Re: Section from "What's New in Fedora 28 Workstation?" article for Fedora Magazine

2018-04-21 Thread Liam R. E. Quin
On Sat, 2018-04-21 at 10:46 -0700, Link Dupont wrote:
> 
> Here is my current draft of the section about Nautilus. Please let me
> know if we (as the GNOME engagement team) like the way this is
> messaged, of if we want to change it:

My maij suggestion would be to try & give it a mre upbeat paragraph
with a conclusion, e.g.,
"The new Nautilus (Files) is faster, easier to maintain, less buggy,
giving us a faster overall feel for the GNOME desktop"

Remember that the only people made happy by removing features generally
are developers, so it's best to recast it as a new feature that people
might actually want.

Liam (ankh)
> 
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Re: [guadec-list] 20th Birthday Logo | Feedback needed

2017-07-03 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Tue, 2017-06-27 at 21:35 -0700, Nuritzi Sanchez wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> We were hoping to do a 20th birthday logo to print on stickers, t-
> shirts,
> and maybe some other merchandise, as well as to post on social media.
> Here
> are some options: 20th birthday logos
> <https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/folders/0BxT3JgrBDcz2Z3UwT3p6REh1
> S0U>
>  [1].

They are fun. I played with making the foot logo be the zero, but it
was hard not to make it read like a digit six instead.

Wow, 20 years!


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Re: Immigration ban

2017-01-30 Thread Liam R. E. Quin
On Mon, 2017-01-30 at 21:02 +, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:
> The Linux Foundation sent out a press release against the immigration
> ban.
> I think we should also follow suit and also craft something that
> talks about our inclusiveness.

+1 yes


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Re: you know...

2015-02-06 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Fri, 6 Feb 2015 08:49:11 -0800 Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.me wrote:

 On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 2:36 AM, Ekaterina Gerasimova
 kittykat3...@gmail.com wrote:

  It would be great, but writing a good book takes a lot of time and
  effort

The right answer here is a collaborative book with many examples.

It could start as a wiki, unless someone wants to write a git-based back end to 
open office, abiword or even gedit to let people review changes and work 
together.

 Indeed.  Also, it will be out of date a year after publishing given
 how fast we are developing new things.

Again the authoritative source would need to be online. But if the GNOME 
infrastructure is so unstable that a printed book becomes useless in six months 
to a year, what good is it? That would seem a much more pressing problem to me.

  Another approach would be to organise something along the lines of a
  book sprint.

Yes, I've heard Adam Hyde speaking about these events.

  The only problem doing it from
 a 'community' perspective is that we won't be able to write things in
 a single 'voice'.  Or rather, we will need a good editor that can warp
 it into a single voice.  It is a little off putting when one chapter
 is using a different set of word choices than another [...]

Yes, editing is an important part of publishing, as is assessing the market -- 
that is, who will benefit most from the work and what do they need.



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