Proposal put in for Open Source Bridge.

2011-02-15 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
I have put in a proposal to talk about GNOME 3 at the upcoming Open Source Bridge conference in Portland. I have titled the talk as: GNOME 3 - A New Desktop Experience GNOME 3 was released in April 2011. A presentation on the thought process in innovating a different user experience on the deskto

freenode gnome channel

2011-02-15 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On freenode, we have a ##gnome channel that is actually staffed by self interested in volunteers for quite a number of years. There is no official #gnome channel due to Freenode's policy of needing an official group sponsoring it like the GNOME Foundation. I would like to propose that we actually

Re: Fwd: FreeWear.org - Royalty Report (2011/01).

2011-02-15 Thread Stormy Peters
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 10:00 AM, Brian Cameron wrote: > > > I do think we want to avoid creating a confusing clutter of options, > but I do not think that is a real concern at this point considering > the small number of merchants who have arrangements to sell GNOME > branded merchandise. This c

Re: Fwd: FreeWear.org - Royalty Report (2011/01).

2011-02-15 Thread Brian Cameron
Dave: Zazzle does a good job of selling in multiple currencies, but some users prefer other, sometimes local, options. The Board works with other companies who also pay us a royalty and we don't have issues with multiple stores, as long as they sign our trademark agreements and we have a worka

Re: Fwd: FreeWear.org - Royalty Report (2011/01).

2011-02-15 Thread Frederic Muller
On 02/15/2011 11:06 PM, Dave Neary wrote: we don't have issues with multiple stores, as long as they sign our trademark agreements and we have a workable business relationship, which we do with Freewear. I had a look at freewear and didn't feel 'seduced' by their store. They definitely br

Re: Fwd: FreeWear.org - Royalty Report (2011/01).

2011-02-15 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Paul Cutler wrote: > The Zazzle store has been operational for almost a year now. It seems like we're quite low-key about promoting it. How about including a link to the GNOME Love mug & a link to the store on the front page? The text paragraph fades into the background a bit among the news &

Re: Fwd: FreeWear.org - Royalty Report (2011/01).

2011-02-15 Thread Paul Cutler
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 3:08 AM, Dave Neary wrote: > Paul, how is the GNOME Store on Zazzle coming along? I'm all for > supporting merchandising agreements we make, and the FreeWear guys are > cool, but I don't want to divert revenue away from us, if we have a > better option. > > If the Zazzle st

Re: Fwd: FreeWear.org - Royalty Report (2011/01).

2011-02-15 Thread Pockey Lam
On 02/15/2011 05:42 PM, Juanjo Marín wrote: Hi ! The FreeWear is a store that traditionally worked with us, at least in Spain (I think they produce the t-shirts for the GUADEC held in Spain and other local events). In this case, shall we consider to link them at GNOME Hispano page - http://www

Re: Fwd: FreeWear.org - Royalty Report (2011/01).

2011-02-15 Thread Juanjo Marín
--- El mar, 15/2/11, Dave Neary escribió: > De: Dave Neary > Asunto: Re: Fwd: FreeWear.org - Royalty Report (2011/01). > Para: "GNOME Marketing List" > Fecha: martes, 15 de febrero, 2011 10:08 > > Hi, > > Ismael Barros² wrote: > > In order to boost sales and therefore donations to the > GNO

Re: Fwd: FreeWear.org - Royalty Report (2011/01).

2011-02-15 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Ismael Barros² wrote: > In order to boost sales and therefore donations to the GNOME > Foundation, we have asked for a link to our website on the GNOME > website (http://gnome.org), and we got redirected here to discuss the > issue. Paul, how is the GNOME Store on Zazzle coming along? I'm al

Fwd: FreeWear.org - Royalty Report (2011/01).

2011-02-15 Thread Ismael Barros²
Hi there, We are FreeWear.org, we've reached an agreement with the GNOME Foundation to sell GNOME T-shirts. You can check them at:     http://www.freewear.org/?org=GNOMEFoundation In order to boost sales and therefore donations to the GNOME Foundation, we have asked for a link to our website on