Re: Cultural Issue with the Foot Logo

2008-12-02 Thread Thilo Pfennig
is just to claim to care about internationalization and then dont. Thilo -- Thilo Pfennig - PfennigSolutions IT-Beratung- Wiki-Systeme Sandkrug 28 - 24143 Kiel (Germany) http://www.pfennigsolutions.de/ XING: https://www.xing.com/profile/Thilo_Pfennig - LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/tpfennig

Re: Cultural Issue with the Foot Logo

2008-11-03 Thread Thilo Pfennig
is funny, because Wikipedia actually has the reverse logic - it tends to dismiss reports of single people as original research and likes to see references that show the truth of the claim. So any single person claiming something is not really a valid proof. Regards, Thilo -- Thilo Pfennig

Re: Cultural Issue with the Foot Logo

2008-11-02 Thread Thilo Pfennig
working on it. I think 'marketing by accident' is like one starts programming randomly without any standards or idea what one wants to accomplish. I would wish that some things would change at GNOME. Regards, Thilo -- Thilo Pfennig - PfennigSolutions IT-Beratung- Wiki-Systeme Sandkrug 28 - 24143

Re: Cultural Issue with the Foot Logo

2008-11-02 Thread Thilo Pfennig
a way to a new logo. I think issues like this is exactly where the GNOME marketing team should take care/responsibility. Regards, Thilo -- Thilo Pfennig - PfennigSolutions IT-Beratung- Wiki-Systeme Sandkrug 28 - 24143 Kiel (Germany) http://www.pfennigsolutions.de/ XING: https://www.xing.com/profile

Re: Cultural Issue with the Foot Logo

2008-10-30 Thread Thilo Pfennig
the difference. Regards, Thilo -- Thilo Pfennig - PfennigSolutions IT-Beratung- Wiki-Systeme Sandkrug 28 - 24143 Kiel (Germany) http://www.pfennigsolutions.de/ XING: https://www.xing.com/profile/Thilo_Pfennig - LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/tpfennig -- marketing-list mailing list

Re: Cultural Issue with the Foot Logo

2008-10-30 Thread Thilo Pfennig
actually know how each country is different. Regards, Thilo -- Thilo Pfennig - PfennigSolutions IT-Beratung- Wiki-Systeme Sandkrug 28 - 24143 Kiel (Germany) http://www.pfennigsolutions.de/ XING: https://www.xing.com/profile/Thilo_Pfennig - LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/tpfennig -- marketing

Re: Cultural Issue with the Foot Logo

2008-10-29 Thread Thilo Pfennig
would welcome a new GNOME release to get the name Hussein ;-) -- Thilo Pfennig - PfennigSolutions IT-Beratung- Wiki-Systeme Sandkrug 28 - 24143 Kiel (Germany) http://www.pfennigsolutions.de/ XING: https://www.xing.com/profile/Thilo_Pfennig - LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/tpfennig

Re: www.gnome.org

2008-10-28 Thread Thilo Pfennig
of other german translators. It does not matter if I say it or if I do not. Everybody can see it. Regards, Thilo -- Thilo Pfennig - PfennigSolutions IT-Beratung- Wiki-Systeme Sandkrug 28 - 24143 Kiel (Germany) http://www.pfennigsolutions.de/ XING: https://www.xing.com/profile/Thilo_Pfennig - LinkedIn

Re: www.gnome.org

2008-10-28 Thread Thilo Pfennig
Claus Schwarm schrieb: Here's the rejection of Drupal: Thanks Claus, I had looked at them some days ago as this threads started. Back then, Drupal wasn't ready, it seems. Actually I think that it was rather not evaluated correctly. Anyway. Regards, Thilo -- Thilo Pfennig

