Re: free graphic excitement
On 9 Sep 2008, at 00:40, Andre Klapper wrote: Am Montag, den 08.09.2008, 14:38 -0500 schrieb James Coddington: http://www.soaringbrain.com/GnomeTest2.swf (Personal feedback, not speaking on behalf of Marketing team:) From a technical point of view I wonder how much slower this will make login time. If we still have a splash screen in ten years, we have done something wrong. (I think I quoted dobey here.) Also wondering if this would annoy me when I log in for the, say, 30th time. Inclined to agree-- might be worth showing once per user, though, like the Welcome to OSX sort of thing that Apple do. After that, probably just leave it somewhere that people can find it again, if they want to. Could be interesting to use this sort of technology to do a GNOME desktop tour video, though, especially if it was updated to highlight the coolest features in each release :) (Although one problem that's always existed with that idea is that not all distros ship all GNOME features, and/or add their own...) 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 -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: free graphic excitement
Hi James and Marketing folks, I think the video is pretty cool - do you think we could use it to showcase GNOME for Software Freedom Day? We might want to add a message about how GNOME is free software and the GNOME community supports Software Freedom ... Stormy On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 1:38 PM, James Coddington [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: James Coddington [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 12:54 PM Subject: free graphic excitement To: marketing-list@gnome.org Greetings GNOME Community! My name is James Coddington, digital media artist and principle of Zero Point Systems. I find myself fortunate to have found you all and am inspired by your humanitarian direction. I greatly appreciate that free software makes it possible for people in 3rd world countries to use computers and connect to the greater world at large, is affordable for the disadvantaged and is accessible to the disabled. The ability to translate into so many different languages is particularly exciting to me! I come to you with enthusiastic inspiration regarding the graphic media (or lack thereof) of the GNOME community. I must admit, however, that I am novice GNOME user. Upon being familiarized with your cause and software I feel you could reach a much broader audience if you were to integrate a little more flash (asthetically) and could be made much more attractive with animation, video and sounds. It is my hope and vision to create compelling visual stimulus for this emerging and growing community. I designed and created an animation that could be played as the user logs into their machine to make the experience more exciting. I have a wellspring of ideas of how video and animation could be used in the desktop space. One of which could be that we provide an introductory video that could be viewed to highlight the usability, freedom and humanitarian aspect of the project and why people should even consider using GNOME. We could then turn this animation/video in to a television commercial with the idea it could be played on PBS or other types of public access. I know that showcasing work on some public access channels is completely free. This would be a great place to get airtime for humanitarian related content. Some things that could easily and should be highlighted It's Free It's Easy It's Accessible Support Many Humanitarian aspects, like the fact it is used by the one laptop per child program. I'm sure there is more that could be added here. Any suggestions of what we could add? I have already donated a significant amount of time on this intro animation, so it is my hope that that translates into how emphatically enthusiastic I am about this project! It is also my hope to release this under the Creative Commons with a small personal signature for networking purposes. Perhaps I will utilize the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported Liscense. Again, your cause and community is something that I am very excited about and would love to get some ideas and feedback on the animation I created. http://www.soaringbrain.com/GnomeTest2.swf I am aware that to be truly free these movies need to be converted to Theora or another free format, but I thought I would get your input and feedback before progressing any further. Keep in minds these are low-resolution renders. Perhaps together, we can sink our teeth into this amazing opportunity and create a very compelling, high res series of projects that will generate interest, momentum and wonder in the open source project known as GNOME! Lets set Gnome apart from the rest with rich visual content that grabs the user and won't let go! Feel free to view and get back to me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gratefully Yours, James Coddington MVM Digital Media 773 780 3473 -- 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: free graphic excitement
Calum: (Personal feedback, not speaking on behalf of Marketing team:) From a technical point of view I wonder how much slower this will make login time. If we still have a splash screen in ten years, we have done something wrong. (I think I quoted dobey here.) Also wondering if this would annoy me when I log in for the, say, 30th time. Inclined to agree-- might be worth showing once per user, though, like the Welcome to OSX sort of thing that Apple do. After that, probably just leave it somewhere that people can find it again, if they want to. Could be interesting to use this sort of technology to do a GNOME desktop tour video, though, especially if it was updated to highlight the coolest features in each release :) (Although one problem that's always existed with that idea is that not all distros ship all GNOME features, and/or add their own...) I would think that the most important and exciting features would be common to all or most distros. Highlighting humanitarian features such as how it can be used in projects like the One Laptop Per Child program, its accessibility, its translation into 3rd world languages, its ease of use, etc. are probably all things that most distros wouldn't mind letting users know about, especially if it makes the desktop feel more exciting. Brian -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: GNOME files disabled
Can we not just port the existing gnomefiles website over? It is better than nothing. We haev http://www.gtk-apps.org. But I'm not very enthuisastica bout this site and it's application list is not complete. sri On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 05:18:16PM +0200, Claus Schwarm 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: GNOME files disabled
Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: Can we not just port the existing gnomefiles website over? It is better than nothing. We haev http://www.gtk-apps.org. But I'm not very enthuisastica bout this site and it's application list is not complete. sri From http://web.archive.org/web/20071212224222/www.gnomefiles.org/contact.php: The developer owner of Gnomefiles' PHP source code is Eugenia Loli. OSNews LLC (the company behind GnomeFiles) is using the source code under a special licensing condition (at no cost). This repository engine can be easily modified to store documents, music or any other item that can be categorized. If you are interested in purchasing or licensing the source code, email Eugenia directly at... Does this mean we can't pick up the code and host it ourselves? It would be cool to get at least the data. The site filled a important gap. If we can't host it ourselves, I'm interesting in start designing something new if someone is willing to help with the code. - Andreas On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 05:18:16PM +0200, Claus Schwarm 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
