Re: Campaign Proposal
Hi, Diego Escalante Urrelo wrote: Yeah, that's what I meant, GNOME 2.30: The Philosophical Panther, that style of naming. I really like the idea of federating the art community around GNOME and DeviantArt and helping make it more visible, and also help grow it. I appreciate that it's a nice idea to adopt humanitarian causes as a way of having some of the good feelings people have for them to rub off on us. But I really don't like the whole endangered species angle. Let me explain why: I have some more suggestions for names: Lucid Lynx, Intrepid Ibex, Jaunty Jackalope, Hardy Heron... I don't mean to put a kybosh on the idea altogether, but the animal name thing isn't really original, given Ubuntu. And the iLynx suggestion in the original proposal seems a but Applish, no? In addition to the iSomething convention, Apple has used Cheetah, Puma, Jaguar, Panther, Tiger, Leopard and Snow Leopard as OS X release codenames, so choosing a big cat doesn't seem like a good idea. One other negative remark - do we really want to have GNOME associated with extinct or almost extinct animals? While the Siberian Tiger, the Iberian Lynx, the Javan Rhino and the Mountain Gorilla make for nice icons, there are almost none left, and their population is in decline. Is that the association we want people to make when they think of GNOME? Anyway - sorry to be the party pooper. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member dne...@gnome.org -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Website - News and Press Releases
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 6:55 PM, Lucas Rocha luc...@gnome.org wrote: Hi, I've the necessary content updates to allow us to post press releases on the new website. They are under a 'Press/Media' folder in the Contact section. http://website-editors.gnome.org/contact/press/releases I started importing the existing press releases to our CMS. So far, I've migrated all press releases from 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010. Need volunteers to finish this as there still quite many press releases to import. Anyone? Got it. --dartonw -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Website - News and Press Releases
Imported everything back to 2001; the publishing date dropdown doesn't go back any further. All new imports are still unpublished and do not have short URLs. On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 6:55 PM, Lucas Rocha luc...@gnome.org wrote: Hi, I've the necessary content updates to allow us to post press releases on the new website. They are under a 'Press/Media' folder in the Contact section. http://website-editors.gnome.org/contact/press/releases I started importing the existing press releases to our CMS. So far, I've migrated all press releases from 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010. Need volunteers to finish this as there still quite many press releases to import. Anyone? Some general guidelines: - Each press release is added as a 'News entry' in the 'Press Releases' folder. - I'm trying to keep the same page names than the current website. So, if a press release page is '2009-11-guadec2010.html', the respective press release entry in the new website will have a '2009-11-guadec2010' short name. If have to enable short name editing in your profile to be able to define short names on website content items. - Set the publish date to the same date than the original press release - Keep same title than the original - Copy/pasting the content in the Plone text editor gives good results, no need for extra editing. We need a volunteer to import all news from the current website to Plone too. Cheers! --lucasr ___ gnome-web-list mailing list gnome-web-l...@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-web-list -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Website - Pending Content Tasks
Hi All, A couple of questions: 1. Are the projects listed at http://projects.gnome.org/ what we want to refer to on http://website-editors.gnome.org/products? 2. Are there specific GNOME products we want to highlight or is this page meant to be a complete list, or both? --dartonw -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Website - Pending Content Tasks
Hi, 2010/2/22 Darton Williams dart...@gmail.com: Hi All, A couple of questions: 1. Are the projects listed at http://projects.gnome.org/ what we want to refer to on http://website-editors.gnome.org/products? Not yet. We still have to discuss what's the plan for GNOME apps in the new website. So, the initial plan for the Products section is to only talk about the Desktop and Platform. Have a look at the content table in the wiki: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeWeb/TwoPointTwentyseven/Content The content marked for 2.28 is the stuff we want in the first version of the website. Everything else can be worked out later. 2. Are there specific GNOME products we want to highlight or is this page meant to be a complete list, or both? Desktop and Platform. For the Platform, we could provide a good summarized overview of: http://library.gnome.org/devel/platform-overview/nightly/ Maybe Shaun and/or GNOME documentation team could help here? --lucasr -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Facebook, just a thought
We have a Facebook page for GNOME and for Friends of GNOME. If you want to work on widgets and promoting them, that'd be great. Stormy On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 8:26 PM, Nelson Marques 07...@ipam.pt wrote: Hi, Anyone has knowledge about those widgets that we can add to facebook profile? Could we create such a gadget that we could place on our profiles and send people to Friends of GNOME ? Wouldn't that prolly translate in couple more hundreds (maybe thousands) of hits? We could most likely use widely and create cells to target different people. Run a couple of facebook pages for: - GNOME - GNOME Foundation - GNOME DESKTOP - GNOME Artists - GNOME Marketing - GNOME @ As facebook profiles we could create a huge network hitting people with the gadget all the time and we could address people to support GNOME by sharing the word and using the widget on their profile as well. Any thoughts ? NM -- 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: Website - News and Press Releases
