Re: Friends of GNOME and Hackers list

2011-03-30 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
Hi Og, I guess it's no big deal for most people one way or the other :). behdad On 03/30/11 11:00, Og Maciel wrote: > Good morning everyone! > > Rosanna just brought to my attention that originally, hackers who > volunteered to send out postcards for Friends of GNOME subscribers > would only do

Re: Introductions

2010-02-16 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
Do you? ;) I'm behdad by the way. Just listening and occasionally teasing. behdad On 02/16/2010 07:16 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > I am.. er sri. I don't seem to have a role other than to participate > and snark. I do occasionally come up with good ideas that I have no > time to implement.

Re: gnome miro community

2010-01-20 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On 01/20/2010 10:49 AM, Sven Herzberg wrote: >> Is it the case that anyone can use Gnome branding? > > IIRC, the foundation has always tolerated what I would call "fair-use" > of the logo. But the foundation's board would be the best persons to > talk to about legal things. Correct. I don't thi

Re: Mozilla draft press release: Deadline for input Friday 16:00 UTC

2010-01-14 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
Hi Zonker, Wow, "2020"? ;) Shouldn't we also mention that MoCo also donated 10k towards GNOME a11y in 2008? behdad On 01/14/2010 12:31 PM, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier wrote: > Hi all, > > Draft release attached / included. Rough draft. Looking for input and > corrections. Thanks! > > Mozilla Spon

Re: Friends of GNOME Merchandise Queen or King needed (Was: GNOME US Event Box)

2009-12-09 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On 12/09/2009 04:22 PM, Stormy Peters wrote: On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Behdad Esfahbod mailto:beh...@behdad.org>> wrote: Before making it too enticing, this is a US-only "position", right? Should make it clear. Some where with good, reliable postal service tha

Re: Friends of GNOME Merchandise Queen or King needed (Was: GNOME US Event Box)

2009-12-09 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On 12/09/2009 04:17 PM, Stormy Peters wrote: On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 1:15 PM, Stormy Peters mailto:sto...@gnome.org>> wrote: For those interested in helping out, we are also looking for someone to send out Friends of GNOME gifts. I'm hoping this can mostly be done through our Zazzle s

Re: Gnome Foundation Ad On FSF Endorsed Network

2009-12-03 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
I'd say just go for it. behdad On 12/03/2009 03:32 AM, Stormy Peters wrote: I definitely think we should try it. Stormy On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 12:49 AM, Sriram Ramkrishna mailto:s...@ramkrishna.me>> wrote: Jeremy, Has anybody contacted you regarding this? I didn't see any respo

Re: GNOME Store

2009-12-02 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On 12/02/2009 02:40 PM, Dave Neary wrote: Hi, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier wrote: On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 8:53 AM, Paul Cutler wrote: What I need the marketing team's help with is: What products and merchandise should we offer with the GNOME logo? We have 6 t-shirt designs up, and can also add pro

Re: GNOME Store

2009-12-02 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
Love the red tshirt! My main comment is: please please please stay away from black and white as main colors. behdad On 12/02/2009 08:53 AM, Paul Cutler wrote: We are getting ready to launch a GNOME Store hosted on Zazzle (the same company that hosts Mozilla's store). Thanks to Daniel and An

Re: U of T Computer Science Student Union

2009-09-14 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
to me privately. Stormy On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 11:01 PM, Behdad Esfahbod mailto:beh...@behdad.org>> wrote: Eh, indeed I was approached with the original request for marketing materials and I think I sent them towards Stormy and the list. I'd be happy to attend cam

Re: U of T Computer Science Student Union

2009-09-08 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
Eh, indeed I was approached with the original request for marketing materials and I think I sent them towards Stormy and the list. I'd be happy to attend campus events, sure. behdad On 09/08/2009 10:21 PM, Clare So wrote: Behdad lives in Toronto. Ryan lives *near* Toronto. I have included

Re: Exploiting the Nokia N900 release

2009-08-28 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
good to hype on: http://www.gnome.org/mobile/ for example. Brian Behdad Esfahbod wrote: On 08/28/2009 01:58 AM, Jaap A. Haitsma wrote: Hi, With the imminent release of the Nokia N900 GNOME technologies will be deployed widely in the mobile arena. Maybe the GNOME foundation should issue a

