Re: Contributor Spotlight Podcast

2009-12-23 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 12/23/2009 03:15 PM, María Leandro wrote: 2009/12/22 Max Spevack Suggestion #1 -- Try to use Fedora Talk, and record the conversation. You can edit it a little bit with Audacity, or just post the raw audio. It becomes a podcast in which Contributor #1 interviews Contributor #2

Re: [in the news] Review: 3 top Linux distros go for different users

2009-12-16 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 12/16/2009 05:49 PM, Paul W. Frields wrote: Review: 3 top Linux distros go for different users By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols [clip] Paul Frields, Red Hat's Fedora Project Leader, described Fedora to me as being "first and foremost for users interested in and capable of contributing to open so

Re: Marketing logo/icon has been requested

2009-12-15 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 12/15/2009 11:09 PM, Mel Chua wrote: Tatica made us a logo, which you can see on https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing - it's actually from a logo she created for the LATAM Marketing group (we have one of those? sweet!), http://proyectofedora.org/wiki/Mercadeo last month. Tatica is doing

Re: Uploading own work

2009-12-02 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 12/02/2009 12:39 PM, Tareq Al Jurf wrote: I thought about the same last week. I've found a better way for anyone to upload his work, My Idea is to have a site similar to the sites: linuxmint-art.org and ubuntu-art.org... We at the Design Team are looking for la lo

Re: Video: 5 Fun Things in Fedora 12

2009-12-02 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 12/01/2009 12:04 AM, Máirín Duffy wrote: It took around 12 hours, but it could have taken 6 or less if I didn't end up having so many problems encoding it and uploading it. Everything through editing the clips together and adding titles was very straightforward. But it was extremely painful a

Re: Video: 5 Fun Things in Fedora 12

2009-12-02 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 12/02/2009 04:18 AM, Paul W. Frields wrote: Unfortunately, good A/V production tools are not a strong point in FOSS, although there are several notable projects in progress to try and correct them. I'm concerned about the encoding stuff in particular, though -- I hate to ask, Mo, but did you

Re: A report on Fedora 12

2009-11-30 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 11/30/2009 04:51 PM, Geerd-Dietger Hoffmann wrote: Hey Hi I am the editor of the CentOS newsletter and I would like to publish an article on Fedora 12, as this is what we will end up with in a few years :) Cool! Is someone interested in writing just a brief overview and some mayor poin

Re: New blog post

2009-10-15 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 10/15/2009 08:05 PM, Colby Hoke wrote: Pamela Chestek wrote: Okay, we heard (thanks Rahul and Colby). Going forward, Red Hat videos will provide contact information for permissions, so people who want to use our videos in ways other than what the current CC licensing allows will know who to a

Re: New blog post

2009-10-08 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 10/07/2009 10:10 PM, Colby Hoke wrote: > I wish I was on the web team at Red Hat and could do this stuff. I wish > we had more people on the web team that had time to work on all of this. > It's very exciting and I'm glad it's coming to fruition now. That said, > they're swamped and I know there

Re: New blog post

2009-10-07 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 10/07/2009 04:11 PM, Paul W. Frields wrote: > > Also, I think you should keep in mind that Red Hat's Creative team > produces these videos. If we were to make videos as part of the > Fedora Marketing team or some other Fedora entity, I would absolutely > want those videos to reflect the licens

Re: Fedora People on PBOOK-flickr

2009-10-01 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 09/30/2009 11:08 PM, María Leandro wrote: > I've using flickr since some months and I think that this could help > us to get more photos for our picture book. People just need to add > their pictures to the group and read the description. I need a little > help with the full terms, so if you hav

Re: List of Planet content for FI

2009-09-18 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 09/18/2009 01:18 PM, Jonathan Roberts wrote: > > So, reviewing Planet for the last few days has revealed to me just how > much valuable content people are posting there, and the potentially > huge amount of material that could be appropriate for FI in one form > or another. > > Has much thoug

Re: Slogan use

2009-09-16 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 09/16/2009 05:32 PM, Máirín Duffy wrote: > On 09/16/2009 10:27 AM, Paul W. Frields wrote: >> I'm wondering whether we should think about placing the slogan >> prominently on the get-fedora page (get.fedoraproject.org) and having >> something more general on the front page itself, in the space >>

