Re: Interviews and Gnomers

2012-07-08 Thread Shaun McCance
On Fri, 2012-07-06 at 17:34 +0300, alex diavatis wrote: > > Further more, can I somehow get faces thumbs of all regular > contributor of Gnome in last year (excluding the guys they do docs coz > that would be > impossible) What's wrong with getting images for documentation contributors? There are

Re: Release Notes Edits

2012-03-21 Thread Shaun McCance
On Wed, 2012-03-21 at 11:30 -0400, Shaun McCance wrote: > I've just read over the release notes in git. Sorry for not doing this > sooner. I realize the notes are already supposed to be frozen, so I've > listed only things that I think are critical language problems. I just did

Release Notes Edits

2012-03-21 Thread Shaun McCance
I've just read over the release notes in git. Sorry for not doing this sooner. I realize the notes are already supposed to be frozen, so I've listed only things that I think are critical language problems. == What's New for Users, p2-3 "This includes smooth scrolling..." "Other highlights for thi

Re: 3.4 Release Notes

2012-03-07 Thread Shaun McCance
On Wed, 2012-03-07 at 09:28 +, Allan Day wrote: > One other thing that we've spoken about is moving away from the > library/documentation format for the release notes. Hosting them > directly on gnome.org would give us a lot more freedom in terms of how > we present the notes (so they would loo

Re: Fallback / Classic Mode

2011-03-28 Thread Shaun McCance
On Tue, 2011-03-22 at 12:27 +0100, Dave Neary wrote: > In the minds of a lot of people (press and GNOME hackers, and by proxy, > future users), GNOME 3 is very much the user experience defined by GNOME > Shell. And, while I don't have any data to back this up, I'd bet that > people are expecting "G

Re: [gnome-shell] Request for UI freeze break

2011-03-02 Thread Shaun McCance
On Wed, 2011-03-02 at 21:08 +0100, Florian Müllner wrote: > On Wed, 2011-03-02 at 14:20 -0500, Shaun McCance wrote: > > Is there a functional change in the user experience that would > > affect text descriptions? Or it just pixel shifting? > > It's mostly pixel shiftin

Re: [gnome-shell] Request for UI freeze break

2011-03-02 Thread Shaun McCance
On Wed, 2011-03-02 at 18:39 +0100, Florian Müllner wrote: > Hi everybody, > > the designers have pushed an updated version of their mockup for GNOME > Shell's search results[0], mainly to bring them in line with the > window/application picker[1]. > > Those mockups have been implemented[2] and re

Re: Official announcement and invitation to GNOME 3.0 Hackfest and GNOME.Asia Summit 2011

2011-01-24 Thread Shaun McCance
On Sat, 2011-01-22 at 19:45 +0100, Andre Klapper wrote: > On Sat, 2011-01-22 at 19:04 +0100, Vincent Untz wrote: > > Le vendredi 21 janvier 2011, à 23:41 +0800, Frederic Muller a écrit : > > > So Hackfest registration is happening here: > > > http://live.gnome.org/Hackfests/GNOME.Asia2011 , call fo

GNOME Sound

2010-12-07 Thread Shaun McCance
At the developer docs hackfest last week, we began building simple demo tutorials for application developers. We plan to add short screencasts to the beginning of each demo, so readers can get a (hopefully exciting) glimpse of what they'll be able to create in the next 15-30 minutes. Somebody (Chr

Re: GNOME-A11y at Ohio Linux Fest

2010-07-06 Thread Shaun McCance
On Tue, 2010-07-06 at 11:01 -0500, Paul Cutler wrote: > Shaun McCance has talked about reaching out to some local folks about a > possible booth, not sure if he has had an opportunity yet. > > Shaun, Stormy, and Bryen are giving talks, and Jim Campbell (doc writer > who wor

Re: GNOME at events

2010-04-28 Thread Shaun McCance
On Wed, 2010-04-28 at 11:33 -0600, Stormy Peters wrote: > There's a few events where I'm sure GNOME could have a booth. > > Is anybody interested in representing GNOME at: > > Southeast Linux Fest > Ohio Linux Fest > ... > > It's really time to start getting the word about GNOME 3 out there! I'

Re: GNOME 3 Marketing - GNOME Shell

2010-04-01 Thread Shaun McCance
On Tue, 2010-03-30 at 21:37 -0500, Diego Escalante Urrelo wrote: > El mar, 30-03-2010 a las 11:52 -0400, Owen Taylor escribió: > > > > We can also point to various alternative desktops built on GNOME > > technology - whether that's the continuing ability to run the GNOME 2 > > panel and window man