Re: Exploiting the Nokia N900 release

2009-08-28 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On 08/28/2009 01:58 AM, Jaap A. Haitsma wrote: Hi, With the imminent release of the Nokia N900 GNOME technologies will be deployed widely in the mobile arena. Maybe the GNOME foundation should issue a press release. Or we should think of other ways to exploit the news. Maybe show an article + i

Re: Please welcome Denise Walters to GNOME Marketing

2009-08-07 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On 08/07/2009 08:50 AM, Stormy Peters wrote: GNOME Marketing team, I'd like to introduce a new member to the group. Denise Walters is a friend of mine who worked with me at HP. She worked on the Linux and Open Source Marketing team there and before that she wrote technical documentation. She ha

Re: Google Adwords Application for Review (WAS Re: Google Adsense versus Adwords)

2009-07-30 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
Nice! Time to ping Leslie now :P behdad On 07/30/2009 11:20 AM, Stormy Peters wrote: It's done! I applied for Google Grants this morning. The confirmation page said it might take six months to hear back. I'll keep you all posted. Stormy On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 9:07 AM, Stormy Peters mailto:

GUADEC coverage

2009-07-24 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
Hi, I got asked by a couple of people. Is anyone on the marketing team working on doing any post-event coverage of GUADEC/GCDS? behdad -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Re: Friend of GNOME Amazon store

2009-07-15 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On 07/06/2009 06:45 PM, Jaap A. Haitsma wrote: Another idea could be to open Friend of GNOME amazon store. I've made one as an example on http://gnome.haitsma.org/friends/amazon/ If we motivate people to use that store to buy their books, dvds, computers etc. the foundation can also raise signif

Special Philanthropist thingy

2009-06-05 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
Hi, What do people responsible for FoG website think about updating it to reflect the prize we have now for the next Philanthropist donation? http://mces.blogspot.com/2009/06/love-gnome-show-your-support.html behdad -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org

Re: Jumping on the AdBard bandwagon

2009-06-03 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On Tue, 2009-06-02 at 22:07 -0400, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: > Hi list, > > What's everyone's thoughts on the new AdBard [1] thing? > > Cheers, > behdad > > [1] http://adbard.com/ > -- > marketing-list mailing

Jumping on the AdBard bandwagon

2009-06-02 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
Hi list, What's everyone's thoughts on the new AdBard [1] thing? Cheers, behdad [1] http://adbard.com/ -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Re: Promoting the "Support GNOME" badges

2009-06-02 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
;> wrote: I'll grab June 15th! This means: May 18th - Stormy May 25th - Lucas Jun 1st - Behdad Jun 8th - Paul Jun 15th- Andreas Jun 22nd - - Andreas Paul Cutler wrote: I'll take June 1st or 8th, whatever's next. On Thu, May 2

Hackerthreads, any success?

2009-05-30 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
Hi, I tried ordering GNOME stuff from hackerthreads again tonight, still doesn't seem to work. When I select a size, it says "This item is not available, please change your selection". Anyone has had any success with ordering anything from them? Cheers, behdad -- marketing-list mailing lis

Re: Google Adsense versus Adwords

2009-05-24 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
+1 from me too. I did this once before. Not rocket science :). behdad On 05/24/2009 09:10 AM, Stormy Peters wrote: When I asked Google about an adsense account (which enables you to put Google ads on your website and get compensated for them) they mentioned the AdWords grant program to me. Ad

Re: Promoting the "Support GNOME" badges

2009-05-21 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
/me likes carrots! On 05/21/2009 09:17 AM, Stormy Peters wrote: Thanks! Here's a carrot to whoever wants week June 1st ... I'll put together the data from May and it should be really good. You can include a graph or two in your post ... Stormy On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 7:06 AM, Lucas Rocha mail

Re: GNOME Video Contest (WAS: Re: New Project: GNOME YouTube Video Contest)

2009-05-11 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On 05/11/2009 11:51 AM, Paul Cutler wrote: Is there any opportunity to film some video at GUADEC? Glynn had the idea before, but didn't get the time to do it. Mirco did some at the GTK+ Hackfest in March 2008, but he's yet to edit those and publish them. So finding someone with more time to

