Re: GNOME Store
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 10:35 AM, Andre Klapper ak...@gmx.net wrote: Am Mittwoch, den 28.04.2010, 11:02 +0200 schrieb Dave Neary: If we must decide on a t-shirt design to drop (and we're not there yet), the House of Monkeys T would be my preference. Heh. That's exactly the one that I have gotten the most positive comments (cute etc) and conversation starts (what is GNOME?) for. andre Yep, it's an awesome design! Hylke -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: GNOME - Gnome
Yes. I also think its time to start calling it Gnome. You can call it whatever you want. Hylke -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: GNOME - Gnome
Hi, I am very much against this. Gnome reminds of the the imaginary tiny creatures. At least you can see GNOME is an acronym, and you can guess it doesn't have anything to do with those. If the argument is that the acronym isn't appropriate anymore, I suggest finding a new a new one. Also Gnome is visually very unpleasing. The GNOME type in the logo looks very good. I'd rather go with finding a new name than changing the case. Hylke On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 7:19 PM, Jason D. Clinton m...@jasonclinton.com wrote: At the November hackfest, we briefly discussed and were all enthusiastically in support of changing the case of GNOME branding from GNOME to Gnome. I have floated this idea with others over the past few months and haven't gotten any negative feedback. What about others? Have you discussed this with others and what were their feelings? Just to be clear, no other part of our branding would be changed under this proposal. If we're going to do this, 3.0 seems like the perfect opportunity. I think that we should decide how we feel as the Marketing Team leading up to the Zaragoza, Spain hackfest and try and come to a final decision by then. -- 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 - Gnome
On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 11:38 PM, Alex Launi alex.la...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 6:27 PM, Hylke Bons hylkeb...@gmail.com wrote: Gnome reminds of the the imaginary tiny creatures. So what? Gnomes are adorable, intelligent creatures. They believe in strong communities, and wear silly hats. We should be thrilled to be associated with such creates. Well it would be nice if we knew what it said on the tin. At least you can see GNOME is an acronym, and you can guess it doesn't have anything to do with those. GNOME is a horrible acronym. GNU Network Object Model Environment. WHAT??? Seriously, what the hell does that mean? Looks like you didn't read my whole reply. Hylke -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Do-Gooders and Other Free License Recipients...
Nothing inkscape cannot do. :) We just need to create a base library of widgets. I think what would be more important than the authoring software is to somehow incorporate UI design in the OSS design process. There are fery few projects at the moment that do this. A good example of this is GIMP ( http://gimp-brainstorm.blogspot.com/ ). Many people are submitting gimp mockups with their ideas of what could be better. And it works. Many of the ideas have found their way into GIMP. On the Moblin team, we are also looking into ways of how to make our design process more open and engage the community in different ways. Hylke On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 5:44 AM, Guy Lunardi gluna...@novell.com wrote: Roberto, This would be fantastic! I am a firm believer in mockups and have been using Balsamiq Mockups for quite some time now. I am quite happy with their software. Stormy suggested we reach out to the usability team to see what they think. To me mockups have a significant potential marketing value. Having documentation elements early is great to convey the potential of GNOME software. Best regards, -Guy On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 17:48 +0200, Roberto Galoppini wrote: Balsamiq would be open, maybe if this makes sense we might consider to let people know GNOME uses their product, and get free licenses from them. Let me know if you want me to help with this, I know the company. Best, Roberto 2009/10/11 Guy Lunardi gluna...@novell.com: All, While I realize that their software doesn't use any GNOME technologies, it is still a very useful tool that I personally use often for projects. I was wondering if anyone thought that contacting Balsamiq and asking them to consider donating licenses to GNOME Foundation members would be useful? http://www.balsamiq.com/products/mockups Having used their software for quite some time, I know that the projects we used it for had a much great user experience focus during the early development cycles because of it. It might be a great opportunity for GNOME to increase its emphasis on user experience. We could for example use this software as part of some of our outreach programs (collect feedback earlier on designs). Please let me know what you think. Best regards, -Guy -- 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: Cultural Issue with the Foot Logo
It's quite funny to see how GNOME HIG advises to avoid body parts, but the actual GNOME logo is a foot(print). Do people in Thailand give the same reaction if the logo was a shoe? :) If not http://tango.freedesktop.org/favicon.ico could be an option. Hylke On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 10:18 AM, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have thought about this issue for a while whether it should be raised or not, as the logo has been in use for a long time. And I'm not sure if it's ever discussed anywhere about the cultural issue with the GNOME's foot logo, which may obstruct GNOME promotion in some way. In Thai culture, and I'm pretty sure also in the nearby regions, showing foot is considered rude, as it's the lowest part of the body. And a variation of the word 'foot' in Thai is used for scolding, in the tone close to f**k or b*tch in English. I have had hard times introducing GNOME to Thai people who never know about it before, and their reactions are awkward when seeing the foot logo. I have to explain that it's a footprint, not the foot itself. But that doesn't help much, as footprint also indicates treading with a foot. Some people simply refuse GNOME with the reason that it's impolite. That sometimes makes me feel uncomfortable to promote GNOME to new users as-is, or with distributions that try to keep upstream look-and-feels like Debian. But with Ubuntu or Fedora, where the main menu logo is replaced with something else, that's more OK. Just avoid letting them see the animated foot on Epiphany or Nautilus, until they are familiar with GNOME enough. I don't know if this is an issue for other cultures. Just want to raise it for awareness on an obstacle. Should there be an alternative logo for GNOME? For example, using a gnome head instead is OK. Regards, -- Theppitak Karoonboonyanan http://linux.thai.net/~thep/ -- 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
