Re: push back on negative articles

2012-08-20 Thread Karen Sandler
Hey Bruce, Unfortunately, Thursday's packed for me - I'm actually 9 months pregnant, so between doctor's appointments and calls that I've tried to schedule for these last weeks, a number of my days have really filled up. If email works for you just as well, I think it would be easier. And there's

Re: push back on negative articles

2012-08-20 Thread Bruce Byfield
Hi, Karen: How is your time on Thursday? I'm available 10am-6pm Pacific time I suggest spending 30-40 minutes on the phone. We could also do chat, or I could send you questions by email, but the phone is probably the least effort for you. On Monday, August 20, 2012 12:55:09 PM Karen Sandler wr

Re: push back on negative articles

2012-08-20 Thread Bruce Byfield
On Monday, August 20, 2012 12:14:20 PM Olav Vitters wrote: > Hi Bruce, > I totally was wrong about you. My apologies. Very good of you to say so. Thanks, and no hard feelings. -- Bruce Byfield 604-421-7189 (on Pacific time) blog: https://brucebyfield.wordpress.com website: http://members.axion

Re: push back on negative articles

2012-08-20 Thread Karen Sandler
On Mon, August 20, 2012 3:04 pm, Stormy Peters wrote: > Hi Bruce, > > Thanks for reaching out! > > We'd definitely like to take you up on your and talk to you. Maybe Karen > or > Sri would be the right person? (Karen, Sri?) Or Allan Day? Hi Bruce, I'd love to talk to you! (as always) Perhaps we c

Re: push back on negative articles

2012-08-20 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 08:36:10AM +0200, Olav Vitters wrote: > As stated before: you can disagree what you want. But do so nicely. > You've given no arguments, just focussed on trying to rile emotions. > Such behaviour is not acceptable here. So bye. As pointed out by others, but also realized by

Re: push back on negative articles

2012-08-20 Thread Olav Vitters
Hi Bruce, On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 11:10:18AM -0700, Bruce Byfield wrote: > Negative articles? Are you kidding? > > Because I mention what many people in the community are saying? What some > GNOME developers are saying? I totally was wrong about you. My apologies. I honestly was only reading t

Re: push back on negative articles

2012-08-20 Thread Stormy Peters
Hi Bruce, Thanks for reaching out! We'd definitely like to take you up on your and talk to you. Maybe Karen or Sri would be the right person? (Karen, Sri?) Or Allan Day? Stormy On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 12:10 PM, Bruce Byfield wrote: > ** > > Negative articles? Are you kidding? > > > > Because

Re: push back on negative articles

2012-08-20 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 09:54:56AM -0500, Brian Cameron wrote: > the userbase that wants it. The GNOME community could, I think, be more > clear and proactive about how GNOME 2 and "GNOME Fallback" will be > supported going forward. Any GNOME release is supported for about 6 months. GNOME 2: is

Re: push back on negative articles

2012-08-20 Thread Bruce Byfield
Negative articles? Are you kidding? Because I mention what many people in the community are saying? What some GNOME developers are saying? If I didn't care what was happening in the free software community, I wouldn't have written the article in the first place. I would be doing a poor job as a

Re: Ubuntu GNOME Flavor naming

2012-08-20 Thread Ryan Lortie
hi, On 12-08-20 12:36 AM, Jeremy Bicha wrote: 1. GNOMEbuntu 2. Ubuntu GNOME Edition 3. GNObuntu Ryan has already registered http://gnomebuntu.org/ so I'm leaning towards the first name if that's acceptable. The reason I like the first name (at least in some form) is because if I ask someone

Re: Ubuntu GNOME Flavor naming

2012-08-20 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On 20 August 2012 05:14, Bastien Nocera wrote: >> >> 1. GNOMEbuntu >> 2. Ubuntu GNOME Edition >> 3. GNObuntu >> >> Ryan has already registered http://gnomebuntu.org/ so I'm leaning >> towards the first name if that's acceptable. > > From how I understand our trademark guidelines, you can't use the

Re: push back on negative articles

2012-08-20 Thread Brian Cameron
On 08/20/12 09:00 AM, Stormy Peters wrote: On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 12:36 AM, Olav Vitters mailto:o...@vitters.nl>> wrote: As stated before: you can disagree what you want. But do so nicely. You've given no arguments, just focussed on trying to rile emotions. Such behaviour is not acce

Re: push back on negative articles

2012-08-20 Thread Stormy Peters
I think we could arrange some media training if people want to attend. Sally Dhudairi works with Apache and lives in Boston. She has expressed interest in helping us in the past. Maybe she'd be willing to host a session at the Boston Summit. If she can't, I know a few other people who would be goo

Re: push back on negative articles

2012-08-20 Thread Stormy Peters
On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 9:39 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > > > On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 7:08 PM, Karen Sandler wrote: > >> I love that we're re-evaluating the ways that we handle press and that >> we're looking for opportunities to improve. >> > > I can accept that. But I won't allow gross mis-c

Re: push back on negative articles

2012-08-20 Thread Stormy Peters
On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 12:36 AM, Olav Vitters wrote: > > > > > As stated before: you can disagree what you want. But do so nicely. > You've given no arguments, just focussed on trying to rile emotions. > Such behaviour is not acceptable here. So bye. > Olav, I respectively disagree with you. I

Re: Ubuntu GNOME Flavor naming

2012-08-20 Thread Andreas Nilsson
On 08/20/2012 06:36 AM, Jeremy Bicha wrote: On 13 August 2012 11:56, Jeremy Bicha wrote: At the Ubuntu Developer Summit in May, several of us that work with GNOME in Ubuntu discussed the need for a Ubuntu community derivative similar to Kubuntu, Xubuntu, and others but which will try to ship a

Re: Ubuntu GNOME Flavor naming

2012-08-20 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 11:25:59AM +0200, Olav Vitters wrote: > On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 11:56:04AM -0400, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > > At the Ubuntu Developer Summit in May, several of us that work with > > GNOME in Ubuntu discussed the need for a Ubuntu community derivative > > similar to Kubuntu, Xubu

Re: Ubuntu GNOME Flavor naming

2012-08-20 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 11:56:04AM -0400, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > At the Ubuntu Developer Summit in May, several of us that work with > GNOME in Ubuntu discussed the need for a Ubuntu community derivative > similar to Kubuntu, Xubuntu, and others but which will try to ship a > relatively pure GNOME e

Re: Ubuntu GNOME Flavor naming

2012-08-20 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Mon, 2012-08-20 at 00:36 -0400, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > On 13 August 2012 11:56, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > > At the Ubuntu Developer Summit in May, several of us that work with > > GNOME in Ubuntu discussed the need for a Ubuntu community derivative > > similar to Kubuntu, Xubuntu, and others but whi

Re: push back on negative articles

2012-08-20 Thread Olav Vitters
On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 10:08:19PM -0400, Karen Sandler wrote: > our press about the new release? I think a free software community run > project is different than a company's product in that we'll always be a > work in progress. It's ok to talk about areas that can be improved for > future, for ex

Re: GNOME Quarterly Report Q2/2012

2012-08-20 Thread Andre Klapper
And the last reminder to please update your section for Q2/2012 here: https://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/QuarterlyReports/2012/Q2 Apart from Web, Documentation and Bugsquad everything is still missing. andre -- mailto:ak...@gmx.net | failed http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper -- marketin