Re: GNOME SWOT Analysis

2010-04-02 Thread Juanjo Marin
On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 03:59 +0100, Nelson Marques wrote: > I'm doing something already for some time with Stephano in the Fedora > Project. Though it's still a bit stopped now (due to goddard release), I > can provide some guidance help on that. I've done already SWOT's in the > past (for the Portu

Re: GNOME SWOT Analysis

2010-04-02 Thread Juanjo Marin
On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 08:30 +0200, Claus Schwarm wrote: Hi Claus ! > I think you've done quite a good job! Especially concerning the > concerns... I was amazed reading that someone thought about all these. > And I really like how you tried to link each SWOT point to a certain > objective or attri

Re: GNOME -> Gnome

2010-04-02 Thread Hylke Bons
On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 11:38 PM, Alex Launi wrote: > On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 6:27 PM, Hylke Bons wrote: >> >> "Gnome" reminds of the the imaginary tiny creatures. > > So what? Gnomes are adorable, intelligent creatures. They believe in strong > communities, and wear silly hats. We should be thrill

Re: GNOME -> Gnome

2010-04-02 Thread Hylke Bons
Hi, I am very much against this. "Gnome" reminds of the the imaginary tiny creatures. At least you can see "GNOME" is an acronym, and you can guess it doesn't have anything to do with those. If the argument is that the acronym isn't appropriate anymore, I suggest finding a new a new one. Also "Gn

Re: Guadec and Dutch government plans for OSS and desktop

2010-04-02 Thread Brian Cameron
Sanne: We've had contact briefly about usabillity. I agree with you that this is something that would be of interest for any government, and I want to have a talk about this in the pre-conference. Can you help me getting the GNOME people who are knowledgable about this to prepare something for

Re: Hello and suggestions

2010-04-02 Thread Juanjo Marin
On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 23:01 -0500, Diego Escalante Urrelo wrote: > Hi Marc!, > > El jue, 01-04-2010 a las 11:00 +0200, Marc Hanisch escribió: > > Hello list, > > > > my name is Marc Hanisch and I'm a professional (in the terms of > > payed ;-)) web developer from Germany. > > I want to contribute

GNOME -> Gnome

2010-04-02 Thread Jason D. Clinton
At the November hackfest, we briefly discussed and were all enthusiastically in support of changing the case of GNOME branding from GNOME to Gnome. I have floated this idea with others over the past few months and haven't gotten any negative feedback. What about others? Have you discussed this with

Story-boarding Video 1: Less interruptions

2010-04-02 Thread Jason D. Clinton
As we discussed at the November hackfest, these videos are inspired by the seven videos at . The current plan is to copy that style with one deviation: the final marque will have a large blank space in which distros can place their branding. Underneath the

Re: GNOME Wish List

2010-04-02 Thread Nelson Marques
On Fri, 2010-04-02 at 06:35 -0600, Stormy Peters wrote: > I have created a GNOME Wish List[1]. Let me know what you think before > I advertise it to a wider audience. > > A bit of background. The GNOME Board of Directors was getting a lot of > requests for things like hardware and I was then passi

Re: GNOME Wish List

2010-04-02 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 6:35 AM, Stormy Peters wrote: > I have created a GNOME Wish List[1]. Let me know what you think before I > advertise it to a wider audience. > > A bit of background. The GNOME Board of Directors was getting a lot of > requests for things like hardware and I was then passing

Re: Hello and suggestions

2010-04-02 Thread Marc Hanisch
Hello Zonker, 2010/4/2 Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier > On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 9:07 AM, Marc Hanisch > wrote: > > I think it should be easy to provide a common Gnome environment for OS X > > with a underlying Fink or MacPorts installation. So the non technical > > enduser wouldn't notice all the power

Re: Hello and suggestions

2010-04-02 Thread Claus Schwarm
Hi, Marc! On Fri, 2010-04-02 at 15:07 +0200, Marc Hanisch wrote: ... > > I would also appreciate two simple but well designed webpages for > Windows and Mac OS X users (like the Gnome release pages) to show the > benefits of using Gnome on other operating systems than Unix / Linux / > BSD. Ther

Re: Hello and suggestions

2010-04-02 Thread Tim Horton
On 2010.04.02, at 9:28 AM, Marc Hanisch wrote: > Hello Zonker, > > 2010/4/2 Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier > > On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 9:07 AM, Marc Hanisch wrote: > > I think it should be easy to provide a common Gnome environment for OS X > > with a underlying Fink or MacPorts installation. So the

Re: Hello and suggestions

2010-04-02 Thread Marc Hanisch
Hello Zonker, 2010/4/2 Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 9:07 AM, Marc Hanisch > wrote: > > I think it should be easy to provide a common Gnome environment for OS X > > with a underlying Fink or MacPorts installation. So the non technical > > enduser wouldn't notice all the powerfu

Re: Hello and suggestions

2010-04-02 Thread Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier
On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 9:07 AM, Marc Hanisch wrote: > I think it should be easy to provide a common Gnome environment for OS X > with a underlying Fink or MacPorts installation. So the non technical > enduser wouldn't notice all the powerfull unix tools behind but could use > it. Perhaps I'm not

Re: Hello and suggestions

2010-04-02 Thread Marc Hanisch
Hey Diego, hello Stormy, 2010/4/2 Stormy Peters > > > On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 10:01 PM, Diego Escalante Urrelo > wrote: > >> Hi Marc!, >> >> El jue, 01-04-2010 a las 11:00 +0200, Marc Hanisch escribió: >> > Hello list, >> > >> > my name is Marc Hanisch and I'm a professional (in the terms of >>

GNOME Wish List

2010-04-02 Thread Stormy Peters
I have created a GNOME Wish List[1]. Let me know what you think before I advertise it to a wider audience. A bit of background. The GNOME Board of Directors was getting a lot of requests for things like hardware and I was then passing those requests on to our advisory board sponsors one by one. We

Re: Hello and suggestions

2010-04-02 Thread Stormy Peters
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 10:01 PM, Diego Escalante Urrelo wrote: > Hi Marc!, > > El jue, 01-04-2010 a las 11:00 +0200, Marc Hanisch escribió: > > Hello list, > > > > my name is Marc Hanisch and I'm a professional (in the terms of > > payed ;-)) web developer from Germany. > > I want to contribute to

Re: Live media of GNOME 2.30

2010-04-02 Thread Vincent Untz
Le jeudi 01 avril 2010, à 10:37 -0400, Jud Craft a écrit : > On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 7:49 AM, Vincent Untz wrote: > > > > Sorry, I forgot you said you'd take care of it. And, now it has been > > updated. I guess you fixed it then, thanks Olav! > > > > I'm not sure you can call it fixed if there's n