Re: Moving Engagement List to Discourse

2019-02-08 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hola, On Fri, 2019-02-08 at 15:28 +0100, Alexandre Franke wrote: > My very own totally unscientific opinion is that hyperkitty is meh > while Discourse is actually quite awesome (and I’ve always said I > hated webforums prior to using Discourse). :D Okay. I assume you are referring to the Web in

Re: Moving Engagement List to Discourse

2019-02-07 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hi, On Thu, 2019-02-07 at 08:57 -0500, s...@ramkrishna.me wrote: > If you have objections, please speak up. You can still interact by > mail like you could previously so you won't see too much change. But I don't object, but I'd like to note that Mailman 3 meant to bring a Web interface if tha

Re: Unsunscribe

2018-06-28 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hi, On Thu, 2018-06-28 at 20:35 +0200, Pierre Muller via engagement-list wrote: > I would like to be removed from this mailing list. You can do that yourself. In every email you get from this list, you'll find a header: List-Unsubscribe: ,

Re: How to get involved in GNOME

2018-02-15 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hey hey. On Thu, 2018-02-15 at 18:20 +, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > It does seem bizarre that we have no way to file a bug from the front > page. I'm not so surprised. We don't ship software to end-users and we (used to) encourage those users to file the bugs with their ISV first. Cheers, T

Re: community input...

2017-12-31 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hi. On Thu, 2017-12-28 at 22:26 -0300, Felipe Ferreira da Silva wrote: > but I think the lack of a more accessible medium of communication is > required. I don't think it gets more accessible than email and IRC. At least from the technical side of things. Email has been around for as long as the

Re: Python Jamaica: PyCon 2017 GNOME Foundation Sponsorship/Support

2017-07-06 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hi. On Di, 2017-07-04 at 13:41 -0500, Christopher Lee Murray wrote: > How might we go about proceeding to have GNOME Foundation as an official > sponsor? If you're asking for money, board-l...@gnome.org is your best bet. But I'd be surprised to see the GNOME Foundation sponsoring such an event wi

Re: Updating the adopt a hacker list

2016-12-21 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hi. On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 05:24:34PM +0100, Allan Day wrote: > Since no one has said they'll take care of this, here's a suggestion > for an initial list of people to approach: > I have a list of the adopted hackers of the last year that I can share with interested parties. That list is probab

Re: Closing the GNOME BitPay account

2016-11-30 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hi. On Mo, 2016-08-22 at 15:01 +0200, Tobias Mueller wrote: > On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 02:13:55PM +0200, Alexandre Franke wrote: > > > > The issue has nothing to do with currencies. The problem is that as a > > 501(c)(3) we need to know where our donations come from > In

Re: Tweeting from events

2016-11-30 Thread Tobias Mueller
hey hey. On Mi, 2016-11-30 at 12:46 +, 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. With that, you can give other Twitter accounts access to a then shared account. We sort of used that for

Re: Release marketing for GNOME 3.22

2016-08-30 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hi. On Di, 2016-08-30 at 11:42 +0100, Lene Raastad wrote: > Do we have a budget behind it? Yeah, usually it's 0 money units. Timewise, it's three weeks from now ;-) Cheers,   Tobi ___ engagement-list mailing list engagement-list@gnome.org https://mail.g

Re: Closing the GNOME BitPay account

2016-08-22 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hi. On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 02:13:55PM +0200, Alexandre Franke wrote: > The issue has nothing to do with currencies. The problem is that as a > 501(c)(3) we need to know where our donations come from Interesting. Do you have a source for that? >From what I know you only need to report "substantial

Re: Closing the GNOME BitPay account

2016-08-22 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hi. On Mo, 2016-08-22 at 12:44 +0200, Allan Day wrote: > Unfortunately IRS regulations means that accepting payments through Bitcoin > poses some problems Do you have details? I could only find https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-drop/n-14-21.pdf which does not indicate that "virtual currency" should be

