Leaving the list

2011-11-12 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
back to GNOME work when my job is not so all-absorbing. Feel free to email me privately, of course! -- Sumana Harihareswara http://brainwane.net -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Re: Who needs help, with what?

2011-10-05 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 09/30/2011 04:16 PM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: * Either winding down or transitioning GNOME Journal. Technical considerations: It's on an *ancient* version of Textpattern. I've filed a bug to request that it be upgraded or moved to WordPress, and our sysadmins have never acted

re: Who needs help, with what?

2011-09-30 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
has been pretty quiet, I believe: http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-ambassadors-list Hope this is helpful. -- Sumana Harihareswara http://brainwane.net -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Re: Contractor status update: last week next steps

2011-04-15 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 04/12/2011 05:54 AM, Allan Day wrote: Hi all, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: [snip] Now that we've launched, I talked with Allan about how to best use the rest of our contracts (we're booked to work on GNOME till the end of April). We think our priorities for the rest of April are: (a) reach

Fwd: Re: Longtime KDE user, excited by Gnome 3

2011-04-14 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
, but with Gnome 3, I will definitely be making one of my computers a Gnome desktop. Congrats and keep up the great work! Don, Thank you so much for telling us this! Would you mind if I forwarded this around posted it on the web, with your name? -Sumana Harihareswara [reply:] Sumana

GNOME 3 digital marketing bundle

2011-04-12 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
Jos Poortvliet wrote on 7 April 2011: Another thing. I have collected some marketing materials for inclusion on the DVD. Including a PDF-ified version of the gnome3.org page including the video's (and their subtitles), a collection of posters/banners and the presentation templates as well as

Re: ROUGH draft of GNOME 3.0 press release (request for comments)

2011-04-05 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
to localize and spread the word in their local area. Thanks, Pockey On 03/31/2011 12:18 AM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: On 03/30/2011 12:34 AM, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: I believe Federico's full name is Federico Mena Quintero. Aieee, how did I miss that? Thanks, fixed. About to start

Stack Overflow: a de facto hub for GNOME support questions

2011-04-05 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/gnome There are 204 questions about GNOME on Stack Overflow (a trying-to-be-quality programmers' QA site with lots of traffic). So if you have some spare time to look at new questions there, add a summary of GNOME for their wiki, and inject

GNOME 3 myths approaches that work

2011-04-05 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
Someone who has some free time: please merge http://live.gnome.org/GNOME3Myths with http://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/TalkingPoints#Approaches_That_Work using your best judgment. -Sumana -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org

a snapshot of my current marketing work

2011-04-01 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
, Sumana Harihareswara marketing contractor -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Re: ROUGH draft of GNOME 3.0 press release (request for comments)

2011-03-29 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
Thanks for your comments, Olav, Brian, Dave, Sri, and John. I also got a review from marketing guy Ryan Singer, who said the press release looks pretty good. And I've added a quote from Miguel de Icaza. I've changed Linux throughout to either free and open source or Unix-type. I've changed

GNOME User Day 31 March -- IRC questions-and-answers session

2011-03-28 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
. and Marina Z. Please see http://live.gnome.org/ThreePointZero/UserDays for the times in your area. Please spread the word! Thanks! best, Sumana Harihareswara GNOME Marketing -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Identi.ca Twitter feed passwords

2011-03-28 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
I think Allan I should get access to the GNOME Foundation's Identi.ca Twitter passwords. (You can always change the password after our contract ends, if you don't want us to have posting access anymore.) I do not currently have those passwords; would someone who has them please contact me

ROUGH draft of GNOME 3.0 press release (request for comments)

2011-03-28 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
With Sri's help, I've written a very rough draft for the GNOME 3.0 press release. Please comment, critique, and suggest edits within the next 36 hours (before about 8am Wednesday, US East Coast time). I'm waiting on quotes from Miguel Stormy -- as soon as I get one of them, I'm going to

Re: ROUGH draft of GNOME 3.0 press release (request for comments)

