Re: New face to Friends of GNOME

[Andreas Nilsson]

On 01/04/2011 03:35 PM, Stormy Peters wrote:
Thanks, Andreas. It definitely needed an update and I like how it all 
fits above the fold now.


I would actually suggest simplifying it more and only giving people 
2-3 options. If we could offer them monthly and one time and then take 
them to payment page and fill in a default (editable) amount and list 
what all the amounts benefit from, that would be great. (I don't think 
we can easily do that with Paypal though.)
Hm, interesting idea, it would probably need a bit of different design 
though. Will think about it some more and experiment a bit.
FYI, in the last box, Philanthropist, when I select it, the words 
overwrite the title.

Will fix!
- Andreas
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Re: String and UI Change Announcement Period

[Paul Cutler]

It would be helpful to let the Marketing team know too- there is
interest in doing videos, but we need to know when the UI gets close
so the videos are as accurate as possible.

Paul

On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 4:31 PM, Vincent Untz  wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> We'll enter the String and UI Change Announcement Period at the end of
> tomorrow. This means that starting on Tuesday:
>
>  - all string changes must be announced to both gnome-i18n@ and
>    gnome-doc-l...@.
>
>  - all user interface changes must be announced to gnome-doc-l...@.
>
> It probably makes sense at least for the shell team and for the people
> working on the default theme to tell gnome-doc-list how much of the UI
> can be expected to still change during that period. It'd be a shame to
> have people starting to take many screenshots if they'll all be outdated
> a few weeks after.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Vincent
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Re: getting www.gnome3.org

[Andreas Nilsson]

On 01/04/2011 09:11 PM, Stormy Peters wrote:
We do have gnome3.org  and we worked on it at the 
last marketing hackfest. At that time, it was really close to 
launching ...

http://www.andreasn.se/diverse/temp/gnome3.org/
This design is a bit different from the one I did at the Marketing 
Hackfest in Spain, but it has basically the same stuff + some new 
content that Allan recently put together.
No videos for now, since we don't have any ready, but a bunch of 
screenshots, some info, a faq and ways to try it. We can add more stuff, 
or refocus the page if needed later.

Should be pretty ready to launch.
- Andreas


On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 12:56 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna > wrote:


Any chance we could get the DNS entry www.gnome3.org
 (and I think gnome4 and gnome5 etc) so
that we can use it to centralize messaging to a particular URL?  I
think as we get close we want to be able to point people to a site
that is simple to remember and specific to gnome 3.

What do you guys think?



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Re: New face to Friends of GNOME

[Andreas Nilsson]

On 01/04/2011 09:04 PM, Brian Cameron wrote:

Andreas:

The new design looks nice.  A few comments:

- Currently the "Corporate Sponsorship" only includes being an "Advisory
  Board member".  I'm not sure I like the term "Corporate" since
  Advisory Board members can be other non-for-profits, Foundations, or
  other non-Corporate organizations.  It would be nice to include
  information about Advisory Board fees.

But if they are a non-profit, we don't currently charge them.
Advisory board fees sounds like a good idea.


  It would also be nice to provide options for organizations that wish
  to donate but not be on the Advisory Board (or not donate as much as
  the fee).  Perhaps we could provide a page where we put logos/links
  to organizations who donate in this way.  Or perhaps we could include
  logos for organizations who donate a certain amount at events we
  organize.  Perhaps we could offer a menu of choices where
  organizations could be recognized in different ways based on the
  amount donated.
That needs a bunch of work on it's own, but I agree with the idea in 
general.

We also need to figure out how to word it and where to put it.


- The "List of Previous Donors" would be more cool if it allowed
  people to provide links to their personal page if they wish
  (perhaps their live.gnome.org page if they have one, for example).
More forms to fill in feels like a bad thing, or are we collecting this 
data in the paypal forms already?


  I don't know how to improve this page, but just a long list of names
  doesn't seem to be the best way to honor those who help us.

- There are a number of places you can buy official GNOME branded
  merchandise.  Shouldn't we highlight those here?
We highlight the GNOME Store on the www.gnome.org frontpage already, and 
if you really want a t-shirt you can donate at the sponsor-level. :) I'm 
hesitant about filling the friends page with more noise again.


- In the "Thanks to donations, in 2010 we were able to:" section
  it says "Hold a women outreach".  This seems oddly worded or an
  incomplete sentence.  Perhaps "Organize a Women's Outreach Program"
  might be more clear.

Will fix.


- Also, I liked how the old FoG page highlighted that the GNOME
  project benefits humanitarian projects like OLPC and a11y.  Would be
  nice to be able to continue to highlight a more humanitarian message.
  I would think this would encourage donations.
I know, and it was really hard to cut out that part from the sidebar 
(because it's and awesome message). Is there any way we can highlight 
this in the initial text somehow?


- Will it be possible to earmark donations for certain projects (such
  as Women's Outreach or a11y)?  If so, the page should highlight how
  to do this.
This makes the forms and other stuff more detailed as well, and it could 
be a slippery slope regarding what teams we list there. I would rather 
see this as aimed donation campaigns instead.