Re: GNOME is people

2016-08-19 Thread Tobias Mueller
On Do, 2016-08-18 at 17:33 +0200, Andre Klapper wrote: > via Metapixel: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/schani/metapixel/ > See http://lu.is/blog/2006/07/17/gnome-is-peoplewmosaicswpeople/ Cool! Thanks! I've also found Pixelize: http://lashwhip.com/pixelize.html Do we have a collection of mugshot

Re: GNOME is people

2016-08-18 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hi! Do you happen to know how the image had been created? If it's at all possible, we should have a new one which does not repeat the same pictures over and over again. Cheers,   Tobi ___ engagement-list mailing list engagement-list@gnome.org https://m

Re: Updating the adopt a hacker list

2016-07-12 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hi. On Di, 2016-07-12 at 09:15 -0400, Karen Sandler wrote: > I don't mind if you want to rotate me out, but I definitely don't mind > staying on the list, it gives me a little thrill whenever I get to send > one out :) Same here :) Cheers,   Tobi ___

Re: Asset licensing guidelines

2016-06-03 Thread Tobias Mueller
hi. 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 anyways. Last time I've checked Facebook ToS they wanted rights

Re: How to archive photos?

2016-05-18 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hi! :-) On Mi, 2016-05-18 at 11:20 +0100, Allan Day wrote: > > Like how? > > The most common cases are when the photos are published online but > without a licence. This might be because the platform doesn't support > free licensing (eg. G+, Facebook), or simply because the photo author > doesn't

Re: How to archive photos?

2016-05-18 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hi. 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? An in-line mechanism might be much easier to implement and maintain as opposed to something out-of-band like posting to a mailing

GNOME supporter of OpenSUSE conference 2016

2016-04-11 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hi folks! Our friends from SUSE offer to list us as supporters for the openSUSE conference. I don't think there is anything actionable on our side, except providing logos for the Web site if we're asked to. I'll investigate. Of course, we have the op

Re: Revisiting the Friends of GNOME webpages

2016-03-08 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hi. On Di, 2016-03-08 at 11:11 +, Allan Day wrote: > Which address does that initial email get sent from? frie...@gnome.org http://hg.cryptobitch.de/gnome-paypal/file/67703e591bf2/createmail.py#l12 > Is there a way that more people could help out > with this part of the administration? The L

Re: Revisiting the Friends of GNOME webpages

2016-03-08 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hi. On Di, 2016-03-08 at 12:23 +0100, Andreas Nilsson wrote: > Do you know if that covers only Germany, or some other European  > countries as well? They said that their (German) tax officer said that their (German) tax exempt status applies to EU member states, due to EU legislation.  Of course,

Re: Revisiting the Friends of GNOME webpages

2016-03-08 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hi. On Tue, Mar 08, 2016 at 11:12:46AM +, Allan Day wrote: > I thought that donations were tax deductible in Europe too, though? Donations to WHS are tax deductible. Cheers, Tobi ___ engagement-list mailing list engagement-list@gnome.org https://m

Re: Revisiting the Friends of GNOME webpages

2016-03-07 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hi. On Mi, 2016-03-02 at 17:46 +, Allan Day wrote: > • How does the LWN subscription work? How do donors find out how to > use it? currently, donors receive an email "when it's time". In that mail, they are being asked whether they want to receive an LWN token. The donor is expected to reply t

Re: Revisiting the Friends of GNOME webpages

2016-02-24 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hi! On Di, 2016-02-23 at 12:35 +, Allan Day wrote: > I said "no rewards for donors, like postcards or t-shirts" - that's > the perks. :) You are right, of course. Cheers,   Tobi ___ engagement-list mailing list engagement-list@gnome.org https://mail

Re: Revisiting the Friends of GNOME webpages

2016-02-23 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hey hey! Cool.  I like the mockups. They miss perks for donations. That may or may not be the intention. Not having perks reduces overhead on our end which is good. I might prevent people from donating, though. I think we can live without sending out perks, but as it hasn't been mentioned in yo