Re: LATAM ambassadors with awesome magazine layout skills

2009-09-02 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 09/03/2009 06:33 AM, Mel Chua wrote: > Mo and I were wondering if you might remember who this was... > > mchua: at one point, in LATAM i don't remember which ambassadors > group > they put together a whole for-print pdf magazine > it was maybe a year or two ago though but they did an awesome

Re: Fedora swag

2009-08-31 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 08/31/2009 04:42 PM, Mathieu Bridon (bochecha) wrote: >> After taking a little bit more time I bumped into an other >> possibility; a French web-shop which had a whole wardrobe of fedora >> clothing (and yet again very limited accessories). Besides that, I >> don't know French and I couldn't dis

Re: Comments about Microsoft and the GPL

2009-07-21 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 07/21/2009 12:04 PM, Keiran Smith wrote: Well looks like us linux users can look forward to some of the instabilities of windows in our Own Operating Systems. What are microsoft thinking I don't think you will be affected by this code unless you run a virtualized Linux guest on a Windows ho

Re: TOI article

2009-06-23 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 06/23/2009 08:57 AM, Arnav Kalra wrote: thats not an article its an interview Interview is a type of article -- nicu :: http://nicubunu.ro :: http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/ photography: http://photoblog.nicubunu.ro/ my Fedora stuff: http://fedora.nicubunu.ro/ -- Fedora-marketing-list mailin

Re: Media artwork

2009-05-15 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 05/15/2009 09:34 AM, Harish Pillay wrote: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F11_Media_Artwork does have any artwork per se. Keeps asking me to upload. I need them for making media locally. Mo has some work in progress here: http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/art/f11/sleeves/ -- nicu :: http://nicu

Re: Top 10 Features of Fedora 11 Leonidas

2009-05-13 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 05/13/2009 01:31 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Covers features like Ext4 by default but misses out on other changes like Delta RPMs No, is OK for the article to not list DeltaRPMs, is a "top 10" and that feature most likely will not be enabled by default, so we don't consider it "ready enoug

Re: Fedora Wordpress widget

2009-04-29 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 04/29/2009 05:58 PM, Ankur Sinha wrote: On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 17:41 +0300, Nicu Buculei wrote: On 04/29/2009 05:34 PM, Keiran Smith wrote: I coded a wordpress widget (Its very basic) That displays the fedora 11 countdown http://keiran-smith.net/2009/04/fedora-11-countdown-for-wordpress

Re: Fedora Wordpress widget

2009-04-29 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 04/29/2009 05:34 PM, Keiran Smith wrote: I coded a wordpress widget (Its very basic) That displays the fedora 11 countdown http://keiran-smith.net/2009/04/fedora-11-countdown-for-wordpress/ This should help people spread the word of fedora throughout their blogs etc. Im sorry if anyone cons

Re: picture book update

2009-04-17 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 04/17/2009 02:34 AM, Ian Weller wrote: On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 05:36:15PM +0200, Max Spevack wrote: Why don't we start laying stuff out with good photos that we have now, and simply add to it after Berlin? We don't have to put everything on hold just because FUDCon Berlin will show us some n

Re: picture book update

2009-04-16 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 04/16/2009 06:36 PM, Max Spevack wrote: On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, Nicu Buculei wrote: We can postpone the book for two months Why don't we start laying stuff out with good photos that we have now, and simply add to it after Berlin? We don't have to put everything on hold just beca

Re: picture book update

2009-04-15 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 04/15/2009 11:38 PM, Ian Weller wrote: Yes. If you still have pictures, please take the time to upload them or contact somebody about them. Other than that, we'll be waiting for a huge influx of pictures from FUDCon Berlin. We can postpone the book for two months and wait for the Berlin FUDC

Re: F11 Beta release annoucment for NDN RFC

2009-03-25 Thread Nicu Buculei
jose garrido wrote: the announce say Fedora Beta release but in the page of download i can only download a Alpha :S that's ok or is an error? The Beta was not released yet: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/11/Schedule That wiki page is not for the large public, is for internal use in

