[Desktop UDS topic] Regional/national applications

[Malin Krosby Bruland]

Hi, David

I have an idea of this.

When you install Ubuntu you have to select which region you live in. I
think it would be a good idea if you then got package-suggestions for
region-specific softare. An example is bank-id as is used in Norway too,
but also region-specific scopes and lenses.

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Best regards

Malin Krosby Bruland


On Wed, 2012-05-02 at 11:36 +0200, David Henningsson wrote:
> As I understand it, several countries have "special apps", that are very 
> useful to that country.
> 
> As an example, for Sweden, we have BankID, which is used to log on to 
> several government sites, declaring taxes etc.
> 
> Other countries have other favorites which are local to that country but 
> still very important to have. I've heard Brazil has something similar 
> but different, for example.
> 
> The degree of Linux support of these are of course varying, but in the 
> BankID case there is a Linux version, but it could be easier to install, 
> if we could get it into either Ubuntu Software Center as an app, or 
> maybe into the partner repository. That would also bring the advantage 
> of automatic updates, which would be attractive to the app developer (in 
> the case of security related applications, even more so).
> 
> So, how do we
>   - Identify what applications are important for a particular country?
>   - Reach out to the developers of that application?
>   - Help them out with integrating their apps into Ubuntu?
>   - Get them into Ubuntu Software Center, the partner archive, or 
> something similar?
> 
> The LoCo teams could be a valuable resource here, I assume.
> 
> -- 
> David Henningsson, Canonical Ltd.
> https://launchpad.net/~diwic
> 

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Vennlig hilsen

Malin Krosby Bruland