We launched the sign-ups for the upcoming Tomboy Online alpha last week. As part of the sign-up process we included a brief survey asking what features those signing up were interested in and to rate them on a scale of 1 – 5, which 5 being very interested.

We asked them to rate the following features:

• Free note synchronization for Tomboy
• Sharing my notes so other users can read them
• Editing my notes from my desktop web browser
• Native Android app (Tomdroid)
• Native iOS app
• HTML5 offline client (for all mobile desktop browsers)
• Editing my notes from my mobile device (browser, native app, whatever)

Here are the results:

(If it’s hard to read, here is link to the png file too, squint really hard)

It’s a fairly small sample, but I’m still please to see so little interest in iOS and a huge interest in Android and HTML5.

Snowy was approved for a hackfest at the Boston Summit. The hackfest goals include match up nicely with the survey results. The goals include:

• Mobile client for accessing and syncing notes
• Implement UI / Design via CSS
• Implement a text editor
• Implement note sharing between users via the web interface
• Prepare Tomboy Online for Beta release

And if there are any companies that want to help sponsor the hackfest, please let me or Stormy know!

We’re excited to be working on a web service that integrates with the GNOME Desktop. We have one bug to fix that’s delayed the alpha launch slightly. Thanks to everyone who has signed up and we’ll get the invites out ASAP.