Urgent - 3.2 Press Release

2011-09-14 Thread Allan Day
Hi all, The release notes seem to be progressing well, but no one seems to have stepped forward to do the press release. This really needs taking care of. (I'd do it but I'm totally swamped with other things at the moment, unfortunately...) It isn't a massive job and there are some talking points

Re: Urgent - 3.2 Press Release

2011-09-14 Thread Karen Sandler
On Wed, September 14, 2011 4:44 am, Allan Day wrote: > Hi all, > > The release notes seem to be progressing well, but no one seems to > have stepped forward to do the press release. This really needs taking > care of. (I'd do it but I'm totally swamped with other things at the > moment, unfortunate

Re: Urgent - 3.2 Press Release

2011-09-14 Thread Allan Day
Hi Karen, On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 3:29 PM, Karen Sandler wrote: > On Wed, September 14, 2011 4:44 am, Allan Day wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> The release notes seem to be progressing well, but no one seems to >> have stepped forward to do the press release. This really needs taking >> care of. (I'd do

Re: Urgent - 3.2 Press Release

2011-09-14 Thread Karen Sandler
On Wed, September 14, 2011 10:43 am, Allan Day wrote: > Hi Karen, > > On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 3:29 PM, Karen Sandler wrote: >> On Wed, September 14, 2011 4:44 am, Allan Day wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> The release notes seem to be progressing well, but no one seems to >>> have stepped forward to do

Re: Urgent - 3.2 Press Release

2011-09-25 Thread Karen Sandler
Hi all, As we're getting close, here's the draft of a press release. I'm still waiting on one of the quotes and hopefully I'll get that tomorrow and send it on (I left a FIXME in there for now). Please improve this draft! :) I think in particular we probably need a transition sentence for Jim Whi

Re: Urgent - 3.2 Press Release

2011-09-26 Thread Andreas Nilsson
Looks good in general, a couple of small remarks. On 09/26/2011 06:50 AM, Karen Sandler wrote: I think in particular we probably need a transition sentence for Jim Whitehurst's quote. Also, I switched between GNOME 3 and 3.0 as I thought the context required - is this the way to go? Makes sens

Re: Urgent - 3.2 Press Release

2011-09-26 Thread pec...@gmail.com
> > As in trying by building the tarballs? > I don't think we have live-cd's this time around. Someone can use F16 newest nighties Live CD as example, it works like charm and biggest bugs are ironed out by now. Just download one nighty, test as on much boxes as you can, rename it to GNOME-3.2-Fedo

Re: Urgent - 3.2 Press Release

2011-09-27 Thread Karen Sandler
Here's a new draft of the press release, with the new quote and revised to hopefully address the comments from Andreas. Any other comments? Also, will someone volunteer to make sure this gets posted to all the right places tomorrow? thanks! karen GNOME3 Improved and Refined with the Release of

Re: Urgent - 3.2 Press Release

2011-09-27 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 02:46:02PM +0200, Andreas Nilsson wrote: > As in trying by building the tarballs? > I don't think we have live-cd's this time around. Plan is to have them. Suggest *not* to advertise tarballs. We don't in the release-notes. -- Regards, Olav -- marketing-list mailing list

Re: Urgent - 3.2 Press Release

2011-09-27 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 12:26:46PM -0400, Karen Sandler wrote: > "I'd like to offer my congratulations to GNOME team for their 3.2 > release," said Rick Spencer, Director of Engineering, Ubuntu, at > Canonical. "Coming on the heals of the groundbreaking 3.0 release, 3.2 > continues to offer innovat

Re: Urgent - 3.2 Press Release

2011-09-27 Thread Allan Day
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 6:00 PM, Olav Vitters wrote: > On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 02:46:02PM +0200, Andreas Nilsson wrote: >> As in trying by building the tarballs? >> I don't think we have live-cd's this time around. > > Plan is to have them. Suggest *not* to advertise tarballs. We don't in > the re

