Re: Dropping TM when using GNOME Brand?
On 2 Mar 2011, at 15:26, Vincent Untz wrote: I understand that as it's okay to remove the TM in the two examples I gave. If someone disagrees, shout loud :-) I don't disagree, but I'd say it might actually quite reasonable to keep it on the live CD boot screen where the user will see it both first and infrequently, but drop it on the desktop itself wherever we can. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Interaction Designer Oracle Corporation Ireland Ltd. mailto:calum.ben...@oracle.com Solaris Desktop Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Oracle Corp. ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Announcing the GNOME T-Shirt Design Contest!
On 23 Nov 2010, at 22:01, Paul Cutler wrote: With GNOME 3.0 just around the corner, we are happy to announce the GNOME T-Shirt Design Contest! http://www.gnome.org/contest/ I vote for that blue template -- it looks great :) Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Interaction Designer Oracle Corporation Ireland Ltd. mailto:calum.ben...@oracle.com Solaris Desktop Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Oracle Corp. ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: SiS video cards and GNOME 3
On 16 Oct 2010, at 15:19, Jonh Wendell wrote: So, I'm wondering if the Foundation could, somehow, help in this area. Two ideas came up (not mutually exclusive): 1) Fund someone to writer a proper X org driver for SiS cards 2) Talk to SiS to solve the problem 3) Build more elegant fallback modes into gnome-shell so that you don't lose all the functionality altogether, similar to the approach Windows and OS X took when they first introduced features into their desktop that required a minimum level of graphics card support. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Interaction Designer Oracle Corporation Ireland Ltd. mailto:calum.ben...@oracle.com Solaris Desktop Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Oracle Corp. ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: GNOME Job Posting Board
On 16 Oct 2008, at 17:18, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: Calum Benson wrote: Any reason you didn't just set up a gnome-jobs mailing list? 1) Postings on a wiki can be removed, keeping a list of current openings at any time, Ok, I'll concede that advantage, provided people remember to keep it up to date :) One of the number one problems with wikis is content rot, though... so it would probably be good to require an expiry date to most job postings anyway (which can be reset as required), in which case the advantage over a mailing list is somewhat reduced. 2) Keep it simple. This took me ten minutes to set up. A mailing list would have taken at least a few days, Why the rush? We've had nothing for years, what's a few days if it means a better solution? :) 3) Subscribing and unsubscribing to the wiki is much easier and more intuitive, Only if you already have a wiki account, otherwise it's much the same, really. Plus you'll then get subscription messages for every change to the wiki page, in not-very-user-friendly diff format, with no particularly useful subject heading. And at least half of those emails won't even correspond to the actual posting of a new job, as presumably you'll be notified when people delete jobs, fix formatting/ typos etc. as well...? Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]GNOME Desktop Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: GNOME Job Posting Board
On 15 Oct 2008, at 20:31, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: Many GNOME-friendly companies have job openings that they announce on blogs, IRC, or random mailing list. Many GNOME hackers look for jobs and they crawl blogs, mailing lists, or ask on IRC. Now there is a central place that community members can post GNOME- related job openings, and job seekers can subscribe to. Nothing fancy, a good old wiki page: http://live.gnome.org/Jobs Any reason you didn't just set up a gnome-jobs mailing list? There are many things that wikis aren't particularly good for, and this strikes me as being one of them. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]GNOME Desktop Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: bounties?
On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 01:56 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak Did the foundation come out against bounties on principal, or has the idea just not gone anywhere? Given that you've read previous threads here, I'll just briefly summarise where I think we stand with regards to bounties: We've had some success and some failures, but ultimately it required quite a lot of infrastructure and time to get it right, but hadn't really delivered on expectations. There are also ongoing concerns about how the introduction of financial incentives will affect volunteer motivation. IIRC some maintainers were also uncomfortable about how to divide up the bounty when the solution turned out to be a cherry pick from multiple contributors' code. (Especially if the maintainer then had to do significant work to tie the bits together-- shouldn't they then get to keep a bit of the money?!) Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]GNOME Desktop Group http://ie.sun.com +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Board Member Application Mini-HOWTO
On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 16:17 +1300, Glynn Foster wrote: It would be a mute issue if Sun was hosting the conference call I do hope not :) Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Java Desktop System Group http://ie.sun.com +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Along the same lines as the CoC
On 3 Aug 2006, at 08:44, Adrian Custer wrote: Hey all, There are two elements of this discussion that I'd like to address: (1) Gnomers who are offended by others currently have no place to turn to. (2) New Gnomers currently have no place to ask for advice, help, encouragement. I note also with sadness how dead #gnome has become. Back in the day it was a real bazaar with the great coders mixing with the lowly newbies. The channel was easy to find and people could ask for help, for advice, for consolation, could follow some advanced discussions or could simply banter away the day. Today, most of us have decided to be productive and so #gnome has a *huge* list of participants and almost no discussion. In many ways, I don't lament its passing. IRC isn't really a natural place to hang out for many 'ordinary' users, and it's a black hole for those of us (i.e. everyone) who needs to be taking users' issues on board, because there's no useful record of what people have been asking. Perhaps a more important question is why gnome-list@gnome.org has died on its feet too... I'd much rather our users posted there, and (much as I hate web forums) to the gnomesupport.org forums. Correction: wow, gnome-list hasn't died at all... just checked the archives and it's perfectly healthy. So why have I only had two emails from it all year? :/ Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Java Desktop System Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: GNOME nominated for the Mellon Awards for Technology Collaboration
On 4 Aug 2006, at 16:49, Federico Mena Quintero wrote: GNOME was the first such project to make a concerted effort in the areas of usability, accessibility, and internationalization. Usability means that we keep people in mind when designing our software. Accessibility means that physically disabled people can use our software. Hmm, I'm not sure the a11y team would be entirely comfortable with that description of accessibility, but good luck to us anyway! :) Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Java Desktop System Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Membership Committee Mailing List Archives
On 11 Jul 2006, at 13:13, Dave Neary wrote: Calum Benson wrote: Hmm... so if a dozen people have bad things to say about someone, and only a couple have good things to say about them, we only get to see the good ones and the application is accepted? It all depends on the scope of the question. For a GNOME Foundation membership request, the question is has this person donated considerably more time and effort to GNOME than could normally be expected of a user? - filing one bugzilla bug is a no, writing a QT application is a no, I think writing a GTK+ application would probably qualify as a yes, being a volunteer during a GUADEC would be a yes, etc. At what stage of the process does the question of whether the person is a good contributor or a bad contributor come into play? Should it come into play at all? It's a fair question, and not one I'd pretend to be qualified to answer... I guess my point is that, in general, any system of feedback seems somewhat flawed to me if you're only expected to give positive feedback, and remain silent otherwise. (If anything, it's the opposite of how most feedback systems work: you usually have to actively voice opposition; silence tends to imply tacit acceptance.) Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Java Desktop System Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Membership Committee Mailing List Archives
On 10 Jul 2006, at 19:34, David Neary wrote: The reference mails can perhaps go off-list, but honestly I can't think why that might happen - in general, if you're replying it's to give a good reference, and if the reference would be bad, you don't reply. Hmm... so if a dozen people have bad things to say about someone, and only a couple have good things to say about them, we only get to see the good ones and the application is accepted? Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Java Desktop System Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