- Andreas

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Re: getting www.gnome3.org

[Andreas Nilsson]

On 01/10/2011 01:04 AM, Allan Day wrote:

Andreas Nilsson  wrote:

On 01/04/2011 09:11 PM, Stormy Peters wrote:

We do have gnome3.org and we worked on it at the last marketing hackfest. At
that time, it was really close to launching ...

http://www.andreasn.se/diverse/temp/gnome3.org/
This design is a bit different from the one I did at the Marketing Hackfest
in Spain, but it has basically the same stuff + some new content that Allan
recently put together.
No videos for now, since we don't have any ready, but a bunch of
screenshots, some info, a faq and ways to try it. We can add more stuff, or
refocus the page if needed later.
Should be pretty ready to launch.
- Andreas

A few things:

  * The exclamation mark needs to be removed from 'And much, much more'

Fixed.


  * I've tweaked the distraction free computing paragraph:
http://etherpad.tugraz.at/t95fCI5z5L .

Fixed.


  * 'removes the need to switch from keyboard to mouse' needs to be
removed from the everything at your fingertips paragraph

Fixed.


Ooo, and one last thing - the buttons for get it and the faq kinda
break up the flow of the text. If you want to keep them there, maybe
we should remove the first paragraph ('For GNOME 3...')? Otherwise,
what about moving those buttons, possibly to the bottom of the page?

Agreed. Fixed.
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Re: GNOME 3.0 Hackfest + 1 day conference for the launch(in Asia)

[Frederic Muller]

On 12/14/2010 11:09 PM, Jason D. Clinton wrote:

On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 07:09, Frederic Muller mailto:fr...@gnome.org>> wrote:

I'd like to echo the call we made to the release team here
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/release-team/2010-December/msg00031.html

and get a consensus on which date works better around GNOME 3.0
release (April 06) for each team to have a hackfest. We've been
discussing the plan since September with various members of each
team (to get the 3 teams together in a hackfest before a 1 day
conference to celebrate GNOME 3.0 launch with the public in Asia)
though emails and at the Boston Summit.


I think that only the first time frame makes sense from the marketing
perspective. I see little reason to conference about marketing after the
release date. But we don't *have* to have a marketing hackfest. If other
dates work better for other teams, feel free to opt for those.


Dear Documentation, Marketing and Release teams,

We've been moving forward with the conference preparation (in Bangalore) 
and we now need to pick the best possible date for everyone. We have 
potentially identified 2 options for the hackfest + conference dates, 
based on the survey and discussions with all the party involved: The 
conference should be on a weekend to get most people involved, and the 
hackfest before the release date (April 6) and spreading over 5 days, 
having 2 optional days for people who feel 3 days would be too short. 
That gives us either:
1. Wednesday March 30th to Friday April 1st: hackfest with 2 optional 
days on Monday 28th, and Tuesday 29th March

Saturday 2nd April: GNOME.Asia Summit 2011 (conference day)

2. Wednesday April 6th to Friday April 8th: hackfest with 2 optional 
days on Monday 4th, and Tuesday 5th April

Saturday 9th April: GNOME.Asia Summit 2011 (conference day)

Of course any feedback on those dates is welcome and hopefully we can 
find a good timing for all teams to prepare and get GNOME 3.0 out together.


Thank you and looking forward to your responses.

Fred

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Re: getting www.gnome3.org

[Diego Escalante Urrelo]

You ate a letter:

* Dark application themes for when you want to focus on pictures and videos
* edesigned workspaces so you can easily organise your windows
  ^

On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 8:14 PM, Andreas Nilsson  wrote:
> On 01/10/2011 01:04 AM, Allan Day wrote:
>>
>> Andreas Nilsson  wrote:
>>>
>>> On 01/04/2011 09:11 PM, Stormy Peters wrote:
>>>
>>> We do have gnome3.org and we worked on it at the last marketing hackfest.
>>> At
>>> that time, it was really close to launching ...
>>>
>>> http://www.andreasn.se/diverse/temp/gnome3.org/
>>> This design is a bit different from the one I did at the Marketing
>>> Hackfest
>>> in Spain, but it has basically the same stuff + some new content that
>>> Allan
>>> recently put together.
>>> No videos for now, since we don't have any ready, but a bunch of
>>> screenshots, some info, a faq and ways to try it. We can add more stuff,
>>> or
>>> refocus the page if needed later.
>>> Should be pretty ready to launch.
>>> - Andreas
>>
>> A few things:
>>
>>  * The exclamation mark needs to be removed from 'And much, much more'
>
> Fixed.
>>
>>  * I've tweaked the distraction free computing paragraph:
>> http://etherpad.tugraz.at/t95fCI5z5L .
>
> Fixed.
>>
>>  * 'removes the need to switch from keyboard to mouse' needs to be
>> removed from the everything at your fingertips paragraph
>
> Fixed.
>>
>> Ooo, and one last thing - the buttons for get it and the faq kinda
>> break up the flow of the text. If you want to keep them there, maybe
>> we should remove the first paragraph ('For GNOME 3...')? Otherwise,
>> what about moving those buttons, possibly to the bottom of the page?
>
> Agreed. Fixed.
> - Andreas
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