Re: GNOME - Gnome

2010-04-06 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Hylke Bons wrote: I am very much against this. Gnome reminds of the the imaginary tiny creatures. I agree with Hylke. GNOME is better than Gnome. Something completely different might be better again... we don't have a huge amount of brand equity worldwide for GNOME, perhaps it's time

membership pointers

2010-04-06 Thread Stormy Peters
As we think about how to increase our subscriber numbers, this article had some interesting points about membership. Eight Strategic Mistakes with Memberships http://www.blueavocado.org/node/508 In particular, I don't think we give donors a good idea of how their donations change the world

Re: GNOME - Gnome

2010-04-06 Thread Bharat Kapoor
Hi Guys At least now I know what GNOME is an acronym for :) - thanks Hylke. I am working on our mobile fund raising plan and many a times the question came up: Who are we? Why are we in this business? What's our grand vision? At least I could not find a consistent answer (I think I understand the

Re: GNOME - Gnome

2010-04-06 Thread Sven Herzberg
Hi, Am Freitag, den 02.04.2010, 12:19 -0600 schrieb Jason D. Clinton: If we're going to do this, 3.0 seems like the perfect opportunity. I think that we should decide how we feel as the Marketing Team leading up to the Zaragoza, Spain hackfest and try and come to a final decision by then.

Re: GNOME - Gnome

2010-04-06 Thread Andre Klapper
Am Dienstag, den 06.04.2010, 08:08 -0500 schrieb Bharat Kapoor: At least now I know what GNOME is an acronym for :) The talk is about name or rename (if our mission is consistent with) GNU Network Object Model Environment Once again: GNOME WAS an acronym. GNOME is NOT anymore an acronym. GNOME

Re: Gnome/Guadec and Government market

2010-04-06 Thread Sanne te Meerman
Hi Stormy, I think I haven't replied yet but it sounds like a good idea to take the a11y proposals into consideration for the pre-conference. Papers-team, what do you think? Sense, or Crhistophe, can you grant me the rights to see the proposals? best, Sanne Stormy Peters schreef:

Re: GNOME - Gnome

2010-04-06 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 8:21 AM, Sven Herzberg he...@gnome-de.org wrote: Am Freitag, den 02.04.2010, 12:19 -0600 schrieb Jason D. Clinton: If we're going to do this, 3.0 seems like the perfect opportunity. I think that we should decide how we feel as the Marketing Team leading up to the

Re: membership pointers

2010-04-06 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 6:50 AM, Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org wrote: As we think about how to increase our subscriber numbers, this article had some interesting points about membership. Eight Strategic Mistakes with Memberships http://www.blueavocado.org/node/508 In particular, I don't

Re: GNOME - Gnome

2010-04-06 Thread Stormy Peters
I would prefer Gnome to GNOME but not enough to push for it now. Perhaps we could come up with new words for the acronym. You'd be surprised how often I get asked what it stands for. GNOME So it was: GNU Network Object Model Environment What could it be? (I personally can't think of anything

Re: membership pointers

2010-04-06 Thread Stormy Peters
On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 9:23 AM, Jason D. Clinton m...@jasonclinton.comwrote: On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 6:50 AM, Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org wrote: As we think about how to increase our subscriber numbers, this article had some interesting points about membership. Eight Strategic Mistakes

Re: GNOME - Gnome

2010-04-06 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Something completely different might be better again... we don't have a huge amount of brand equity worldwide for GNOME, perhaps it's time to consider a rename? Although I can live with GNOME... Our brand recognition seems to be mostly within the FOSS group. People really don't know GNOME

Re: GNOME - Gnome

2010-04-06 Thread Nelson Marques
+1 I've mailed something only to Dave by mistake regarding some of the dangers of Re-Branding. Dave, feel free to forward to list, as it was my mistake on not hitting reply all. I pointed before also to Dave the following: * If GNOME is expecting some negative feedback on GNOME 3.0,

Re: GNOME - Gnome

2010-04-06 Thread Dave Neary
Hi Andre, Andre Klapper wrote: Am Dienstag, den 06.04.2010, 08:08 -0500 schrieb Bharat Kapoor: At least now I know what GNOME is an acronym for :) The talk is about name or rename (if our mission is consistent with) GNU Network Object Model Environment Once again: GNOME WAS an acronym.