Re: Slogan for F11

2009-03-24 Thread Nicu Buculei
Paul W. Frields wrote: On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 06:42:26PM +0100, Max Spevack wrote: On Mon, 23 Mar 2009, Jack Aboutboul wrote: We have some pretty good ones, so far. Anyone else have anything? I'm hoping we can discuss these tomorrow at the meeting. I like Nicu's suggestion: "A tradition of

Re: Picture book submissions now open

2009-03-17 Thread Nicu Buculei
Ian Weller wrote: On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 12:03:26PM -0800, Jeff Spaleta wrote: I take it I can use digital editing to put the fedora branding in the picture? I might not be able to get a sticker to stay on a dog harness very well. I personally frown on doctoring Fedora logos into photos but

Re: Someone please help me with the Photo book was Re: Picture book submissions now open

2009-03-17 Thread Nicu Buculei
Ewan Luca wrote: Nicu's photos can be seen at http://fedora.nicubunu.ro/photos/fudcon2008brno/ I wanted to see the reactions before following with URLs and criteria fr selection, but that's the one. I think the pictures can be arranged as a feature on the book. See at: http://issu

Someone please help me with the Photo book was Re: Picture book submissions now open

2009-03-16 Thread Nicu Buculei
Ian Weller wrote: Submissions for the Fedora Picture Book are now open! You can look at the instructions for submitting photos here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Submitting_images_for_the_picture_book Thanks to everyone who has made this possible so far! I have a large number of photos ma

Re: Status of the picture book

2009-03-04 Thread Nicu Buculei
Ian Weller wrote: I need people like Nicu to look over the current uploading instructions and see if they contain all the necessary details. Please don't upload photos yet, though. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Submitting_images_for_the_picture_book Let me digress a bit: I am not sure if I u

Re: Spreading the word about FUDCon Berlin

2009-03-03 Thread Nicu Buculei
Felix Kaechele wrote: On Mon Mar 02 2009 22:32:49 GMT+0100 (CET) Ian Weller wrote: If we can also take this time to start recruiting photographers (with decent cameras) to take photos for the Fedora Picture Book[1], that would be awesome. If a Canon EOS 450D is decent enough I could make some

Re: Status of the picture book

2009-03-03 Thread Nicu Buculei
Jack Aboutboul wrote: Nicu, Whatever, none of this applies to you, I don't think. Either way, we are going to go ahead and set something up so people can start uploading pictures and just continue from there... Sure, we should start accepting images ASAP (I think we now are waiting for Ian

Re: Status of the picture book

2009-03-03 Thread Nicu Buculei
t not being a native English speaker (even more, not having *ever* learned English formally) I didn;t fully understood what I signed. You know, a citizen-friendly European law may be helpful here :p Nicu Buculei wrote: Michael Naughton wrote: I'm coming into this a bit late, but I couldn&

Re: Status of the picture book

2009-03-02 Thread Nicu Buculei
Michael Naughton wrote: I'm coming into this a bit late, but I couldn't help but wonder if there was any discussion with Red Hat legal concerning inserting a choice of law and choice of forum clause in the Model and Contribution release. By adding these clauses, the signee would agree to litig

Re: Spreading the word about FUDCon Berlin

2009-03-02 Thread Nicu Buculei
Max Spevack wrote: On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Ian Weller wrote: If we can also take this time to start recruiting photographers (with decent cameras) to take photos for the Fedora Picture Book[1], that would be awesome. Since the release forms are finally done I think we can have a ton of great phot

Re: Status of the picture book

2009-02-27 Thread Nicu Buculei
Tom "spot" Callaway wrote: These are very valid points. Red Hat Legal was able to quickly turn around a new version of this document for us, please look at: http://spot.fedorapeople.org/Model%20and%20Contribution%20Release%20rev1.pdf It is no longer an "exclusive" agreement, and it is now boun

Re: Status of the picture book

2009-02-24 Thread Nicu Buculei
Ian Weller wrote: If anybody has any mockups they wanna go for, please submit them. Or any ideas at all for page design. I'm all ears :D Start with the final decision about page size and also get a decision about black and white versus full color. No way in hell we're getting this done by

