Re: Moving Engagement List to Discourse

2019-02-07 Thread Allan Day
wrote: ... > I brought this up in Telegram but didn't receive any objections. > > The GTK team are moving to discourse and I asked Neil if he could move > us as well. ... > If you have no objection, say nothing and I'll work on moving us out as > soon as GTK gets finished. I'll move the rest of

Re: No more release notes for me

2018-07-09 Thread Allan Day
Bastian Ilso via engagement-list wrote: ... > Has the Release Notes repository been migrated to Gitlab by now? Looks that way - https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/release-notes Allan ___ engagement-list mailing list engagement-list@gnome.org

Re: Source files for printing stickers?

2018-06-28 Thread Allan Day
Ekaterina Gerasimova via engagement-list wrote: ... > Does anyone know where the old sticker files are? > > For https://gitlab.gnome.org/Community/Engagement/GUADEC/issues/31 Stickers - https://github.com/gnome-design-team/gnome-marketing/tree/master/stickers Pin badges -

Re: GUADEC banner SVGs?

2018-06-28 Thread Allan Day
Ekaterina Gerasimova via engagement-list wrote: ... > Can someone please help find the files which were used to print the roller > banners last year? > > For https://gitlab.gnome.org/Community/Engagement/GUADEC/issues/67 All the source files for the designs are stored in the gnome-marketing

Re: Section from "What's New in Fedora 28 Workstation?" article for Fedora Magazine

2018-04-23 Thread Allan Day
Thanks for reaching out about this, Link. I know from experience that writing about contentious decisions can be tricky to get right. Liam R. E. Quin wrote: ... > Remember that the only people made happy by removing features generally > are developers... I agree with Liam here.

Re: engagement hackfest

2018-03-06 Thread Allan Day
Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > I'd like to start on an engagement hackfest. Mostly I'm interested in > fixing our website and wiki. I'd like to use the notes from our last > hackfest we had a couple years ago because I think we had some good > information there that I feel we

Re: 3.28 release notes outline

2018-02-28 Thread Allan Day
Hi again everyone, I'm done writing the text of the release notes. I'll probably tell the translators that they can start work tomorrow, so if anyone would like to give them a check over, now's the time! Thanks, Allan On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 5:01 PM, Allan Day <a...@gnome.org> wrote: &g

Re: 3.28 release notes outline

2018-02-20 Thread Allan Day
Hi all, Work on the release notes is now happening on the gnome-3-28 branch: https://git.gnome.org/browse/release-notes/log/?h=gnome-3-28 Allan ___ engagement-list mailing list engagement-list@gnome.org

3.28 release notes outline

2018-02-16 Thread Allan Day
Hi everyone, I've started planning the users section of the 3.28 release notes, and wanted to share the initial page structure that I've come up with - you can see it below. As with recent releases, the idea is to have sections for the main features, each of which will have a screenshot. This

GNOME 3.28 Release Marketing

2018-02-14 Thread Allan Day
Hi everyone, The next GNOME release is scheduled for 14th March - exactly one month from today. This means that it's time to think about release marketing! Things that we usually do for releases include: - Release notes - Screenshots for the release notes and screenshot pack - News

Re: Request for budget to update the event box contents

2018-02-08 Thread Allan Day
Replying selectively... Ekaterina Gerasimova wrote: ... > There was already one in the US when I was on the board, what's happened to > it? > > https://wiki.gnome.org/Events/Box/NorthAmerica As far as I know, Emily still has it. This has been discussed at various points

Re: 3.28 release schedule

2018-01-17 Thread Allan Day
Hi all, Since Bastian started the page for the release notes (thanks Bastian!), I've sent an email to d-d-l asking people to start contributing information. It might be a bit soon for a lot of features, but it doesn't hurt to start building awareness now. Allan On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 12:02 PM,

3.28 release schedule

2018-01-10 Thread Allan Day
Hi all, We're still a little way out from the next GNOME release, but I thought that it might be useful for me to draw the team's attention to some key upcoming dates: - 7 February - beta 1 - 21 February - beta 2 - 7 March - release candidate - 14 March - 3.28 release It might be

Re: community input..

