Re: FOSDEM stand

2011-11-29 Thread Andre Klapper
+CC marketing-list On Tue, 2011-11-29 at 13:54 +0100, Olav Vitters wrote: Heard that we didn't register a FOSDEM stand yet, so I did it on behalf of GNOME. I'll likely only be there in the afternoon. Not sure who normally registers the stand or is an early bird. In any case, if someone could repl

Re: draft for Friends of GNOME campaign

2011-11-29 Thread Brian Cameron
Dave: On 11/28/2011 08:04 PM, Karen Sandler wrote: jjmarin and I are working on this text to promote the FoG campaign we hope to launch next week. How can we improve it? Also, do you like "Make 2012 the year of accessibility for GNOME" as a short tagline? I hate to say it, but I'm not sure i

Re: draft for Friends of GNOME campaign

2011-11-29 Thread Brian Cameron
Karen: GNOME has held accessibility amongst its core values from the project's inception. Because of this commitment, along with the efforts of many dedicated developers, GNOME 2 became one of the most accessible free desktop environments Perhaps more importantly, GNOME was the first free des

Re: draft for Friends of GNOME campaign

2011-11-29 Thread Oliver Propst
I think that the Gnome Foundation should consider to seek sponsorship from organizations that support disabled people. After a bit of googling I can conclude that not many (if any) advertise sponsorship grants to other organizations, but I think its worth a try anyway. I guess the best (or most pra

Re: draft for Friends of GNOME campaign

2011-11-29 Thread Emily Gonyer
Thats a great idea. It could really help spread awareness of other options to people who are used to only having one or two. I'm not really sure what sorts of ease-of-use options are out there for GNOME, but certainly if we made up a press-release and emailed it to the various disabled-support grou

collab summit desktop track

2011-11-29 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
I'm going to be talking with folks at LF about a desktop track. Would people be interested in coming up with topics? Here are some I'm thinking of: a) netbooks/tablets - build systems? how to enable GNOME on other devices b) desktop platform (GNOME OS essentially - top to bottom from install to