GNOME User Day 31 March -- IRC questions-and-answers session
It's time for a GNOME User Day! Your IRC hosts will help any GNOME user learn about the GNOME 3.0 platform, talk about GNOME Shell, and answer any other questions you have. More details: http://live.gnome.org/ThreePointZero/UserDays The session will take place in a few days, on 31 March 2011, in the #gnome IRC channel. All times are UTC: Session 1 (07:00-08:00): Participate in the GNOME 3.0 hackfest * Hosts: Allan Day, Fred Peters, Andre Klapper Session 2 (15:00-16:00): The 3.0 platform * Hosts: Diegoe and Luis M. Session 3 (20:00-21:00): GNOME Shell Q A * Hosts: Florian M. and Marina Z. Please see http://live.gnome.org/ThreePointZero/UserDays for the times in your area. Please spread the word! Thanks! best, Sumana Harihareswara GNOME Marketing -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Identi.ca Twitter feed passwords
I think Allan I should get access to the GNOME Foundation's Identi.ca Twitter passwords. (You can always change the password after our contract ends, if you don't want us to have posting access anymore.) I do not currently have those passwords; would someone who has them please contact me and arrange for me to get them? Thanks. (The immediate reason I'm asking: to promote the GNOME User Day on 31 March.) -Sumana -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Fallback / Classic Mode
On Tue, 2011-03-22 at 12:27 +0100, Dave Neary wrote: In the minds of a lot of people (press and GNOME hackers, and by proxy, future users), GNOME 3 is very much the user experience defined by GNOME Shell. And, while I don't have any data to back this up, I'd bet that people are expecting GNOME 3 fall-back mode to be more or less equivalent to GNOME 2. So since (a) in some situations using GNOME 3 in normal mode (with GNOME Shell) is not appropriate, and (b) GNOME fall-back does not provide the same user experience as GNOME 2, we risk disappointing some people doubly, if we do not prepare ourselves to manage these expectations. That means, IMHO, figuring out some situations when it's inappropriate to run GNOME Shell, documenting how to manually switch to fall-back mode if, for example, your card is detected as being Shell capable, but runs slowly (I had this experience on one SiS chipset on a netbook), and also managing people's expectations about GNOME Fallback's feature set. If somebody would like to write up a couple paragraphs about this, I'll do the markup and such and put it into the help. It's a useful topic, I think. -- Shaun -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
ROUGH draft of GNOME 3.0 press release (request for comments)
With Sri's help, I've written a very rough draft for the GNOME 3.0 press release. Please comment, critique, and suggest edits within the next 36 hours (before about 8am Wednesday, US East Coast time). I'm waiting on quotes from Miguel Stormy -- as soon as I get one of them, I'm going to insert it somewhere reasonable and start sending this out to the longer-lead-time journalists on our lists (print people), as we're already behind schedule. My major questions: 1) Is everything accurate? 2) Should I move the general what is GNOME paragraph to, perhaps, the second paragraph instead of the last? (Tomorrow I can look at the whole thing with a fresh eye and start improving the prose.) -Sumana Groton, MA, April 6 2011: Today the GNOME Desktop project releases GNOME 3.0, its first major release in nine years. A revolutionary new user interface, new features for developers, and a stronger accessibility foundation make this a historic moment for the Linux desktop. The GNOME 3 platform consists of the GNOME Shell and the GNOME 3 development foundation. The GNOME Shell reimagines the user interface for the next generation of the Free Open Source desktop. The innovative GNOME Shell allows users to focus on tasks while minimizing distractions such as notifications, extra workspaces, and background windows. Jon McCann, one of GNOME Shell's designers, describes it as ineffable...We've taken a pretty different approach in the GNOME 3 design that focuses on the desired experience and lets the interface design follow from that With any luck you will feel more focused, aware, effective, capable, respected, delighted, and at ease. GNOME Shell aims to [h]elp us cope with modern life in a busy world. Help us connect, stay on track, feel at ease and in control. [To help us be] informed without being disrupted. The GNOME 3 development foundation includes improvements in the display backend, a new API, and improvements in search, user messaging, system settings, and streamlined libraries. GNOME 2 applications will continue to work in the GNOME 3 environment without