Re: www.gnome.org

2008-10-26 Thread Thilo Pfennig
is the open decision with no deadline. Regards, Thilo -- Thilo Pfennig - PfennigSolutions IT-Beratung- Wiki-Systeme Sandkrug 28 - 24143 Kiel (Germany) http://www.pfennigsolutions.de/ XING: https://www.xing.com/profile/Thilo_Pfennig - LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/tpfennig -- marketing-list

www.gnome.org

2008-10-25 Thread Thilo Pfennig
right now. Intransparency kills involvement. Regards, Thilo -- Thilo Pfennig - PfennigSolutions IT-Beratung- Wiki-Systeme Sandkrug 28 - 24143 Kiel (Germany) http://www.pfennigsolutions.de/ XING: https://www.xing.com/profile/Thilo_Pfennig - LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/tpfennig

news.gnome.org

2008-10-05 Thread Thilo Pfennig
or important. Regards, Thilo -- Thilo Pfennig - PfennigSolutions IT-Beratung- Wiki-Systeme Sandkrug 28 - 24143 Kiel (Germany) http://www.pfennigsolutions.de/ XING: https://www.xing.com/profile/Thilo_Pfennig - LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/tpfennig -- marketing-list mailing list marketing

Re: New Website layout

2008-09-30 Thread Thilo Pfennig
Murray Cumming schrieb: A restart of the www.gnome.org redesign/reimplementation effort might be appropriate soon, but it's premature to start that now. Therefore I'll be reverting or editing Thilo's recent live.gnome.org edits to make that clearer. I think some things need to be done

Distro releases, responsibilities and Plone

2008-09-30 Thread Thilo Pfennig
Dave Neary schrieb: I can imagine that we could have a page split into 3 sections: ACK I have started to collect a list of distro releases here: http://live.gnome.org/UpcomingDistroReleases Some are already in the GNOME calendar of Dave. Would you like to propose appropriate content for

Re: New Website layout

2008-09-30 Thread Thilo Pfennig
Murray Cumming schrieb: I just wanted an answer to the question. The new GnomeWeb/www.gnome.org page seemed useless and confused to me and you seem to be the intended target audience/user of it. I have already corrected other changes from Thilo on the GnomeWeb wiki page, while updating it

Plans for Ubuntu Release and GNOME download?

2008-09-29 Thread Thilo Pfennig
is going on is not reflected on the page in the wiki. And nobody who does work made clear recently what the latest status and timetable is. Regards, Thilo -- Thilo Pfennig - PfennigSolutions IT-Beratung- Wiki-Systeme Sandkrug 28 - 24143 Kiel (Germany) http://www.pfennigsolutions.de/ XING: https

Contact and Press on website

2008-09-26 Thread Thilo Pfennig
there is a high risk that they wont get any official answers. Regards, Thilo PS: There seem to be a lot of hidden or forgotten web pages on www.gnome.org. Did Anybody make a list/sitemap already? -- Thilo Pfennig - PfennigSolutions IT-Beratung- Wiki-Systeme Sandkrug 28 - 24143 Kiel (Germany

Re: GNOME mobile on website

2008-09-26 Thread Thilo Pfennig
shorter and more readable. Regards, Thilo -- Thilo Pfennig - PfennigSolutions IT-Beratung- Wiki-Systeme Sandkrug 28 - 24143 Kiel (Germany) http://www.pfennigsolutions.de/ XING: https://www.xing.com/profile/Thilo_Pfennig - LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/tpfennig -- marketing-list mailing

Re: gnome.org

2008-09-25 Thread Thilo Pfennig
there should be one. Regards, Thilo -- Thilo Pfennig - PfennigSolutions IT-Beratung- Wiki-Systeme Sandkrug 28 - 24143 Kiel (Germany) http://www.pfennigsolutions.de/ XING: https://www.xing.com/profile/Thilo_Pfennig - LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/tpfennig -- marketing-list mailing list marketing

Re: Software Freedom Day

2008-09-25 Thread Thilo Pfennig
. Those can be helpful - but too often hackers also think that those solution will solve non-technical problems. So the calendar will be an improvement for sure. But I would hope that this wont be the end of the road. Regards, Thilo -- Thilo Pfennig - PfennigSolutions IT-Beratung- Wiki-Systeme