Re: Branding of GNOME-hosted Tomboy Online

2010-03-12 Thread Shaun McCance
On Fri, 2010-03-12 at 07:29 -0800, Sandy Armstrong wrote: > On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 7:17 AM, Dave Neary wrote: > > I'd have no objection to "Tomboy Online" personally. "GNOME Notes" would > > also float my boat. > > And I have no objection to that, either. online.gnome.org/notes would > work fin

Re: Branding of GNOME-hosted Tomboy Online

2010-03-12 Thread Shaun McCance
On Fri, 2010-03-12 at 07:06 -0800, Sandy Armstrong wrote: > With the understanding that we could always rebrand before this > deployment is open to the public, does anyone take issue with using > the "Tomboy Online" brand as we begin alpha testing? I would really like to see this be the starting p

Re: Reboot: Strategic goals for GNOME

2010-03-03 Thread Shaun McCance
s perspective due to the 'more complete' > offering: extensive documentation and an SDK. > > Shaun McCance and I were talking about this a couple of weeks ago. I'm > not trying to steal his thunder (and I hope he replies on list) but he > has spent a significant amount of

Re: Campaign Proposal

2010-02-23 Thread Shaun McCance
On Tue, 2010-02-23 at 10:43 -0600, Brian Cameron wrote: > Nelson: > > Coming up with a good campaign requires a lot of discussion, and > takes time to develop properly. It is tricky to get the associations > right on. > > I do think that there is general agreement that associating GNOME with > a

Re: Website - Pending Content Tasks

2010-02-22 Thread Shaun McCance
On Mon, 2010-02-22 at 19:40 +, Lucas Rocha wrote: > > 2. Are there specific GNOME products we want to highlight or is this > > page meant to be a complete list, or both? > > Desktop and Platform. For the Platform, we could provide a good > summarized overview of: > > http://library.gnome.org/

Re: Campaign Proposal

2010-02-17 Thread Shaun McCance
On Tue, 2010-02-16 at 21:27 +, Nelson Marques wrote: > > > Hi all, > > In attachment there is a proposal for a new campaign and it's goals. To > unravel this a bit, it aims to position GNOME brand as an ecological > supporting brand alongside with some things we can do to promote this. > >

Re: Marketing Materials in git

2010-02-09 Thread Shaun McCance
eed git just to download the materials. Can't we just have links in the wiki to download over the web from cgit? -- Shaun McCance http://syllogist.net/ -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Re: [Fwd: Stolen Gnome Logo.]

2009-11-20 Thread Shaun McCance
On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 18:52 -0400, Luis Villa wrote: > On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Roberto > Galoppini wrote: > > 2009/6/24 Luis Villa : > >> On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Andre Klapper wrote: > >>> Another heads-up to the legal list about unappropriate usage of the > >>> GNOME logo at htt

Re: Blog posted, memory refresh.

2009-11-17 Thread Shaun McCance
On Tue, 2009-11-17 at 00:04 -0600, Jason D. Clinton wrote: > Several days of traveling later, I posted Day 2's summary: > http://jasondclinton.livejournal.com/78061.html > > > In the process of remembering everything. I remember having an idea > about how we could move from GNOME to Gnome but mai

Re: Add Support GNOME Badge to Planet GNOME?

2009-11-13 Thread Shaun McCance
On Fri, 2009-11-13 at 15:14 -0600, Paul Cutler wrote: > My understanding is the donation ruler is planned for a specific page > on the Friend of GNOME site / pages. (And the ruler is done thanks to > Shaun and Vinicius at the hackfest! More to come next week, just need > to finalize the number to

Re: Putting ads on GNOME websites

2009-05-05 Thread Shaun McCance
On Tue, 2009-05-05 at 17:07 -0400, Behdad Esfahbod 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 would people think of trying it out for a couple of months? We > > could start with Google ads to see how w

Re: Marketing, GNOME 3.0 and subteams

2009-04-29 Thread Shaun McCance
On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 22:34 +0200, Andreas Nilsson wrote: > Stormy Peters wrote: > > Speaking of which, we do very little (if anything?) to advertise GNOME > > apps. I think users pick operating systems based on apps. They have a > > task, they pick an app. They don't decide to use Windows or Lin

Re: Marketing, GNOME 3.0 and subteams

2009-04-29 Thread Shaun McCance
On Thu, 2009-04-30 at 00:42 +0200, Claus Schwarm wrote: > Shaun, > > you're arguing against a straw man. Nobody said, it's an either/or > scenario. Nobody said we should drop communicating what GNOME's about > completely. Nobody said anybody should drop his or her values. It's > only in your head.