2017-12-11 Thread Allan Day
Emily Gonyer wrote: > As someone who has been, and continues to attempt to become involved > in the GNOME project without being knee deep in code, I continue to be > amazed at just how hard that is to achieve. I would love to help with > project road maps, user feedback, bug

Re: Reminder | GNOME Engagement Meeting Friday, Sept 22nd

2017-09-22 Thread Allan Day
Thanks for this, Nuritzi. I thought that it might be useful for us to talk about how the 3.26 release went, so I've put it on the agenda. Allan On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 2:30 AM, Nuritzi Sanchez < nurit...@stanfordalumni.org> wrote: > Hi All, > > This is a quick reminder about the GNOME

3.26 release marketing - outstanding tasks

2017-09-08 Thread Allan Day
Hi everyone, I'm going to be offline for the next week. I'm leaving with some tasks incomplete for the 3.26 release on 13 September. Here's what needs to be done: - Release notes: - The Git statistics need updating from last release. There are notes about this on the wiki [1].

Coordinator needed for release day

2017-09-05 Thread Allan Day
Hi everyone, As you should hopefully be aware, we have a release planned for September 13th. Due to a personal conflict I won't be around to coordinate release marketing on the day. Would anyone be interested in doing this? The process for coordinating the release announcement is documented on

Re: GNOME 3.26 release marketing

2017-08-31 Thread Allan Day
Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > The main tasks we need to cover are: > >> >>- Writing the release notes >>- Writing a news post for gnome.org >> >> > I can help with the blog posts. > > >>- Collecting screenshots (to use in the release notes and a separate >>

GNOME 3.26 release marketing

2017-08-30 Thread Allan Day
Hi everyone, First of all, an apology - I usually send out this mail much further in advance. This process should have started some weeks ago! With that said... GNOME 3.26 is scheduled for release on September 13th - that's exactly two weeks from now. This means we need volunteers to help with

Re: Community Guide Draft

2017-08-23 Thread Allan Day
Link Dupont wrote: ... > I'm not sure. I know GNOME has a code of conduct[1] already, and this > certainly > overlaps a good deal. I read a few different CoC documents as I was > thinking > about this, and many of them boil down to "be excellent to each other". > > What is

Re: Community Guide Draft

2017-08-23 Thread Allan Day
Hey Link, Link Dupont wrote: ... > After a lively discussion in #engagement about interacting with the > GNOME community, I thought about the idea of putting together a guide > that can be shared with both GNOME developers and GNOME users. > ... > 1:

Re: DRAFT | News Item for 20th Birthday (pls read)

2017-08-14 Thread Allan Day
The post looks good! However, some of the photos look out of focus here. Would it be possible to source some sharper ones? Allan On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 7:12 AM, Nuritzi Sanchez < nurit...@stanfordalumni.org> wrote: > Ok everyone, here's the updated version of the news item. Thanks to the >

GNOME 20th Anniversary Party - Video Wall

2017-07-17 Thread Allan Day
Hi all, The venue where we're having the GNOME 20th anniversary party has a big video wall that we can use. Unfortunately we only heard the technical requirements for this on Friday, and they want us to provide any video by next Friday (the 21st). So far the technical requirements are quite

Re: Help with GUADEC graphic design tasks

2017-07-14 Thread Allan Day
Hey everyone, We are aiming to send the bulk of the designs to the printers early next week, so time is short! Here's what we've got so far: * Pin badges - https://github.com/gnome-design-team/gnome-marketing/blob/master/pin-badges/pin-badges-guadec-2017.pdf * Attendee badges -

Re: Help with GUADEC graphic design tasks

2017-07-13 Thread Allan Day
Nuritzi Sanchez wrote: ... > Some questions about the drink and admission tickets: > > How big should each of these be? They should stay at the current sizes - A7 for the tickets and A8 for the drink tokens. This is to ensure that they fit inside the conference