Re: GNOME 3.20 Release Video: Manuscript Draft 1

2016-02-23 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hi! On Mo, 2016-02-22 at 20:47 +0100, Bastian Ilso wrote: > I've started work towards the GNOME 3.20 release video. You can find > an early draft of the manuscript here: > > https://wiki.gnome.org/ThreePointNineteen/ReleaseVideo Cool! How about ending the video with smth like "check www.gnome.or

Re: Meeting Notes | #Engagement Meeting Feb 12th

2016-02-17 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hi. On Di, 2016-02-16 at 11:18 -0800, Rosanna Yuen wrote: > > > A lot of the people on the Friends of GNOME list aren't active > > > members anymore, so we should update that. > > > > > I haven't heard about this before - could we have some more > > details? Note that Friends of GNOME has never b

Re: Infographic

2016-02-16 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hi Mohammed. On Fr, 2016-02-12 at 18:11 +, Irfan Mohammed wrote: > Please review it and let me know if there's something which I can do > to make it more informative and attractive. I'd be more attractive to me if it wasn't 9MB in size ;-) I think we're not much focussing on the Linux, as in

Re: app idea generation..

2016-02-02 Thread Tobias Mueller
On So, 2016-01-31 at 23:20 +, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: >   How many food recipe apps are out there that look good, designed > well, and has the kind of features for the Internet age?  Probably > none. We had  which links to an app :-) Cheers,   Tobi _

Re: Statistics and how do we serve our website users

2016-02-01 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hi! Is anyone interesting in compiling information out of our Website monitoring systems? Maybe something like Andreas did a couple of years ago :-) Maybe there is anything that we can learn from the data that we gather. Cheers, Tobi On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 03:54:46PM +0100, Andreas Nilsso

Re: Technologies Page for gnome.org

2015-10-16 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hi! On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 03:06:27PM +0200, Bastien Nocera wrote: > People who have contributed to GNOME's printing stack (in GTK+, or in > the Printers panel, or even in system-config-printer which offers > backend services) have all contributed to CUPS Cool! Thanks for the info. Cheers, To

Re: Technologies Page for gnome.org

2015-10-16 Thread Tobias Mueller
On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 12:04:02PM +0100, Allan Day wrote: > Tobias Mueller wrote: > .. > > I'm a bit confused as to why Apple's CUPS is on that list. > > Am I missing anything that makes it particularly one of > > "our technologies"? > > Beca

Re: Technologies Page for gnome.org

2015-10-16 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hi! On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 12:18:49AM -0400, Jeff Fortin Tam wrote: > Le mercredi 14 octobre 2015 à 13:37 +0100, Allan Day a écrit : > > In the mean time, I've published the page, with a new graphic > > supplied by Jimmac: https://www.gnome.org/technologies/ > > > > It's not fantastic, but it's

Re: Fundraising on download.gnome.org

2015-10-09 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hi Ole. On Do, 2015-10-01 at 22:34 +0200, Ole Aamot wrote: > When you download Eclipse from http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/ the > text > > > "Your donation will fund Eclipse IDE development" > > > and a form for paying with Paypal is provided. > > > Would it be an idea to add such a page o

Re: Annual Report Publishing (Action Required)

2015-09-03 Thread Tobias Mueller
hey hey. On Mi, 2015-09-02 at 08:26 -0700, Rosanna Yuen wrote: > to grab the relevant Friends of GNOME donor data I can try to produce some graphs out of a Paypal CSV export, if you provide me with it. Cheers, Tobi ___ engagement-list mailing list en

Re: [guadec-list] [General Info] Plan for GUADEC 2015 videos

2015-08-22 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hey hey! On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 06:54:29PM +0200, Andrea Veri wrote: > We should definitely find a better location for GUADEC videos as we > can't provide the bandwidth or the disk space for them to be hosted > under the GNOME Infrastructure. Let me know if there is a need for more space on other

Re: [General Info] Plan for GUADEC 2015 videos

2015-08-14 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hi! On Fr, 2015-08-14 at 09:51 +0200, Bastian wrote: > (hoping the guadec servers can handle the traffic) We can offer torrents once this becomes a problem. We can also do it in first place, but that seems to be more work... Cheers, Tobi ___ engageme

Re: GNOME Foundation AGM 2015

2015-08-06 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hi! We were thinking that the engagement team could and should present at this year's AGM. Could you give a very short presentation (up to five minutes) on what happened last year? Cheers, Tobi On Thu, Aug 06, 2015 at 11:38:59AM +0200, Tobias Mueller wrote: > Hi everyone. >

Re: GUADEC preparation..

