Re: GFOSS conference in Greece

On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 10:51 PM, Andre Klapper wrote: > Heja, > > On Wed, 2012-02-29 at 10:46 +0200, Stathis Iosifidis (aka diamond_gr) > wrote: >> I just saw a post (in Greek) [1] that there will be a day conference. >> This conference will be held to 4 cities in Greece (different days). >> Dead

Re: bad press in the G+ circles/press

On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 6:35 PM, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier wrote: > On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 10:18 AM, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: >> I'm not saying other Gnome people, but rather other Gnome users are not >> chiming in and supporting it. > > That might tell you something right there. > > GNOME 3.0 might

Re: GNOME 3 DVDs

On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 5:37 PM, Vincent Untz wrote: > Hi, > > Le mercredi 27 avril 2011, à 16:57 +0300, Simos Xenitellis a écrit : >> On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 1:49 AM, Sriram Ramkrishna >> wrote: >> > >> > Who do I need to talk to about getting some DVDs

Re: GNOME 3 DVDs

On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 1:49 AM, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > > Who do I need to talk to about getting some DVDs shipped here?  I believe > some were shipped to the U.S.  I have a conference this weekend so it would > be beneficial if I could give out some live cds after my talk. > I am interested

Re: GNOME 3 DVDs

On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 10:42 PM, Andreas Jaeger wrote: > On Thursday, April 07, 2011 07:46:29 PM Bryen M Yunashko wrote: > > On Thu, 2011-04-07 at 19:32 +0200, Patrick Fey wrote: > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > > > Bryen, > > > > > > Am 07.04.2011 19:22, schrieb

Re: FOSSCOMM 2011, May 7th-8th 2011, Patras, Greece

2011/4/16 Stathis Iosifidis (aka diamond_gr) : > Hello friends, > > Μy name is Stathis Iosifidis and I'm from Greece. I'm involved with the > marketing of openSUSE focusing on Greece. > > Next month we'll have in Greece the conference called FOSSCOMM > (http://patras.fosscomm.gr/?lang=en). > > As i

Re: Stack Overflow: a de facto hub for GNOME support & questions

On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 5:34 PM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/gnome > > There are 204 questions about GNOME on Stack Overflow (a > trying-to-be-quality programmers' Q&A site with lots of traffic).  So if you > have some spare time to look at new questions

Re: Updating outdated GNOME programming books

On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 11:46 PM, Jaap A. Haitsma wrote: > In my mail about the GNOME Amazon store most of the comments were > about the outdated GNOME books which I listed here: > http://www.gnome.org/friends/amazon/ > (We can change the entries so just let me know which books you think I > should

Re: GNOME Amazon stores up and running

On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Stormy Peters wrote: > > > On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Simos Xenitellis > wrote: >> >> 4. I can also see other products apart from books, laptops. If someone >> knows something, they might fit as well. >> > T

Re: GNOME Amazon stores up and running

On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Andre Klapper wrote: > Am Montag, den 31.08.2009, 00:10 +0100 schrieb Alberto Ruiz: >> 2009/8/30 Jaap A. Haitsma : >> > http://www.gnome.org/friends/amazon/ > >> I wonder if it's worth publicizing so outdated books, buying those >> would be a total waste of time. >

Re: Linux Foundation membership brings linux.com email address

On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 10:04 PM, Stormy Peters wrote: > The Linux Foundation is giving out linux.com email addresses in return for > donations. As an incentive. > > So the question I have to ask: > > Should we give Friends of GNOME, maybe monthly subscribers, gnome.org email > addresses? On a rel

Re: Having search engines pay for being default search engine in epiphany, deskbar applet etc

On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 2:01 PM, Dave Neary wrote: > Hi, > > Alex Launi wrote: >> On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 7:40 AM, Alberto Ruiz > > wrote: >> >>     What about Yahoo!? >> >> >> Do you want to piss off Google? Remember, they're still a large >> contributor. > > Again, dependin

Re: Cultural Issue with the Foot Logo

Hi Theppitak, As already suggested, delegating the choice of the new logo to the Art Team is the typical thing to do. My concern is in the practicalities when trying to apply the new logo in a distribution. If you have your own distribution, you can make all sort of changes, so it it OK. What yo

