Re: 2006 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards

2007-02-19 Thread Santiago Roza
) for some kind of survey? problem is that these kinds of surveys would be biased towards people who care about answering them = people who care too much about their computers = above-average technically skilled/interested people = people who are more likely to run gnu/linux. -- Santiago Roza

Re: Spreading the press release/release announcement and collecting press coverage

2006-09-26 Thread Santiago Roza
utilities, and how? (if i'm supposed to compile gnome from source, don't count on me) -- Santiago Roza [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

gnome press resources

2006-09-18 Thread Santiago Roza
i'm listed in this contact page with my old email address; please update it with the current one ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): http://www.gnome.org/press/ thanks a lot, -- Santiago Roza [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://live.gnome.org/SantiagoRoza -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http

Re: Spreading the press release/release announcement and collecting press coverage

2006-09-11 Thread Santiago Roza
these are the sources i found so far: http://slashdot.org/articles/06/09/07/0240207.shtml http://arstechnica.com/articles/columns/linux/linux-20060905.ars http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS6261033378.html feel free to add more... -- Santiago Roza [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing

Re: On breaking the woohoo barrier...thoughts on how GNOME can get great

2006-07-25 Thread Santiago Roza
of us don't understand) are dead, they're still alive and kicking (and healthy!). last time i checked, uncool non-bloggy microsoft was selling much more than your cool distro of choice. -- Santiago Roza Proyecto Tiny ERP Argentina Departamento I+D - Thymbra [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list

Re: On breaking the woohoo barrier...thoughts on how GNOME can get great

2006-07-18 Thread Santiago Roza
of view. you have to find out what they really want, give it to them, and then communicate it properly. -- Santiago Roza Proyecto Tiny ERP Argentina Departamento I+D - Thymbra [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Personas

2006-07-16 Thread Santiago Roza
problem with the ones you suggested is not that you didn't use mines (who cares?), but the fact that imho they're 70% similar and not very solid from a marketing point of view. -- Santiago Roza Proyecto Tiny ERP Argentina Departamento I+D - Thymbra [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 7/16/06, Glynn Foster

Re: Personas

2006-07-15 Thread Santiago Roza
with no market representation at all... that's an anecdote more than a profile, and i can't imagine why we would need those. -- Santiago Roza Proyecto Tiny ERP Argentina Departamento I+D - Thymbra [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Personas (was: Re: On breaking the woohoo barrier...)

2006-07-14 Thread Santiago Roza
ends up going to the freezer more often than to the veg. This is good. and what would be the use of such a random non-representative profile, from a marketing point of view? -- Santiago Roza Proyecto Tiny ERP Argentina Departamento I+D - Thymbra [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing

Re: Personas

2006-07-14 Thread Santiago Roza
it will be of any use: seems like the intended personas are nothing like user profiles, but random short stories with no particular marketing value :) -- Santiago Roza Proyecto Tiny ERP Argentina Departamento I+D - Thymbra [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http

Re: The relation with gnomefiles.org

2006-07-14 Thread Santiago Roza
website (at least indirectly) under the control of the gnome foundation. greetings, -- Santiago Roza Proyecto Tiny ERP Argentina Departamento I+D - Thymbra [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 7/14/06, Eugenia Loli-Queru [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you're also using a trademark without proper authorization

Re: On breaking the woohoo barrier...thoughts on how GNOME can get great

2006-07-14 Thread Santiago Roza
name and a face (both american btw), a similar job, a similar age, and very similar needs? :) -- Santiago Roza Proyecto Tiny ERP Argentina Departamento I+D - Thymbra [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Re: Personas

2006-07-14 Thread Santiago Roza
and the ones we had before, other than having a random human name and a face (both american btw), a similar job, a similar age, and very similar needs? :) -- Santiago Roza Proyecto Tiny ERP Argentina Departamento I+D - Thymbra [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 7/14/06, Glynn Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: Internet Marketing

2006-04-17 Thread Santiago Roza
. if we want gnome to be listed #1 in a desktop search, let's just work harder and harder, until one day maybe people will *really* link to our website when talking about that. but until then let's try not to lie, ok? -- Santiago Roza Departamento I+D - Thymbra [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list

Re: Promotion campaign for GNOME 2.14 release?