Re: Software Freedom Day

2008-09-24 Thread Thilo Pfennig
I would suggest that the national GNOME organizations do such stuff - so like Linuxtag in Germany is something the german team should work on. regards, Thilo -- Thilo Pfennig - PfennigSolutions IT-Beratung- Wiki-Systeme Sandkrug 28 - 24143 Kiel (Germany) http://www.pfennigsolutions.de/ XING

Re: Software Freedom Day

2008-09-21 Thread Thilo Pfennig
of GNU deserve a word ;) I would even say somebody from GNOME foundation could say something that makes this clear Regards, Thilo -- Thilo Pfennig - PfennigSolutions IT-Beratung- Wiki-Systeme Sandkrug 28 - 24143 Kiel (Germany) http://www.pfennigsolutions.de/ XING: https://www.xing.com/profile

Re: Software Freedom Day

2008-09-20 Thread Thilo Pfennig
Andreas Nilsson schrieb: I can put a banner or something up on the website pretty much right away if you want to. I dont have a say. Too bad you didn't mention it on the mailing list a bit earlier though. I actually did: Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/29/98 Regards, Thilo --

Re: GNOME files disabled

2008-09-08 Thread Thilo Pfennig
Simos Xenitellis schrieb: 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

Re: GNOME files disabled

2008-09-05 Thread Thilo Pfennig
but you have to compile yourself. Also same problem most linuxbased FLOSS has. ciao, Thilo -- Thilo Pfennig - PfennigSolutions IT-Beratung- Wiki-Systeme Sandkrug 28 - 24143 Kiel (Germany) http://www.pfennigsolutions.de/ XING: https://www.xing.com/profile/Thilo_Pfennig - LinkedIn: http

Software Freedom Day is Sept. 20th 2008

2008-08-29 Thread Thilo Pfennig
something in your home town. Regards, Thilo -- Thilo Pfennig - PfennigSolutions IT-Beratung- Wiki-Systeme Sandkrug 28 - 24143 Kiel (Germany) http://www.pfennigsolutions.de/ XING: https://www.xing.com/profile/Thilo_Pfennig - LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/tpfennig -- marketing-list mailing list

Re: Issuing a press release about GNOME 3

2008-07-20 Thread Thilo Pfennig
, Thilo -- Thilo Pfennig - PfennigSolutions IT-Beratung- Wiki-Systeme Sandkrug 28 - 24143 Kiel (Germany) http://www.pfennigsolutions.de/ XING: https://www.xing.com/profile/Thilo_Pfennig - LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/tpfennig -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http

Re: Issuing a press release about GNOME 3

2008-07-18 Thread Thilo Pfennig
to the developers two years late, sometimes. Only users who update often give feedback more often. Not sure how this could be implemented but I think is doable. Regards, Thilo -- Thilo Pfennig - PfennigSolutions IT-Beratung- Wiki-Systeme Sandkrug 28 - 24143 Kiel (Germany) http://www.pfennigsolutions.de

Re: Issuing a press release about GNOME 3

2008-07-18 Thread Thilo Pfennig
-- Thilo Pfennig - PfennigSolutions IT-Beratung- Wiki-Systeme Sandkrug 28 - 24143 Kiel (Germany) http://www.pfennigsolutions.de/ XING: https://www.xing.com/profile/Thilo_Pfennig - LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/tpfennig -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http

Re: Finding case studies in the wiki

2008-03-28 Thread Thilo Pfennig
. Thilo -- Thilo Pfennig - PfennigSolutions IT-Beratung- Wiki-Systeme Sandkrug 28 - 24143 Kiel (Germany) http://www.pfennigsolutions.de/ XING: https://www.xing.com/profile/Thilo_Pfennig - LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/tpfennig -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http