Re: GNOME files disabled

On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 6:34 AM, Thilo Pfennig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Claus Schwarm schrieb: >> It's just not as efficient as for other platforms because releases are >> rather boring if they cannot be installed easily and immediately. That >> was the central problem of gnomefiles. >> >> > > N

Re: GNOME files disabled

On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 8:45 PM, Stormy Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What was gnomefiles? It sounds like a list of files found in GNOME but I > don't want to assume. :) You can see how the website looked like at http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.gnomefiles.org/ Also, for individual pr

Re: Catchy line for gnome.org

Στις 08-08-2007, ημέρα Wed, και ώρα 23:08 +0300, ο/η Quim Gil έγραψε: > In fact there was already a wiki page. > > http://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/CoreMessage > > I have updated with one proposal since I do think a GNOME tagline > would be useful for our identity and marketing purposes: > >

Re: Including Arabic translation in release notes

On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 11:16 +, Djihed Afifi wrote: > hi Marketing Team, > > > Gnome 2.18 marks one of the first DE's (the first?) ever to have a fully > completed Arabic translation (of the UI of release packages)[1]. In fact > we have gone to great length to ensure a really good translation

Re: need ideas for guadec journal

O/H Sara Khalatbari έγραψε: Hi all Ludovic have set up a page in the wiki listing the content of guadec journal http://live.gnome.org/GUADEC2006/PrintedContent We have found some cool Sudokus We've contacted all the paper submitters asking for their bio & photo & they are sending them gradu

Re: Release Notes Going into CVS

On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 00:23 +0800, Davyd Madeley wrote: > Interactive release notes related chat is happening on #release-notes on > irc.gnome.org and will be happening for the next couple of weeks I > guess. > > Only somewhat related, does anyone know the status of the live CD? Not sure about the

Re: Simple Idea for Gnome Journal

O/H Lucas Rocha έγραψε: Hi, An initial basic set of questions (most of them from the KDE one): http://www.gnome.org/~lucasr/GJ.txt Comments? Suggestion? Please send them 'now' because I need to send it to our first guest, Jeff. The deadline is tomorrow. :-) I like it. I have been looking

Re: Simple Idea for Gnome Journal

O/H Lucas Rocha έγραψε: Hi Thilo, Well, I think there are quite a lot interviews out there. I would suggest if we want to make something different :-) that we interview more users. A question of focus. Nonetheless we should take everything that is good. ;-) Not that I am not interested in in

Re: Mapping GNOME contributors from around the world!

there. You can also use the map at that page to mark precisely your location if you wish to. Simos Cheers. On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 14:46 +, Simos Xenitellis wrote: Ross Golder wrote: On อา., 2005-12-18 at 11:28 +0700, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan wrote: On 12/17/0

Re: GNOME Maps Updates

Murray Cumming wrote: On Thu, 2005-12-22 at 01:29 +, Simos Xenitellis wrote: Thanks for the update at http://live.gnome.org/LogoGuidelines Therefore, can we say that "a GNOME user-group, provided they accepted the user-group licensing agreement, has two options: 1. Us

Re: GNOME Maps Updates

Murray Cumming wrote: On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 23:50 +, Simos Xenitellis wrote: This use the wrong logo. Please use the one adviced here: http://live.gnome.org/LogoGuidelines Sorry for being picky, I should probably push pixels instead of nitpicking on silly stuff like this

Re: GNOME Maps Updates

Andreas Nilsson wrote: Simos Xenitellis wrote: Dear All, This is an update on the GNOME maps setup on Frappr.com. GNOME Dev: 50 participants http://www.frappr.com/gnomedev GNOME Users: 32 participants http://www.frappr.com/gnomeusers GnomeMeeting: 17 participants http://www.frappr.com

GNOME Maps Updates

Dear All, This is an update on the GNOME maps setup on Frappr.com. GNOME Dev: 50 participants http://www.frappr.com/gnomedev GNOME Users: 32 participants http://www.frappr.com/gnomeusers GnomeMeeting: 17 participants http://www.frappr.com/gnomemeeting GNOME FR: 8 participants http://www.frapp

Re: Mapping GNOME contributors from around the world!

Ross Golder wrote: On อา., 2005-12-18 at 11:28 +0700, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan wrote: On 12/17/05, Luis Villa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You mean, like: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeWorldWide ? (linked to from planet.gnome.org) Isn't that for people who feed Planet GNOME? Sorry

Re: Mapping GNOME contributors from around the world!

using the Frappr server. In addition, following the firefoxusers example (http://www.frappr.com/firefoxusers), it would be also good to start a similar group for GNOME Users ("gnomeusers"). What do you think about that? Simos On 12/16/05, Simos Xenitellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wro

Mapping GNOME contributors from around the world!

