Re: GNOME store

2006-10-29 Thread Dave Neary
) and is about to introduce the credit card / paypal details. It's very easy for her to add a small donation at that point. Sending her to a different web page with a different form to make the donation implies that we are probably to loose that donation. Good idea. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary

Re: GNOME store

2006-10-30 Thread Dave Neary
it or not. If they decide to print it for the store, great. For special edition t-shirts, I think the situation is different. They're not going to be available in the online store. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman

Re: How do we want to do GNOME Marketing?

2006-12-18 Thread Dave Neary
. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Re: How do we want to do GNOME Marketing?

2006-12-18 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Joachim Noreiko wrote: --- Dave Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Example: module maintainer 1 is working on abstracting away some aspect (functionality X) of his module behind a library. ... That's going to be too technical for some members the marketing team. We're a pretty technical

Re: Requesting Approval of Release notes general structure

2007-02-15 Thread Dave Neary
with the inverted pyramid point. I don't think that what you did for 2.16 is incompatible with what Gervais proposed, though. And I think it's reasonable to have a short section describing GNOME to first-timers in every release notes. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member [EMAIL

Re: Requesting Approval of Release notes general structure

2007-02-15 Thread Dave Neary
are discussed on merit, and people aren't interested in just defending their piece of turf ;-) Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Marketing promotion - Cheat sheets, LiveCDs, community calendar

2007-02-19 Thread Dave Neary
LUG, or by manning the GNOME stand at your local expo. So - hands up, who wants to take on these tasks? Who would like to suggest others? Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Re: Marketing promotion - Cheat sheets, LiveCDs, community calendar

2007-02-20 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Dave Neary wrote: * LiveCD: I think that's a great idea. I've been reading through the documentation for customizing an Ubuntu LiveCD at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCDCustomization/6%2e06 -- I'm going to need some help on this one. http

Re: Marketing promotion - Cheat sheets, LiveCDs, community calendar

2007-02-20 Thread Dave Neary
on windows. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Re: North America Event Box needed for Eclipse Con on March 5-7th

2007-02-21 Thread Dave Neary
have to do anything else to request the box. We'll let you know ASAP about the box. In the meantime, can you send in a name address for a recipient for the box, please? Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org

Re: North America Event Box needed for Eclipse Con on March 5-7th

2007-02-21 Thread Dave Neary
. +1 get my vote. +1 too. +1. One more needded. Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Re: Suggestion. GNOME Feedback Form

2007-02-22 Thread Dave Neary
questions answered before it'll get done. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Re: Marketing promotion - Cheat sheets, LiveCDs, community calendar

2007-02-23 Thread Dave Neary
images, and maybe xen images over the weekend. rBuilder does make that easy for us :) If Luis is about, perhaps he can help get you set up with torrent.gnome.org so that we can start getting those out there. Luis, are you about? Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list

Re: LiveCD Help

2007-02-26 Thread Dave Neary
. And Ken is recommending rbuilder, but I'm unfamiliar with this all. If you can identify the specific blocking point, perhaps it'll be easier to help you get up to the next plateau. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list

Re: Marketing promotion - Cheat sheets, LiveCDs, community calendar

2007-03-02 Thread Dave Neary
=2.9.3-2-0.1 I think I see some other reasons why you managed to get it so small - I like some of the choices you made ;) Although it does mean we have nothing that can read .ppt files on the image, or a simple POP client. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing

Re: Webbadges

2007-03-04 Thread Dave Neary
, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Re: Gnome Logo and Guadec Logo Fonts

2007-03-05 Thread Dave Neary
and other documents. (may be this one breaks branding policies). I cannot remember more right now, may be more after some sleep. BTW I would like to dedicate this job to Quim Gil and Vincent Untz for their good job at GUADEC and GNOME Art. Cheers, -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member

Re: GUADEC: 7 actions to get you started in GNOME marketing

2007-03-12 Thread Dave Neary
still need to agree in order to have a common strategy. This might interest you - it's the slides to my Marketing GNOME talk at FOSDEM. I didn't have a huge amount of time to prepare them, but it might be aligned with your 7 actions presentation. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation

Re: GUADEC: 7 actions to get you started in GNOME marketing

2007-03-14 Thread Dave Neary
- not exactly a negligible overhead :) Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Example of targetted release notes

2007-03-15 Thread Dave Neary
(that is, ISDs, hobbyists, public administrations)? And what did GNOME 2.18 do to address those problems? How about GNOME 2.20? Do we have a concrete idea of the things that need to be made easier? Cheers -- Dave Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http

Maybe help ease the pain of 2.20 release notes?

2007-03-15 Thread Dave Neary
Designing release notes: the Fedora experience: http://www.redhat.com/magazine/019may06/features/documentation_design/ Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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?

2007-03-16 Thread Dave Neary
to have strong stakes in this, so what do you recommend? On 3/15/07, *Joachim* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/15/07, *Dave Neary* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Designing release notes: the Fedora experience: http

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

2007-03-16 Thread Dave Neary
worldwide. I would like to have a list of those presentations. Is that enough to get started? Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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?

2007-03-16 Thread Dave Neary
which makes a big leap forward for anyone. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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?

2007-03-16 Thread Dave Neary
or whatever. Any thoughts on managing that way? That fits how I see things exactly. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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 Dave Neary
to people inside outside the project to actually change the project and get more advocates. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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 Dave Neary
Joachim wrote: On 3/26/07, *Dave Neary* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thilo Pfennig wrote: So I like to suggest that we talk about who we are. Can we not, please? There is so much easy obvious stuff (which I think we can all agree on) to do

Re: Does anyone have more news on this ?