2015-07-31 Thread Tobias Mueller
Heya. On Fr, 2015-07-31 at 16:42 +, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > Does everybody have all the materials ready to bring to GUADEC? (e.g. > t-shirts, stickers, etc) I've heard that we'll have small bags from this year's GNOME.Asia Summit. I might be able to bring GNOME shoes to GUADEC. Cheers,

Re: Linux Foundation CFP ends June 17th

2015-06-16 Thread Tobias Mueller
Heya. On Mo, 2015-06-15 at 14:06 -0700, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > CFP for Linux Foundation CFP ends on the 17th. Good call! I intend to submit something related to GNOME, either on GNOME in general or on GNOME Keysign, or both. Cheers, Tobi ___ eng

Re: Some press releases needing research & writing

2015-05-20 Thread Tobias Mueller
Heya. On Fr, 2015-05-15 at 21:27 +0200, Bastien Nocera wrote: > the deal looks overly expensive I think the deal is exceptionally good. And it's a very big deal for us to accept money within the EU. And now we can do it quite cheaply, even with the benefit of the donations being tax deductible.

Re: Some press releases needing research & writing

2015-05-15 Thread Tobias Mueller
Heya. On Fr, 2015-05-15 at 14:53 +0200, Bastien Nocera wrote: > Can you explain how this will work concretely? With German taxes you can fill a field with how much money you've given to registered charities. Amounts below a certain threshold (maybe 150EUR?) don't need an "invoice". Amounts above

Re: Engagement meeting..

2015-02-17 Thread Tobias Mueller
On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 08:48:26AM -0800, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > I just got rid of my mumble server :( There are many openly usable ones: http://www.mumble.com/serverlist/ Cheers, Tobi ___ engagement-list mailing list engagement-list@gnome.org http

Re: Engagement meeting..

2015-02-17 Thread Tobias Mueller
On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 08:07:16AM -0800, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > I found this open source based chat tool, that might work better: > > http://voicechatapi.com/ It seems as if Flash is required :-/ Cheers, Tobi ___ engagement-list mailing list enga

Re: 3.16 Release Promotion

2015-02-17 Thread Tobias Mueller
On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 03:32:14PM +, Allan Day wrote: > Thanks Olav. I can give out permission to most of the channels; let's > see who wants to do what. FWIW: I'm still looking for Facebook, Github, and Youtube in order to connect our Flattr account with those. Cheers, Tobi __

Re: FOSDEM organization..

2015-02-16 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hi. On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 08:12:01PM +0100, Bastian wrote: > > * T-shirts > > events box. Furthermore, me and Tobi talked about printing some new > ones. I told Tobi I would design some - I think we could print some > simple GNOME ones. Do you have a design? We always need one and we could k

Re: FOSDEM recap and report

2015-02-09 Thread Tobias Mueller
Heya :-) On Tue, Feb 03, 2015 at 12:08:16PM -0800, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 8:18 AM, Tobias Mueller wrote: > > Some of you have attended FOSDEM. > > I think it'll be helpful to collect feedback on the wiki: > > https://wiki.gnome.org/acti

Re: SCALE

2015-02-09 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hi. On Sat, Feb 07, 2015 at 11:35:07AM -0800, Christian Hergert wrote: > I could probably bring a machine down with me from SF that we can use > for a booth table. We also have an EventsBox in the US somewhere: https://wiki.gnome.org/Events/GnomeEventsBox/NAGnomeEventBox cheers, Tobi __

FOSDEM recap and report

2015-02-03 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hey folks. Some of you have attended FOSDEM. I think it'll be helpful to collect feedback on the wiki: https://wiki.gnome.org/action/edit/Events/FOSDEM/2015#feedback Could you please add thoughts on what went well and what we should do differently next year. Also, we will probably want to have

Re: Invitation to openSUSE conference!

