[Desktop UDS topic] Regional/national applications

[David Henningsson]

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.

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David Henningsson, Canonical Ltd.
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