Re: Help with GUADEC graphic design tasks

2017-07-10 Thread Allan Day
Elle O wrote: > I can try to do it next week if no one else is available (I'm swamped with > an internship right now but should have more breathing room soon). Anything you could do would be really appreciated! Feel free to send comments or work to me directly so we can

Help with GUADEC graphic design tasks

2017-07-07 Thread Allan Day
Hi all, GUADEC is fast approaching and there are a lot of print materials to prepare [1]. I've been doing my best to design these, and have uploaded a bunch of work today: - Attendee badges: https://github.com/gnome-design-team/gnome-marketing/tree/master/events/guadec/2017/badges -

GUADEC meeting today at 16:00 UTC

2017-05-02 Thread Allan Day
Hi all, As discussed at yesterday's meeting, this year's GUADEC organising team are having a meeting today and members of the Engagement Team are invited in order to discuss plans for the GNOME 20th anniversary party. The meeting is being held at 16:00 UTC (that's 17:00 in the UK). We are using

Re: System76 Reporting for Duty

2017-04-19 Thread Allan Day
On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 1:48 AM, Nuritzi Sanchez < nurit...@stanfordalumni.org> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 11:28 AM, Ryan Sipes wrote: > >> Can you guys get me a login on the ownCloud instance, and I can try and >> plug this stuff into the calendar? Then we can somehow

Re: Two relevant news item drafts available in WordPress - ready for review

2017-03-16 Thread Allan Day
Sam Thursfield wrote: > On Thursday, March 9, 2017, Oliver Propst wrote: > > Right *two news item draft's that can be relevant to push and publish > asap is available as draft in WordPress, ready for review. Assume its > relevant to (also) at some

Re: 3.24 headline features

2017-03-03 Thread Allan Day
Andreas Nilsson wrote: ... > Headline features (each with an image): >> >> >> • Updated icons >> > > I haven't seen these, so I don't know how big the changes are, but maybe > these should be grouped together with the typography changes below. > It's good, but not

Re: GNOME Style Guide

2017-03-02 Thread Allan Day
Allan Day <a...@gnome.org> wrote: ... > Last year, Carla Quintana Carrasco did some work to help us with this. > Over the summer, she helped us evaluate colour schemes, fonts, and visual > approaches. I've just created some draft guidelines > <https://raw.githubusercontent.

Re: March 2017 | Social Media Marketing

2017-03-02 Thread Allan Day
Nuritzi Sanchez wrote: ... > >- *Release 3.24* > > >- - Release parties > > >- - Dev freezes? *@All - *Does anyone know of relevant ones we should >promote? > > >- - Beta release? *@All *- Does anyone know of relevant ones we >should

3.24 headline features

2017-03-02 Thread Allan Day
Hi all, I've started looking at the release notes for the upcoming 3.24 release. Currently, I'm thinking of the following structure for the "for users" section: Headline features (each with an image): • Night light • Settings - updated online accounts, printers, users panels • Refined

GNOME Style Guide

2017-02-17 Thread Allan Day
Hi all, One of the problems we have in the Engagement Team is that each time someone comes to do visual design work, they often pick their own fonts, colours and visual style. This means that the project lacks a single visual identity. Last year, Carla Quintana Carrasco did some work to help us

GNOME 3.24 release marketing

2017-02-16 Thread Allan Day
Hi everyone, GNOME 3.24 is scheduled for release on March 22nd - that's about five weeks from now. That means we need volunteers to help with release marketing! The main tasks we need to cover are: - Writing the release notes - Writing a news post for gnome.org - Collecting screenshots

GNOME's 20th birthday

2017-02-14 Thread Allan Day
Hi all, This year is going to be GNOME's 20th birthday, and the GUADEC team is organising a birthday party as a part this year's conference. We have some ideas about what to do for this, but we'd love input from the Engagement Team. I know that you spent a while on this at last year's GUADEC! If

Artwork for GNOME beers at FOSDEM

2017-02-01 Thread Allan Day
Hello again! A GNOME beer event is held every year at FOSDEM. This year a sponsor has very kindly stepped forward to support the event, which makes it particularly important for us to publicise it, not just at FOSDEM but also on the web. To help with this, it would be great to have some artwork

Can we publicise these two campaigns?

