Re: Learning from the best

2010-12-08 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Jason D. Clinton wrote: > But it fails in the attention span category. Uh... sorry? I wasn't listening. ;) I disagree. In a world of twitter & blogs & soundbites & YouTube, there is a place for personal stories, and well thought out articles, and books. You don't always have to appeal to the

Re: Learning from the best

2010-12-08 Thread Frederic Muller
Hi! For me I think half of the size would have been ok. The style is a but pompous and that part really killed it "The weekly email newsletters are extremely good, with links to a whole host of excellent articles and tutorials, notifications of events and training opportunities. " Basically t

Re: Learning from the best

2010-12-08 Thread Andre Klapper
Am Mittwoch, den 08.12.2010, 21:43 +0800 schrieb Frederic Muller: > I know we have some Google Codein marketing tasks, I'm currently > checking with Dave how to see all task as apparently started tasks don't > appear in the list. I don't think you can without being a mentor or admin for GNOME. :

Re: Learning from the best

2010-12-08 Thread Stormy Peters
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 6:43 AM, Frederic Muller wrote: > Hi! > > For me I think half of the size would have been ok. The style is a but > pompous and that part really killed it "The weekly email newsletters are > extremely good, with links to a whole host of excellent articles and > tutorials, no

Re: Learning from the best

2010-12-08 Thread Joey Ferwerda
I agree with Jason. The attention span of general people are very low. Thats the reason why Twitter is 160 characters max, the facebook messages are short, most of the Blogs contain a "read more" button with 90% of the post, youtube does not allow large video's for regular users etc etc. That is

Re: Learning from the best

2010-12-08 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Joey Ferwerda wrote: > The attention span of general people are very low. > Thats the reason why Twitter is 160 characters max, the facebook > messages are short, most of the Blogs contain a "read more" button with > 90% of the post, youtube does not allow large video's for regular users > etc

Re: Learning from the best

2010-12-08 Thread Paul Cutler
Dave, I'll be following up with you for GJ after this next edition is out! :) On a more serious note, I think both arguments are valid - I think longer form articles and short form (twitter, etc) both have their uses - I would love to see a volunteer step up and help manage and run one of them.

Re: Learning from the best

2010-12-08 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 09:21, Dave Neary wrote: > I really like the longer articles, and it's the kind of thing I'd like > to see more in the GNOME Journal - and I'd even volunteer to write one > or two, and encourage others to do the same - but I don't want to spend > time arguing about whether

Re: Learning from the best

2010-12-08 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 9:19 AM, Jason D. Clinton wrote: > On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 09:21, Dave Neary wrote: > >> I really like the longer articles, and it's the kind of thing I'd like >> to see more in the GNOME Journal - and I'd even volunteer to write one >> or two, and encourage others to do the

Re: GNOME Sound

2010-12-08 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Paul Cutler wrote: > I'd recommend Joey (cc'd) - he's active in GNOME marketing and has a > musical background. > > Gosh, you know I would really love a nice asian sound or myabe a voice from carnatic or hindustani music. It's kind of hard to describe what I have