Re: spreading the word in india and making a little money for GNOME
On 03/05/2011 02:02 AM, Jos Poortvliet wrote: Hi there, Swapnil Bhartiya, an enthusiastic editor and GNOME fan from Muktware.com has asked if GNOME people could write something every now and then for the site. The site has quite a nice Asian following. Swapnil will donate $15 for each article to the GNOME Foundation. It is not much but the thought counts ;-) If you want to write something, let him know on edi...@muktware.com ;-) Cheers, Jos Hey Jos! This is definitely a good timing as we'll be having a GNOME 3.0 hackfest and GNOME.Asia Summit in Bangalore in about 1 month time. Would that qualify as an article? If so I'll try to draft something once I'm done with the gnome3.org map representation of the launch parties (in 2-3 days maybe). Thanks. Fred ps: apologies to Jos and editor@ for emailing twice, I initially use my wrong email account. -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: GNOME 3 videos
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 17:33, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: > I'm looking at http://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/Gnome3In30Seconds and > http://jasondclinton.livejournal.com/82744.html -- I'm downloading some > of the videos, but my connection is really slow right now so I can't judge > whether any of them are ready to go up on gnome3.org. (Also, Jason said > they'd need to be refilmed about now anyway -- updated, I assume.) > There are still some outstanding theme changes and some UI changes that just landed so there's nothing ready to post. I had, at one time, hoped I'd have time to post videos in beta quality (similar to the video you downloaded) with an overlay on the video so that they wouldn't be re-posted on tech. blogs but I never had time to do that and they would have to be re-filmed now that the UI has changed, anyway. I've reserved my free time from the 11th through the 20th for filming and post-production. How many will I finish during that time? I don't know. I've asked for help several times throughout the past year and a half and haven't gotten any offers except for some help with music, so as far as I know, it's just me working on them, even though I posted that complete HOWTO. Would love the help but I'm afraid the technical learning curve is too high for anyone not familiar with video and video editing and we're just too close to the deadline for me to invest any time in training someone else. > The marketing roadmap > http://live.gnome.org/ThreePointZero/MarketingRoadmap suggests that I > should reach out ASAP to the translation team to make translations of the > video scripts -- that is, the words that the narrators are saying, and any > important words visible on the screen. That way, once we have re-filmed > videos with up-to-date installations of GNOME 3, the translators can use > http://universalsubtitles.org and easily copy and paste their translations > into the subtitling interface. > The "scripts" are loose and get modified a bit when I film and go in to post-production and find out that an idea that I had didn't work out quite right. Having people start translating these early would probably be frustrating for them. Additionally, jimmac said that he wanted to add/change some scripts. My feeling is that we go live with UT and English and allow crowd-sourced translation from live-day. Whether that happens to be by the translation teams or a random community member, I don't think it makes any difference as long as "live-day" is in advance of the GNOME 3 launch day. 2) We have about 6 sample scripts for Gnome3In30Seconds ... are they final > enough to give to translators? If not, I suggest people edit them before > Monday so I can give them to the i18n team as soon as possible. > Yea, let's not do that or at least with a giant caveat that something translated may not even remotely resemble the final product. Or may never even end up getting used. On the topic of help, what someone could definitely help set up would be preparing our YouTube account (don't remember who has login) and figure out how to force YouTube in to HTML5 embedding mode and how to make that work with UT. All I know is that the "new" YouTube embedding method involves IFRAME's and I'm not even entirely sure that it's possible to force HTML5 mode. Red Hat asked that we not put the videos on their servers for fear of launch day bandwidth-related meltdowns. So, it's going to have to be hosted in the cloud somewhere and YouTube seems the friendliest option. They (Google) support GNOME and they're pushing HTML5+WebM. -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
spreading the word in india and making a little money for GNOME
Hi there, Swapnil Bhartiya, an enthusiastic editor and GNOME fan from Muktware.com has asked if GNOME people could write something every now and then for the site. The site has quite a nice Asian following. Swapnil will donate $15 for each article to the GNOME Foundation. It is not much but the thought counts ;-) If you want to write something, let him know on edi...@muktware.com ;-) Cheers, Jos 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
Week 1 Update
Hi all! It's nearly the end of the first week of my GNOME 3 marketing contract, so I thought it would be a good time to let you all know what I've been up to. Here's a list of the main tasks I've taken care of this week as a part of the contract: * Wrote to the marketing list about plans for the release notes and roadmap. * Started working on the 3.0 release notes: http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointNinetyone/ReleaseNotes There's lots to write about! * Fixed some link problems with gnome3.org and updated some information on the site. * Collected information on how the main distros will be shipping 3.0 - we need this for various marketing activities, including gnome3.org. Had some good conversations with people from the relevant distros and got some good information. (Jorge Castro updated the instructions for installing GNOME 3 on Ubuntu [1], btw - thanks Jorge!) Fed the distribution information back to the marketing list. * Chased some people to check on the developer migration documentation situation (this is something that came up as a priority for distributors). Turns out that there is some good documentation already and an excellent porting checklist that has been written by Javier Jardon. I moved that to http://live.gnome.org/Gnome3PortingGuide so that we can build on it in the future. * Did a big cleanup of the marketing tasks page: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/Tasks We can hopefully use this page to pool GNOME 3 marketing tasks that we want to advertise to volunteers. I've put some items on there - check it out! (Feel free to add tasks too.) * Created up to date screenshots and a new 'alpha' (now 'beta') banner for gnome3.org. Updated the web site with the new material. * Updated the GNOME 3 marketing schedule with some items that have come up during the week: http://live.gnome.org/ThreePointZero/MarketingRoadmap Allan [1] http://askubuntu.com/questions/22946/how-do-i-install-the-latest-version-of-gnome-3/28392#28392 -- 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
