Re: Campaign Proposal

2010-02-22 Thread Dave Neary

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.

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Re: Website - News and Press Releases

2010-02-22 Thread Darton Williams
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.

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Re: Website - News and Press Releases

2010-02-22 Thread Darton Williams
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 All new imports are still unpublished and do not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!

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Website - Pending Content Tasks

2010-02-22 Thread Darton Williams
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?


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Re: Website - Pending Content Tasks

2010-02-22 Thread Lucas Rocha
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?

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Re: Facebook, just a thought

2010-02-22 Thread Stormy Peters
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

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Re: Website - News and Press Releases

2010-02-22 Thread Lucas Rocha
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!

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Re: Website - Pending Content Tasks

2010-02-22 Thread Shaun McCance
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.

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Gtk+ videos and twitter account

2010-02-22 Thread Alberto Ruiz
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
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Re: Campaign Proposal

2010-02-22 Thread Nelson Marques


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.
 



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