modification, allowing developers to move to the GNOME 3 environment at their own pace. The GNOME 3 release notes include further details. Matt Zimmerman, Ubuntu CTO at Canonical, praises GNOME 3: In the face of constant change, both in software technology itself and in people's attitudes toward it, long-term software projects need to reinvent themselves in order to stay relevant. I'm encouraged to see the GNOME community taking up this challenge, responding to the evolving needs of users and questioning the status quo. In addition to improvements in user experience and the application development framework, this release marks GNOME making its accessibility framework available to other desktop environments. GNOME has always been a leader in accessibility, making GNOME 3 a usable and productive environment for everyone. The new release enables applications developed for other desktop environments to be just as accessible as native GNOME applications on GNOME 3. GNOME strengthens its legendary accessibility foundation, and accelerates the pace of innovation across the Linux desktop. GNOME 3 is the cumulative work of five years of planning and design by the GNOME community. McCann notes: Perhaps the most notable part of the design process is that everything has been done in the open. We've had full transparency for every decision (good and bad) and every change we've made. We strongly believe in this model. It is not only right in principle it is just the best way in the long run to build great software sustainably in a large community. In partnership with Novell, Red Hat, other Linux distributors, schools and governments, and user groups, GNOME 3 will reach millions of users around the world. Over 3500 people have contributed changes to the project's code repositories, including the employees of 106 companies. GNOME 3 includes innumberable code changes since the 2.0 release 9 years ago. Users and fans of GNOME have planned more than a hundred launch parties around the world. Users can download GNOME 3 from gnome3.org immediately, or wait for Linux distributions to carry it over the coming months. GNOME 3 continues to push new frontiers in user interaction. The GNOME Project was started in 1997 by two then-university students, Miguel de Icaza and Federico Mena. Their aim: to produce a free (as in freedom) desktop environment. Since then, GNOME has grown into a hugely successful enterprise. Used by millions of people across the world, it is the most popular desktop environment for GNU/Linux and UNIX-type operating systems. The desktop has been utilised in successful, large-scale enterprise and public deployments, and the project's developer technologies are utilised in a large number of popular mobile devices. For further comments and information, contact the
Re: ROUGH draft of GNOME 3.0 press release (request for comments)
I've already taken out the accessibility paragraph, on the advice of #a11y. mgorse sumanah: There is a QT bridge now, which I think is still a work in progress, but a lot of progress is being made. The port of AT-SPI to DBus helped since QT already supports DBus * sumanah nods sumanah mgorse: so I am getting the sense that this release marks GNOME making its accessibility framework available to other desktop environments is not quite accurate? ... sumanah eeejay: so I am trying to check whether it's reasonable to say, of GNOME 3.0, that this is a release where the a11y foundation goes cross-platform sumanah I remember in May 2010 at the marketing hackfest we developed that as a talking point sumanah did it happen in the fall release and I just missed it? eeejay sumanah, basically what mgorse said eeejay sumanah, it is not a very direct talking point, no I have, therefore, also edited http://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/TalkingPoints accordingly. The top 3 topics to discuss regarding GNOME 3 are, I perceive, user experience, development, and apps. best, Sumana -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: GNOME User Day 31 March -- IRC questions-and-answers session
Cool! I'll be there. On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 5:37 PM, Sumana Harihareswara suma...@panix.com wrote: It's time for a GNOME User Day! Your IRC hosts will help any GNOME user learn about the GNOME 3.0 platform, talk about GNOME Shell, and answer any other questions you have. More details: http://live.gnome.org/ThreePointZero/UserDays The session will take place in a few days, on 31 March 2011, in the #gnome IRC channel. All times are UTC: Session 1 (07:00-08:00): Participate in the GNOME 3.0 hackfest * Hosts: Allan Day, Fred Peters, Andre Klapper Session 2 (15:00-16:00): The 3.0 platform * Hosts: Diegoe and Luis M. Session 3 (20:00-21:00): GNOME Shell Q A * Hosts: Florian M. and Marina Z. Please see http://live.gnome.org/ThreePointZero/UserDays for the times in your area. Please spread the word! Thanks! best, Sumana Harihareswara GNOME Marketing -- 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: New GNOME.Asia Summit website launched
