Re: GNOME Installation Howtos

2010-02-17 Thread Paul Cutler
On Tue, 2010-02-16 at 11:42 -0500, Darton Williams wrote: > Hi All, > > In reference to http://website-editors.gnome.org/download/installation: > > The only existing links to Howtos were for *BSD. Since these guides > were on the official distribution websites, it made sense to try and > find gui

Re: Stickers

2010-02-17 Thread Larry Cafiero
Hi, all -- I won't be working the GNOME booth at SCALE, so I don't know what the sticker situation will be until I get the box back next week. So I'll let you know when the box returns to me what the sticker situation -- and other swag -- is. [Actually, I'm just the keeper of the event box -- it

Re: introductions (was Re: )

2010-02-17 Thread John Williams
> > On 02/09/2010 04:49 PM, Nelson Marques wrote: > >> I would like to ask one thing to this list, would it be possible for >> people to introduce themselfs and say what is their role around on the >> list? >> >> Hello all. My name is John Williams. I am not a developer or documenter. I am a us

Re: Stickers

2010-02-17 Thread Rosanna Yuen
I think that depends on how Larry is planning on rationing the stickers. Previously, we had planned on a sleeve of them per event. I believe that is 250 stickers. Thanks, Rosanna On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 18:42 +, Steve Lee wrote: > Thanks Rosanna > > For now I'd like to get an idea of how many

Re: Campaign Proposal

2010-02-17 Thread Nelson Marques
On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 12:34 -0600, Shaun McCance wrote: > On Tue, 2010-02-16 at 21:27 +, Nelson Marques wrote: > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > In attachment there is a proposal for a new campaign and it's goals. To > > unravel this a bit, it aims to position GNOME brand as an ecological > > su

Colors and meanings

2010-02-17 Thread Nelson Marques
This might be interesting for some people... I've been taking a look into the Friends of GNOME campaign and I found some artwork in green background plus white text. There is a meaning associated with this at low level psychology, the perception that people have from the colors (this is based

Re: Guadec and Dutch government plans for OSS and desktop

2010-02-17 Thread Brian Cameron
Sanne: One thing that I notice is that your document makes no mention of accessibility. Many governments are interested in supporting workers, citizens and students who are disabled. GNOME provides, at no cost, a wide range of accessibility support for users who are blind, have vision problems

Re: Guadec and Dutch government plans for OSS and desktop

2010-02-17 Thread Stormy Peters
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 12:19 PM, Sanne te Meerman < sa...@opensourceadvies.nl> wrote: > > Marketing Team, who should work on the response? >> > > I can translate interesting parts tomorrow, and give my thoughts on what I > personally would think is important in a response. But especially about th

Re: Guadec and Dutch government plans for OSS and desktop

2010-02-17 Thread Sanne te Meerman
Stormy Peters schreef: Hi Sanne, I think that's a great idea. If at all possible, we should reply back with comment within the comment period. Ok, bear in mind though that it's the 1st of march, not the end of March. Sorry, my mistake. Then I think there are many technical publications/maga

Re: Campaign Proposal

2010-02-17 Thread Diego Escalante Urrelo
El mié, 17-02-2010 a las 17:47 +, Nelson Marques escribió: > > Diego, > > I would maintain the number, just add the (promotion) "name" ahead. > Removing numbers will probably make a huge turmoil, and it's not really > necessary. I don't know the dev's position, but I would assume it would >

Re: Campaign Proposal

2010-02-17 Thread Nelson Marques
On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 12:34 -0600, Shaun McCance wrote: > On Tue, 2010-02-16 at 21:27 +, Nelson Marques wrote: > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > In attachment there is a proposal for a new campaign and it's goals. To > > unravel this a bit, it aims to position GNOME brand as an ecological > > su

Re: Stickers

2010-02-17 Thread Steve Lee
Thanks Rosanna For now I'd like to get an idea of how many will be in the box, so we decide if we need more. Steve On 17 February 2010 18:28, Rosanna Yuen wrote: > Hi Steve, > > Like Stormy said, we ordered rolls of stickers.  However, they are > precut and sent in stacks.  Off the top of my he