2017-02-01 Thread Allan Day
Hi all, There are a couple of Patreon fundraising campaigns going at the moment. It would be great to do some publicity for them: https://www.patreon.com/tanuk https://www.patreon.com/pippin Both are for the developers of software that is important to GNOME. Thanks! Allan

Re: Hello && About the Talk on GNOME Localization in AB'17 Conference

2017-01-23 Thread Allan Day
Hi Muhammet, This sounds great, and I'm sure we can publicise the talk on social media. Thanks for bringing it to our attention! Allan On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 1:50 PM, Muhammet Kara wrote: > Hello all, > > First of all, I would like to thank you, the GNOME Engagement

Re: Closing the GNOME BitPay account

2016-12-14 Thread Allan Day
Hi all, Just to let you know - the board is still pursuing this. We've reached out to some other organisations and got some information back. There's a bit more research to do, but we're making progress. Allan On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 6:34 PM, Nuritzi Sanchez < nurit...@stanfordalumni.org>

Re: When should we tweet?

2016-12-02 Thread Allan Day
On Fri, Dec 2, 2016 at 7:55 AM, Rosanna Yuen wrote > > > On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 8:34 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna > wrote: > ... > >> We really need a tool that will allow us to schedule posts on twitter. >> That way, you can write 3 versions of the same tweet on

Re: Tweeting from events

2016-12-01 Thread Allan Day
On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 1:11 PM, Tobias Mueller <mue...@cryptobitch.de> wrote: ... > On Mi, 2016-11-30 at 12:46 +0000, Allan Day wrote: > > One option might be to give temporary access to @gnome for the duration > of an event > There is Tweetdeck or whatever it's called. Wi

Re: When should we tweet?

2016-11-30 Thread Allan Day
On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 12:45 PM, Andreas Nilsson wrote: ... > Is there an easy way to track visibility, impact etc. of twitter posts? > Apart from the obvious counting the number of favs and retweets? > There are a bunch of tools that can calculate the best time to tweet.

Tweeting from events

2016-11-30 Thread Allan Day
Hi all, Another Twitter-related thread! I was at the Core Apps hackfest in Berlin last weekend. It seemed really effective to post live from the event, particularly with pictures. It was also very useful from a funding point of view, since we had sponsors who were supporting certain parts of the

When should we tweet?

2016-11-30 Thread Allan Day
Hi everyone, I recently got involved with managing the @gnome Twitter account again. In doing so, I was pleased to see that there was a decent amount of recent activity. However, this came as a bit of a surprise: despite following @gnome, I hadn't seen any of our recent posts. This got me

Re: Feedback needed for gnome.org homepage redesign

2016-11-03 Thread Allan Day
Thanks for working on this, Tom. The new version looks fantastic. I agree that it would be good to have a high level discussion about what the front page is doing, and then ensure that each function is appropriately prioritised. At the same time, that could be a lengthy discussion and these

Re: Updating the adopt a hacker list

2016-10-17 Thread Allan Day
Hi everyone, Tom is waiting on the updated adopt a hacker list for the Friends of GNOME redesign. Does someone in the team want to take charge of coming up with a new list? Allan On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 10:11 AM, Allan Day <allanp...@gmail.com> wrote: > It might be interesting t

Re: New initiative proposal: October is the month we squash bugs

2016-09-27 Thread Allan Day
I absolutely love the idea of trying to get new people involved in bug triage. We really miss having an active Bug Squad, and it's a great way to get involved in the project. October seems as good a time as ever to do it (perhaps it could happen at other times also, depending on how successful it