Dear All, I started a community map at http://www.frappr.com/gnomedev for the people that contribute to the GNOME platform! Therefore, if you are involved in any aspect of GNOME development, please join in! For example, this includes people involved in coding, translating, marketing, porting,

Mapping GNOME developers and contributors

of the community based on a comment by Eike Rathke (http://jroller.com/page/erAck?entry=mapping_openoffice_org_developers_and) I'll publish at the gnome-i18n list. Feel free to post to other lists you are registered. Therefore, visit and register yourself at http://www.frappr.com

Re: slashdot: linus says "use kde"

John Williams wrote: On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 21:43 -0300, Santiago Roza wrote: btw, i'll try to summarize all online comments about this linus/kde thing. from what i've read so far, they seem to have a couple valid points we shouldn't be ignoring. I think that would be very helpful, th

GNOME Localisation page (+award)

Hi All, As soon as I scribbled the page at http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/GNOME_Localisation we got an award. I suppose marketing should work on localisation as well :) Simos p.s. Uncyclopedia, http://uncyclopedia.org/, is supposed to provide information in a funny way, as in parody. GNOME has

Re: collecting negative reviews

Luis Villa wrote: It would be a good idea for someone to find and categorize all the negative reviews too, so that we can address those issues (either by fixing problems or educating reviewers) during the next release cycle. Any volunteers? :) Luis Some more. A. Slashdot article "GNOME 2.

Re: GNOME liveCD 2.12 help needed

Rahul Sundaram wrote: Andreas Mueller wrote: On Wednesday 07 September 2005 10:57, Andreas Mueller wrote: the other langs are ready for downloading http://www.gnoppix.org/download/ gnome-livecd-2.12-i386-de-4.iso 06-Sep-2005 19:41 569M German gnome-livecd-2.12-i386-en-5.iso

Re: GNOME liveCD 2.12 help needed

Danilo Šegan wrote: Hi Marcus, Yesterday at 23:30, Marcus Bauer wrote: The liveCD is up for testing, please give it a ride/thorough test and post your feedback to the list :-) Download it here: http://www.gnoppix.org/download/gnome-livecd-2.12-i386-en-1.iso This will take a day or

Potential availability of new fonts, Stix fonts

Hi All, A project that has been running for around 10 years to create a set of fonts of the academic community, is about to release the work near the end of the 2005. The font has glyphs (characters) for Latin Basic, Latin Extended A and B, Cyrillic and Greek, making it quite valuable if it c

Re: Some criticisms of GNOME

Hi, That was quite an interesting e-mail. Thanks for forwarding. How do we "deal" with it? Well, imagine the new version of OpenOffice.org which does not have the toolbars with those bold/italics/underline buttons, the left-right-center-justify buttons for paragraphs, allowing you to change fo

Re: Yet Another Poster

Luis Villa wrote: On 8/10/05, Andreas Nilsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Did another poster to match the Official Desktop of Happy People one. It seems like I didn't have support for thaiwanese, so that's currently three squares in the png. Will fix it later. Hope to do them as pdf soon, not

Re: Pronouncing "GNOME"

Jeff Waugh wrote: Would it make sense to change the official pronunciation of "GNOME" to "gnome" to smooth out this blip? Nah, I don't think so. It's a funny little cultural thing that some people enjoy, almost like a club. :-) I don't think it has a negative impact on us. There

Re: GNOME Logo Font

Máirín Duffy wrote: On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 18:15 -0400, Luis Villa wrote: (and I realize I forgot to say thanks to Mairin for whipping these up so quick... I've become so conditioned to folks bickering over silly stuff that I didn't actually expect to see these. so, thanks :) You're mo

Re: Yet Another Poster

Andreas Nilsson wrote: Did another poster to match the Official Desktop of Happy People one. It seems like I didn't have support for thaiwanese, so that's currently three squares in the png. Will fix it later. Hope to do them as pdf soon, not sure how though. Scribus svg support is not satisf

