gnome3.org update [Was: 4/14 Friends of GNOME videos finished and posted]
Jason D. Clinton wrote: On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 15:10, Jason D. Clinton m...@jasonclinton.com wrote: The last commit adds the text areas and needs a little iteration. Please feel free to tweak it without clearing it with me before posting it. Also feel free to publish the updated screen shots without my last commit if you feel you'd like to go live immediately without the added text areas. Well, I was under the impression that a publishing step was required but I guess it's live already. Oops! I'll iterate on the text a little more now to make it presentable but feel free to remove or comment out areas at a whim. Me and Jason have been discussing the site, and were thinking that an update might be in order at some point in the near(ish) future. There are quite a few changes that have been discussed, and it makes sense to have them go live at the same time as part of an event, rather than being added incrementally. Jason's kindly offered to create a branch where we can prepare these updates before making them live. Here's a list of changes that have been discussed: * Refinement of the home page text * Addition of video content * Follow us buttons for Twitter and Identica * A Facebook 'Like' button * One of Andreas's snazzy page footers, like the one on the t-shirt contest site [1] * A launch party page * A developer platform page * Updates to the Try It page, hopefully with a link to the preview build That's not a list of what we should or need to do; it's just the possibilities that I'm aware of. Contributions would be welcome, of course. Best wishes, Allan [1] http://www.gnome.org/contest/ -- Blog: http://afaikblog.wordpress.com/ IRC: aday on irc.gnome.org -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: GNOME 3 QA
Hi, Stormy Peters wrote: I too think regular office hours would be good. I'm willing to help out with a regular time each week. We could keep an archive of the questions asked and the answers to help out people answering questions. I'd suggest having 3 different office hours per week, to cater to different timezones. Something like 1pm UTC might suit for Europe, but not West coast US or Asia. 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: GNOME 3 QA
Dave Neary wrote: I'd suggest having 3 different office hours per week, to cater to different timezones. Something like 1pm UTC might suit for Europe, but not West coast US or Asia. ... it goes without saying that different people would presumably be present for different office hours. 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: Questions about FoG and campaigns
Hi, Diego Escalante Urrelo wrote: And it misses a more tangible goal than just the number of subscriptors IMO. Something like 2 new hackfests this year or whatever. Obviously the money won't be used exclusively on that, but it helps understand why we want money, besides because it's money. Absolutely agree. http://blogs.gnome.org/bolsh/2008/11/20/things-to-learn-for-gnome/ When you donate €200 to MSF, they have a list of things they can do with it (x vaccines, y meals, z survival blankets). 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: gnome3.org update [Was: 4/14 Friends of GNOME videos finished and posted]
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 05:27, Allan Day allanp...@gmail.com wrote: Jason's kindly offered to create a branch where we can prepare these updates before making them live. I have pushed a new branch called marketing-team-collab which currently doesn't differ from master but can safely be updated at any time without affecting the live site. (So anyone should feel free to push new ideas here at any point. It's easy to undo something in the branch.) If you're new to git, all you need to do is do a git fetch on your existing gnome3-web directory so that your local copy is up to date and then do: $ git checkout origin/marketing-team-collab -b marketing-team-collab If you make a mistake and push something here which you want to revert, do a git revert locally and then push the result to the origin with git push origin marketing-team-collab. Later we can squish reverted entries in the log before merging them to master (so the history looks nice and clean.) -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: GNOME 3 QA
Dave Neary wrote: Stormy Peters wrote: I too think regular office hours would be good. I'm willing to help out with a regular time each week. We could keep an archive of the questions asked and the answers to help out people answering questions. I'd suggest having 3 different office hours per week, to cater to different timezones. Something like 1pm UTC might suit for Europe, but not West coast US or Asia. How about we organise this as a 'GNOME 3 User Day', with three sessions over 24 hours? If the first one (or two?) works OK and there is sufficient interest, we can turn it into a regular event. What do people think of 07:00 - 08:00, 15:00 - 16:00, 23:00 - 24:00 (UTC)? Allan -- Blog: http://afaikblog.wordpress.com/ IRC: aday on irc.gnome.org -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: GNOME 3 QA
Hi, Allan Day wrote: How about we organise this as a 'GNOME 3 User Day', with three sessions over 24 hours? If the first one (or two?) works OK and there is sufficient interest, we can turn it into a regular event. What do people think of 07:00 - 08:00, 15:00 - 16:00, 23:00 - 24:00 (UTC)? Sounds good - I have no real preferences on the hours, I don't know who's targeted specifically with 07:00 - 08:00 - is that mid afternoon Asia, early evening Australia? Cheersn 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
Open source bridge talk..
So I'm trying to formulate my talk for Open Source Bridge in Portland in June (http://opensourcebridge.org/events/2011/proposals) and since ithis is after the release, I was hoping that I could concentrate on two things: 1) the philsophy behind the design of gnome shell - eg user flow and what not 2) a talk on extending gnome-shell I think in the past we've never really clearly defined why we designed our desktop the way it is and a lot of people never understood it they always saw it as taking away features and I want to talk about why it was designed the way it is (why no applets etc) and the opportunities in extending gnome-shell. This conference has a number of web programmers (look at the proposals) and of course they all know javascript so it will be a great opportunity to attract developers from that community to hack on gnome-shell and extend it. I'd like to partner with someone from gnome-shell team to talk about the philosophy and work that went into designing gnome-shell. I think this would be pretty helpful. For now I'm going to put in a stub since they are gathering proposals now and then we can discuss in late April time frame when gnome shell guys will not be so busy. sri -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Open source bridge talk..
Hi Sri, A good place to start is with the design overview document William Jon McCann and Jeremy Perry wrote[1]. Paul [1] http://www.gnome.org/~mccann/shell/design/GNOME_Shell-20090705.pdf On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.me wrote: So I'm trying to formulate my talk for Open Source Bridge in Portland in June (http://opensourcebridge.org/events/2011/proposals) and since ithis is after the release, I was hoping that I could concentrate on two things: 1) the philsophy behind the design of gnome shell - eg user flow and what not 2) a talk on extending gnome-shell I think in the past we've never really clearly defined why we designed our desktop the way it is and a lot of people never understood it they always saw it as taking away features and I want to talk about why it was designed the way it is (why no applets etc) and the opportunities in extending gnome-shell. This conference has a number of web programmers (look at the proposals) and of course they all know javascript so it will be a great opportunity to attract developers from that community to hack on gnome-shell and extend it. I'd like to partner with someone from gnome-shell team to talk about the philosophy and work that went into designing gnome-shell. I think this would be pretty helpful. For now I'm going to put in a stub since they are gathering proposals now and then we can discuss in late April time frame when gnome shell guys will not be so busy. sri -- 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 3 QA
On 01/28/2011 12:47 AM, Dave Neary wrote: Hi, Allan Day wrote: How about we organise this as a 'GNOME 3 User Day', with three sessions over 24 hours? If the first one (or two?) works OK and there is sufficient interest, we can turn it into a regular event. What do people think of 07:00 - 08:00, 15:00 - 16:00, 23:00 - 24:00 (UTC)? Sounds good - I have no real preferences on the hours, I don't know who's targeted specifically with 07:00 - 08:00 - is that mid afternoon Asia, early evening Australia? Cheersn Dave. Yes 7-8am would work well for Asia: India is GMT+5:30, South-East Asia GMT+6, China GMT+8 . As you can see the 2 other slots are not so optimum. And then Japan being GMT+9 can do both 7-8 and 23-24 as both falls into office hours. Fred -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