Re: Ideas for gnome.org

2016-09-14 Thread Allan Day
Another piece of the puzzle: we still have the old http://news.gnome.org/ site which is advertised fairly prominently on gnome.org. I'm not sure that news site is doing us any favours... Allan ___ engagement-list mailing list engagement-list@gnome.org

Re: Cover for 3.22 release coordination

2016-09-14 Thread Allan Day
The release notes are pretty much done, there's a draft news post in gnome.org, and I'll make sure that the screenshot pack is in place by the end of the day. Here's what needs to be done while I'm away - A couple of days before the release, the release notes need to be finalised. This involves

Looking for someone for an interview

2016-09-09 Thread Allan Day
Hi all, We've been contacted by someone who wants to do a video interview about GNOME, for a Linux/open source web series. It's fairly short notice - ideally they'd like to speak to someone today or over the weekend. We need someone who can talk about high-level GNOME project stuff - what we're

Re: Ideas for gnome.org

2016-09-08 Thread Allan Day
Alexandre Franke wrote: > On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 7:15 AM, Nuritzi Sanchez > wrote: > > Provide a place for contributors to organize themselves > > I don't really see that in the website. To me that's the wiki. Where > do you see that happening on

Re: GNOME Summit pre-registration announcement

2016-09-07 Thread Allan Day
On Wed, 7 Sep, 2016 at 1:07 PM, Jeff F. T. wrote: Hi all, I announced the GNOME Summit on Planet GNOME, my own social media, and on foundation list: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2016-September/msg6.html I'm a bit surprised by the low amount of

Re: Ideas for gnome.org

2016-09-06 Thread Allan Day
On Tue, 6 Sep, 2016 at 9:57 AM, Andreas Nilsson wrote: On 2016-09-05 17:43, a...@gnome.org wrote: This got me wondering: if the blog part of the site was moved elsewhere, would there be any reason to continue using Wordpress for gnome.org?! With the blogging part being

Re: Ideas for gnome.org

2016-09-05 Thread Allan Day
Alexandre Franke wrote: ... That made think of something: why don't we include more content from our various feeds into our Web site? For now we only have the three latest news items on the homepage, but we could have the latest headlines from the planet (just the titles,

Re: Release marketing for GNOME 3.22

2016-08-31 Thread Allan Day
On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 7:35 AM, Olav Vitters <o...@vitters.nl> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 11:23:25AM +0100, Allan Day wrote: > > GNOME 3.22 is scheduled for release on 21 September - that's three weeks > > from now. The main things we need to have for the release

Re: Release marketing for GNOME 3.22

2016-08-30 Thread Allan Day
On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 5:04 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: ... > What do you mean, 'avoiding crossing the streams'? I'm sure we can do > some promotion at the conference and certainly there should be an > opportunity to have a release party with conference attendees :) > I

Release marketing for GNOME 3.22

2016-08-30 Thread Allan Day
Hi everyone, GNOME 3.22 is scheduled for release on 21 September - that's three weeks from now. The main things we need to have for the release are: - Release notes - Release video - News post for gnome.org - Screenshot pack - Update the screenshots on the website - Social

Re: GUADEC 2016 pictures

2016-08-23 Thread Allan Day
://www.flickr.com/photos/jakubsteiner/albums/72157671471061860 On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 11:52 PM, Cassandra Sanchez < cassandra.s...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi! :) > > On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 7:01 AM, Allan Day <a...@gnome.org> wrote: > >> Hey! >> >> Cassandr

Re: GUADEC 2016 pictures

2016-08-22 Thread Allan Day
Hey! Cassandra Sanchez wrote: ... > I tried to archive some on cloud.gnome.org but got an error saying our > folder was full. Is there a way to request more space? Or am I looking at > the wrong folder? I was trying for Engagement Team - Assets > Photos. > I've

Closing the GNOME BitPay account

2016-08-22 Thread Allan Day
Hi all, The GNOME Foundation is registered in the US and must therefore comply with US financial rules. Unfortunately IRS regulations means that accepting payments through Bitcoin poses some problems, and the Board of Directors has therefore decided to stop accepting donations through Bitcoin.