2011-03-28 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
I've already taken out the accessibility paragraph, on the advice of #a11y. mgorse sumanah: There is a QT bridge now, which I think is still a work in progress, but a lot of progress is being made. The port of AT-SPI to DBus helped since QT already supports DBus * sumanah nods sumanah

Re: GNOME: numbers of users, patches/revisions

2011-03-25 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 03/25/2011 08:48 AM, Juanjo Marin wrote: El jue, 24-03-2011 a las 16:13 -0400, Sumana Harihareswara escribió: John: How would you feel about an approximation along the lines of hundreds of thousands of users (or whatever a verifiably correct order of magnitude is)? I think to say GNOME has

Re: GNOME: numbers of users, patches/revisions

2011-03-25 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
Allan wrote: What are these metrics intended to indicate? The amount of work that has gone into GNOME 3? Changes since 2.0 don't necessarily map onto that. I also suspect it will be way too difficult to pull out the required numbers for this. You could maybe focus on one or two key modules:

Re: GNOME: numbers of users, patches/revisions

2011-03-24 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 03/24/2011 03:50 PM, John Stowers wrote: On Thu, 2011-03-24 at 15:18 -0400, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: I'm working on the press release and I'm finding it hard to figure out: About how many users can I claim GNOME has? (To simplify: the desktop, not the platform.) IMO, if you cannot

sick

2011-03-19 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
Just letting you know that I got a nasty, incapacitating cold yesterday and will be out of commission probably till Monday. Sorry. Will be back on the job as soon as I can. -Sumana -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

GNOME Journal bilingual edition launches

2011-03-15 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
3 and focus on the release of GNOME 3. Articles are welcome. GNOME Journal: http://gnomejournal.org Sumana Harihareswara GNOME Journal release organizer http://www.harihareswara.net -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Next GNOME User Day (31 March) needs 2 more co-hosts

2011-03-14 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
by two people. I have a few people signed up, so I just need two or three more. Would you like to help host a session? If so, please mark all the times you're available on this Doodle poll. I'll only ask you to do one of them. http://www.doodle.com/a72fpheh7cb4gp6a Thanks! Sumana

GNOME 3 release marketing - DONEs TODOs

2011-03-08 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
wiki cleanup This is a lot and so it might change if more pressing matters come up, but I think it's a good place to start. Thanks again for the opportunity to work on this! -Sumana Harihareswara -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo

GNOME.Asia lightning talk re GNOME 3 marketing

2011-03-07 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
http://live.gnome.org/GnomeAsia/2011Summit/LightningTalks Allan, or someone else who is planning on going to the Bangalore summit: want to sign up for a lightning talk about GNOME 3 or marketing GNOME? -Sumana -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org

Re: GNOME 3 videos

2011-03-05 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
Attn: Bryen, Stormy, and Alberto below: On 03/04/2011 02:32 PM, Jason D. Clinton wrote: On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 17:33, Sumana Harihareswarasuma...@panix.comwrote: I'm looking at http://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/Gnome3In30Seconds and http://jasondclinton.livejournal.com/82744.html -- I'm

Re: press contacts in CiviCRM

2011-03-05 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 03/01/2011 04:53 PM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: It sounds like the best long-term way for us to amass our database of press contacts is to put it in CiviCRM (I've just thrown a wishlist on http://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/PressReleases/Outlets but I can take it down once there's

Re: GNOME Journal

2011-03-05 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
Sri, can you do an article on GNOME Shell extensions (with an emphasis on GNOME 3 of course) and have a draft to me by March 20th? -Sumana On 01/26/2011 01:37 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: Sure, I can help. What do you want specifically? I was going to do one on gnome shell extensions

Re: press contacts in CiviCRM

2011-03-05 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
a week offline. Sumana Allan, do you have accounts on crm.gnome.org already? I can add permissions for you, I think, once you have one. The other administrators are diegoe, pcutler, zana stormy. Cheers, Dave. Sumana Harihareswara wrote: It sounds like the best long-term way for us to amass our