Hi Zonker, 2010/2/22 Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier j...@zonker.net: On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 6:55 PM, Lucas Rocha luc...@gnome.org wrote: I started importing the existing press releases to our CMS. So far, I've migrated all press releases from 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010. Need volunteers to finish this as there still quite many press releases to import. Anyone? I'll raise my hand. I should have some time Wednesday if you can get me access to edit the site. It seems that Darton has finished this task already. Maybe you could help with other parts of the content? I've sent a message about pending content: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/marketing-list/2010-February/msg00135.html In any case, send me an email with: Full name Login name Email So that I can create a Plone account for you. Cheers! --lucasr -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Website - Pending Content Tasks
On Mon, 2010-02-22 at 19:40 +, Lucas Rocha wrote: 2. Are there specific GNOME products we want to highlight or is this page meant to be a complete list, or both? Desktop and Platform. For the Platform, we could provide a good summarized overview of: http://library.gnome.org/devel/platform-overview/nightly/ Maybe Shaun and/or GNOME documentation team could help here? I could put something together. It would help me to see the blurb for the desktop first, to get a sense of the tone. My experience is in technical documentation, not marketing copy. But I can usually manage to monkey-see-monkey-do. Are we only talking about the desktop platform, or are we trying to push other Gnome-based platforms? Note that I'm currently drafting a comprehensive plan for restructuring our developer documentation. This includes figuring out which pieces deserve to be mentioned in the Platform Overview. I've started discussions about this in the past, but we never come to any real conclusions. I mention this because I think it affects what technologies we should highlight on the products page. -- Shaun -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Gtk+ videos and twitter account
Hello there, just a quick note, as an effort to promote the GNOME stack I have created a video[0] that probably most of you have already watched on the planet (about 500 visits so far not counting the OGG dowloads). The video shows how to quicly put together a Gtk+ Hello World with Vala. I hope to create other videos showing how to use the GNOME development platform. The motivation here is to create a set of contents, mainly video, that debunks myths about GTK+ and other core GNOME libraries (such as GTK+/GNOME == C, bindings are second class citizens, and the like). The idea is to gather enough content to be deployed in the GTK+ website so that it becomes a point that empowers people to create apps instead to explain what GTK+ is and point people to the source tarballs. Javier Jardon and myself have also created linked Twitter[1] and identi.ca[2] accounts and we will try to use it to promote the platform and inform about news and exciting stuff happing around the toolkit. [0] http://www.vimeo.com/9617309 [1] http://twitter.com/gtktoolkit [2] http://identi.ca/gtktoolkit -- Cheers, Alberto Ruiz -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Campaign Proposal
On Mon, 2010-02-22 at 10:36 +0100, Dave Neary wrote: Hi, Diego Escalante Urrelo wrote: Yeah, that's what I meant, GNOME 2.30: The Philosophical Panther, that style of naming. I really like the idea of federating the art community around GNOME and DeviantArt and helping make it more visible, and also help grow it. I appreciate that it's a nice idea to adopt humanitarian causes as a way of having some of the good feelings people have for them to rub off on us. But I really don't like the whole endangered species angle. Let me explain why: I have some more suggestions for names: Lucid Lynx, Intrepid Ibex, Jaunty Jackalope, Hardy Heron... I don't mean to put a kybosh on the idea altogether, but the animal name thing isn't really original, given Ubuntu. I couldn't care less. Point me some originality in Ubuntu, and I can consider my position. And the iLynx suggestion in the original proposal seems a but Applish, no? In addition to the iSomething convention, Apple has used Cheetah, Puma, Jaguar, Panther, Tiger, Leopard and Snow Leopard as OS X release codenames, so choosing a big cat doesn't seem like a good idea. I've supplied alternatives. I've choosen the Iberian Lynx as a form to translate my thoughts because he lives in Portugal and Spain and he is my neighbor. Didn't felt like loosing time searching for other species. I did flavoured a national cause (Portugal and Spain), because I am Portuguese. One other negative remark - do we really want to have GNOME associated with extinct or almost extinct animals? While the Siberian Tiger, the Iberian Lynx, the Javan Rhino and the Mountain Gorilla make for nice icons, there are almost none left, and their population is in decline. Is that the association we want people to make when they think of GNOME? Anyway - sorry to be the party pooper. Well, it's better than associating it with Genghis Kahn (aka Temujin) the Impaler. Do I see some sense here? And from another point of view: http://www.unep.ch/ It is a subject being supported by the United Nations. And even further: http://www.unep.org/awards/ Do we have a GNOME Logo there? If such thing happened, what were the benefits GNOME would take from it? My 2 cents, PS: I've offered alternatives, such as the Spider Monkeys and the Red Wolfs during this thread. Spider Monkeys means fighting against the de-florestation of the Amazonian Rain Forest, and Red Wolfs is a US national cause. In case we aint going for the cats. nelson Cheers, Dave. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