Re: Asset licensing guidelines

2016-07-22 Thread Allan Day
On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 4:11 PM, wrote: > Great, thanks for the update! What are next steps for this? Can we take > that as a decision to move forward with posting to social media then? > I've removed the clause about social media from the licensing guidelines that I've been

Re: Asset licensing guidelines

2016-07-22 Thread Allan Day
On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 11:28 AM, Allan Day <a...@gnome.org> wrote: > Tobias Mueller <mue...@cryptobitch.de> wrote: > ... > >> On Fri, Jun 03, 2016 at 02:32:36PM +, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: >> > Oh, interesting I didn't think of that. That said, the sh

Re: Notes | GNOME #Engagement Meeting Friday, July 15th

2016-07-18 Thread Allan Day
On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 3:37 PM, wrote: ... > >- *Final List of AdBoard Members for 2015: * > > >- - Google > > >- - Linux Foundation > > >- - Private Internet Access > > >- - Red Hat > > >- - SUSE > > >- - Sugar Labs > > >- - Debian > > >-

Updating the adopt a hacker list

2016-07-08 Thread Allan Day
Hi everyone, Tom has been making progress with the redesigned Friends of GNOME webpages [1] (thanks Tom!) That means it's time for us to think about the current set of hackers that are on offer to adopt. :) The list hasn't been updated for some time. We should really make sure that it includes

Re: How to archive photos?

2016-07-08 Thread Allan Day
On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 5:51 PM, Allan Day <a...@gnome.org> wrote: ... > We discussed this at last week's team meeting, and it was suggested that > we rename "Engagement Team - Public" to "Engagement Team - External > Resources" and "Engagement Team

Re: Merchandise page on gnome.org

2016-07-05 Thread Allan Day
Alright, I got this done today: https://www.gnome.org/merchandise/ Let's give it a few days and then publicise on social media! Allan On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 10:29 AM, Allan Day <allanp...@gmail.com> wrote: > Gabor KUM <gabor.l...@hellotux.com> wrote: > > Do they

Re: GNOME stand at Texas Linux Fest 2016

2016-06-22 Thread Allan Day
Mike Gorse wrote: ... > Is there standard literature, etc. that GNOME hands out at these > conferences, or is there a document on the wiki that explains this? > In Europe we have an events box that is stocked with useful materials. We don't have the equivalent in North America,

Re: Asset licensing guidelines

2016-06-20 Thread Allan Day
Tobias Mueller wrote: ... > On Fri, Jun 03, 2016 at 02:32:36PM +, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > > Oh, interesting I didn't think of that. That said, the share-alike > license > > does grant Facebook and Twitter rights to duplicate which is all they are > > asking

Re: Annual Report - Bugzilla stats?

2016-06-17 Thread Allan Day
On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 6:39 AM, Bastien Nocera wrote: ... > If it's a copy/paste of the yearly stats that the bugmasters send on > New Year's day, then it's not useful in the report except for one's > bragging rights. > I think the role is mostly to give an idea of the kind

Re: How to archive photos?

2016-06-10 Thread Allan Day
On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 7:44 PM, Allan Day <a...@gnome.org> wrote: ... > This might be a good opportunity for us to review the structure of the > Engagement Team folders in ownCloud. When I originally created these, I > thought that they all needed to be in a root directory calle

Re: Asset licensing guidelines

2016-06-03 Thread Allan Day
On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 7:59 AM, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > Thanks, Allan for doing this. My only question is what you mean by not > posting creative commons on social media. Can you expand on that? > Sure. This is definitely one area where I had to make a guess! The

Asset licensing guidelines

2016-06-03 Thread Allan Day
Hi everyone, Yesterday I drafted some guidelines on how to licence assets when using them in Engagement Team work. Here, "assets" primarily means images, but can also include video or audio. You can find the draft guidelines here: https://wiki.gnome.org/Engagement/AssetLicensing To summarise:

GNOME stand at Texas Linux Fest 2016

2016-06-01 Thread Allan Day
Hi everyone, I've been contacted by Texas Linux Fest, who want to know if we'd like to run a GNOME stand this year. It sounds like a great idea to me - are there any volunteers? The event is 8-9th July in Austin. We need to get back to them no later than 20th June. Thanks, Allan

Re: How to archive photos?