GNOME 3 videos

2011-03-03 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
We launch GNOME 3 in about a month. Very exciting! I'm looking at http://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/Gnome3In30Seconds and http://jasondclinton.livejournal.com/82744.html -- I'm downloading some of the videos, but my connection is really slow right now so I can't judge whether any of them

updating http://live.gnome.org/RoadMap

2011-03-01 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
I think there's value in having http://live.gnome.org/RoadMap as a place where what's new in GNOME 3 for admins, users, developers gets summarized in a few bullet points, for developers to see. This seems like a few hours' work for someone who already knows the technical side of GNOME pretty

Re: updating http://live.gnome.org/RoadMap

2011-03-01 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 03/01/2011 03:51 PM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: I think there's value in having http://live.gnome.org/RoadMap as a place where what's new in GNOME 3 for admins, users, developers gets summarized in a few bullet points, for developers to see. This seems like a few hours' work for someone

press contacts in CiviCRM

2011-03-01 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
It sounds like the best long-term way for us to amass our database of press contacts is to put it in CiviCRM (I've just thrown a wishlist on http://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/PressReleases/Outlets but I can take it down once there's a better home). Stormy or someone else with CiviCRM admin

GNOME 3 release marketing - DONEs TODOs

2011-02-28 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
Allan I did some work today driving towards publicizing the GNOME 3 release. (It looks like he'll be doing most of his work in big blocks on Thursdays Fridays, whereas I'll probably be doing a couple of hours every weekday.) Some updates/things we've done: * Allan's updating the Marketing

Re: GNOME Ambassadors

2011-02-14 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
I've closed the poll; only Allan and I participated. I picked Thursday, February 17, 2011, 3pm UTC (10:00 AM NYC time, 3pm UK time) as the time to have a quick GNOME Ambassadors discussion. On 02/10/2011 09:56 AM, Stormy Peters wrote: I did create the mailing list and invite several people

Seeking Spanish speaker to edit Spanish articles for GNOME Journal Hispano

2011-02-10 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
, please let us know by Thursday 17 February. Thanks! More about GNOME Journal's plans: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeJournal Thanks, Sumana Harihareswara GNOME Journal Release Organizer Editor -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

GNOME Ambassadors

2011-02-08 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
as soon as I edit it Naming some candidates Naming potential mentors Should be maybe 20-30 minutes. -Sumana Harihareswara http://brainwane.net -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

talking tomorrow about GNOME marketing

2010-07-04 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
, and other plans. Just a few weeks to GUADEC! Sumana Harihareswara http://brainwane.net -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

checking in on GNOME 3 launch plans, gnome3.org

2010-06-19 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
. This coming week I'll be tying up some loose ends with Stormy, Bharat, Andreas, Paul, Vincent, Jason, and Licio. Our next big deliverable is that we're hoping to get the gnome3.org site beta launched by Saturday the 26th. Sumana Harihareswara http://brainwane.net -- marketing-list mailing list

GNOME 3 launch plan progress

2010-05-26 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
, I'll be at Open Source Bridge next week, speaking about overcoming obstacles to FOSS contributions at for-profit companies. I'll try to respond while away, but will be back home with free time to concentrate on GNOME as of 8 June. best, Sumana Harihareswara http://brainwane.net -- marketing-list

GNOME 3 launch plans request for participation

2010-05-10 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
or Vincent. Sumana Harihareswara http://brainwane.net On Sat, 8 May 2010, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: I'm back in New York City. This weekend I'll fix up my notes, put things up on the wiki, finish blogging about the hackfest, and send out some next-steps reminders. You should see those

Friends of GNOME ruler still up, says 114 to go

2010-04-08 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On planet.gnome.org, I see the donation ruler still asks for donations for hiring a sysadmin, and says $114 to go! Who should/can take that down now that the goal's reached? Sumana Harihareswara http://brainwane.net -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org

Re: Upcoming GNOME Marketing Hackfest

2010-03-31 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
. Thank you. Sumana Harihareswara GNOME Journal Editor and Release Coordinator http://brainwane.net -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list