Cool GNOME Video for GNOME.Asia Summit
Hi all, Are there any videos about GNOME which is funny, passionate and cool enough to promote GNOME. We are thinking about play those videos during GNOME.Asia Summit to attract audience's attention, to explain what is GNOME and show them the passion of the GNOME community. Video is one of the best media to promote GNOME, let me know if you already have one or make one for the Summit. Thanks in advance, Emily -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Cool GNOME Video for GNOME.Asia Summit
Hi Emily El mié, 10-09-2008 a las 14:37 +0800, Emily Chen escribió: Hi all, Are there any videos about GNOME which is funny, passionate and cool enough to promote GNOME. We are thinking about play those videos during GNOME.Asia Summit to attract audience's attention, to explain what is GNOME and show them the passion of the GNOME community. Video is one of the best media to promote GNOME, let me know if you already have one or make one for the Summit. I'm not sure if this is what you are looking for, but this is a really funny video post GUADEC 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9j1PxXkrlu0 Claudio -- Claudio Saavedra [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: GNOME files disabled
Hi, Andreas Nilsson wrote: 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. Welcome to the world of proprietary software. Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Cool GNOME Video for GNOME.Asia Summit
Hi, Emily Chen wrote: Are there any videos about GNOME which is funny, passionate and cool enough to promote GNOME. We are thinking about play those videos during GNOME.Asia Summit to attract audience's attention, to explain what is GNOME and show them the passion of the GNOME community. Video is one of the best media to promote GNOME, let me know if you already have one or make one for the Summit. Apart from the one that Claudio pointed out, I know there was a post-ice cream death match interview with Vincent, and I bet a good video editor could come up with a really funny GUADEC blooper video from all of the raw video that's been created over the years... Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: GNOME files disabled
Hi, On Tue, 09 Sep 2008 21:31:21 +0200 Andreas Nilsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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? Seems so. 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. I've once helped write something similar, called GnomeApps. [1] Its code is still available but unmaintained. That makes is unsuitable to use. Also, the data is outdated. Finding developers wasn't much of a problem back then. Today, it would be even easier, with frameworks such as Django [1]. However, you would need someone (or a team) to manage the whole thing, provided you get a database backup. That could be the tricky part. Cheers, Claus [1] http://gnome-apps.berlios.de/ [2] http://www.djangoproject.com/ -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
GNOME Accessibility presentation - contribution to stock GNOME presentations
Hi all, Way back in July, I gave a presentation (once in English, once in French) of GNOME accessibility technologies - I thought it might be a useful stock presentation for that for others. Some things definitely need improvement - simple inaccuracies like talking about gnopernicus, outdated screenshots of GNOME 2.4, the photo of my brother the family (perhaps too personal for a stock presentation), and the presentation needs a narrative - I've attached my notes from the presentation below to give you an idea, it's a good 45 minutes to 1 hour long presentation. I also have a French translation. The core goal of the presentation is to show that accessibility is important because of the people we help. It's important not because having a certain level of conformance with standards opens the door to government contracts, or as a selling point for the software, but because it helps users developers, sometimes (like through Strongwind, Dogtail and LDTP) in unexpected ways. The presentation is too big to send to the list, so I've put it on a website - you can get it at: http://dneary.free.fr/Presentations/Digital ramps and handrails.pdf (versions in .ppt and .odp will also be there, but perhaps with missing bitmaps, etc). The general thrust of the presentation is: * We use computers with standard input output devices - a mouse, a keyboard, a screen. * But that doesn't cover all use-cases. Blind people can't see screens. People with degenerative motor illness can't use mice or keyboards. Old people with normal illnesses like arthritis and vision impairments can't easily use all this stuff either. And kids (and parents holding babies ;) also have trouble with these devices which require sophisticated hand-eye co-ordination * There are other hardware inputs outputs that can help: * Joysticks instead of mice * Drawing tablets * Braille keyboards * Audio input output (speech synthesis, audio signals, speech recognition for commands) * A whole range of things like accelerometers, championned by the iPhone and the Wii, and in general the whole range of video game controls which make you think differently abut interracting with a computer * More specialised: eye trackers that can use eye movement and blink patterns to command * And finally, software to make things easlier * Here's where GNOME fits in * Project founded on the principle of universal access - making computer technology available to anyone, not just geeks, regardless of culture, technical or physical ability - in 3 main ways: consistent, usable, learnable user interfaces; internationalised and localised applications (chance to explain the difference between internationalised (take out all local assumptions) and localised (add back in all the local constraints for many cultures)); work on accessibility (a nod to Sun Microsystems and IBM, who have been long-time champions of this). The rest of the presentation is a demo of various accessibility features in GNOME. I discovered several quirks bugs while doing the demos :-} The demos split into 2/3 parts: 1. General GNOME features which are useful to people with handicaps 2. Accessibility features available to all GNOME applications, regardless of the desktop configuration 3. Features that depend on AT-SPI being activated, and which can be considered advanced accessibility tools * Keyboard shortcuts: the entire GNOME desktop is available through use of only the keyboard. Remove mouse, start demo: Basics: 1. Switch applications (Alt-Tab) 2. Choose panel (Ctrl-Alt-Tab) - open a new application through panel (BUG #542325: When you open a menu while navigating with the keyboard, you cannot again navigate with the keyboard until you click somewhere with the mouse) 3. Alt-key to navigate menus of an application 4. Tab, Shift-Tab to navigate through interface elements in an application (including web application) (would be nice to show navigation to toolbar, but I can't figure out how to do it) 5. Each application has a set of short-cuts - show that standard shortcuts are used across all applications to make it easier for users of a new application. * Themes 1. Show high contrast themes, and explain how they help colorblind or visually impaired users. 2. Show configurability of things like font sizes * Audio 1. Black screen represents what a blind person sees when turning on their computer. Ask the crowd: it takes 30s to 2 mins to boot a computer - how does the user know when they can log in? There's an audio signal emitted when GDM is ready to rock which serves that purpose. 2. Show audio events config * Sticky keys 1. Explain: You can press one key at a time, and still do Alt-F or Alt-Tab. Useful if you have a baby in your lap, or any range of physical disabilities that makes chording difficult. 2. Activate, and do Alt Tab, Ctrl S, Alt Shift Tab, etc. (NOTE: I discovered after the presentation to do something like cycle through application
Re: free graphic excitement
Hi everyone. Glad you all had a chance to take a look. I am moving to Seattle from Chicago tonight, so I will be away for about 4 days. I will get back and take a long hard look at all this and let you know. Thanks so much, James On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 1:36 PM, Brian Cameron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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 -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