Re: Marketing, GNOME 3.0 and subteams

2009-04-29 Thread Shaun McCance
On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 12:45 -0500, Brian Cameron wrote: > Shaun: Brian, everything you replied to is what Claus said. I'm in total agreement with you. > >>> I think we need to think about why we want end-users to use GNOME > >> 3.0. Or why we want them > >>> to use GNOME at all. Those are the mes

Re: Marketing, GNOME 3.0 and subteams

2009-04-29 Thread Shaun McCance
On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 17:42 +0200, Claus Schwarm wrote: > Thanks for the feedback. A few remarks: > > Benefits: > = > > On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Stormy Peters > wrote: > > > I think we need to think about why we want end-users to use GNOME > 3.0. Or why we want them > > to use G

Re: Marketing, GNOME 3.0 and subteams

2009-04-28 Thread Shaun McCance
On Mon, 2009-04-27 at 16:37 +0100, Alex Hudson wrote: > Stormy Peters wrote: > > + Identify our target audience(s). Do we want to communicate with > > existing GNOME users, all free desktop users, or try to reach out to > > non-free-desktop users? (I think we can safely leave communicating > > w

Re: good blog post on doing a product release

2009-04-19 Thread Shaun McCance
On Sat, 2009-04-18 at 17:51 -0600, Stormy Peters wrote: > I thought this was a good blog post on how to do a product > announcement or press release in today's world of social media. > > http://socialmediasurfer.blogspot.com/2009/04/using-social-media-with-product-launch.html > > Stormy I really

Re: Brochure for potential sponsors: need help!

2009-02-24 Thread Shaun McCance
On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 15:53 -0600, Brian Cameron wrote: > - The text says "The Foundation has over 400 members, all contributors >to GNOME, who vote once a year". > >Actually we now vote every 18 months We had a single 18-month period to put the new board elections closer to GUADEC so tha

Re: Brochure for potential sponsors: need help!

2009-02-21 Thread Shaun McCance
On Sat, 2009-02-21 at 12:35 +0100, Andreas Nilsson wrote: > Stormy Peters wrote: > > Let me know what you need from me. I think I have all the text below > > unless someone has feedback or suggestions on it. > Kalle Persson and myself spent some time on this last night and here is > a sketch. > F

Re: New Project: GNOME YouTube Video Contest

2009-02-18 Thread Shaun McCance
On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 15:51 -0700, Stormy Peters wrote: > How about a video contest for GNOME desktop tips and howtos? (Sriram > Ramkrisha had this great idea on IRC and I thought I'd bring it over > to the marketing list.) > > Users upload them to YouTube and we put them all in one channel. > >

Friends of GNOME

2009-01-14 Thread Shaun McCance
A big thanks to everybody who worked on revamping our Friends of GNOME pages. I did some proofreading and made some improvements. Patch attached. I also want to bring a few things to the attention of the list: 1) The thank-you page suggests subscribing to foundation-list to get updates. I think

Re: GNOME Mug Update

2008-03-12 Thread Shaun McCance
On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 16:21 +0100, Dave Neary wrote: > Hi, > > 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" (Coff

Re: old gnome screenshots

2007-10-02 Thread Shaun McCance
On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 00:14 +0200, Erik Snoeijs wrote: > Hi, > > I'm making a presentation for softwarefreedomday, but what i would > really need are a few old gnome screenshots. pre-1.0 and 1.4-ish. Theme > of the presentation is 10 years of gnome, so i need some old stuff, but > the web isn't re

Re: GNOME 2.20 release notes

2007-08-18 Thread Shaun McCance
On Sat, 2007-08-18 at 12:11 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote: > On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 15:36 -0500, Shaun McCance wrote: > > We can do basically any style or content tweaks that are > > necessary. This is using the latest g-d-u, which is code > > that I'm intimately familiar

Re: GNOME 2.20 release notes

2007-08-17 Thread Shaun McCance
On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 15:36 -0500, Shaun McCance wrote: > On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 22:03 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote: > > On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 13:01 -0500, Shaun McCance wrote: > > > > > Like last year, I'll go ahead and plug gnome-doc-utils. This is > > > >

