Re: GNOME files disabled
Does somebody on the list have the right access to do this? And the time to do this? Stormy On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 9:18 AM, Claus Schwarm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, according to a post by Eugenia Loli-Queru, GNOME files was hacked and she has no intentions to re-activate the site.[1] It currently re-directs to osnews.com. It would be nice if someone could remove the paragraph 'Get more software' on the GNOME community page [2] and maybe the link on the software map page as well [3]. Cheers, Claus [1] http://osnews.com/staff/permalink.php/2897/goodbye_gnomefiles.html [2] http://www.gnome.org/community/ [3] http://www.gnome.org/softwaremap/ -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Revamping Friends of GNOME: help with web page text
Andreas: I really like the photo of the one-laptop-per-child program and the text. I don't know how much room you have in the caption, but it would be better to highlight the following: - GNOME is free, which makes it the perfect desktop choice for humanitarian efforts, such as the one-laptop-per-child program which require an affordable desktop. - The fact that GNOME is accessible, and also provides an affordable desktop for people with a wide range of disabilities, and is Section 508 compliant. - Would also be good to have a link to the OLPC website, so people can read more. I'd just make the OLPC reference a link. - The fact that GNOME is translated into 3rd world languages, and that supporting GNOME supports technologies that help to bring the 3rd world better access to the information age. I think this should be highlighted in the A Free And Open Source Desktop For Everyone section rather than just being a caption for an image, though. I think the above facts are important to highlight since it makes the humanitarian angle of wanting donations more clear and should be highlighted in a very visible way on the front page. On page 3 I would say that it Supports accessibility for users with limited mobility, paralysis, blindness, vision problems such as color blindness or low vision. It is a Section 508 compliant desktop. rather than just saying Supports accessibility I would say into many of the world's 3rd languages rather than listing a number. You might also highlight that GNU-Linux based operating systems support the widest range of 3rd world languages available. A stupid grammar issue you can ignore if you want... You say During 2008 the GNOME Foundation was able to help do lots of great things by: Then each paragraph beings with past-tense words like participated, ran, or held. The first word should be a word that makes sense if you put the word by in front of it, so the first word of each paragraph should be participating, running, holding, planning. This seems like it would read better to me. Or you could just update the header to say During 2008 the GNOME Foundation was able to help do lots of great things by doing the following: With this type of header, the first words of the paragraphs below would be correct as they are. Though Planned the first GNOME event in Asia would be more consistent with the other paragraphs if you were to go this route. Brian Andreas Nilsson wrote: Stormy Peters wrote: Thoughts? Anyone willing to help with the web page? Kalle Persson and myself want to look into the design of this during the weekend. Hi! Here are the designs Kalle and I did: http://www.andreasn.se/diverse/temp/friends-of-gnome/fog-page1.png http://www.andreasn.se/diverse/temp/friends-of-gnome/fog-page2.png http://www.andreasn.se/diverse/temp/friends-of-gnome/fog-page3.png We were uncertain about some details, such as if it was only the Adopt a Hacker level that was monthly, plus some other stuff that I can't remember right now (do you Kalle?). As the hippies we are, we also took the liberty to not follow the specification specifically. ;) Hrm, no, seriously, we mostly rearranged some stuff and we hope it came out for the better. There is also a svg with all the elements in it here if anyone wants to modify it: http://www.andreasn.se/diverse/temp/friends-of-gnome/friends-of-gnome-design.svg We can fix the html and css for this unless someone else eagerly wants to do it (I recall some e-mail about this, but I can't seem to find it now). Not sure what's easiest. - Andreas -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: GNOME files disabled
Hi Stormy On 9/4/08, Stormy Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does somebody on the list have the right access to do this? And the time to do this? I just did[0], I disabled /softwaremap/ and commented the reference to Get More Software in /community/. For your future reference, all gnome webs are maintained in SVN, usually named project-web or likely, for example planet-web or gnomebr-web, etc. You only need an svn account to modify them. Thanks for the heads up :-). In other light of this same topic, shall we worry about the absence of a site like gnomefiles.org? greetings 0 - http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/gnomeweb-wml?view=revisionrevision=6291 -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: GNOME files disabled
