Re: Introductions

2010-02-18 Thread Nelson Marques
On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 03:33 +, Luis Medinas wrote: > On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 5:02 PM, Nelson Marques <07...@ipam.pt> wrote: > > 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

Re: Introductions

2010-02-18 Thread Luis Medinas
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 5:02 PM, Nelson Marques <07...@ipam.pt> wrote: > 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 u

Facebook, just a thought

2010-02-18 Thread Nelson Marques
Hi, Anyone has knowledge about those widgets that we can add to facebook profile? Could we create such a gadget that we could place on our profiles and send people to "Friends of GNOME" ? Wouldn't that prolly translate in couple more hundreds (maybe thousands) of hits? We could most likely

Re: Mobile Giving Foundation

2010-02-18 Thread Stormy Peters
We discussed this in the GNOME board meeting. The board thinks it's a good idea to explore new opportunities like this and there's $300 the marketing team can use for this. (Or any other activities that are appropriate.) They did bring up the issue that we should have a plan for how we plan to ge

Re: Colors and meanings

2010-02-18 Thread Andreas Nilsson
On 02/17/2010 08:19 PM, Nelson Marques wrote: 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 perceptio

Re: Guadec and Dutch government plans for OSS and desktop

2010-02-18 Thread Sanne te Meerman
Hi, I've gimped a littlebit with a picture of the outline of the DWR plans. Please bear in mind that although the document was in itself not intended to be private, this is my personal translation, quick & dirty, unofficial, and it might cause problems if it's published. For use only within G

Re: Guadec and Dutch government plans for OSS and desktop

2010-02-18 Thread Sanne te Meerman
Yes, great. When I first joined this list, I also saw post from you and others about this. I think the fact that Gnome's active in this area can really do good in publicity as well. (Appart from the fact that it's supergreat in itself of course :-) ) Brian Cameron schreef: Sanne: One thing

Re: Stickers

2010-02-18 Thread Steve Lee
On 17 February 2010 22:40, Larry Cafiero wrote: > 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. Thanks

Re: GNOME Installation Howtos

2010-02-18 Thread Claus Schwarm
Paul, thanks for copying the marketing list. Darton, yes, if a distribution on the 'installation' page has no official howto, remove it. The 'installation' page is there to advertise those who maintain official guides. The presence of different distros in each version may indeed confuse a handf