Re: Campaign Proposal

2010-02-17 Thread Shaun McCance
On Tue, 2010-02-16 at 21:27 +, Nelson Marques wrote: > > > Hi all, > > In attachment there is a proposal for a new campaign and it's goals. To > unravel this a bit, it aims to position GNOME brand as an ecological > supporting brand alongside with some things we can do to promote this. > >

Re: Stickers

2010-02-17 Thread Rosanna Yuen
Hi Steve, Like Stormy said, we ordered rolls of stickers. However, they are precut and sent in stacks. Off the top of my head, I believe there were four round designs (the gnome foot on different backgrounds) and a couple of rectangular ones. I think they may be on the marketing pages somewhere

Re: GNOME US Event Box

2010-02-17 Thread Larry Cafiero
Hey, Eitan -- If you're going to use the event box for your event, could you pick up the box at SCALE on Sunday night? It would save me from having to ship it back to myself and then ship it back to you. We might also make arrangements for you to pick it up on Monday if Sunday doesn't work for you

Re: Mobile Giving Foundation

2010-02-17 Thread Stormy Peters
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 10:14 AM, Bharat Kapoor <3.kap...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Stormy > > I will respond to this question in two steps. > > Part 1 > Breakeven - we need around 11 people giving 10 bucks for the 1st 3 months > to breakeven. > > Part 2 > I think we should treat this as a pilot as w

Re: Stickers

2010-02-17 Thread Stormy Peters
We ordered them from http://stickerrobot.com/templates/. We order rolls of stickers now instead of sheets. Rosanna could give you more info like the images we used and exact product we ordered. (I think Lucas worked on it with her.) Stormy On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Steve Lee wrote: > H

Stickers

2010-02-17 Thread Steve Lee
Hi I understand that there will be some stickers in the replacement event box which I think will be used at the CSUN conference for the a11y hackfest. Does anyone know how many there are or how to order some more as swag goes pretty fast at CSUN. Thanks Steve Lee Full Measure -- marketing-list

Re: Campaign Proposal

2010-02-17 Thread Nelson Marques
On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 12:34 -0500, Diego Escalante Urrelo wrote: > El mié, 17-02-2010 a las 08:09 -0800, Sriram Ramkrishna escribió: > > > > > > On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 1:27 PM, Nelson Marques <07...@ipam.pt> wrote: > > > > Please flame at will... > > > > > >

Re: Campaign Proposal

2010-02-17 Thread Diego Escalante Urrelo
El mié, 17-02-2010 a las 08:09 -0800, Sriram Ramkrishna escribió: > > > On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 1:27 PM, Nelson Marques <07...@ipam.pt> wrote: > > Please flame at will... > > > > > I would hope that nobody would do such a thing for putting effort and > time i

Re: GNOME US Event Box

2010-02-17 Thread Eitan Isaacson
Hey Larry. I'm glad I found this thread! We are going to need the event box at CSUN (http://csunconference.org) from March 23rd through the 27th. Cheers, Eitan. On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Larry Cafiero wrote: > That's great, Rosanna -- and a good call to do it after the holidays, as no

Re: Mobile Giving Foundation

2010-02-17 Thread Bharat Kapoor
Hi Stormy I will respond to this question in two steps. Part 1 Breakeven - we need around 11 people giving 10 bucks for the 1st 3 months to breakeven. Part 2 I think we should treat this as a pilot as we dont even know how our members will respond there will be an acceptance period and we should

Re: Introductions

2010-02-17 Thread Nelson Marques
Stormy, Got it. Awesome stuff. I'm going to give you a contact of a national hardware manufacturer which is supplying Laptops for students through the government (not the cursed Magalhães). Unfortunatly they use a national distribution called Caixa Mágica (Magic Box, http://www.caixamagica.pt)

Re: Campaign Proposal

2010-02-17 Thread Nelson Marques
On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 08:09 -0800, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > > > On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 1:27 PM, Nelson Marques <07...@ipam.pt> wrote: > > Please flame at will... > > > > > I would hope that nobody would do such a thing for putting effort and > time into

Re: Introductions

2010-02-17 Thread Stormy Peters
Great. I'll send the brochure to you offlist. Stormy On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 9:30 AM, Nelson Marques <07...@ipam.pt> wrote: > > > On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 09:15 -0700, Stormy Peters wrote: > > Hi Nelson, > > > > On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Nelson Marques <07...@ipam.pt> > > wrote: > >

