscape over
> twice as popular.
>
> Then with "inkscape,coreldraw" and "inkscape,microsoft
publisher" we're
> very
> close - we could probably win through with an explosive release.
>
> We still have a long way to go with "inkscape,adobe illustrator" or
> "inkscape,adobe cs3", but then there's no shame in being outclassed
by
> Adobe.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "bulia byak" <buliabyak@...400...>
> To: "Inkscape List Devel" <inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net>
> Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 4:34 PM
> Subject: SPAM-LOW: [Inkscape-devel] Inkscape overcomes Xara in Google
> Trends
>
>
>>
http://www.google.com/trends?q=inkscape%2Cxara
>>
>> Note that "xara" does not always refer to the vector editor, so in
>> reality it's even better for us.
>>
>> Now, to support the momentum, we must release a smashing 0.46 soon
>> enough, and make a lot of noise about it. It really deserves it. (Note
>> by the way that while we are ahead in user interest, we are nowhere to
>> be seen on the lower graph which reflects mentions in the news. That's
>> not fair.)
>>
>> GSoCers and all others, please let's get to work one more time and fix
>> all the loose ends in your projects. They need not be perfect but the
>> most glaring user-visible problems must be ironed out for Inkscape to
>> reach a releaseable state. You know who you are and what you need to
>> do :) If you think that your project is already good enough for a
>> release, please drop a note here, otherwise let us know of your
>> current state, what remains to do, and when you are planning to
>> finalize your work.
>>
>> And, let's make bugfixing a priority right now, even without waiting
>> for a freeze. We have a scary number of open bugs in the tracker. Yet
>> we now have so many developers that if each one closes just one bug a
>> day, we'll make the tracker shrink pretty fast. Note that closing a
>> bug need not necessarily involve coding; you can just take some old
>> bug, test it and close as fixed or unreproduceable. Any help from
>> non-developers is of course very welcome too. Let's all test, report,
>> comment, add info, code, test again, and close as many bugs as
>> possible.
>>
>> --
>> bulia byak
>> Inkscape. Draw Freely.
>>
http://www.inkscape.org
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