GNOME 2.22 and beyond

2008-03-14 Thread Thilo Pfennig
Hi, I take the opportunity of a new GNOME release to discuss some issues with marketing which are still present. Unfortunately the wiki content about marketing wasnt really updated since 2006, really. I have cleaned up some stuff on http://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing and below. I like to

Re: GNOME 2.22 and beyond

2008-03-14 Thread Thilo Pfennig
Am Fri, 14 Mar 2008 14:12:10 +0100 schrieb Thilo Pfennig [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/TargetMarkets and http://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/MarketSegmentation (sorry my mailer decided to send this too early) And also to think about what this means... I suggest

Re: About The GNOME Mobile Embedded Initative

2007-04-22 Thread Thilo Pfennig
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 the core desktop. The people doing embedded GUI are already captured

Re: About The GNOME Mobile Embedded Initative

2007-04-22 Thread Thilo Pfennig
- but this means I can not depend on GNOME. And this means that I am thinking about a switch. How should one depend on GNOME in the future? How is GNOME planning to answer the demands of an office enviroment? I have my doubts now. -- Thilo Pfennig http://issues.foresightlinux.org/confluence/x/R -- marketing

Re: About The GNOME Mobile Embedded Initative

2007-04-22 Thread Thilo Pfennig
Just want to ilet you know that I am leaving GNOME Marketing team now because I don't really think I fit into all this. This all just makes no sense to me any more. ciao, Thilo -- Thilo Pfennig http://issues.foresightlinux.org/confluence/x/R -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list

About The GNOME Mobile Embedded Initative

2007-04-21 Thread Thilo Pfennig
: At least we should discuss now what this really means for us now. And what it means for marketing GNOME. -- Thilo Pfennig http://issues.foresightlinux.org/confluence/x/R -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Re: redifining GNOME office.

2007-04-05 Thread Thilo Pfennig
ambitious. Thilo -- Thilo Pfennig http://issues.foresightlinux.org/confluence/x/R -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

redifining GNOME office.

2007-04-04 Thread Thilo Pfennig
still miss a presentation program. Would like to see some other opinions on this topic. Thilo -- Thilo Pfennig http://issues.foresightlinux.org/confluence/x/R -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Re: Signing off our target audience (was Re: Example of targetted release notes)

2007-03-26 Thread Thilo Pfennig
if this is all too random? Thilo -- Thilo Pfennig http://wiki.foresightlinux.com/confluence/display/~vinci/ -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Re: Request for a GNOME Live demo graphic

2007-03-19 Thread Thilo Pfennig
. Does Tango project maybe have a good icon to start with? I try to check on IRC. Thilo -- Thilo Pfennig http://wiki.foresightlinux.com/confluence/display/~vinci/ -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Re: Maybe help ease the pain of 2.20 release notes?

2007-03-18 Thread Thilo Pfennig
and how this might change we cant take that route now. So back to reality I would say we should do refactor the GnomeMarketing pages to reflect the current status and also move some content to archive pages. -- Thilo Pfennig http://wiki.foresightlinux.com/confluence/display/~vinci/ -- marketing

Re: Signing off our target audience (was Re: Example of targetted release notes)

2007-03-16 Thread Thilo Pfennig
. The 'centralistic' way has the effect that some things wont get done - or that some goals are set and will not be accomplished if nobody works on them. I rather like projects with a limited timeframe and clear goals. Thilo -- Thilo Pfennig http://wiki.foresightlinux.com/confluence/display/~vinci

Re: Maybe help ease the pain of 2.20 release notes?

2007-03-16 Thread Thilo Pfennig
of what you think should become better. Thilo -- Thilo Pfennig http://wiki.foresightlinux.com/confluence/display/~vinci/ -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Re: 2.18 slogan (was Re: request for a gnome bugday banner.)