Re: OpenCD & GNOME

package itself, so if you want to get Audacity (or any other program) to promote better itself, feel free to write similar tutorials that end-users can find under Help and use on the spot. .. Simos Xenitellis http://simos.info/blog/ -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Re: OpenCD & GNOME

Claus Schwarm wrote: On Thu, 4 Aug 2005 02:46:14 -0700 Jeff Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: We could try to ensure that fun applications running on Windows, such as Gimp and Inkscape, are identified as built with the GNOME development platform. Shouldn't be tough at all, th

Re: Create your own customised GNOME liveCD

Στις 25/Ιούλ/2005, ημέρα Δευτέρα και ώρα 16:54, ο/η Claus Schwarm έγραψε: > On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 15:45:37 +0100 > Simos Xenitellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I cannot understand your point. > > > > I'll try to explain. > > If we from

Re: Create your own customised GNOME liveCD

Στις 25/Ιούλ/2005, ημέρα Δευτέρα και ώρα 17:26, ο/η Marcus Bauer έγραψε: > On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 15:45 +0100, Simos Xenitellis wrote: > > > Maybe I am wrong, my view is that we (GNOME Marketing) want to get a > > LiveCD ISO image out to the masses > > that suppor

Re: Create your own customised GNOME liveCD

Claus Schwarm wrote: On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 09:14:47 -0400 Luis Villa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: things I think in the end I disagree with gnoppix about: * naming; I want it called simply the GNOME LiveCD. No one outside a core group of geeks knows what knoppix is, and so calling it gnoppix is

Re: [Fwd: GUADEC7 press release draft]

David Neary wrote: Hi, Claus Schwarm wrote: I don't think this is a very professional solution. If June changes for reasons we can't influence, we'd need to correct it in another press release. Otherwise we'd risk much confusion. No need to say how unfortunate this would be. I disagree. W

Re: KDE + Wikipedia

Simos Xenitellis wrote: Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: The abiword guys would be interested as well since they have a wikipedia plug in. Strange they wanted a "KDE API" as opposed to "Linux Desktop API" integration. Maybe it's the same thing if the library is used by eve

Re: KDE + Wikipedia

Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: The abiword guys would be interested as well since they have a wikipedia plug in. Strange they wanted a "KDE API" as opposed to "Linux Desktop API" integration. Maybe it's the same thing if the library is used by everyone and doesn't involve qt. Better have a look

Re: HOWTO create a localized live CD

Terance Edward Sola wrote: Under follows a HOWTO for the Live CD provided by Marcus Bauer. I mailed him with some questions which you can find at the bottom but he hasn't replied so I thought I'd send it here in a "Feel Lucky?" manner :-) man, 23,.05.2005 kl. 14.05 +0200, skrev Marcus Bauer:

Re: Using "GNOME" and the foot logo on t-shirts/etc.

Murray Cumming wrote: On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 13:50 -0400, Daniel Veillard wrote: On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 07:38:43PM +0200, Murray Cumming wrote: On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 13:33 -0400, Daniel Veillard wrote: On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 06:12:03PM +0100, Simos Xenitellis wrote

Re: Using "GNOME" and the foot logo on t-shirts/etc.

Murray Cumming wrote: On Mon, 2005-06-13 at 18:31 -0400, Fernando San Martín Woerner wrote: El mar, 14-06-2005 a las 00:24 +0200, Erik Snoeijs escribió: ... I don't know how far you are with business cards, but i could give you our design. However at the moment i can only offer a low q

Using "GNOME" and the foot logo on t-shirts/etc.

Hi All, We (Greek team) are planning to print some t-shirts for local use and would like to use "GNOME" and the foot. We would like to do it right, and in the process help others in a similar situation. "GNOME" and the foot logo are (c) by the GNOME Foundation. 1. Does this apply to the US only?

Re: Cool Unicode and GNOME

Στις 12/Ιούν/2005, ημέρα Κυριακή και ώρα 23:51, ο/η Andreas Nilsson έγραψε: > Simos Xenitellis wrote: > > > What to do then? > > * Start using these and tell the world that, "Oh, I use GNOME and this > > is how I get them". > > * Make sure the freefont p

Cool Unicode and GNOME

Okay, it looks like a new fad is about to begin, and GNOME can be a bit lucky here, marketing-wise. I am not talking about major marketing initiatives here, just something small and grassroots style. First, see: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/Gmail-Help-Discussion/browse_thread/thread/8a