2015-02-03 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hey folks. openSuSE Conference in the Hague would be a good opportunity to represent GNOME. Is anyone available from 1-4 may 2015? Cheers, Tobi On Sun, Feb 01, 2015 at 12:55:37PM +0100, Hans de Raad (OpenNovations) wrote: > Hi all, > > I've just spoken to Luis menina from the GNOME-FR team a

Re: GNOME Event box and FOSDEM

2015-01-23 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hi. On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 03:21:41PM +0100, Andreas Nilsson wrote: > There is also an open question what we'll do with the box after the > event. Who's able to take it? What is the next big event where it will > be used? I don't know. I can take it though. Then I can send it to the UK. If ther

Re: FOSDEM GTK+ brochure

2015-01-14 Thread Tobias Mueller
On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 06:21:12PM +0100, Sébastien Wilmet wrote: > I was more thinking around 100, but it's probably too few. I don't have > a suitable printer, so I'll print that in a shop. But in colors it can > cost a lot, so I'll probably need to be reimbursed by the GNOME > Foundation. Olav

Re: FOSDEM GTK+ brochure

2015-01-14 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hi. On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 05:40:08PM +0100, Sébastien Wilmet wrote: > I can print them. > > How many copies? 500 should be more than enough. > In colors or black and white? Well. If you have the option of printing colour, then do it. Cheers, Tobi

Re: FOSDEM GTK+ brochure

2015-01-08 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hi. On Thu, Jan 08, 2015 at 03:48:35PM +0100, Sébastien Wilmet wrote: > I've finished an initial version: > https://people.gnome.org/~swilmet/gtk-brochure.pdf > https://github.com/swilmet/gtk-brochure Wow. Very impressive. Have you run it by the GTK+ people? Cheers, Tobi _

Re: Engagement Meeting - Wednesday Dec 3rd 2014 19:00 UTC

2014-12-01 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hi. On Mon, Dec 01, 2014 at 02:11:37PM -0800, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > anything else to talk about? We could talk about the Annual Report. We need people writing about various events, such as FOSDEM, GUADEC, maybe FSCONS. Cheers, Tobi ___ engagement

Re: FOSDEM Table Application

2014-11-19 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hi Sébastien. On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 02:01:52PM +0100, Sébastien Wilmet wrote: > If someone wants to write the content, perfect. Otherwise I can write an > initial version. Cool! Really great. Looking forward to your flyers! :-) Cheers, Tobi ___ enga

Re: FOSDEM Table Application

2014-11-19 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hi. On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 07:42:08AM +0100, Bastian wrote: > I have sent off the stand applications. Wow! Awesome! Thanks a bunch! Cheers, Tobi ___ engagement-list mailing list engagement-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/engage

Re: Release retrospective

2014-10-15 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hi everyone. Congratulations everyone to this awesome release and our communications around that. Would it be possible for someone to come up with a text that we can use for the upcoming Annual Report? Now the release is fresh in memory. We might also reuse the stats Sri mentioned. The more we p

Re: GNOME 3.14 Release Video Draft 1

2014-09-24 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hi. On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 10:19:48PM +0200, Bastian Hougaard wrote: > https://wiki.gnome.org/BastianIlsø/ReleaseVideoG3.14/draft2 This, sir, is amazing. A minor nit: For my taste, the volume of the voice and music is not well balanced, i.e. the music is a little too loud. I also think it's a

Re: important discussion on LWN

2014-08-09 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hi. On Fri, Aug 08, 2014 at 10:09:23AM -0700, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > A good exercise is to identify all tlhe barriers of GTK+ adoption and > support. [...] During GUADEC, John (CCed) talked about GTK+ on Windows and how bad it was. I think it was a good talk with a lot of issues being mentio