2007-03-08 Thread Thilo Pfennig
a tagline for the release - thats Ok for me - but this should not be considered THE GNOME slogan. For a good slogan we should not collect random slogans but find a way how we get a good slogan. regards, Thilo -- Thilo Pfennig http://wiki.foresightlinux.com/confluence/display/~vinci

Urgent: GNOME Marketing PDFs Call for 2.18

2007-03-07 Thread Thilo Pfennig
there. Ideally this would enable us to remix new nice PDFs. Your time would be greatly appreciated. Thilo -- Thilo Pfennig http://wiki.foresightlinux.com/confluence/display/~vinci/ -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Re: Working Draft

2007-03-06 Thread Thilo Pfennig
document viewer Ah and I thought that was a history function, So it really is a revision function? History for me is what you find in a browsers history menu (open recent documents). On the rest I do agree. Regards, Thilo -- Thilo Pfennig http://wiki.foresightlinux.com/confluence/display

Re: wgo/get_involved/spread_gnome

2007-02-25 Thread Thilo Pfennig
that the wiki and the entry page http://live.gnome.org/JoinGnome should also be linked as a ressource. -- Thilo Pfennig http://wiki.foresightlinux.com/confluence/display/~vinci/ -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Suggestion. GNOME Feedback Form

2007-02-22 Thread Thilo Pfennig
I suggest that we put a feedback from on the homepage www.gnome.org. The feedbacks should be analyzed autoamtically. So some data should be mutliple choice. I would put questions in like: * How did you hear about GNOME? * Do you use more than one computer? * What version of GNOME are you

need help with gnome-projects gnome-products

2007-02-22 Thread Thilo Pfennig
. -- Thilo Pfennig http://wiki.foresightlinux.com/confluence/display/~vinci/ -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Re: GNOME Project Organogram

2007-02-14 Thread Thilo Pfennig
On 2/11/07, Quim Gil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, while GNOME is Code the community is realizing that GNOME is People (yes, that meme) as well. I would draw perhaps a bi-polar structure with the release team developers in one side, and the board membership of the GNOME Foundation in

Re: Fwd: How do we want to do GNOME Marketing?

2006-12-25 Thread Thilo Pfennig
On 12/24/06, Joachim Noreiko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Thilo Pfennig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When a user boots Ubuntu, they see the Ubuntu splash, the Ubuntu desktop background, and the Ubuntu logo on the panel. And that's as it should be -- otherwise, they'd say 'Hey, I put in an Ubuntu

Re: How do we want to do GNOME Marketing?

2006-12-23 Thread Thilo Pfennig
On 12/23/06, Quim Gil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Following these 3 steps we may start building a successful 10x10 MT plan for 2007. Well maybe a bit too much simplification. Maybe we do not list so much - but still there is always much todo - and just reducing tasks will not make things better -

Bugzilla or RT for Marketing list?

2006-12-20 Thread Thilo Pfennig
I thought maybe marketing team should also have a queue in RequestTracker (http://live.gnome.org/Sysadmin/RequestTracker )? Currently we work on the wiki pages, but I think to coordinate it would also would help us to put our tasks also in systems that are used in GNOME, also to make the work ouf

How do we want to do GNOME Marketing?

2006-12-17 Thread Thilo Pfennig
Hi, I have scanned our mailing list archive and found out that WGO revamp had taken much of our energy, while discussion about how we should do marketing were rare. You can many nice ideas in http://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing, but the question is not only what target markets we have

pointer for our artists

2006-11-13 Thread Thilo Pfennig
For our free artists I have seen a nice article on how to make money with free art that i want so share: http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/blogs/making_money_on_free_art Thilo -- Blog: http://vinci.wordpress.com Linked In: http://www.linkedin.com/in/tpfennig -- marketing-list mailing list

Suggest new section for GnomeJournal: Featured Application

2006-11-01 Thread Thilo Pfennig
I think as well as we do show users who is working behind the scenes it might also be interesting to have an article to one application. This application should be either: * most talked about * be very popular * or relevant from another perspective I think gnomefiles.org might be a help in