Re: Urgent - 3.2 Press Release

2011-09-27 Thread Karen Sandler
On Tue, September 27, 2011 1:07 pm, Olav Vitters wrote: > On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 12:26:46PM -0400, Karen Sandler wrote: >> "I'd like to offer my congratulations to GNOME team for their 3.2 >> release," said Rick Spencer, Director of Engineering, Ubuntu, at >> Canonical. "Coming on the heals of the

Re: Urgent - 3.2 Press Release

2011-09-27 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 01:22:38PM -0400, Karen Sandler wrote: > On Tue, September 27, 2011 1:07 pm, Olav Vitters wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 12:26:46PM -0400, Karen Sandler wrote: > >> "I'd like to offer my congratulations to GNOME team for their 3.2 > >> release," said Rick Spencer, Direct

Re: Urgent - 3.2 Press Release

2011-09-27 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 06:10:41PM +0100, Allan Day wrote: > The 3.0 release notes had a section on how to get the release. Might be > useful: I replaced it in 3.2 with: | To install or upgrade your machine to GNOME 3.2, we recommend you | install the official packages provided by your vendor or

Re: Urgent - 3.2 Press Release

2011-09-27 Thread Juanjo Marín
On Mar, 27 de Septiembre de 2011, 8:30 pm, Olav Vitters dijo: > On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 01:22:38PM -0400, Karen Sandler wrote: >> On Tue, September 27, 2011 1:07 pm, Olav Vitters wrote: >> > On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 12:26:46PM -0400, Karen Sandler wrote: >> >> "I'd like to offer my congratulation

Re: Urgent - 3.2 Press Release

2011-09-27 Thread Juan José Marín Martínez
On Mar, 27 de Septiembre de 2011, 8:30 pm, Olav Vitters dijo: > On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 01:22:38PM -0400, Karen Sandler wrote: >> On Tue, September 27, 2011 1:07 pm, Olav Vitters wrote: >> > On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 12:26:46PM -0400, Karen Sandler wrote: >> >> "I'd like to offer my congratulations

Re: Urgent - 3.2 Press Release

2011-09-28 Thread Juanjo Marin
El mié, 28-09-2011 a las 00:18 +0200, Juan José Marín Martínez escribió: > > On Mar, 27 de Septiembre de 2011, 8:30 pm, Olav Vitters dijo: > > On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 01:22:38PM -0400, Karen Sandler wrote: > >> On Tue, September 27, 2011 1:07 pm, Olav Vitters wrote: > >> > On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at

Re: Urgent - 3.2 Press Release

2011-09-28 Thread Karen Sandler
On Wed, September 28, 2011 9:13 am, Juanjo Marin wrote: > > Juan Conde, Chief Free Software Officer at the Junta de Andalucía: > > "Guadalinex has been relying on GNOME since its very inception. We > currently have 600.000 desktops deployed in publicly-funded schools, > and are now working in a n

Re: Urgent - 3.2 Press Release

2011-09-28 Thread Olav Vitters
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 09:41:14AM -0400, Karen Sandler wrote: > great, thanks! I've added it to the press release, which is now a draft > post on the website, waiting to be published. Please publish *now* :-) -- Regards, Olav -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.

Re: Urgent - 3.2 Press Release

2011-09-28 Thread Karen Sandler
On Wed, September 28, 2011 2:49 pm, Olav Vitters wrote: > On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 09:41:14AM -0400, Karen Sandler wrote: >> great, thanks! I've added it to the press release, which is now a draft >> post on the website, waiting to be published. > > Please publish *now* :-) done! :) karen -- mar

Re: Urgent - 3.2 Press Release

2011-09-28 Thread Olav Vitters
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 03:25:08PM -0400, Karen Sandler wrote: > done! :) Thanks!! PS: someone noticed a wrong link to friends-of-gnome, so I corrected that (link pointed to "../friends/" instead of "/friends/"). -- Regards, Olav -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://m