Re: How we can improve our fundraising efforts

2014-07-31 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hi. On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 12:53:22PM +0200, Oliver Propst wrote: > One thing that recently come to my mind was the possibly for the > foundation to accept Bitcion donations [1] [2]. Have you checked our web site? i.e. http://www.gnome.org/friends/other-ways-to-donate/ Cheers, Tobi ___

Re: How we can improve our fundraising efforts

2014-07-25 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hi. On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 08:31:22PM +0200, Tobias Mueller wrote: > I sent the email. I was thinking whether it would be good to use that letter to our donors as a news story on gnome.org. I understand that we have many news items lined up and it's probably bad timing now. But it&#x

Lincence for photo for our Annual Report 2013

2014-07-23 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hi ChangSeok. We want to use a photo you made for our Annual Report. The photo is http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-T_UIxvTANYM/UrFazeo_FtI/AhI/5SO6cuizHdY/s1600/%EC%82%AC%EC%A7%84.JPG from http://gnome-kr.blogspot.se/2013/12/webkitgtk-hackfest-2013.html The report is here: https://github.com/gn

Re: Annual Report next steps

2014-07-23 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hi folks. It's about time to print the Annual Report, but I will not do it until these blocker issues are resolved. * Source Sans not embedded! This will create problems when printing Someone knowing to deal with Scribus needs to solve this. Allan? * Licenses of the photos - I'd prefe

Re: How we can improve our fundraising efforts

2014-07-14 Thread Tobias Mueller
I sent the email. Thanks everyone. Looking forward to that again some time after GUADEC. We can reuse the etherpad, if we want, to collect ideas, draft a few paragraphs, and so on. Cheers, Tobi ___ engagement-list mailing list engagement-list@gnome.

Re: Post Asia Summit 2014 action items

2014-07-14 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hi. On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 10:07:09PM +0800, Emily Chen wrote: > Thanks for point us to this archive. That's very helpful for us to write > the press release GNOME.Asia 2014. As it's a bit too late for a press release on the Summit 2014, we can turn it into an article for the next Annual Report.

Re: How we can improve our fundraising efforts

2014-07-14 Thread Tobias Mueller
On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 10:55:10AM +0200, Oliver Propst wrote: > Maybe we should bundle the letter with the Annual Report that we plan > publish next week? I'm more in favour of sending another email to our donors. MAybe not next week, but the month after. Some time after GUADEC maybe. FWIW: I'm a

Re: Annual Report next steps

2014-07-13 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hi Tammy. On Mon, Jul 07, 2014 at 04:54:55AM -0400, Tammy Miller wrote: > I thought I saw some assistance needed for graphics. If so, I would like to > know how to go about to assist as much as I can. Cool! We have a current version here: https://github.com/gnome-design-team/gnome-marketing/raw

Re: annual report progress and deadlines

2014-07-10 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hi Andreas. On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 12:59:57AM +0200, Andreas Nilsson wrote: > If anyone wants to take a stab at editing the document, here is the > scribus source file: > https://github.com/gnome-design-team/gnome-marketing/blob/master/annual-report-2014/GAR2013.sla > I've just tried to open t

Re: How we can improve our fundraising efforts

2014-07-04 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hi. On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 11:05:38AM +0200, Oliver Propst wrote: > On Mon, 2014-06-16 at 23:17 -0400, Karen Sandler wrote: > > [...] > > This is a great idea! The text can be pretty short. Here's a possible > > draft, please improve and correct: > Great text, have some minor comments. > Cool.