Re: Status of the picture book

2009-02-23 Thread Nicu Buculei
Ian Weller wrote: stabus report/slight rant time now -- it looks long but please read :) 1) Blocking on release forms. I'm assured RH Legal is working on it. In the meantime if you're willing to take photos of people and have their contact information so you can hunt them down with a New a

Re: Fosdem Max's video

2009-02-19 Thread Nicu Buculei
Max Spevack wrote: On Thu, 19 Feb 2009, Pierre-Yves wrote: The only problem is that the file is around 1.7Go so maybe it could be compressed a bit more so that Totem could read it a bit more easily :) 1.7G!!! I should have talked faster :) The file size scare me for a download so I didn't

Re: Web 2.0 Logo

2009-02-17 Thread Nicu Buculei
Robyn Bergeron wrote: Aside from the usage guidelines several others have already mentioned... Other logo overhauls I've seen lately (Intel, Pepsi, Xerox, off the top of my head) certainly are more of a 21st century update, if you will, but what you have is basically the same logo, same fonts

Re: Web 2.0 Logo

2009-02-17 Thread Nicu Buculei
susmit shannigrahi wrote: 2009/2/17 Keiran Smith: Hello, I was working on a Forum Signature so I could spread the word of Fedora In forum Posts. I was working with the Fedora Logo and created a Web2.0 Style Version of the Logo. I would like to know what you guys / gals think of it. A few peopl

Re: picture book blocking on RH legal?

2009-02-05 Thread Nicu Buculei
David Nalley wrote: On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Max Spevack wrote: Nicu commented on my blog that there has been a long wait on something from Red Hat Legal. What exactly are we blocking on? Per this message it's spot: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2009-January/ms

Re: F11 background proposal

2009-01-29 Thread Nicu Buculei
Ian Weller wrote: On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 12:13:06AM +0100, Chitlesh GOORAH wrote: I believe F-11 should be THE release to attract female users !!! http://www.leonidas-chocolate.com Hah! Made my day. Funny thing was when I did have a girlfriend, I was more addicted to chocolate than her. She

Re: Picture book....

2009-01-26 Thread Nicu Buculei
wonderer wrote: I actually get a flickr stream from a friend of me and I thought it maybe give some people lets say a little idea how it can feel to have such photos for a picture book. http://www.flickr.com/photos/vowe/tags/faceslotusphere/ I find these pictures VERY good and can also imagine

Re: Picture book....

2009-01-26 Thread Nicu Buculei
Ian Weller wrote: How do we upload RAWs to the wiki though? I'm not sure if we can or can't as of yet. I'd need a list of possible file extensions before that can be enabled. Just like any other type of files our wiki don't know how to deal with, for example SVG, thus the usefulness of a JPEG

Re: Picture book....

2009-01-20 Thread Nicu Buculei
Ian Weller wrote: On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 10:50:15AM -0900, Jeff Spaleta wrote: Do you really want me to upload raw format from my d200? If Nicu thinks that's a sane size given that we're planning to upload them to the wiki, then yes. My RAWs are about 15MB, I guess Jeff's are around 12MB (f

Re: Picture book....

2009-01-19 Thread Nicu Buculei
Ian Weller wrote: On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 10:19:01AM +0200, Nicu Buculei wrote: The most important requirement from a technical point of view is to have the images big enough, so depending on the paper size we may want to resuest something like at least 4 or 5 Megapixels (multiply the page

Re: Picture book....

2009-01-19 Thread Nicu Buculei
Ian Weller wrote: More importantly, we need to decide the requirements for photos in the book. Nicu, can you help us out on that? The most important requirement from a technical point of view is to have the images big enough, so depending on the paper size we may want to resuest something li

Re: Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

2009-01-14 Thread Nicu Buculei
Max Spevack wrote: This is not the first time Fedora lists have had social networking invitation spam. Everyone, please be careful with what you do! If you look at those messages, they are addressed to S. M. Azam Rashdi, who is supposed to have the mailing list as hid own email address. It

Re: [Picture book] Where we stand right now

2009-01-13 Thread Nicu Buculei
Max Spevack wrote: On Tue, 13 Jan 2009, Nicu Buculei wrote: That is a tricky question and something I am also interested in (I sit on a ton of photos from Brno): we have the legal problem of needing release forms signed by the people in picture. At the Boston FUDCon they had a form which was

Re: [Picture book] Where we stand right now

2009-01-13 Thread Nicu Buculei
Max Spevack wrote: On Sun, 11 Jan 2009, Ian Weller wrote: == Photos == Mo is amazing and got really creative photos for the book at FUDConF11. They're currently on her Flickr page[1] and we'll be eventually moving them into our wiki-based system of checking what photos we actually can/want to u

Re: [Picture book] Where we stand right now

2009-01-12 Thread Nicu Buculei
Ian Weller wrote: On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 11:06:38AM +0200, Nicu Buculei wrote: About signing the release forms, what if we have a cool photo made previously and no chance to meet in person with the subject again very soon? I think it should be OK to ask him to sign and fax the form, I see

Re: [Picture book] Where we stand right now

2009-01-12 Thread Nicu Buculei
Ian Weller wrote: == Release forms == Spot got me temporary release forms to use for this weekend, but for any other photos we will need a more generic release form that I'm being told RH Legal is working on. In the meantime, come up with great ideas ^_^ About signing the release forms, what i

Re: Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

2009-01-09 Thread Nicu Buculei
Charles Peng wrote: Hi, sorry to interrupt you, but LinkedIN has a feature "Find contacts who are already on LinkedIn", you are member of LinkedIN and a contact of my Gmail, so... So you mistakenly sent the invitation to the marketing list address instead of some individual people. -- nicu

Re: [Ambassadors] Re: Picture Book....

2009-01-08 Thread Nicu Buculei
Doug Berry wrote: Hardbacks are more expensive to create, but it should not be that much. One way we could go would be to sell the book at our cost. Not add anything to the price, or at least adjust the price down to compensation for the change in cover. If we plan to sell about 100-200 piec

Re: [Picture book] Getting photos

2009-01-05 Thread Nicu Buculei
Ian Weller wrote: Procedures are available at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Picture_book#Submitting_your_image Let me know if you think they should be changed. I've got a watch on the page. Media in a category automatically shows up in a gallery format -- after they enter the "to be approved"

Re: [Ambassadors] Re: Picture Book....

2009-01-05 Thread Nicu Buculei
Doug Berry wrote: One thing though. After FUDCON, when the pics start rolling in, we are going to be using Open Source Software to create the actual books. Most probably Scribus, Open Office, The Gimp, and ?. Maybe we could approach some of these projects and set-up an agreeable time for the m

Re: Picture Book

2008-12-23 Thread Nicu Buculei
Lisa Brewster wrote: Since we are expecting a large number of replies, a dedicated submission form just for this project will be way more streamlined for both submitters and editors. And as a bonus, we can also roll in validation to help ensure submissions include all the necessary informati

Re: Picture Book

2008-12-23 Thread Nicu Buculei
Paul W. Frields wrote: On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 09:56:52AM +0200, Nicu Buculei wrote: Doug Berry wrote: A couple of other considerations: Release forms: I (not a lawyer) do not think we will need them. Under the Book version of the Copy Right Laws, there is the Fair Use Exception. One aspect

Re: Picture Book

2008-12-22 Thread Nicu Buculei
Doug Berry wrote: It must be the Holidays, I have contacted a dozen or so publishers, but I am totally not hearing from anyone. Usually these people treat anyone interested like a ham in the Amazon; with them as the piranha. Yeah, everything is very slow this time of the year. Ian Weller wrot

Re: Picture book....

2008-12-22 Thread Nicu Buculei
Doug Berry wrote: Apparently we do not need to enhance them passed say 300 dpi and not the higher figures I have been quoting. And 300 dpi is nothing, you could probably enhance most web graphics to that and they would be okay. Not quite web graphics, the web graphics are still focused on 1024

Re: Picture book....

2008-12-22 Thread Nicu Buculei
Ian Weller wrote: I was still thinking we were going to put in stories of people. Are we going to do this on top of the image, or are we going to do it to the side (like I did in this mockup[1])? I would like to NOT have to pages with the same layout: one on top, another on bottom, another on

Re: Picture book....

2008-12-22 Thread Nicu Buculei
Jeff Spaleta wrote: Sure my first thought was a coffee table book. But then I realized I dont have a coffee table! Then I realized, not that many people who come into my house are going to 'get it' if they saw it. They'd flip through it of course, but is it going to be as impactful as trying to

Re: [Picture book] Quick update

2008-12-19 Thread Nicu Buculei
Doug Berry wrote: Love what you did with the wiki page. Clear, concise, and to the point. I added my name, but I couldn't think of anything I would have added that you had not already included. Doug, I think you could add a list of potential publishers, with some pros- and contras- for each

Re: About Fedora coffee table book....

2008-12-18 Thread Nicu Buculei
Doug Berry wrote: Nicu Buculei wrote: Why do you make the assumption that we don't know to use GIMP? And we are >talking here about imported photos, not about newly created images. The GIMP or any other imaging program is just a means to an end - it is a way of taking lesser qualit

Re: About creating a Fedora coffee table book....

2008-12-18 Thread Nicu Buculei
Doug Berry wrote: First the downside: 2. Ordinary snapshots, taken at an event or FUDCON, would be totally unsuitable for such a book. Mainly because of quality, but also because of content. Web graphics, as many of you know, look fine at 72 DPI (dots per inch), which is the standard setti

Re: The Face of Fedora Video Campaign

2008-12-17 Thread Nicu Buculei
Máirí­n Duffy wrote: I just wanted to point out that I have a lot of raw videos from the last Boston FUDcon, and just a small selection of them were used in the video I already produced in pitivi: http://mihmo.livejournal.com/57168.html I did solicit folks to send in their own video clips f

Re: I still want a Fedora coffee table book, and you are going to help me make one.

2008-12-16 Thread Nicu Buculei
Lisa Brewster wrote: I actually wondered if that was still the current message. Can someone give me a link to existing 4f's marketing materials and artwork? Here: http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/collateral/fourfs/four-fs-four-posters.png And more: http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/collateral/fo

Re: I still want a Fedora coffee table book, and you are going to help me make one.

2008-12-16 Thread Nicu Buculei
Lisa Brewster wrote: Fedora: The Book Objectives Driven by the Fedora Ambassadors, the goal of this photo project is to communicate what Fedora means to us and our communities. Images should show a Fedora user holding an object that symbolizes how the software empowers him or her in the Fed

Re: Cool install Icons?

2008-12-12 Thread Nicu Buculei
Máirí­n Duffy wrote: I am just trying to point out that rather than brainstorming all of these complicated games and activity ideas, why not try to focus on a nice set of say 5-6 banner ideas, and hash out the content for them? It would be more productive, and the art team could work with it

Re: Cool install Icons?

2008-12-10 Thread Nicu Buculei
John Mackay wrote: Applying that logic, then we should revert back to graphed character console text installs, it´s way uglier than anaconda and makes less use of the system resources. He said "faster", no "less resources". And a text install is still a viable option when you installing on a

Re: Cool install Icons?

2008-12-10 Thread Nicu Buculei
John Mackay wrote: LOL, thinking further; probably not everyone would enjoy a game anytime I remember many, many years ago I saw a Caldera install where you could play Tetris. (Specially at your work) So, what about if there existed an "Activity Center", there you could read about Fedoras V

Re: Cool install Icons?

2008-12-09 Thread Nicu Buculei
Lucas - Linux Sys. Admin (CEFETCE/UAB) wrote: Is it really nescessary to use open source solutions for developing the images and animations ? There is a *strong* preference at the Art Team for using Free / Open Source solutions as much as possible, we are quite proud of what we accomplished t

Re: Cool install Icons?

2008-12-08 Thread Nicu Buculei
Doug Berry wrote: If the idea is to jazz-up the install visually, why use static panels at all? How about some kind of animated thing -- a guy juggling balls labeled, partitions, desktop, sound system -- then when one is loaded, he chucks a ball at the screen and it says: partitions completed, n

Re: Cool install Icons?

2008-12-05 Thread Nicu Buculei
Scott Baker wrote: Would it be possible to resurrect something silly like that during the install? The current install images aren't nearly as exciting. Honestly I couldn't even tell you what they say! But I *do* remember those hotdog install screens from all the way back in RH8/9 from six years

Re: F10 Marketing

2008-11-28 Thread Nicu Buculei
wonderer wrote: I was searching for some press stuff for F10, but at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing/PressReleases I did'nt found there any texts about F10 I can use out of the box. Does anybody know where I can find it? For F10 I can update the presskit, but maybe someone has some main

Re: F10 CD/DVD label.

2008-11-19 Thread Nicu Buculei
susmit shannigrahi wrote: Yeah, but we use the wiki also for work in progress, not only for final works. And the release is only a few days away and those are AFAIK the only graphics available (and I know those are sleeves, not labels - the "official" labels are supposed to be like the ones for F

Re: F10 CD/DVD label.

2008-11-18 Thread Nicu Buculei
Rahul Sundaram wrote: Nicu Buculei wrote: We had a work-in-progress for this, I honestly don't know why it isn't on the wiki: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-October/msg00149.html I think perhaps someone (ideally, team lead) should have explicitly appr

Re: F10 CD/DVD label.

2008-11-18 Thread Nicu Buculei
Rahul Sundaram wrote: susmit shannigrahi wrote: Anyone knows where they are hosted? Cannot find out in the wiki. Thanks. Doesn't exist yet. Will show up eventually in http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/MediaArt We had a work-in-progress for this, I honestly don't know why it isn't on th

Re: Fedora Logo History

2008-11-14 Thread Nicu Buculei
Máirí­n Duffy wrote: Duvelle Jones wrote: You know, I am not too sure about the reasoning to that decision. But that is something that should be up for discussion, there may or may not be legal repercussion for the use of a non-open typeface. (and I am no legal expert, so I am not sure to what t

Re: Fedora Logo History

2008-11-13 Thread Nicu Buculei
Jon Stanley wrote: On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 10:01 PM, Duvelle Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You know, I am not too sure about the reasoning to that decision. But that is something that should be up for discussion, there may or may not be legal repercussion for the use of a non-open typeface. (

Re: Fedora Logo History

2008-11-12 Thread Nicu Buculei
Paul W. Frields wrote: Good work Mo! I remember there being some controversy over the design when it first came out, but now when I look at it I can't imagine our using anything else. The thought that went into the logo really helped us shape the definition of the overall Fedora brand. I was

Re: [FW: Some questions for an editorial piece on Neowin.net]

2008-11-12 Thread Nicu Buculei
Paul W. Frields wrote: Hello Marketing team, We received the following inquiry, and I thought this was a good opportunity to practice some of the "open marketing" concepts. Are there any folks on the list who would like to formulate answers to the questions here? [...] OK, with that I open t

Re: fedora greeting cards

2008-10-28 Thread Nicu Buculei
Máirín Duffy wrote: What if we had greetings cards, like season's greetings or happy birthday, that had a nice design on the front (maybe we could use some nice creative commons photos or open clip Now you made me think about a Fedora themed Valentine Day card using the characters from my web

Re: four f's poster designs

2008-10-24 Thread Nicu Buculei
Steven Moix wrote: On Thu, 2008-10-23 at 22:02 -0400, Mairin Duffy wrote: Hey folks, ... http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/collateral/fourfs/four-fs-four-posters.png Don't ask me why, but they made me think at the Intel Centrino logo (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/de/d/d1/Intel_Centrino

Re: Hints & Tips suggestions

2008-10-22 Thread Nicu Buculei
Nicu Buculei wrote: Jonathan Roberts wrote: Hey all, I'm looking for suggestions of hints and tips that we could publish to Fedora Magazine? Here is a hint, but probably not exactly the kind of hint you asked for: set a queue (it may be a wiki page or comments on a blog article)

Re: Hints & Tips suggestions

2008-10-22 Thread Nicu Buculei
Jonathan Roberts wrote: Hey all, I'm looking for suggestions of hints and tips that we could publish to Fedora Magazine? Here is a hint, but probably not exactly the kind of hint you asked for: set a queue (it may be a wiki page or comments on a blog article) where people submit their hints

Re: statistics about marketing list users?

