Re: GNOME - Gnome

2010-04-07 Thread Claus Schwarm
On Tue, 2010-04-06 at 08:50 -0700, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: Our brand recognition seems to be mostly within the FOSS group. People really don't know GNOME they know Ubuntu/Fedora/SuSE etc but they don't really know the software that runs their desktop. There is no recognizable branding in

Re: GNOME - Gnome

2010-04-07 Thread Claus Schwarm
On Tue, 2010-04-06 at 18:28 +0200, Dave Neary wrote: Hi Andre, Andre Klapper wrote: Am Dienstag, den 06.04.2010, 08:08 -0500 schrieb Bharat Kapoor: At least now I know what GNOME is an acronym for :) The talk is about name or rename (if our mission is consistent with) GNU Network

Re: GNOME - Gnome

2010-04-07 Thread Murray Cumming
On Tue, 2010-04-06 at 18:28 +0200, Dave Neary wrote: Once again: GNOME WAS an acronym. GNOME is NOT anymore an acronym. GNOME stands for GNOME nowadays. Only. That's all. Except, that's not a good answer. If that's the case, then GNOME can be Gnome or gnome or GnoMe or whatever. All

Re: GNOME - Gnome

2010-04-07 Thread Hylke Bons
Yes. I also think its time to start calling it Gnome. You can call it whatever you want. Hylke -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Re: GNOME - Gnome

2010-04-06 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Hylke Bons wrote: I am very much against this. Gnome reminds of the the imaginary tiny creatures. I agree with Hylke. GNOME is better than Gnome. Something completely different might be better again... we don't have a huge amount of brand equity worldwide for GNOME, perhaps it's time

Re: GNOME - Gnome

2010-04-06 Thread Bharat Kapoor
Hi Guys At least now I know what GNOME is an acronym for :) - thanks Hylke. I am working on our mobile fund raising plan and many a times the question came up: Who are we? Why are we in this business? What's our grand vision? At least I could not find a consistent answer (I think I understand the

Re: GNOME - Gnome

2010-04-06 Thread Sven Herzberg
GNOME = Gnome needs to be rushed in… Regards, Sven -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Re: GNOME - Gnome

2010-04-06 Thread Andre Klapper
Am Dienstag, den 06.04.2010, 08:08 -0500 schrieb Bharat Kapoor: At least now I know what GNOME is an acronym for :) The talk is about name or rename (if our mission is consistent with) GNU Network Object Model Environment Once again: GNOME WAS an acronym. GNOME is NOT anymore an acronym. GNOME

Re: GNOME - Gnome

2010-04-06 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 8:21 AM, Sven Herzberg he...@gnome-de.org wrote: Am Freitag, den 02.04.2010, 12:19 -0600 schrieb Jason D. Clinton: If we're going to do this, 3.0 seems like the perfect opportunity. I think that we should decide how we feel as the Marketing Team leading up to the

Re: GNOME - Gnome

2010-04-06 Thread Stormy Peters
I would prefer Gnome to GNOME but not enough to push for it now. Perhaps we could come up with new words for the acronym. You'd be surprised how often I get asked what it stands for. GNOME So it was: GNU Network Object Model Environment What could it be? (I personally can't think of anything

Re: GNOME - Gnome

2010-04-06 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Something completely different might be better again... we don't have a huge amount of brand equity worldwide for GNOME, perhaps it's time to consider a rename? Although I can live with GNOME... Our brand recognition seems to be mostly within the FOSS group. People really don't know GNOME

Re: GNOME - Gnome

2010-04-06 Thread Nelson Marques
+1 I've mailed something only to Dave by mistake regarding some of the dangers of Re-Branding. Dave, feel free to forward to list, as it was my mistake on not hitting reply all. I pointed before also to Dave the following: * If GNOME is expecting some negative feedback on GNOME 3.0,

Re: GNOME - Gnome

2010-04-06 Thread Dave Neary
Hi Andre, Andre Klapper wrote: Am Dienstag, den 06.04.2010, 08:08 -0500 schrieb Bharat Kapoor: At least now I know what GNOME is an acronym for :) The talk is about name or rename (if our mission is consistent with) GNU Network Object Model Environment Once again: GNOME WAS an acronym.