Re: Putting ads on GNOME websites

2009-05-05 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On 05/05/2009 05:26 PM, Stormy Peters wrote: On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Behdad Esfahbod mailto:beh...@behdad.org>> wrote: Back to "lets advertise ourselves", ruler and stuff? :) I think we should do that in addition to considering paid ads! My point being, if

Re: Putting ads on GNOME websites

2009-05-05 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On 05/05/2009 05:15 PM, Stormy Peters wrote: On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Behdad Esfahbod mailto:beh...@behdad.org>> wrote: On 05/05/2009 05:05 PM, Stormy Peters wrote: I agree that if it's even a percentage of that, it might be worth it. What w

Re: Putting ads on GNOME websites

2009-05-05 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On 05/05/2009 05:05 PM, Stormy Peters wrote: I agree that if it's even a percentage of that, it might be worth it. What would people think of trying it out for a couple of months? We could start with Google ads to see how well ads work and once we have an idea of how much to expect, we could sol

Re: Fwd: Improving the Friends of GNOME donation pages

2009-05-04 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On 05/04/2009 07:17 PM, Andreas Nilsson wrote: If not, lets go for Google. I want the data now. :) These kind of decisions to use non-Free Software services have always backfired in the past. Though most of the times without a clear alternative proposal that considers the volunteer time req

Re: www.gnome.org redesign status

2009-04-21 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On 04/21/2009 12:07 PM, Murray Cumming wrote: I found that to be a strange response to me saying (in that same email) that we should not block on choosing _any_ CMS. We don't need a CMS to get the new structure and content online. A suitable CMS would be _nice_, but it's not a blocker. Lack of c

Re: new foundation website layout

2009-03-24 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On 03/24/2009 04:09 PM, Andreas Nilsson wrote: Can we do a Mediawiki install on gnome.org or something? +1 for MediaWiki. That would take considerable sysadmin resources though. I'll write to infra list to see what we can get. behdad -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org

Re: Friends of GNOME badges or banners

2008-12-11 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
Stormy Peters wrote: > We're getting close to launching our new Friends of GNOME website. > > I was wondering what people would think of having some Friends of GNOME > badges or banners that people could put on their personal website. > Assuming it was cool, I would put one on my blog. Oh yeah, t

Re: Mozilla Store

2008-12-05 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
Stormy Peters wrote: > Somebody want to talk to Zazzle and Mozilla to see what they did and if > we can do something similar? I'm sure Blizzard would know... behdad > Stormy > > On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 11:08 AM, Behdad Esfahbod <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mai

Re: Mozilla Store

2008-12-05 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
Stormy Peters wrote: > Mozilla opened a community store that partners with Zazzle and let's > people design their own Mozilla shirts for themselves and others. I > think it would be relatively simple to do something similar for GNOME. > > http://communitystore.mozilla.org/ > > Thoughts? This is

Re: [Fwd: Gtk/Cairo in real life: Ultrasound System from South of France]

2008-12-03 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
Davyd Madeley wrote: > "Distributions and Devices" While at that, to incorporate the idea that many (most?) people just check out the photos and read their captions when browsing an annual report, I was thinking that maybe we can do a photostrip (four small photos/shots in a row) for each distro/d

Re: Cultural Issue with the Foot Logo

2008-10-30 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
Thilo Pfennig wrote: > Hi Dave, > > Dave wrote: > >> Which countries? >> >> > Besides Thailand and Nepal due to the material online I would add: > Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Saudi > Arabia, Quatar, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, United, Arab Emirates and also > Pak

Re: www.gnome.org

2008-10-28 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
Murray Cumming wrote: > > I mean, if someone changed some text on a web page, I want to see that > change, just like we do now in svn or the wiki. That's also necessary to > keep translations up-to-date. Oh, I see. Yes, being able to monitor all changes is pretty important. behdad -- marketing

Re: www.gnome.org

2008-10-27 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
Murray Cumming wrote: > On Sun, 2008-10-26 at 18:07 -0400, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: > [snip] >> I have a >> different approach to the solution: Lets install a readily available CMS, >> like >> Joomla, plug it into our existing LDAP account system, make it easy for >

Re: www.gnome.org

2008-10-26 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
Thilo Pfennig wrote: Thanks Thilo for the very well-written summary. > Summary: Decide soon (in the beginning week maybe) where to go next with > a rough consensus and then go that way, wherever that path leads. The > worst situation is the open decision with no deadline. Ok, maybe we can start

Re: www.gnome.org

2008-10-26 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
Martin Aspeli wrote: > > I'm not sure this would be any different to what you have with Plone: > it's a readily available CMS, it can connect to your LDAP account > system, you can let let anyone create a password and edit pages. Fair enough. > The problem seems to be that no-one is actually doi

Re: www.gnome.org

2008-10-26 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
Thilo Pfennig wrote: > Its frustrating that nothing happens on WGO. It certainly is. > The problem is not all the > bugs or shortcomings of the website. The problem is the organization. I > also dont think that a technical new solution like Plone will magically > remove all organizational problem

Re: Friends of GNOME update

2008-08-26 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
Olav Vitters wrote: > On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 07:34:28PM -0400, Luis Villa wrote: >> On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 7:28 PM, Stormy Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Also, John asked about click through data - do we have any analytics type >>> data for GNOME pages? >> You might try asking the sysad

Re: GNOME Weekly News

2008-06-25 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 21:19 -0700, Luis Villa wrote: > > I think you might want to ask Uraeus about that: > > http://developer.gnome.org/news/ Yeah, exactly that. > Luis -- behdad http://behdad.org/ "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve nei

Re: GNOME Weekly News

2008-06-25 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 22:07 -0700, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > > But let me ask, is there really interest in this? We're really more > in a maintenance mode here in terms of work here. That's exactly the kind of thinking that I think a weekly or biweekly newsletter can change. Lots happening aro

Re: GNOME Weekly News

2008-06-25 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 15:10 +0200, Dave Neary wrote: > > Unfortunately, the magazine gets 6 months excusivity on the articles, > before I can release them under CC BY-NC-ND. I've asked for permission > to get them translated too, since in general translations aren't > possible with ND. Too bad.

Re: GNOME Weekly News

2008-06-24 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 09:39 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Behdad Esfahbod wrote: > > Hi, > > > > The idea was dropped by Jason on another list. How to get started with > > a "GNOME Weekly News" ala "Fedora Weekly News" [1] and Kernel Traffic >

GNOME Weekly News

2008-06-24 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
Hi, The idea was dropped by Jason on another list. How to get started with a "GNOME Weekly News" ala "Fedora Weekly News" [1] and Kernel Traffic [2]? Cheers, behdad [1] http://fedoranews.org/mediawiki/index.php/Fedora_Weekly_News [2] http://www.kerneltraffic.org/ -- marketing-list mailing

Manning GNOME booth @ LinuxLive, London Olympia, Oct 23..25

2008-06-23 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
Hi, We got an invitation to exhibit in the .ORG Village 2008 @ LinuxLive [1]. I was wondering who can help run a booth there, and generally pick it up from here. [1] http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/ Cheers, -- behdad http://behdad.org/ "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a lit

Re: Boosting Friends of GNOME in 2008

2008-05-05 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 19:14 +0200, Dave Neary wrote: > > Do we have a list of places where money is needed, with an idea of how > much we need? Not really... We know for example that our website infrastructure is lagging, but we are relying on overworked community members to fix it. If we had th

Re: Boosting Friends of GNOME in 2008

2008-05-05 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 15:48 +0200, Dave Neary wrote: > > * Send them an email at every release pointing to the release notes > * Send them a quarterly/biannual newsletter of the foundation's > activities (a text-only email will do) > * Solicit donations for specific programs when the need arise

Re: Boosting Friends of GNOME in 2008

2008-04-22 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 23:53 +0300, Lucas Rocha wrote: > 3. Prepare a program for long-term donors > > The idea is to provide ways to easily make monthly donations. We'll > provide ways for donating 5, 10, 20 or 50 per month (this might change > but that's the general idea) through Paypal. > > The

Re: GNOME Mug Update

2008-03-17 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 13:50 +0100, Dave Neary wrote: > Hi, > > Hugh Buzacott wrote: > > Dave Neary wrote: > >> But then why would people donate $50? > >> > >> Personally, I would like to see a special design for Freidns of GNOME, > >> with perhaps other models being sold on Cafepress or similar. >

Re: GNOME Mug Update

2008-03-12 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 16:14 +0200, Lucas Rocha wrote: > > > Some initial ideas: > > - "GNOME Milk" (With a white cow full of black GNOME foot marks) > - "GNOME: the official desktop of happy people" (with the usual > smiley) > - "Fuel for GNOME Hacking" (Coffee Bean with a GNOME Foot) I'd

Re: I helped improve Gnome and all I got...

2008-01-22 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 11:23 +0100, Vincent Untz wrote: > > > I was thinking that maybe you can do 100 in France, a 100 in India, a > > 100 in US, with localized designs, and hand over the next three years... > > I'm not fond of the idea of keeping the same t-shirt design for more > than a year, b

Re: I helped improve Gnome and all I got...

2008-01-22 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 11:10 +0100, Vincent Untz wrote: > > Well. Printing 10 good quality t-shirts in France will be expensive, so > I'm not sure it will cost less in the end than printing 500 t-shirts in > the US and shipping them... Ok, could be a bit less, but not that much. I was thinking tha

Re: I helped improve Gnome and all I got...

2008-01-21 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 23:09 -0300, Claudio Saavedra wrote: > > No, it doesn't. The good thing of distributing the duties to the local > groups, is that you can delegate that, too. User groups can take care > of asking for the physical addresses, making this process more > efficient. > > Claudio

Re: I helped improve Gnome and all I got...

2008-01-21 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 06:47 +0530, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Behdad Esfahbod wrote: > > | We've been doing this already. That is, local groups have been doing > | this already. And board has been paying on

Re: I helped improve Gnome and all I got...

2008-01-21 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 22:53 +0530, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Behdad Esfahbod wrote: > > | Any one item (no matter how small) and sending it out costs at least 10 > | to 15 dollars. I'm sure we can alloca

Re: I helped improve Gnome and all I got...

2008-01-21 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 17:30 +0100, Benjamin Otte wrote: > Hey, > > I've just had the idea of thanking people that are small contributors > with a small present, like giving everyone that submitted a patch in > 2007 a t-shirt or anyone that contributed to translations a nice pen. > Something that s

Release notes lack a download link

2007-12-28 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
Hi, It was reported to me that the release notes page: http://www.gnome.org/start/2.20/notes/en/ Has no link to where the sources can be downloaded! Is there any way to fix that now? Thanks, -- behdad http://behdad.org/ "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temp

Re: t-shirt on hackerheads

2007-12-19 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
Can we have a 10-year anniversary limited edition? With the GNOME balloon and all... Cheers, behdad On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 10:31 -0500, Diego Escalante Urrelo wrote: > Hey > > On 12/16/07, Andreas Nilsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi! > > A link on the front of gnome.org, under the section

Re: Vote the logo for GNOME Asia Summit -- Deadline is 9th Dec, 2007

2007-12-05 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 16:04 +0800, Emily Chen wrote: > > http://www.gnome-cn.org/gnome-asia-submit/gas-logo-vote/ Remember, no "gas". Call it asia-summit for short. -- behdad http://behdad.org/ ...very few phenomena can pull someone out of Deep Hack Mode, with two noted exceptions: being stru

Re: Call for logo -- GNOME Asia Summit

2007-11-27 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 23:34 +0800, Emily chen wrote: > A LOGO FOR GNOME ASIA SUMMIT > > All ideas and propositions are welcome. We suggest the following basic > principles : > > * Asia specific feature > * the logo related to GNOME or gnome > * simple > Send your logo and int

Re: Candidate names for GNOME Asia Event in Beijing

2007-11-19 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
Hi Emily, I think the reactions where clear: Use "GNOME Asia Summit". Just don't use the acronym. Events don't have to have acronyms. Boston Summit doesn't have for example (and its acronym would be worse than GAS btw). Rule! behdad On Tue, 2007-11-20 at 10:56 +0800, Emily Chen wrote: > Hi,

Re: old gnome screenshots

2007-10-11 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
the same kind of ad-hoc > editing style) But perhaps you where only referring to the way the video > phasing trough time over the web, emphasizing turning point events. Yeah, lets at least do *something*. behdad > Erik Snoeijs > > On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 16:08 -0400, Behdad Esfahbod

Re: Minor comments about the release notes draft

2007-09-11 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 21:02 +0300, Lucas Rocha wrote: > > - "The Release Notes are available in several languages..." This > > paragraph follows the one ending "You can learn more about the changes > > that happened in GNOME 2.18 from its release notes." It's probably just > > me, but it would

Minor comments about the release notes draft

2007-09-10 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
Hi, Was checking out the release notes draft. Minor comments: - "Ubuntu Linux" is a phrase not used by the Ubuntu project. It should either simply be "Ubuntu", or something like "Ubuntu GNU/Linux distribution". - Two of the images on the page are particularly large in file size. rnintroduc

Re: PseudOT: GNOME 1.4 splash

2007-08-21 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On Tue, 2007-08-21 at 21:46 -0500, Diego Escalante Urrelo wrote: > On 8/21/07, Quim Gil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That one, yes. Luca, you were almost as fast as Tuomas (via IM). :) > > > > Thanks! > > > > I'm writing few lines about it, since it was my first GNOME > impression: > > > > "It

Re: Joint GNOME and KDE statement out of DAM

2007-06-15 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
Thanks Jonathan. I look pretty uncontroversial as you said. Ok with me. behdad On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 16:32 -0400, Jonathan Blandford wrote: > Hey, > > Greg is interested in putting out a press statement as a result of the > DAM meeting. It seems pretty darned uncontroversial to me, but I >

Re: About The GNOME Mobile & Embedded Initative

2007-04-23 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On Mon, 2007-04-23 at 09:45 +0100, Joachim wrote: > This latest announcement seems to have come from quite high up in > Gnome -- Foundation board members are involved in it, I would image. > If even they can't be bothered to at least include the marketing team > in the loop, what hope is there?

Re: About The GNOME Mobile & Embedded Initative

2007-04-22 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On Sun, 2007-04-22 at 15:23 +0200, Thilo Pfennig wrote: > On 4/22/07, Behdad Esfahbod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > No. We still want that Desktop of Happy People poster. We will also > > produce GMAE posters. Nothing changed. New stuff added. > > So what

Re: About The GNOME Mobile & Embedded Initative

2007-04-22 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On Sun, 2007-04-22 at 12:27 +0200, Thilo Pfennig wrote: > On 4/21/07, Sriram Ramkrishna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 21, 2007 at 03:19:48PM +0200, Thilo Pfennig wrote: > > > > > c) In relation to that i fear that this binds ressources that > > > otherwise would have been there for t

Re: Fwd: .org Pavilion Call for Papers Now Open

2007-04-16 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 20:32 +0200, Dave Neary wrote: > Hi, > > Behdad Esfahbod wrote: > > Lets bootstrap this then. How about pushing it on Máirín Duffy and Ray > > Strode? > > > > Any volunteers on marketing-list? > > Great idea :) Do you want to contact

Re: GNOME groups in USA

2007-04-15 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On Sat, 2007-04-14 at 15:49 -0700, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > > Oregon is somewhat weak. We have a strong free software community > but very weak in desktop. Like, Carl Worth and Keith Packard? ;) -- behdad http://behdad.org/ "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little T

Re: Fwd: .org Pavilion Call for Papers Now Open

2007-04-12 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 20:32 +0200, Dave Neary wrote: > > Great idea :) Do you want to contact them? Some other candidates (who > have previously represented GNOME as volunteers): Eitan Jacobsen, Brad > Johnson, Billy Briggs, Ben Konrath, Sri Ramkrishna, and I'm sure I am > missing several other ob

Re: Fwd: .org Pavilion Call for Papers Now Open

2007-04-12 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 12:59 +0200, Dave Neary wrote: > Hi, > > Glynn Foster wrote: > > Thanks for the update - the current 'Events' contacts for the board are > > Behdad > > or Dave. Guys, want to take this on? Even if it's just a case of making sure > > they ping with [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL

Re: OLPC Succees case, first draft

2007-02-26 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
Nit: Shouldn't the "One Laptop Per Children" be "One Laptop Per Child"? Cheers, behdad On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 23:44 +0200, Quim Gil wrote: > Hi marketing-list. > > Jeduan has sent a first draft of the OLPC sucess story: > http://gnome.jardigrec.eu/en/success-stories/one-laptop-per-child/ > > Su

Re: Suggestion. GNOME Feedback Form

2007-02-22 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 11:12 +1300, John Williams wrote: > > Let's do this, but let's not kid ourselves as to the value of the > data. I can see us putting it in press releases and feeding to > journalists, but not much else. I'm more concerned about the bias of any data gathered from the gnome.

Re: North America Event Box needed for Eclipse Con on March 5-7th

2007-02-22 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 09:07 -0500, Ben Konrath wrote: > Hi all, > > I just sent Rosanna the address to send the box so if everyone agrees > that we can use the box, we should be good to go from my end. The board decided to ship the box. Rosanna will be in contact with you about the shipment. b

Re: North America Event Box needed for Eclipse Con on March 5-7th

2007-02-21 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 12:12 +1300, Glynn Foster wrote: > Hi, > > Rosanna Yuen wrote: > > Hi, > > > > In order to get the box there in time, I would need to schedule the > > pickup tomorrow for shipment on Friday. After that, the price doubles. > > Any decisions need to be made quickly. > > +1

Re: Showing off the N800 on the gnome.org frontpage?

2007-02-13 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 10:00 -0800, Eitan Isaacson wrote: > Maybe we could generalize this concept and create banners with GNOME > deployments in general. We could do a set like: > * Extremadura and Andalucía school districts (spain) > * N800 > * Sao Paulo telecenters > * openmoko when it arrives >

Re: GNOME stickers

2006-11-08 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 20:44 -0500, Máirín Duffy wrote: > Quim Gil wrote: > > On Fri, 2006-11-03 at 10:20 -0500, Máirín Duffy wrote: > >> but if possible foot stickers in a > >> variety of colors from the Tango palette would be great! > > > > I saw your 6 color variations in that letter template a

Re: Because you have better stuff to do than fixing your computer

2006-10-17 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On Tue, 2006-10-17 at 18:39 -0400, Andreas Nilsson wrote: > > So, I thought this theme might be cool for a poster or a campaign. If > people don't like it, I'll put it on my wall above my desk to remind > me > why I'm a GNOME developer instead. > I'm currently trying to come up with a list of st

Re: wgo revamp timeline (proposal)

2006-07-07 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 21:28 +0200, Christian Rose wrote: > (Please keep marketing-list cc:ed) /me blames evo > > > Ideally, there should be a minimum of efforts required to translate > > > www.gnome.org -- if translating or enabling a particular translation > > > requires sysadmin intervention, w

Re: wgo revamp timeline (proposal)

2006-07-07 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 11:25 -0400, Guilherme de S. Pastore wrote: > Il giorno sab, 08/07/2006 alle 00.06 +1000, Jeff Waugh ha scritto: > > I think a worthwhile rule for this entire process should be: No criticism > > without solution. So please explain your point of view so it can be taken > > seri

Re: [guadec-list] Re: GUADEC Printed program content

2006-04-25 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On Mon, 17 Apr 2006, Andre Klapper wrote: > hi, > > Am Sonntag, den 16.04.2006, 18:30 -0400 schrieb Behdad Esfahbod: > > The program really should be around A5, or nobody will carry it > > around and it loses its point. > > right, i will be unable to take out my A3 jou

Re: GUADEC Printed program content

2006-04-16 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
[CCing marketing-list] On Sun, 16 Apr 2006, Ludovic Danigo wrote: > First we should define the format. Two options : > * A5 : small form, fit in the pocket, low content. > * A4 : magazine factor form, not a journal but yet can be filled content > * A3 : journal form factor, need lot of content to

Re: release notes: first draft

2006-03-06 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
Oops. Forgot to CC lists. On Tue, 7 Mar 2006, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: > > Neat job. > > > In front page: > > "free software" => "Free Software" > > > Users -> Performance: > > "font rendering" => "text ren

Looking GNOME brochures

2005-11-10 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
Hi all, I remember something like a brochure about Why GNOME being posted somewhere around. Something that was used in one of the Europe conferences I guess. I need something to print and distribute in jdub's talk Monday afternoon in Toronto. Pointers appreciated. Cheers, --behdad http://behd