2016-05-31 Thread Allan Day
On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 5:49 PM, Cassandra Sanchez wrote: ... > Here's this email I sent to Allan regarding photos. In case you're > interested, I'm sending it out below. > Thanks Cassandra! > I currently have been storing all of the photos here: >>>

Re: Speak at LinuxCon + ContainerCon Europe, CFP Closes June 17th

2016-05-27 Thread Allan Day
On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 9:32 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: ... > I would like to get some people who can talk this conference as part of public relations. Who would be up for it? I could do it but I need to make sure I get some travel funding from Linux Foundation. > > I

Re: How to archive photos?

2016-05-24 Thread Allan Day
Hey Cassandra! On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 6:30 AM, Cassandra Sanchez wrote: > First of all, so sorry for taking so long to get back to you. I've had a > very busy last couple of weeks. > No problem! I currently have been storing all of the photos here: >

Re: How to archive photos?

2016-05-18 Thread Allan Day
On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 11:04 AM, Tobias Mueller <mue...@cryptobitch.de> wrote: ... > On Di, 2016-05-17 at 17:53 +0100, Allan Day wrote: >> Often photos won't be published online under a free licence, but will >> be provided to us directly. > Like how? The most common c

Re: How to archive photos?

2016-05-18 Thread Allan Day
On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 10:04 AM, Ekaterina Gerasimova <kittykat3...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 17 May 2016 at 17:53, Allan Day <a...@gnome.org> wrote: ... >> Often photos won't be published online under a free licence, but will >> be provided to us directly. Legally, I sus

Re: How to archive photos?

2016-05-18 Thread Allan Day
On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 5:57 PM, Nuritzi Sanchez wrote: > Cassandra has a bunch on Owncloud! In a meeting now but will send more info > later. Yes please do (or direct her this way!) I really want to hear about what she's been up to. Allan

How to archive photos?

2016-05-17 Thread Allan Day
Hi all, I've been trying to work out how to store photos of GNOME events to reuse in the future. Often photos won't be published online under a free licence, but will be provided to us directly. Legally, I suspect that the photo creator needs to publicly state that they are providing the photos

Re: GNOME | Submit Your Engagement Team Budget Requests

2016-05-06 Thread Allan Day
It would be really neat if we could distribute small numbers of t-shirts every once in a while, maybe at hackfests or local meetups. (I'd certainly like to do that.) Allan On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 1:58 PM, Bastian Ilso wrote: > > > On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 9:23 , Nuritzi

Re: Friends of GNOME - round three!

2016-04-26 Thread Allan Day
Rosanna Yuen wrote: ... >> How many requests did we get for this feature? Do we have any stats >> for annual vs monthy donations? > > That's a good question. I'll download a year's worth of data and see if I > can figure that out. Thanks Rosanna! The main thing is to try and

Re: Friends of GNOME - round three!

2016-04-25 Thread Allan Day
On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 8:25 PM, Rosanna Yuen wrote: ... > We started offering annual subscriptions on request. How many requests did we get for this feature? Do we have any stats for annual vs monthy donations? > People who work at > companies who do donor matching don't want

Re: Friends of GNOME - round three!

2016-04-21 Thread Allan Day
Rosanna Yuen wrote: > > I know we discussed this during the meeting, but I don't remember what the > consensus was. Did we decide to do away with annual subscriptions? > It wasn't a conscious decision on my part - the only reason I didn't include them in the mockups was because

Re: Friends of GNOME - round three!

2016-04-20 Thread Allan Day
On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 2:30 PM, Karen Sandler wrote: ... > This looks great!! The only comment I have is that I think it's confusing to > identify bank transfers in Europe as being tax deductible. Firstly, it makes > it look like only those donations are deductible and not

Friends of GNOME - round three!