2006-02-24 Thread Santiago Roza
means he's using ubuntu (gnome) on his laptop, at least. if it wasn't like that, he would have just said using kubuntu. -- Santiago Roza Departamento I+D - Thymbra [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Re: The GNOME Journal, February Edition

2006-02-16 Thread Santiago Roza
sounds great... btw, for quick reference the link is: http://gnomejournal.org/ -- Santiago Roza Departamento I+D - Thymbra [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Re: Ideas for GNOME 3.0

2006-01-06 Thread Santiago Roza
searching/tagging) sound great. and if we can settle the multimedia mess (via post-install wizard for example), it could be #3. -- Santiago Roza Departamento I+D - Thymbra [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Re: GNOME en P2P networks

2005-12-23 Thread Santiago Roza
are not (yet). -- Santiago Roza Departamento I+D - Thymbra [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Re: GNOME en P2P networks

2005-12-23 Thread Santiago Roza
- was the only viable option for free software projects)? have you REALLY seen them using emule/edonkey or kazaa/fasttrack or bearshare/gnutella to distribute their binaries or any other kind of material? -- Santiago Roza Departamento I+D - Thymbra [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list

Re: GNOME en P2P networks

2005-12-22 Thread Santiago Roza
what goes into emule or gnutella, so anyone could upload naughty schoolgirls 4 and rename it to gnome-something. -- Santiago Roza Departamento I+D - Thymbra [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Re: GNOME en P2P networks

2005-12-22 Thread Santiago Roza
even though you CC to it? i have no idea... maybe it doesn't accept cced messages? -- Santiago Roza Departamento I+D - Thymbra [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Re: National and regional press contacts

2005-12-21 Thread Santiago Roza
to be added there, if it's possible. thanks, -- Santiago Roza Departamento I+D - Thymbra [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Re: response to linus...?

2005-12-16 Thread Santiago Roza
You are welcome to disagree (and reduce your motivation to help out), but then we're just playing semantics, and not getting on with the job. i wasn't trying to play semantics, just explaining why i had gotten you wrong. -- Santiago Roza Departamento I+D - Thymbra [EMAIL PROTECTED

response to linus...?

2005-12-15 Thread Santiago Roza
do it within this weekend i guess. greetings! -- Santiago Roza Departamento I+D - Thymbra [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** RESPONSE - START *** As everyone must have read, recently Linus Torvalds posted a message in a mailing list (GNOME Usability), saying that the GNOME desktop environment had

Re: response to linus...?

2005-12-15 Thread Santiago Roza
on earth, because that's not relevant to us. what are we after all? the gnome marketing team? :) -- Santiago Roza Departamento I+D - Thymbra [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Re: response to linus...?

2005-12-15 Thread Santiago Roza
are incapable of doing anything more complex (marketing-wise) than plain meaningless advertising. -- Santiago Roza Departamento I+D - Thymbra [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Re: response to linus...?

2005-12-15 Thread Santiago Roza
communication to you? sorry, i should have said 1% focused in communicational issues, not 0% :) -- Santiago Roza Departamento I+D - Thymbra [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Re: response to linus...?

2005-12-15 Thread Santiago Roza
, but it seems like you no one cares much anyway, so whatever. -- Santiago Roza Departamento I+D - Thymbra [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Re: response to linus...?

2005-12-15 Thread Santiago Roza
, simple, informative, and non-confrontational answer, like the one i just wrote? oh wait... that's the one we shouldn't be using, because something something. -- Santiago Roza Departamento I+D - Thymbra [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org

Re: response to linus...?

2005-12-15 Thread Santiago Roza
with this thread, a deadline is byting my butt. no problem, none of us cared anyway, not to mention it's 3 am and i'm falling apart (so please forgive the typos i must have made :P). -- Santiago Roza Departamento I+D - Thymbra [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org

Re: response to linus...?

2005-12-15 Thread Santiago Roza
an issue. -- Santiago Roza Departamento I+D - Thymbra [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Re: response to linus...?