What was gnomefiles? It sounds like a list of files found in GNOME but I don't want to assume. :) Stormy On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 1:38 PM, Diego Escalante Urrelo [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Hi Stormy On 9/4/08, Stormy Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does somebody on the list have the right access to do this? And the time to do this? I just did[0], I disabled /softwaremap/ and commented the reference to Get More Software in /community/. For your future reference, all gnome webs are maintained in SVN, usually named project-web or likely, for example planet-web or gnomebr-web, etc. You only need an svn account to modify them. Thanks for the heads up :-). In other light of this same topic, shall we worry about the absence of a site like gnomefiles.org? greetings 0 - http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/gnomeweb-wml?view=revisionrevision=6291 -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Revamping Friends of GNOME: help with web page text
On 9/4/08, Brian Cameron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andreas: I really like the photo of the one-laptop-per-child program and the text. I don't know how much room you have in the caption, but it would be better to highlight the following: - GNOME is free, which makes it the perfect desktop choice for humanitarian efforts, such as the one-laptop-per-child program which require an affordable desktop. I confess I haven't read carefully every word in the text, but as I read your email I thought that a nice thing to add would be something like: Because GNOME is free, every contribution put into GNOME is available to everyone Ok, not the best wording, but I got the idea from a quick flashback to those IBM videos of linux kid where the narrator says what he learns we all learn, what he knows we all benefit from. I think it's a nice idea we might want to take. greetings -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: GNOME files disabled
On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 4:15 PM, Dave Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Luis Villa wrote: On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 3:45 PM, Stormy Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What was gnomefiles? It sounds like a list of files found in GNOME but I don't want to assume. :) closer to addons.mozilla.org- information (including updates, news, etc.) about applications available for GNOME. One of those multiplier things that creates a lot of value by giving everyone who does a GNOME program a place to shout from. But also had a very low barrier to entry, which meant that it became about as useful as Freshmeat at one stage. I'd say that ideally a replacement would have functionality similar to a.m.o- ratings (including download counts and perhaps some sort of 'maturity' score based on the duration and number of updates) and probably some editorial component for the front page. Luis -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: GNOME files disabled
On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 2:01 AM, Luis Villa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 4:15 PM, Dave Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Luis Villa wrote: On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 3:45 PM, Stormy Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What was gnomefiles? It sounds like a list of files found in GNOME but I don't want to assume. :) closer to addons.mozilla.org- information (including updates, news, etc.) about applications available for GNOME. One of those multiplier things that creates a lot of value by giving everyone who does a GNOME program a place to shout from. But also had a very low barrier to entry, which meant that it became about as useful as Freshmeat at one stage. I'd say that ideally a replacement would have functionality similar to a.m.o- ratings (including download counts and perhaps some sort of 'maturity' score based on the duration and number of updates) and probably some editorial component for the front page. a.m.o is powered by Remora (https://wiki.mozilla.org/Update:Remora). I had a look at the code at some point, and it seemed to be hard coded for Firefox and Thunderbird. However, there has been some efforts from SugarLabs to modify the code to be more suitable for a generic software map[1] - I'm not sure what the status of the project is right now. Thanks, Sayamindu [1] http://lists.lo-res.org/pipermail/its.an.education.project/2008-June/001019.html -- Sayamindu Dasgupta [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: GNOME files disabled
Hi, On Thu, 4 Sep 2008 14:38:34 -0500 Diego Escalante Urrelo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Stormy On 9/4/08, Stormy Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does somebody on the list have the right access to do this? And the time to do this? I just did[0], I disabled /softwaremap/ and commented the reference to Get More Software in /community/. Thanks a lot! [snip] In other light of this same topic, shall we worry about the absence of a site like gnomefiles.org? From a marketing point of view: Yes. A site such gnomefiles is pull marketing [1] for the GNOME development platform, and also supports the desktop due to network effects [2]. It's just not as efficient as for other platforms because releases are rather boring if they cannot be installed easily and immediately. That was the central problem of gnomefiles. Cheers, Claus [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Push-Pull_strategy [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effects -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