2016-04-20 Thread Allan Day
Hi everyone! Last week I had the opportunity to discuss our plans for Friends of GNOME with the scheme admins. We were able to firm up the designs, which are found in a new set of mockups:

GUADEC 2017 call for bids

2016-04-11 Thread Allan Day
Hi everyone! The call has gone out for potential organisers for GUADEC 2017: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2016-April/msg4.html It would be great if this could be publicised via our social media channels! Thanks, Allan ___

Re: Visibility of stores selling GNOME merch (was Re: GNOME is unixstickers project of the month)

2016-04-04 Thread Allan Day
Bastien Nocera wrote: ... > I couldn't for the life of me find links to the various stores selling > GNOME merchandise on the gnome.org site. ... We've discussed creating a merchandise page for gnome.org a number of times recently. The main thing we need is for someone to

Re: GNOME is unixstickers project of the month

2016-04-04 Thread Allan Day
Bastien Nocera wrote: ... > Do they pay us a commission on sales? It's the same setup that Zazzle > and other stores have with the foundation in exchange of their use of > our trademarked logo. The board is in the process of setting up that type of arrangement. I'll inform

GNOME is unixstickers project of the month

2016-04-04 Thread Allan Day
Hi all, unixstickers have a new donations initiative. Each month they pick a Free Software project which receives a donation based on their sales for that month. For April, they have chosen GNOME. More details, including a ticker for how much has been raised so far, can be seen here:

Social media for 3.20 release day

2016-03-21 Thread Allan Day
Hi everyone, The 3.20 release is scheduled for Wednesday, so we are in the final stages of preparations now. The text for the release notes is done, and Andreas and I are working on the final screenshots. For Wednesday, the main thing that is needed from the rest of the team is people to take

Re: acks for the release..

2016-03-19 Thread Allan Day
Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > I have someone who is testing all the extensions against the release > candidates, and it would be awesome if we could acknowledge that work some > where in the release... ... > We don't really do that kind of thing right? Like a credits page where

Re: 3.20 release notes proofreading

2016-03-18 Thread Allan Day
I've just told the translation teams that they can start work on the release notes, so the text is essentially frozen from this point on. Thanks to everyone for their help! Allan ___ engagement-list mailing list engagement-list@gnome.org

Re: 3.20 release notes proofreading

2016-03-14 Thread Allan Day
Thanks to everyone for the feedback so far. I'm planning to go through it all tomorrow. I've just completed the first full draft of the developers page (except for the WebKitGTK+ section), so now would be a good time if anyone wants to check it over. Allan On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 2:29 PM,

Re: 3.20 release notes proofreading

2016-03-12 Thread Allan Day
Christian Hergert wrote: ... > It's taking forever to do a full clone of the release-notes repo on my > tiny T-1 (maybe next time we should use a parent-less git branch?) So I > made this patch against a shallow clone adding release notes for Builder. Thanks Christian! I've

Re: 3.20 release notes proofreading

2016-03-12 Thread Allan Day
Hi Adelia, Thanks for this! Adelia Rahim wrote: > Other than to standardise/standardize spellings to UK/US English ... Please let me know if you see any British English spellings in there. I try to avoid them, but sometimes they slip in. > - Under Wayland, second

Re: 3.20 release notes proofreading

2016-03-11 Thread Allan Day
iate if you also > consider one or more reviews. > > > Goodluck with the rest of the release notes. > > > Best, > > Irfan > > -- Original message-- > > *From: *Allan Day > > *Date: *Fri, Mar 11, 2016 8:25 PM > > *To: *engagement-list; > >

3.20 release notes proofreading

2016-03-11 Thread Allan Day
Hi everyone, We are really short on time for the release notes, and they need to be completed ASAP. As a result, I'm trying to finalise each page in sequence, so it can be proof read while the next pages are being written up. The first page (called index.page) is ready for proof reading. If

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