2005-12-15 Thread Santiago Roza
sorry if i sounded like that, it must be the hour plus past frustrations in this list. i better go to sleep, and sorry again. -- Santiago Roza Departamento I+D - Thymbra [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing

Re: response to linus...?

2005-12-15 Thread Santiago Roza
). it's just that i had only gotten nos with no alternative proposal so far, but you have a point and a plan, and i respect it. hope it goes great, please keep the list informed, and thanks for the reply. -- Santiago Roza Departamento I+D - Thymbra [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list

Re: response to linus...?

2005-12-15 Thread Santiago Roza
the slashdot crowd. Although thats arguable. :-) i don't see why; my letter was not even 1% as trollish as linus' statements. -- Santiago Roza Departamento I+D - Thymbra [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing

Re: slashdot: linus says use kde

2005-12-14 Thread Santiago Roza
I'm not sure if processing feedback will be sufficient. no existing task is sufficient on its own, but there are many productive steps we could take. and definitely, processing feedback won't have any use unless developers do something about that feedback. -- Santiago Roza Departamento I+D

Re: slashdot: linus says use kde

2005-12-14 Thread Santiago Roza
be ignoring. i just hope someone (especially developers) will read it this time! :) -- Santiago Roza Departamento I+D - Thymbra [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

slashdot: linus says use kde

2005-12-13 Thread Santiago Roza
oh god... http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/12/13/1340215 -- Santiago Roza Departamento I+D - Thymbra [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Re: slashdot: linus says use kde

2005-12-13 Thread Santiago Roza
As jdub would roughly put it Don't Panic. well i never said we should panic, but it's something we should be keeping an eye on. -- Santiago Roza Departamento I+D - Thymbra [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing

Re: Please sit down before reading this, and take a deep breath.

2005-12-12 Thread Santiago Roza
Oh! Then why do we capitalise it? Is it still an acronym? If so, what do the letters stand for? who cares about that? several brands are usually spelled in uppercase, and that doesn't seem to undermine their popularity or acceptance... -- Santiago Roza Departamento I+D - Thymbra [EMAIL

Re: real marketing or just catchy slogans?

2005-12-12 Thread Santiago Roza
. -- Santiago Roza Departamento I+D - Thymbra [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Re: collecting negative reviews

2005-12-12 Thread Santiago Roza
perceptions. (and maybe which of our target markets/personas those affect most) i've included a top 5; is that too much? about the markets/personas, well... most of these comments come from pretty much the same persona (young techie who reads sites like slashdot). -- Santiago Roza Departamento I+D

Re: Please sit down before reading this, and take a deep breath.

2005-12-12 Thread Santiago Roza
software projects with weird names, like wine or the lame encoder. By the way, Santiago, I think collecting negative reviews is incredibly useful. well, it doesn't look too useful when that collection doesn't get to the people who should be reading it :) -- Santiago Roza Departamento I+D

Re: gnome desktop personas - my very first draft

2005-12-10 Thread Santiago Roza
guess. -- Santiago Roza Departamento I+D - Thymbra [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Re: How interested in promoting GTK apps? [was Re: real marketing or just catchy slogans?]

2005-12-09 Thread Santiago Roza
themselves a bit more to gnome (brought to you by the gnome desktop, a proud component of the gnome desktop, or something like that)... the same way it would be good to have ubuntu or fedora relating to us a bit more. but we can't build much based on that. -- Santiago Roza Departamento I+D - Thymbra

Re: real marketing or just catchy slogans?

2005-12-09 Thread Santiago Roza
some technical skills =( -- Santiago Roza Departamento I+D - Thymbra [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Re: real marketing or just catchy slogans?

2005-12-09 Thread Santiago Roza
with those other parties), or don't make end users a promise we can't keep (i repeat: in marketing a false promise is a brand killer). marketing ourselves to other audiences is a whole new issue, so maybe we don't want to discuss it here :) -- Santiago Roza Departamento I+D - Thymbra [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: real marketing or just catchy slogans?