Re: CFP for Linuxcon Europe

2014-07-04 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hi. On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 09:25:16PM -0700, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > Any folks in Europe interested in submitting a talk on GNOME? cool, thanks for the reminder. I've submitted a general GNOME talk. > We should make it a regular habit to attend these conferences as they > have large attendanc

Re: How we can improve our fundraising efforts

2014-06-16 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hi. I've compiled a list of email addresses of donors of the last 365 days. I suggest writing an email to those donors, thanking them for their support, inviting them to GUADEC, telling them what we've done so far. Any volunteer for drafting such an email? FWIW: Allan and I were thinking about w

A new presentation uploaded (GNOME 3.12)

2014-06-02 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hi folks. You can find a new presentation on GNOME (3.12) here¹: https://wiki.gnome.org/Engagement/Presentations It was essentially put together by Bastian and is based on material that was already available. Thanks a lot for that. Feel free to send comments or uploade an improved version. Cheer

Re: How we can improve our fundraising efforts

2014-04-26 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hi everyone. On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 11:15:25AM +0100, Allan Day wrote: > > I like the idea of a newsletter - the main thing is that we actually commit > > to write something on a regular basis. Given how hard it was to get > > quarterly reports together I think this is non-trivial. > > Yes it's

Re: Purchasing a toll free international number for SIP conferences?

2014-04-10 Thread Tobias Mueller
On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 02:05:14PM +0200, Oliver Propst wrote: > Since we have trouble to get a working free software voip solution for > meetings [...] My biased opinion is that it's inherent to SIP. The protocol is just bad in pretty much all dimensions you can imagine. I suggested http://www.vo

Re: Can we use this logo?

2014-03-30 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hi :) On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 05:17:50AM +0200, alex diavatis wrote: > I think I cover many of the above cases ;) > Heh. That's cool! > In particular I want to use it > > 1. For wogue.org and worldofgnome.org blog as logo > 2. In crowdfunding campaigns > 3. As logo in Google Logins for two serv

Re: Can we use this logo?

2014-03-27 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hi. On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 01:29:18PM +, Ekaterina Gerasimova wrote: > On 12 March 2014 13:22, alex diavatis wrote: > > I was wondering if it's okay to use such logo (attachment) > > > > We use GNOME-Logo (foot) -with an angle- as part of it, but we will colorize > > it. > > If it is an issu

Re: GNOME 3.12 Video Draft 1 Feedback

2014-03-20 Thread Tobias Mueller
On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 10:50:00PM +0001, Bastian Hougaard wrote: > After some days of work I have a finished draft of the 3.12 release > video ready: > http://youtu.be/zfjWHRA1zbs > Just amazing. Awesome. Tobi ___ engagement-list mailing list engagem

Re: Yay FOSDEM!

2014-02-28 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hey everyone! On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 11:55:38AM +, Allan Day wrote: > Thanks to everyone who enabled us to have a great FOSDEM this year. Right. I'm sorry for me not having taken this up much earlier. Thanks to everyone involved. I think we had a great presence this year. > I'd especially li

Re: Annual report Google Group

2014-02-13 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hi. On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 04:51:35PM -0500, Diego Escalante Urrelo wrote: > to avoid noise in this mailing list we agreed to create a Google Group: > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/gnome-annual-report-2014 > That feels weird. I don't consider the topic of our Annual Report to be noise.

Re: REMINDER: Engagement team meeting tomorrow on IRC 19:00 UTC

2014-02-13 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hi :) On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 10:42:08AM +0100, Oliver Propst wrote: > Ok its was very obvious question sorry about that. But I really think we > should try to get a working voice conference solution as I think IRC > meetings tend drag out on time (and its nice to hear each other.). FWIW: There is

Re: GNOME's own pod

2014-02-10 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hi. On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 10:40:18PM +0530, Sindhu S wrote: > From engagement point of view, we have only to gain with extending our > community :) > And you would have to explain why we support Twitter, Facebook, and Google, but not our own Diaspora instance. Cheers, Tobi ___

Re: GNOME Desktop Promotional Brochure

2014-01-27 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hi :) On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 10:08:16PM +0001, Bastian Hougaard wrote: > http://rvzt.net/Temp/GNOMEv4.pdf Cool! A few tips to save your time when printing: Make sure you arrange and rotate the pages so that you can print duplex easily. I might be able to print a few of them. Please inform we whe

Re: GNOME Desktop Promotional Brochure

2014-01-25 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hi! On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 07:32:49PM +0100, Bastian Hougaard wrote: > http://rvzt.net/Temp/GNOMEv4.pdf Wow! Impressive. Good job. Tobi ___ engagement-list mailing list engagement-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/engagement-list

