Re: Pronouncing GNOME

2005-08-14 Thread Elliot Lee 
On Sat, 13 Aug 2005, Travis Reitter wrote:

 I've noticed that the vast majority of new users tend to pronounce GNOME
 as gnome (rather than GUH-nome) - this was reiterated as I helped
 out at the booth at LWE this week.
 
 Would it make sense to change the official pronunciation of GNOME to
 gnome to smooth out this blip? Or does this unnecessarily disassociate
 it from GNU, etc.?

GNOME is a child of the Internet, where pronunciation doesn't matter. 
Let's leave it that way ;-)

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Re: GNOME wins in the OSNews poll

2005-06-02 Thread Elliot Lee 
On Thu, 2 Jun 2005, Ken VanDine wrote:

 http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=10731

Web polls: A great way to measure which project can marshal more
supporters to vote.

;-)
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Re: Business cards

2005-03-23 Thread Elliot Lee 
On Wed, 23 Mar 2005, Murray Cumming wrote:

 The GNOME Foundation board discussed this today. We really like the idea
 of our contributors associating themselves with the project in this way,
 and feeling even more like part of the community.
 
 But we are not so comfortable with people using the logo on commercial
 business cards. It would look too much like we are endorsing the
 business, and that normally requires a special agreement.
 
 So, it would be nice to have these address cards [1] for non-
 commercial purposes, plus a member of GNOME Foundation logo for cards,
 and for peoples' web sites, for instance. That would be more meaningful,
 and less confusing. Would someone like to try some designs?
 
 
 [1] Maybe someone can think of a better non-commercial name, instead of
 business card. The German word translates approximately as visitor
 card.

calling cards (stationery, not long distance) used to be widely used and
that is probably the English equivalent of the term you're referring to.

http://www.victorianbazaar.com/stationery.html
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