On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 10:23 PM, alex diavatis <alexis.diava...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Hello Sri, > > The principle goal of GJ is to promote GNOME through articles. You had >> mentioned interviews and the like and that's where I felt the overlap was. > > How many people are in your tam to do this? I'm just curious? Would >> they be available to work on GNOME things for marketing/ GNOME Journal as >> well? > > > Right now we are 3. Seems few, but we are ok to produce the kind of > material we want. For example, 1 of us writes on osarena.net. He manages > 20 interviews a month. > On contrary with GJ we want much more simpler things, we target to > easiness of read. We don't want so much technical. And we go beyond Gnome > also. > We consider GNOME and Linux one thing. > We have a section called Community. We will try somehow to bring together > some GNOME sources. > > Would be glad if we could help you, but we haven't the knowledge to write > so deep articles as GJ has. And personally I don't want to committed as I > have huge amount of work. > Basically we need you to help us :) > On the end of the day we have to see how the people will respond, we > haven't open yet, if we get like 500 hits a day, there is no meaning to > continue :) > > OK, that's fine. I'm okay with that.. Let us know though if you're interested in writing more in depth ones. As I said earlier, Linux Foundation is happy to re-publish any articles we come up with on Linux.com so we'll have some access to people outside our readership. Which is where we want to go. sri > Regards > - alex > > On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 6:33 AM, Sriram Ramkrishna <s...@ramkrishna.me>wrote: > >> >> >> On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 7:24 PM, alex diavatis <alexis.diava...@gmail.com >> > wrote: >> >>> Hello all, >>> >>> I uploaded an empty early draft (many things have changed, don't freak >>> out!) to show you what WoGue is about. >>> You can see it on >>> http://worldofgnome.org/404/woguedemo/<http://worldofgnome.org/404/woguedemo/index.php> >>> (hover >>> mouse on banner to open Menu) >>> >>> Ramkrishna I think there is not any kind of overlap between G. Journal >>> and WoGue. There are totally different things. >>> However I included a G Journal icon on Explorer tab. We can republish G >>> Journal news there by reference on gnomejournal.org. >>> >> >> That would be appreciateed, thank you. The principle goal of GJ is to >> promote GNOME through articles. You had mentioned interviews and the like >> and that's where I felt the overlap was. >> >> How many people are in your tam to do this? I'm just curious? Would >> they be available to work on GNOME things for marketing/ GNOME Journal as >> well? >> >> sri >> >> >>> >>> *About licences* >>> We release under Free of any licence. But I afraid we have to change >>> this, because we have issues with the work of other people that we use, >>> like republishing things, or using Faenza Icons. >>> >>> *About WoGue Goals* >>> Our primary goal is to bring Design Ideas for GNOME from Mailing Lists >>> and Blogs to one place, and give people that aren't on "Gnome", "Linux", >>> "etc", the opportunity to express their opinion, and to get a better >>> product by getting new ideas based on their wishes. Gnome is a community >>> project after all. >>> Secondary goal is to convince people that Gnome is the best thing out >>> there (I personally think so). >>> Last Goal is to make an enjoyable page for people to read. >>> >>> *About WoGue Content* >>> It would be great if we could run a site only with the primary >>> goal. Unfortunately I doubt if we can collect so many stuff, so we need to >>> enrich the page a bit. >>> >>> So we added the *Gnome Stories* area. >>> People can say what they like in Gnome (assuming that Gnome is OS), when >>> they tried it first time, and things like that... >>> >>> We also have *Theming & Personalization* >>> We picked some of the best themes on our opinion and we represent them. >>> Same thing with Extensions. >>> >>> *Interviews* >>> One of our major parts is to having interviews from Gnome Design Team >>> (and other people of course), about why they do that, what they are going >>> to do next, no technical analysis, simple things, that are enjoyable to >>> read and helpfull to learn and understand. >>> >>> *Games* >>> Leaving out Web, 90% of software is Games. Games is an important factor >>> for an OS to be succeed. People are looking for games and they may choose >>> to use Gnome if they are happy with games on it. >>> >>> *Commercial Software* >>> Well, I think we have to refer on this also. We use closed drivers, >>> closed hardware, Flash etc. We are going to show Games even if are >>> commercials. However we are not 100% sure about it. >>> >>> Anyway I don't want to spend your time with a huge text, I just wanted >>> to explain what WoGue is about. >>> I hope you will not have any issues with our work, and we would really >>> appreciateif you to CC us your Design Ideas and News from Mailing Lists >>> and your Blogs so we can publish them on our page. we can't follow all of >>> them :( >>> >>> >>> We don't ask your TM Logo, just a logo that is similar with it :) a >>> Besides, WoGue is not going to represent GNOME, WoGue is trying to >>> advertise GNOME. >>> >>> Friendly, >>> >>> - alex >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 9:40 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna >>> <s...@ramkrishna.me>wrote: >>> >>>> Allan, >>>> >>>> It seems World Of GNOME and GNOME Journal have some overlap. We might >>>> need to discuss this a little bit I think. >>>> >>>> sri >>>> >>>> On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 9:50 AM, alex diavatis < >>>> alexis.diava...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hello, >>>>> >>>>> We plan to release worldofgnome.org some day this week -Thursday >>>>> most probably- and we still haven't any answer from you about if we have >>>>> the right to use the Gnome Logo. >>>>> Our logo is just a text "WoGue" and we want to add Gnome Icon next to >>>>> it. >>>>> >>>>> We don't claim any rights on our work, or on our logo and we don't go >>>>> commercial in any way. >>>>> >>>>> If we haven't any answer from you by the time we release it, we assume >>>>> that we can use Gnome logo as a part of ours (actually next to ours not >>>>> part of it), >>>>> and we discuss it between us if we should or shouldn't not use it. >>>>> >>>>> Hope hearing from you, >>>>> Thank you >>>>> >>>>> - alex >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> marketing-list mailing list >>>>> marketing-list@gnome.org >>>>> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>> >> >
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