Re: New text for Friends of GNOME web page

2014-01-25 Thread Tobias Mueller
Aloha. On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 09:15:03AM -0500, Karen Sandler wrote: > Please support GNOME's mission to bring free and accessible computing to > everyone! Your donation will help to keep the GNOME Foundation's lights > on - we'll use it for infrastructure, hardware, and to help hackers > trav

New text for Friends of GNOME web page

2014-01-22 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hi everyone. I was just made aware that https://www.gnome.org/friends/ contains many references to our old campaign. If I ripped everything out, the page would be empty. So I'm asking: Does anyone have a proposal for a text to be shown on the page? I'm accepting proposals here or direct edits o

Re: media kit

2014-01-20 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hi. On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 11:31:47AM -0800, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > Who has the current media kit so that we can send it to Paul? Do you mean our EventsBoxes? Have you checked the Wiki? https://wiki.gnome.org/Events/GnomeEventsBox Cheers, Tobi __

Re: FOSDEM planning

2014-01-15 Thread Tobias Mueller
On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 09:28:10AM -0800, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > You can count me in on helping out at hte tables when I'm not > giving my talk. Cool. Please add yourself here: https://wiki.gnome.org/Events/FOSDEM/2014/Stand#attendees Cheers, Tobi

Re: FOSDEM planning

2014-01-13 Thread Tobias Mueller
On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 07:16:49PM +0100, Andre Klapper wrote: > https://wiki.gnome.org/Events/FOSDEM/2014 > Yep. Status is there. It does not look very golden. ATM, we have only two people staffing the booth: https://wiki.gnome.org/Events/FOSDEM/2014/Stand#attendees So a potential first step of

Consolidating donor groups

2013-12-18 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hey folks, I am thinking about the current list of Friends of GNOME. It's a complicated list and we have potentially five categories to put the donors in: http://www.gnome.org/friends/previous-donors/ I am wondering whether it makes sense to get rid of the categories and only have one list of

FOSDEM 2014 Beer Event

2013-12-11 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hi folks. Has anyone taken care of finding a place to go to on Saturday evening? If so, it'd be cool if the wiki page could be updated: https://wiki.gnome.org/GnomeEvents/FOSDEM/2014 Cheers, Tobi ___ engagement-list mailing list engagement-list@gnome.

FOSDEM 2014 - GNOME Stand - Call for volunteers

2013-12-11 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hi everyone. We have just applied for a GNOME booth at FOSDEM in Brussels, Belgium. It'd be nice to have an overview of whether we will be able to staff the booth. If you will be around (2014-02-01 and 2014-02-02) and are able to help out, please add yourself to the list in the wiki: https://wiki.

Re: solutions for phone meeting

2013-11-20 Thread Tobias Mueller
On 21.11.2013 02:36, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > Anybody have some suggestions on alternatives? I know http://www.voicebridge.eu/ Cheers, Tobi ___ engagement-list mailing list engagement-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/engagemen

Re: Default Adopt a Hacker value per month

2013-10-03 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hi! On Thu, Oct 03, 2013 at 04:11:22PM +0200, Andreas Nilsson wrote: > Just to make sure, this is for new subscribers, right? Not for existing > ones? Correct. Cheers, Tobi ___ engagement-list mailing list engagement-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome

Default Adopt a Hacker value per month

2013-10-03 Thread Tobias Mueller
Ahoi! We discussed a few things around our Adopt a Hacker program during GUADEC. If my memory serves me right, we decided a few minor things like limiting the number of characters in the feedback form, because Paypal limits it. I just took care about that. I think we also talked about increasing

Re: plans for FOSDEM 2014?

2013-08-25 Thread Tobias Mueller
hi. On 15.08.2013 11:02, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: > I know that the FOSDEM organisers haven't sent out the email for booths > and/rooms yet, but I just wanted to ask well in advance if we had > volunteers for either. Thanks for catching that. Let's ask marketing (CCed). I might not be able to dedica