I think this was already covered by Frederic in http://mail.gnome.org/archives/marketing-list/2011-March/msg00147.html The message you cited is one I've already responded to on this list on March 23. (Search for People who think they are synonymous have misunderstood the substance.) by asking for a concrete proposal. I'm trying to be flexible and work with the rest of you, but I can offer specific proposals too. How about these: Boost your business in Freedom, with Free Software Free your business with Free Software Or swatantra, in honor of India? I'd rather see the complete website translated instead of some single words to some languages as a surprise in the English version. That was a concrete suggestion for one way to express the idea that it's free-as-in-freedom. Here's another. Make a background image with a repeating text that says Free as in freedom. It would say this in small letters, in light gray on white so it looks like a watermark and doesn't interfere with reading other text. Repeating every inch vertically, and every two inches, horizontally, like this: Free as in freedom Free as in freedomFree as in freedom Free as in freedom Free as in freedomFree as in freedom Free as in freedom Free as in freedomFree as in freedom Free as in freedom Free as in freedomFree as in freedom I am neither a graphics designer nor an expert on HTML, Someone who understands those things better might see a far better way. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org, www.gnu.org Skype: I won't use it, because it's freedom-denying software. -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: The last long steps of the gnome.org website
On Wed, 2011-03-09 at 00:51 +0100, Andreas Nilsson wrote: I won't go about with some kind of inpirational blah-blah-blah about how the last steps of climbing a mountain, when you are closest to the top are the hardest, because I never did that. I saw some dude on TV saying that though. Anyway. http://wptest.gnome.org/ is design-wise in a pretty good shape. What's needed right now is taking it the last steps and making it a great website for our great project. For this to happen we need to sharpen the focus of it, make sure the texts and images are good and that everything works as expected when we launch GNOME 3. There are some darlings to be killed, some very dear ones. But this is needed in order to get the most fundamental parts in place. The basic navigation would be: home | about | desktop | applications | developer technologies Home - (very) Brief introduction, latest news and all that. About - Our community, history, organization etc. Desktop - Present shell (pretty much lifting info from http://www.gnome3.org/), Control Center, etc. Applications - The really cool applications we want to highlight. You know, Banshee, Deja-dup, Gedit and those guys from the GNOME Apps module [1] Developer tech - Languages, GTK+, Clutter, Gstreamer, Telepathy and all those guys. I expect us to figure out the exact subpages along the way, but if these guys are the basis and I want to start in that end. Allan have said he would help with the content, myself will be doing some design stuff and Vdepizzol will be taking care of the translation stuff the following weeks leading up to the GNOME 3 Hackfest in Bangalore. I hope we'll be done with most of the basics by then and are as close to deployment as possible. Final release would be together with GNOME 3 on April 6th. Me and Allan also created a Etherpad document here: http://etherpad.tugraz.at/x593dDuQ2C 1. http://git.gnome.org/browse/jhbuild/plain/modulesets/gnome-apps-3.0.modules - Andreas I've redrafted quite a few of the pages. I'd appreciate any feedback people might have. Me and Andreas have been working on the site at the Bangalore hackfest, and have been discussing the content that should go on the desktop and get involved pages. We've come up with a new structure for the footer, which indicates the content that we'll be aiming to have on the site when it relaunches: The GNOME Project - About Get involved Team Workspaces The GNOME Foundation Support GNOME Contact Resources - Wiki IRC Bug tracker JhBuild Code hosting Documentation Mailing lists News Planet GNOME GNOME News GNOME Journal Latest release We'll be cracking on with this over the next few days, so please chip in with ideas and comments. Allan -- Blog: https://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