Re: GNOME - Gnome

2010-04-06 Thread Diego Escalante Urrelo
El mar, 06-04-2010 a las 18:28 +0200, Dave Neary escribió: Hi Andre, Andre Klapper wrote: Am Dienstag, den 06.04.2010, 08:08 -0500 schrieb Bharat Kapoor: At least now I know what GNOME is an acronym for :) The talk is about name or rename (if our mission is consistent with) GNU Network

Re: GNOME - Gnome

2010-04-06 Thread Nelson Marques
On Tue, 2010-04-06 at 18:28 +0200, Dave Neary wrote: Hi Andre, Andre Klapper wrote: Am Dienstag, den 06.04.2010, 08:08 -0500 schrieb Bharat Kapoor: At least now I know what GNOME is an acronym for :) The talk is about name or rename (if our mission is consistent with) GNU Network

Re: GNOME - Gnome

2010-04-06 Thread Andre Klapper
Am Dienstag, den 06.04.2010, 18:05 +0100 schrieb Nelson Marques: I don't know if someone who has legal knowledge of this can support or enlighten people. http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/legal-list ? :-) andre -- mailto:ak...@gmx.net | failed http://www.iomc.de/ |

GNOME Free Agent T-shirt Proposal

2010-04-06 Thread Brian Cameron
GNOME Marketing Team Over the past several months, I have been trading emails with the OLPC and SugarLabs folks about an opportunity to create a t-shirt to promote that GNOME free software benefits humanitarian projects like OLPC and Sugar Labs, and to provide a nice reward for volunteers

Re: GNOME Free Agent T-shirt Proposal

2010-04-06 Thread Bryen M. Yunashko
Cool concept...more below On Tue, 2010-04-06 at 15:08 -0500, Brian Cameron wrote: I was thinking that we could make two versions of the t-shirt. One version to sell for $20 that has nothing on the back. A second version will have the following text on the back and would be given away for

Re: GNOME - Gnome

2010-04-06 Thread Juanjo Marin
On Tue, 2010-04-06 at 11:35 +0200, Dave Neary wrote: Hi, Hylke Bons wrote: I am very much against this. Gnome reminds of the the imaginary tiny creatures. I agree with Hylke. GNOME is better than Gnome. My opinion on this is that GNOME is better that Gnome because we are used

Re: GNOME - Gnome

2010-04-06 Thread Juanjo Marin
On Tue, 2010-04-06 at 08:08 -0500, Bharat Kapoor wrote: Hi Guys I am working on our mobile fund raising plan and many a times the question came up: Who are we? Why are we in this business? What's our grand vision? At least I could not find a consistent answer (I think I understand the

Re: GNOME - Gnome

2010-04-06 Thread Andre Klapper
Am Dienstag, den 06.04.2010, 23:48 +0200 schrieb Juanjo Marin: BTW, as far as I know, the GNOME uses Trebuchet MS [1] (correct me if I'm wrong) and I think it is time to change it. Wrong, see http://live.gnome.org/BrandGuidelines ... andre [PS: Please do not CC me. I am subscribed to this

Re: GNOME Free Agent T-shirt Proposal

2010-04-06 Thread Juanjo Marin
On Tue, 2010-04-06 at 15:08 -0500, Brian Cameron wrote: With the photo would appear the following text: [GNOME Logo] Free Software - Powering [OLPC logo] [Sugar Labs logo] Perhaps some additional text under the photograph or under the logo would be nice like Helping previously

Re: GNOME - Gnome

2010-04-06 Thread Juanjo Marin
On Wed, 2010-04-07 at 00:20 +0200, Andre Klapper wrote: BTW, as far as I know, the GNOME uses Trebuchet MS [1] (correct me if I'm wrong) and I think it is time to change it. Wrong, see http://live.gnome.org/BrandGuidelines ... OK, then it is OK for me. It resembles so much the MS Trebuchet