Re: GNOME Logo Branding Guidelines Concerns

2006-10-31 Thread Thilo Pfennig
2006/10/30, Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED]: It is probably worth strongly encouraging that local teams (whether based on region or language, because there will be / are both kinds) avoid any flags where possible. We can ask teams to consider other concepts before accepting the design. So I

Re: GNOME Logo Branding Guidelines Concerns

2006-10-31 Thread Thilo Pfennig
2006/10/29, Quim Gil [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Thilo, nothing personal but I disagree again. ;) I just want to have this clear, so that we can move forward. And I think if we have made this point clear, many regional sites can do the same and we can link to a consensus (should then be in the wiki). I

Re: community.gnome.org

2006-10-31 Thread Thilo Pfennig
2006/10/31, Quim Gil [EMAIL PROTECTED]: About the regional sites, what about the following: - They will be listed altogether in a page under /About - They will be accessible from a special block in their localized wgo i.e. gnome.de linked in a block in the German version of wgo. This would

Re: The wgo CMS can't wait more

2006-10-25 Thread Thilo Pfennig
2006/10/25, Andy Fitzsimon [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Drupal it is ! ;-) Sorry, I'm a sucker for it as its the easiest to custom-theme. Thoughts ? I like Drupal, too. I find it quiet handy and easy because everything makes sense. My other experiences with CMS are mainly XOOPS (which i think is much

Re: The wgo CMS can't wait more

2006-10-25 Thread Thilo Pfennig
2006/10/25, Quim Gil [EMAIL PROTECTED]: As a matter of fact I think we can get a decent wgo with the 5 tools, in an ideal world with no time constraints and a good team of savvy CMS hackers. But we need to end up with one tool, the one that brings the best results with the minimum headaches

Re: [Fwd: GnomeWeb 2.18 goals]

2006-10-23 Thread Thilo Pfennig
2006/10/23, Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Surely a completely different domain is even worse than a subdomain? The content already exists there, working URLs, etc. Why move it? I think a very strong argument pro keeping a website not beeing a subsite of .gnome.org is that people already have

Re: [Fwd: GnomeWeb 2.18 goals]

2006-10-22 Thread Thilo Pfennig
2006/10/23, Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have to send the fighting subdomain disease email in response to this. What is all this stuff? Why does it need a subdomain? I had similar feelings. I think a subdomain can be ok, but too much of this can be confusing. Thilo Blog:

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

2006-10-21 Thread Thilo Pfennig
( I also reply to freedesktop) 2006/10/19, Quim Gil [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Can we borrow the Just Works! (tm) slogan? Actually I don't think that such slogans are a good idea. I think Windows, Mac, Intel and AOL already go that line that THEY enable the user to do cool things. I really think that

Re: Wow - look at the KDE news volume

2006-10-19 Thread Thilo Pfennig
2006/9/26, Dave Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The lesson, it appears to me, is that we should be looking for ways to have community news sources on news.google.com. No? Yes, I think this is it. The problem with gnomedesktop.org is I think that they do very few original reporting, they mostly cite

gnome.eu-Domain

2006-10-07 Thread Thilo Pfennig
Hi, is just looked after gnome.eu-Domain (that means European Union/Community) and found: http://www.gnome.eu/ owned by: Gnome Ltd. Gnome spol. s r. o., Mlynská dolina, 842 48 Bratislava, Slovakia my question is: How far are name rights for GNOME going inside EU? Should we have another domain

GNOME group in SecondLife

2006-03-06 Thread Thilo Pfennig
Hi, as there is also a Linux client for SecondLife (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SecondLife) I decided to try it out and also created a group for GNOME users. I would like to invite anybody interested in GNOME promotion to maybe use this opportunity to meet in a virtual environment. I would

Re: Gnome Idea Pool maybe??