Re: Software Freedom Day

Leslie Proctor wrote: Simos wrote: A task would be to inform the end-users that they are using software based on GNOME technologies. * Perhaps rework the About dialog menu to show prominently that the app is based on GNOME technologies. * Do application branding around the idea "Based o

Re: Software Freedom Day

Dave Neary wrote: Hi, We should probably do something for Software Freedom Day (even if it's only letting more people know about it) http://softwarefreedomday.org/ - it's the second year it's been help, and I think it's a really good idea which deserves traction and attention. I don't kno

Re: Drawing the pretty pictures

Andreas Nilsson wrote: Simos Xenitellis wrote: Now, how the first screen appears is quite important for first impressions in a marketing way, so the boot splash should look good. Something like this? http://ramnet.se/~nisse/diverse/temp/gnomelive212-bootsplash.png http://ramnet.se/~nisse

Re: Drawing the pretty pictures

Welcome Andreas! It's really good to have people that have proper background in artwork. There is something already you may want to look into! Sorry in advance if I dump too much information, too soon.. When you boot with a GNOME LiveCD, the very first screen shows a "Boot splash" image, such as

Bounties funded by Google, for GNOME

I did not see this mentioned in the list, so I take the chance to do it. Google is funding specific bounties for open-source projects, at http://code.google.com/summerofcode.html They cover GNOME as well, at http://www.gnome.org/bounties/Google.html Thanks to the unnamed heroes who worked on th

Re: Proposal for GNOME press release about Nokia device

Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 06:18:21PM +0200, Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller wrote: Write a press release proposal then :) I am not married to my proposal, but I am not writing a new one based on others people's vague ideas :) Yes Sir, Christian Sir! :-) I c

Re: Proposal for GNOME press release about Nokia device

+= D-BUS instead of dbus. Simos Simos Xenitellis wrote: Nice work! Just nitpicking, not something substantial to change. ::) 1. "It's great to see an industry leader such as..." "It is impressive to see an industry leader such as..." I feel it's too info

Re: Proposal for GNOME press release about Nokia device

Nice work! Just nitpicking, not something substantial to change. ::) 1. "It's great to see an industry leader such as..." "It is impressive to see an industry leader such as..." I feel it's too informal to use "It's great to see". Sounds too US-english. 2. "It's great to see an industry leader

Re: Four (open-source) Greek fonts are now available, and why it's relevant

pe this long e-mail makes sense! Simos Luis (who has gotten into the bad habit of brainstorming aloud on lists :) On 5/15/05, Simos Xenitellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, Just to announce the availability of four Greek fonts, at http://www.ellak.gr/fonts/mgopen/ Why it matters to the ma

Re: GNOME tour?

Claus Schwarm wrote: On Tue, 17 May 2005 08:04:21 -0400 Luis Villa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: For the liveCD, I'd like to use Theora, but probably flash or even still/simple screenshots makes sense for the web. A screenshot tour (8 - 10 shots, maybe) along with explanations what is shown on

Four (open-source) Greek fonts are now available, and why it's relevant

s Web Naskh (http://crulp.org/nafeesWebNaskh.html). Simos Xenitellis -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Re: Another online survey

Dave, In addition, the 2004 survey does not include Ubuntu Linux which comes by default with GNOME. One can expect the link distro<->graphicalinterface. The real fight to get GNOME even higher is to win more distros. In the page they also mention the 2005 survey that will start soon... Simos Î

Greek GNOME LiveCD, is out :)

last week in Nafplio, Greece (see: http://events.debian.gr/). Regards, Simos Xenitellis Greek Localisation Team -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Re: Release echo

ÎÏÎÏ 15/ÎÎÏ/2005, ÎÎÎÏÎ ÎÏÎÏÎ ÎÎÎ ÏÏÎ 12:56, Î/Î Murray Cumming ÎÎÏÎÏÎ: > On Fri, 2005-03-11 at 14:42 +0100, Claus Schwarm wrote: > > Hey, what about other countries ? Current info for Cyprus/Greece: 1. CYUsers.com (Cyprus computer users Website) http://www.cyusers.com/modules.php?op=modload&name

Re: GNOME Linux Live CD - Language support question

ld be more than welcome to do so. I > believe that once the questions in the ToDo are resolved it would be > quite easy for any localization group to produce a fully localized CD. > > Luis > > > On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 17:08:11 +0100, Murray Cumming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote