Re: Marketing Materials in git

2010-02-08 Thread Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 7:26 PM, Paul Cutler wrote: > Thoughts?  I don't know if we need an answer right away, or if we'll > have a quorum in the meeting Saturday, but I'd be curious to hear what > people think. I'm not sure i"ll be able to make the meeting Saturday, but I do want to chime in on t

Re: Reviving FootNotes?

2010-02-08 Thread Vincent Untz
Le lundi 08 février 2010, à 10:56 -0800, Sriram Ramkrishna a écrit : > Good on you! It's a good time to do it since we want to get GNOME 3 out > there. However, it would be nice to do those GNOME summaries that I used to > do before going on to GNOME Journal. It's a very hard job unfortunately a

Marketing Materials in git

2010-02-08 Thread Paul Cutler
Hi Marketing Team! One of the topics I'd like to discuss in Saturday's team meeting is: Do we want to use GNOME's git repository for marketing materials? What made me think of it is I was working on the FAQ for volunteers hosting a GNOME booth[1] that we started at the hackfest last Nov. It loo

Re: Fwd: Fundraising / Donations

2010-02-08 Thread Nelson Marques
Stormy, Keep in mind this, when you make ur decision: https://xipwire.com/company/privacy my 2 cents. NM On Mon, 2010-02-08 at 16:15 -0700, Stormy Peters wrote: > I think it's an excellent offer and I definitely plan on saying > thanks. > > The question is, do we want to promote? I think

Re: Fwd: Fundraising / Donations

2010-02-08 Thread Nelson Marques
Sounds good. They run Red Hat based server with Apache. Good stuff (attach). Best of luck, NM On Mon, 2010-02-08 at 15:40 -0700, Stormy Peters wrote: > We got this offer today. > > I did a bit of research and XIPWIRE seem to be a startup that just > launched so there's not a lot of history

Re: Fwd: Fundraising / Donations

2010-02-08 Thread Stormy Peters
I think it's an excellent offer and I definitely plan on saying thanks. The question is, do we want to promote? I think we should ... Stormy On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Dave Neary wrote: > Hi, > > Stormy Peters wrote: > > Thoughts? Should we help market this? We'd be asking for GNOME donat

Re: Fwd: Fundraising / Donations

2010-02-08 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Stormy Peters wrote: > Thoughts? Should we help market this? We'd be asking for GNOME donations > and we'd also be encouraging people to set up XIPWIRE accounts. It sounds like there's not much being aked in return - it's up to us whether we promote the service or not :) At the very leats, it

Re: Mobile Giving Foundation

2010-02-08 Thread Stormy Peters
Thanks for the update, Bharat. If you could also figure out how many donations we'd need to break even, that would probably help with the decision. I found some good info in this article[1] about what companies usually charge nonprofits for this type of service. Stormy [1] http://mobileactive.o

Fwd: Fundraising / Donations

2010-02-08 Thread Stormy Peters
We got this offer today. I did a bit of research and XIPWIRE seem to be a startup that just launched so there's not a lot of history to check out. They have gotten a lot of good press from the local Philadelphia news[1]. The difference between this and the donation texts that most people are fami

Re: What keywords would you use for GNOME?

2010-02-08 Thread Stormy Peters
Hi Claus, I put all the open source keyword terms in their own ad group with the new ad you created. We'll see how it does. FYI, I had $229/day in the Friends of GNOME category and we are now spending it all. It is not however translating to even $229/day in additional donations, so we might want

Re: Reviving FootNotes?

2010-02-08 Thread Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 1:56 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > Good on you!  It's a good time to do it since we want to get GNOME 3 out > there.  However, it would be nice to do those GNOME summaries that I used to > do before going on to GNOME Journal.  It's a very hard job unfortunately and > requir

Re: Reviving FootNotes?

2010-02-08 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Good on you! It's a good time to do it since we want to get GNOME 3 out there. However, it would be nice to do those GNOME summaries that I used to do before going on to GNOME Journal. It's a very hard job unfortunately and requires someone dedicated to reading a lot of mailing lists. sri On S

Re: Friends of GNOME December & January Data

2010-02-08 Thread Stormy Peters
On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 9:35 AM, Jaap A. Haitsma wrote: > Hi Stormy, > > I suggest you post these updates also to your blog as that probably > leads to much more traffic to friends of GNOME instead of posting it > here. > I'd prefer that we had different people blog it every month. I don't really

Re: Friends of GNOME December & January Data

2010-02-08 Thread Stormy Peters
On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 1:12 PM, Jaap A. Haitsma wrote: > OK, but I see most of the data correctly. Starting from November 2009 > it's not correct. Where do I need to change the date format or > localization to get it to work? > I don't know why the date doesn't work for just the dates I added th

Re: Issue 19 Planning

2010-02-08 Thread Nelson Marques
Hi, This are the questions I've sended to Ahead regarding this Nero Article. I don't expect to have them all answered, but it's a good start. Like I said previously, this is not a product review. -- 1. Can you share with us the story behind NeroLinux product? 2. Nero uses GTK technol

Re: New GNOME Website - Now ready for editors

2010-02-08 Thread Lucas Rocha
Hi Claus, I pinged the Plone guys to send instructions to this mailing list about how to get accounts and edit content. Hopefully, they'll be doing that soon. Cheers! --lucasr 2010/1/14 Claus Schwarm : > Well, since you offered your help: How do I get an account to be able > to start editing?

Re: Reviving FootNotes?

2010-02-08 Thread Andreas Nilsson
On 02/06/2010 07:37 PM, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier wrote: Hi all, A few weeks ago I got access to publish content on FootNotes. Planet GNOME is good for folks who are heavily involved in GNOME, but probably not a great way to keep track of GNOME news for users. GNOME Journal is great for articles,

Re: Issue 19 Planning

2010-02-08 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Paul Cutler wrote: > Luis, thanks for the email. I more than understand your concern about > proprietary software, but at the same time a number of for-profit > companies use GNOME technologies. Absolutely - we enable proprietary software, and I'm always happy to see proprietary software c