Re: GNOME 2.20 release notes

2007-08-17 Thread Shaun McCance
On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 22:03 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote: > On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 13:01 -0500, Shaun McCance wrote: > > > > Like last year, I'll go ahead and plug gnome-doc-utils. This is > > > > the output of 'gnome-doc-tool html -d2 release-notes.xml&#x

Re: GNOME 2.20 release notes

2007-08-17 Thread Shaun McCance
On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 18:56 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote: > On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 10:46 -0500, Shaun McCance wrote: > > On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 11:32 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote: > > > On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 16:48 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote: > > > > Here is my first at

Re: GNOME 2.20 release notes

2007-08-17 Thread Shaun McCance
On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 18:56 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote: > On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 10:46 -0500, Shaun McCance wrote: > > On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 11:32 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote: > > > On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 16:48 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote: > > > > Here is my first at

Re: GNOME 2.20 release notes

2007-08-17 Thread Shaun McCance
On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 11:32 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote: > On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 16:48 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote: > > Here is my first attempt at putting everything on one page (with the > > content from 2.14): > > http://www.gnome.org/start/2.20/notes/en/ > > > > The good: This replaces notes/i

Re: Re-inventing the GNOME Marketing team

2007-04-24 Thread Shaun McCance
On Mon, 2007-04-23 at 22:37 -0400, Ken VanDine wrote: > Based on the feedback the GMAE thread, let me suggest we re-invent > ourselves. I think it is obvious we are needed, but right now we > really don't have a direction. Let's fix this! We have the power to > do it... we just need to do it. >

Re: Starting Chicago Gnome User Group

2007-04-23 Thread Shaun McCance
On Mon, 2007-04-23 at 17:04 +0200, Dave Neary wrote: > In that area, you have (correct me if I'm wrong) the following major cities: > Chicago > Columbus > Cleveland > Milwaukee > Indianapolis > Des Moines > > That's 6 major urban areas - I imagine that each of those has their own > LUG, and that f

Re: Working Draft

2007-03-09 Thread Shaun McCance
On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 21:47 +0200, Quim Gil wrote: > (((BTW, is it possible that we have no banner yet?))) > > On 3/9/07, Shaun McCance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is this the final text from the marketing team? > > > > http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointSevente

Re: Working Draft

2007-03-09 Thread Shaun McCance
On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 17:47 +0100, Vincent Untz wrote: > Le jeudi 08 mars 2007, à 07:35, Quim Gil a écrit : > > Let's agree a hard deadline, otherwise we can keep adding items and > > suggesting ideas until 2.18.1. > > > > Gervais needs to deliver a final text and graphics (*) tomorrow Friday > >

Release Notes

2007-02-13 Thread Shaun McCance
I'm pretty busy with non-Gnome stuff these days, but I will gladly offer my copy editing services to the release notes. Just let me know what day we're freezing the notes for the translators, and the day before I'll comb through them and fix any outstanding spelling and grammar errors. -- Shaun

Re: Writing the 2.16 release notes (and press release)

2006-08-08 Thread Shaun McCance
On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 01:29 +0800, Davyd Madeley wrote: > On Mon, 2006-08-07 at 13:35 +0200, Vincent Untz wrote: > > > Could we do a meeting this week? > > Yes. We need to get on it. > > What day and time is good for people? > > I'm at UTC+8, so UTC 18:00-23:00 is a little bit crap for me, but

Re: Writing the 2.16 release notes (and press release)

2006-07-24 Thread Shaun McCance
On Sat, 2006-07-22 at 21:52 +0200, Vincent Untz wrote: > Hi there, > > We're looking for a small group of volunteers to handle the writing of > the release notes for GNOME 2.16. There's no need to be a technical > person for this. Really. > > Murray, and then Davyd have been leading this effort f

Re: release notes: first draft

2006-03-10 Thread Shaun McCance
On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 12:32 -0800, Bob Kashani wrote: > On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 14:05 -0600, Shaun McCance wrote: > > On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 23:57 +0800, Davyd Madeley wrote: > > > Ok guys and gals. I am announcing a preliminary draft of the release > > > notes for 2.14. W

Re: release notes: first draft

2006-03-10 Thread Shaun McCance
On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 23:57 +0800, Davyd Madeley wrote: > Ok guys and gals. I am announcing a preliminary draft of the release > notes for 2.14. We now require proof readers for spelling, grammar and > technical correctness. > > The latest committed version is online at: > http://www.gnome.org