2008-10-22 Thread Nicu Buculei
Mathieu Bridon (bochecha) wrote: Well, getting the data is the hard part, I was questioning here... - the list of subscribers is not something to give away easily, otherwise it will be a delight for spammers; What about EKG ? http://www.michaeldehaan.net/?p=740 Well, of course there are ways

Re: statistics about marketing list users?

2008-10-22 Thread Nicu Buculei
Mani A wrote: On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 2:22 PM, Nicu Buculei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: anyone more than me interested in this statistics? I am more curious on how are you intending to count people for such stats. If the raw data is available in some reasonable format (without arti

Re: statistics about marketing list users?

2008-10-22 Thread Nicu Buculei
Jonas Karlsson wrote: Nicu Buculei wrote: I am more curious on how are you intending to count people for such stats. You are way ahead of me there, I was still asking about if this has been done! I don't think this has be done, as it is really hard to do (for the reasons mentioned

Re: statistics about marketing list users?

2008-10-22 Thread Nicu Buculei
Jonas Karlsson wrote: This is still the Linux world so I'd guess the majority are developers and the developers are the rulers, judges and executioners. They are the ones to write and merge the code, to decide which idéas go where. So my question about statistics is about that, to know if the

Re: New Interview! Better startup

2008-10-21 Thread Nicu Buculei
Jonathan Roberts wrote: 2008/10/21 Nicu Buculei : Jon, can you install a "digg this" widget on the blog? http://digg.com/tools/integrate Or maybe a widget to submit to multiple social networks. Wish I could. Seeing as we're not on Fedora infra yet, I can only enable what word

Re: New Interview! Better startup

2008-10-21 Thread Nicu Buculei
Jonathan Roberts wrote: After the longest time, I've finally put together a new developer interview. This week's is with Ray Strode and Adam Jackson about the better startup feature. You can find it at http://fedoramagazine.wordpress.com/2008/10/21/interview-fedora-10s-better-startup/ Jon, can

Re: New Interview! Better startup

2008-10-21 Thread Nicu Buculei
Jonathan Roberts wrote: After the longest time, I've finally put together a new developer interview. This week's is with Ray Strode and Adam Jackson about the better startup feature. You can find it at http://fedoramagazine.wordpress.com/2008/10/21/interview-fedora-10s-better-startup/ Thanks go

Re: [Fwd: Re: F10 artwork questions]

2008-10-16 Thread Nicu Buculei
Jonathan Roberts wrote: There are two problems: - schedule: even if the selection of the release name was moved near to the development cycle start trying to help the Art team, it still was quite late; - for F9 we really tried such a tie, integrating sulphur crystals in the graphics, but the feed

Re: [Fwd: Re: F10 artwork questions]

2008-10-16 Thread Nicu Buculei
Paul W. Frields wrote: On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 22:48 +0100, Jonathan Roberts wrote: Seems strange though that we're possibly going to be using lines like this for marketing when the release is called Cambridge. Maybe it's time we tried to unify the release name with the artwork? A very old disc

Re: FM & FWN

2008-10-15 Thread Nicu Buculei
Steven Moix wrote: Talking about feeds, the FWN feed in Liferea (in F9 at least) points to http://fedora-tchung.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default and stops at issue 128. It would have been a good idea to publish a last post in this feed with a notice to change the URL. A standard user isn't going

Re: FM & FWN

2008-10-14 Thread Nicu Buculei
Jonathan Roberts wrote: Secondly, and this is where I'd like feedback, FWN was not reformatted at all from the wiki. While WordPress did a great job at converting all of the existing formatting, I'd like to know if people would prefer it in any other formats. This could include anything from hea

Re: Opening RHM/news.fp.o

2008-10-13 Thread Nicu Buculei
Jonathan Roberts wrote: Updated introductory text below: What's This All About? It's long been an ambition of many within the marketing team to establish a site along the lines of Red Hat Magazine, but one that's dedicated to content that's related to and created by th

Re: Opening RHM/news.fp.o

2008-10-13 Thread Nicu Buculei
Rahul Sundaram wrote: Will news.fedoraproject.org redirect to this blog? I think you should ask ASAP for a subdomain redirection from fp.o to fm.wp.c: if you change the domain name later, all the PageRank accumulated in the meantime will be practically lost. -- nicu :: http://nicubunu.ro :

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