Re: Introductions

2010-02-17 Thread Nelson Marques
On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 09:15 -0700, Stormy Peters wrote: > Hi Nelson, > > On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Nelson Marques <07...@ipam.pt> > wrote: > About Guadec, have you contacted Vodafone? or any other big > Mobile > operators? I would assume that pushing the right key

Re: Introductions

2010-02-17 Thread Stormy Peters
Hi Nelson, On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Nelson Marques <07...@ipam.pt> wrote: > About Guadec, have you contacted Vodafone? or any other big Mobile > operators? I would assume that pushing the right keys, they would tag > alongside with Guadec. Also try to have small local business present, >

Re: Introductions

2010-02-17 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Well sure it's just my opinion that I have good idea.. I have to have some ego in this group! sri On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 6:48 PM, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: > Do you? ;) > > I'm behdad by the way. Just listening and occasionally teasing. > > behdad > > On 02/16/2010 07:16 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna wr

Re: Campaign Proposal

2010-02-17 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 1:27 PM, Nelson Marques <07...@ipam.pt> wrote: > > Please flame at will... > > > I would hope that nobody would do such a thing for putting effort and time into an idea. We have serious community issues if one expects to be flamed when proposing an idea. This isn't LKML.

Re: Guadec and Dutch government plans for OSS and desktop

2010-02-17 Thread Stormy Peters
Hi Sanne, I think that's a great idea. If at all possible, we should reply back with comment within the comment period. Then I think there are many technical publications/magazines that we could work with to publish a public response. Marketing Team, who should work on the response? Stormy On

Re: Guadec and Dutch government plans for OSS and desktop

2010-02-17 Thread Sanne te Meerman
I'll have my men working on this, on the double!! :-) Ok, I didn't phrase that very well. What I meant was, if there's enough enthousiasm, I'm sure a volunteer can be found for this :-) I'll put my two cents in tomorrow, to sketch the outline. best, Sanne Btw, I made a 'tiny' mistake, as an o

Re: Website - Pending content tasks

2010-02-17 Thread Claus Schwarm
Hi, Darton! On Mon, 2010-02-15 at 14:09 -0500, Darton Williams wrote: > On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 7:32 AM, Lucas Rocha wrote: > > > Download: > > - Main page looks ok, a final review would be nice. > > http://website-editors.gnome.org/download > Marking as "Draft Available", proofread. > > Quick

Re: Guadec and Dutch government plans for OSS and desktop

2010-02-17 Thread Nelson Marques
On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 15:35 +0100, Sanne te Meerman wrote: > Hi, > > I've made a post before where I addressed the Dutch' government plans > for OSS in their desktop. As Guadec will be in holland this year, the > organisation is aiming to have one or a view sessions about OSS in > public ints

Re: Website - Pending content tasks

2010-02-17 Thread Darton Williams
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 7:32 AM, Lucas Rocha wrote: > Download: > - Main page looks ok, a final review would be nice. http://website-editors.gnome.org/download Marking as "Draft Available", proofread. Quick note: the "How to Install GNOME" section uses contractions (GNOME is -> GNOME's) resulti

Re: Guadec and Dutch government plans for OSS and desktop

2010-02-17 Thread Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 9:35 AM, Sanne te Meerman wrote: > You decide, here it is. It's in dutch. If you think this could be > interesting, let me know, so we might have someone translate it. > http://wiki.noiv.nl/xwiki/bin/download/OpenDWR/WebHome/RealisatielijnOpenDWRv0.93februari.pdf Yes, plea

Guadec and Dutch government plans for OSS and desktop

2010-02-17 Thread Sanne te Meerman
Hi, I've made a post before where I addressed the Dutch' government plans for OSS in their desktop. As Guadec will be in holland this year, the organisation is aiming to have one or a view sessions about OSS in public intstitutions. The government just released a consultation asking for feedb

Re: Friends of GNOME Ruler

2010-02-17 Thread Lucas Rocha
Hi, 2010/2/16 Stormy Peters : > > > On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 4:10 AM, Lucas Rocha wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> So, I have the Friends of GNOME ruler ready to be published in three >> of our sites: >> >> GNOME (https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1187037/wgo-ruler.png) >> Planet (https://dl.dropbox.com/u/118703