Re: GNOME - Gnome

2010-04-06 Thread Diego Escalante Urrelo
El mar, 06-04-2010 a las 18:28 +0200, Dave Neary escribió: Hi Andre, Andre Klapper wrote: Am Dienstag, den 06.04.2010, 08:08 -0500 schrieb Bharat Kapoor: At least now I know what GNOME is an acronym for :) The talk is about name or rename (if our mission is consistent with) GNU Network

Re: GNOME - Gnome

2010-04-06 Thread Nelson Marques
people will ask what it stands for. And if you answer it doesn't stand for anything, the most likely answer is that's stupid. Once more I failed on reply-all. Trademark establishes the image of the brand, so: GNOME != gnome GNOME != gNoMe GNOME != Gnome ... plus variations you can imagine

Re: GNOME - Gnome

2010-04-06 Thread Andre Klapper
Am Dienstag, den 06.04.2010, 18:05 +0100 schrieb Nelson Marques: I don't know if someone who has legal knowledge of this can support or enlighten people. http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/legal-list ? :-) andre -- mailto:ak...@gmx.net | failed http://www.iomc.de/ |

Re: GNOME - Gnome

2010-04-06 Thread Juanjo Marin
On Tue, 2010-04-06 at 11:35 +0200, Dave Neary wrote: Hi, Hylke Bons wrote: I am very much against this. Gnome reminds of the the imaginary tiny creatures. I agree with Hylke. GNOME is better than Gnome. My opinion on this is that GNOME is better that Gnome because we are used

Re: GNOME - Gnome

2010-04-06 Thread Juanjo Marin
On Tue, 2010-04-06 at 08:08 -0500, Bharat Kapoor wrote: Hi Guys I am working on our mobile fund raising plan and many a times the question came up: Who are we? Why are we in this business? What's our grand vision? At least I could not find a consistent answer (I think I understand the

Re: GNOME - Gnome

2010-04-06 Thread Andre Klapper
Am Dienstag, den 06.04.2010, 23:48 +0200 schrieb Juanjo Marin: BTW, as far as I know, the GNOME uses Trebuchet MS [1] (correct me if I'm wrong) and I think it is time to change it. Wrong, see http://live.gnome.org/BrandGuidelines ... andre [PS: Please do not CC me. I am subscribed to this

Re: GNOME - Gnome

2010-04-06 Thread Juanjo Marin
On Wed, 2010-04-07 at 00:20 +0200, Andre Klapper wrote: BTW, as far as I know, the GNOME uses Trebuchet MS [1] (correct me if I'm wrong) and I think it is time to change it. Wrong, see http://live.gnome.org/BrandGuidelines ... OK, then it is OK for me. It resembles so much the MS Trebuchet

GNOME - Gnome

2010-04-02 Thread Jason D. Clinton
At the November hackfest, we briefly discussed and were all enthusiastically in support of changing the case of GNOME branding from GNOME to Gnome. I have floated this idea with others over the past few months and haven't gotten any negative feedback. What about others? Have you discussed this

Re: GNOME - Gnome

2010-04-02 Thread Hylke Bons
Hi, I am very much against this. Gnome reminds of the the imaginary tiny creatures. At least you can see GNOME is an acronym, and you can guess it doesn't have anything to do with those. If the argument is that the acronym isn't appropriate anymore, I suggest finding a new a new one. Also Gnome

Re: GNOME - Gnome

2010-04-02 Thread Hylke Bons
On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 11:38 PM, Alex Launi alex.la...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 6:27 PM, Hylke Bons hylkeb...@gmail.com wrote: Gnome reminds of the the imaginary tiny creatures. So what? Gnomes are adorable, intelligent creatures. They believe in strong communities, and wear