2006-02-25 Thread Thilo Pfennig
2006/2/25, Javier Aravena C. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: There's been a lot of talk about what a marketing team should be like but we really haven't done a lot. The list have done some stuff, but that clearly doesn't clarify as a lot. there was people saying that marketing was about knowing what the

marketing Free Desktop

2006-01-06 Thread Thilo Pfennig
(this one goes to gnome-marketing and kde-promo) I have thougth about marketing GNOME for some time and came to this conclusion: We do not want to sell GNOME and we don't want to fight against KDE. So there is only one solution. We must market FreeDesktop instead! I would suggest to market GNOME

Re: GNOME en P2P networks

2005-12-23 Thread Thilo Pfennig
I overlooked the other then phrase. sorry. Surely Bittorent is the protocol which is mostly used for illegal movie downloads. i don't really see how a protocol can be illegal if it is not. -- http://www.pfennigsolutions.de -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org

Re: response to linus...?

2005-12-22 Thread Thilo Pfennig
I would prefer if we just work on that problem. I have documented some stuff. Personally I think the feedback of Till is much more constructive. I had created a wiki page in October, because I also think that printing is an important topic that needs to be fixed:

Re: real marketing or just catchy slogans?

2005-12-17 Thread Thilo Pfennig
2005/12/15, Santiago Roza [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 12/14/05, Thilo Pfennig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So GNOME is Ubuntu and/or Fedora Core. no, it's a desktop environment, which currently exists by default in ubuntu and fedora core (amongst other minor distros). Well, don't you think

Re: real marketing or just catchy slogans?

2005-12-09 Thread Thilo Pfennig
Hi, to Santiago Roza: I absolutely subscribe what you write. Actually I was writing a similar criticism.. about market segmentation.odt: I do not think that the approach is the right one, that is taken in there. This is a very product orientated model. And I think that is should nit be the

GNOME-Windows-CD

2005-12-09 Thread Thilo Pfennig
Hi, is there allready a GNOME Windows-CD? I think this should have: 1. provide our best GNOME tools, GNOME destop images 2. maybe also a solution with Cygwin to run GNOME alternatively 3. Maybe a GNOME installer that wipes out Windows or has the ability to save the existing documents to a

Re: Some findings

2005-10-10 Thread Thilo Pfennig
to use a search engine to get the information they want? ok, there are many people who use Google as a replacement for bookmarks now, but I am not sure how to calculate with that. It would be interesting to have some studies about search engine usage for that. -- Thilo Pfennig Alternativ.Net

multilanguage support

2005-09-24 Thread Thilo Pfennig
Am Dienstag, den 13.09.2005, 20:04 +1000 schrieb Hugh Buzacott: I am still pushing for a new GNOME.org so I created a mock-up. The mock-up is at http://www.geocities.com/bzctt/ and is only a front page but has links to the rest of normal GNOME.org through the header. It is just a

Re: Wiki best practices

2005-07-26 Thread Thilo Pfennig
for the real enlightenment I would *strongly* suggest to dive into the primal wiki at: http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki . It's very funny but also full of WikiWisdom! some interesting pages are: http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiGnome http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiSingleWordProblem

Re: [Usability] Re: Workspaces

2005-07-17 Thread Thilo Pfennig
Am Samstag, den 16.07.2005, 13:15 -0500 schrieb David Zulaica: This sounds more and more like you're saying GNOME should default to a kiosk mode or turning the computer into an appliance. I'm not too keen on that. There are an infinite number of things that a user can do with their

What are our goals? (was: Re: [Fwd: Re: New supporter] )

2005-07-06 Thread Thilo Pfennig
Besides the 10x10. What are our goals. With we i mean supporters/developers and users? I would say: make the best Desktop available. Be better than the others. Do we have a concrete audience? Why are we using GNOME instead of X,Y,Z? As a user I also would say: If there would be a better desktop

Re: Any ideas on new gnome.org splash?

2005-07-01 Thread Thilo Pfennig
Am Donnerstag, den 30.06.2005, 19:52 -0500 schrieb David Moreno Garza: The heart is very, very nice. but I have a problem with the question. It sounds like GNOME is used rarely. It would be better if it sounds like the user certainly gives GNOME his/her love. Thilo -- this content is