2005-12-09 Thread Santiago Roza
doesn't exist in real life, at least not as an end user product. and we should be ok with that; believing we're an end user product might trigger crazy ideas like creating and supporting our very own distro :) -- Santiago Roza Departamento I+D - Thymbra [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing

Re: Desktop personas (draft)

2005-12-07 Thread Santiago Roza
it in the wiki to see what happens. -- Santiago Roza Departamento I+D - Thymbra [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Re: Desktop personas (draft)

2005-12-07 Thread Santiago Roza
is very alive and all, but 95% non-representative... and i don't want that, because we're not writing a novel but segmenting our markets. -- Santiago Roza Departamento I+D - Thymbra [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo

gnome desktop personas - my very first draft

2005-12-07 Thread Santiago Roza
medium email (personal, some work) medium im (personal) basic web browsing (news, recommended sites) medium office usage for work does not use p2p huge cd/dvd collection (artsy type, loves music) basic (windows) computer skills (advanced for specific apps) zero free software awareness -- Santiago

Re: Desktop personas (draft)

2005-12-07 Thread Santiago Roza
things, i agree with that. -- Santiago Roza Departamento I+D - Thymbra [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Re: Desktop personas (draft)

2005-12-07 Thread Santiago Roza
If you think of a bell population, you have 80% within two standard deviations (I think?). yeah 80% is good; what i don't want is personas who're so individual and pretty and unique :) that they don't reflect the userbase at all. -- Santiago Roza Departamento I+D - Thymbra [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: real marketing or just catchy slogans?

2005-12-06 Thread Santiago Roza
but can't do much about it, at least within our current situation :( -- Santiago Roza Departamento I+D - Thymbra [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Re: real marketing or just catchy slogans?

2005-12-06 Thread Santiago Roza
, and then i guess i could be contributing with most of those tasks. -- Santiago Roza Departamento I+D - Thymbra [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Re: real marketing or just catchy slogans?

2005-12-06 Thread Santiago Roza
of communication with the developers. and i say waste not because i don't think the job is interesting, but because i'm afraid it'll end up in the (gnome :P) trashcan just like the 2.12 feedback list. -- Santiago Roza Departamento I+D - Thymbra [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing

Re: real marketing or just catchy slogans?

2005-12-06 Thread Santiago Roza
Well, I hope our community isn't so bad as that one would expect insults and ridicule when giving critical feedback! :P no not at all, it was just a joke. -- Santiago Roza Departamento I+D - Thymbra [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http

Re: Desktop personas (draft)

2005-12-06 Thread Santiago Roza
cool... could you throw it in the wiki so we can build on it? i'd do it myself, but i don't think i should appear as the original author :) -- Santiago Roza Departamento I+D - Thymbra [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman

real marketing or just catchy slogans?

2005-12-05 Thread Santiago Roza
[ short intro (aka who the heck is this guy?): my name is santiago roza, i'm 25 and i live in argentina, i have a business-oriented academic background (business administration) with a tech-oriented professional background (i work as a tech consultant, and write a column for a tech magazine here

Re: .eu domain name.

2005-11-30 Thread Santiago Roza
if money isn't a problem, it's always a good idea to have every related domain redirected to your main site... if we don't take it, someone else will, and make it point to some pr0n site :) -- Santiago Roza Departamento I+D - Thymbra [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing

Re: Looking GNOME brochures

2005-11-10 Thread Santiago Roza
senses ... The earlier uses of festive, colorful, bright can still be found but have fallen out of fashion http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gay#Adjective -- Santiago Roza [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://santiagoroza.blogspot.com/ -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org

Re: It's a jungle out there

2005-09-13 Thread Santiago Roza
towards GNOME. - Andreas -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list -- Santiago Roza [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://santiagoroza.blogspot.com/ -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman

Re: It's a jungle out there

2005-09-13 Thread Santiago Roza
... what about jakarta tomcat's tomcat? http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/ expecting feedback... -- Santiago Roza [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://santiagoroza.blogspot.com/ -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Re: collecting negative reviews

2005-09-11 Thread Santiago Roza
://www.oszine.de/modules.php?op=modloadname=Newsfile=articlesid=3941 http://www.linux-community.de/Neues/story?storyid=17628 -- Santiago Roza [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://santiagoroza.blogspot.com/ -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list