2007-04-05 Thread Dave Neary
want to know? I can certainly get more info. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Re: Fwd: .org Pavilion Call for Papers Now Open

2007-04-12 Thread Dave Neary
are the main contacts for LinuxTag, etc. It's not a good idea for the board to take on this role long-term, and it will be much higher value to encourage the creation of a US user group (or even user groups by region). Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing

Re: Fwd: .org Pavilion Call for Papers Now Open

2007-04-12 Thread Dave Neary
, Billy Briggs, Ben Konrath, Sri Ramkrishna, and I'm sure I am missing several other obvious names too. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Re: GNOME groups in USA

2007-04-16 Thread Dave Neary
the big tent, aren't they? Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Re: Does anyone have more news on this ?

2007-04-18 Thread Dave Neary
-- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Re: LWE stand organisation

2007-04-19 Thread Dave Neary
- not today, though. Note, though, that LWE is a wounded beast, AFAICT; floor traffic was down substantially during the second year in Boston, and I imagine the same is true in San Fran. So my numbers may not be as valid anymore. Luis -- Dave Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Starting Chicago Gnome User Group

2007-04-23 Thread Dave Neary
help. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Re: Starting Chicago Gnome User Group

2007-04-23 Thread Dave Neary
already? There's OLS, of course, but I'm sure there are conferences in Michigan and Illinois as well. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Re: About The GNOME Mobile Embedded Initative

2007-04-23 Thread Dave Neary
. There's nothing stopping us from moving into 2nd gear on that, and starting work on that feedback loop. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Re: About The GNOME Mobile Embedded Initative

2007-04-23 Thread Dave Neary
members of the team when we propose a direction for the project. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Re: Starting Chicago Gnome User Group

2007-04-23 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Patrick Wagstrom wrote: Dave Neary wrote: Great! There's also a biggish GNOME presence elsewhere in the mid-west, in Ohio and Michigan. You might consider widening the scope a little (or is that too wide of a scope? From where I am, distance between US cities is measured in centimeters

Re: Starting Chicago Gnome User Group

2007-04-23 Thread Dave Neary
. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Re: Starting Chicago Gnome User Group

2007-04-23 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 09:41:56AM +0200, Dave Neary wrote: Aren't there conferences in the mid-west already? There's OLS, of course, but I'm sure there are conferences in Michigan and Illinois as well. I think OLS is in Canada right? I was thinking

Re: Starting Chicago Gnome User Group

2007-04-24 Thread Dave Neary
of GNOME links, built up over the last year or two: http://del.icio.us/bolsh/gnome Unfortunately, I've been inconsistent in my use of tags, so a lot of those are news items, some are for events, some are blog entries, ... Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Re-inventing the GNOME Marketing team

2007-04-24 Thread Dave Neary
responsibility for doing that. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Re: [guadec-list] Linux Magazine Guadec ad

2007-04-27 Thread Dave Neary
form or not. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Re: [guadec-list] Linux Magazine Guadec ad

2007-04-27 Thread Dave Neary
mentions of money in the ad - it may be an interesting thought experiment, but you don't want to give the impression we're doing features for money. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org

Re: Thai GNOME User Group

2007-06-05 Thread Dave Neary
have any events you're organising let us know here and/or on the gugmasters list, and I'll add them to the GNOME Community Calendar. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [gugmasters] Chicago Gnome User Group First Meeting

2007-06-12 Thread Dave Neary
hope to see you there, Kevin Harriss -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Re: Joint GNOME and KDE statement out of DAM

2007-06-15 Thread Dave Neary
of interfaces for Desktop Services Anyone object? Go for it. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Re: merchandising GNOME

2007-07-17 Thread Dave Neary
is needed to get to that stage. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Re: A Meeting with a Mission

2007-08-06 Thread Dave Neary
-- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Re: A Meeting with a Mission

2007-08-06 Thread Dave Neary
to keep the board informed regularly, and of course, when we get to the business end of things, ask the board to approve any agreements and sign any contracts. Beyond that, I don't see trademark issues being that important. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: A Meeting with a Mission

2007-08-06 Thread Dave Neary
without asking our permission. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Re: Are their GNOME based applications for Point of Sale terminals ?

2007-08-23 Thread Dave Neary
. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Re: Press release for 2.20?

2007-09-04 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Murray Cumming wrote: I still don't see one apart from the usual many usability improvements. 10 years of GNOME. 10 GNOME 2.x releases in 5 years? It's a nit, feel free to slap me... 2.0, 2.2, 2.4, ..., 2.20 = 11 releases in 5 years. 2.0 came out in June 2002. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave

Re: Press release for 2.20?

2007-09-07 Thread Dave Neary
, they say. I say feed the nitpickers :) Something more general and user-centric is probably appropriate. I liked Quim's ideas about open access. Although IBM's announcement that they're pulling out of GNOME isn't a help... Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: French ministry goes opensource

2007-09-10 Thread Dave Neary
, said Michel Affre, IT systems manager at the French Ministry for Education. - GNOME ? :) Given that they're servers, suggesting that they're GNOME desktops would be a bit rick, I think... they likely are, but they're likely racked, and rarely in graphical mode. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME

Re: Press release for 2.20?

2007-09-12 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Lucas Rocha wrote: Any decision on that? If a decision is needed to get the ball rolling... 2007/9/7, Dave Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Murray Cumming wrote: Something more general and user-centric is probably appropriate. I liked Quim's ideas about open access. Although IBM's

GNOME demo storyboards

2007-10-02 Thread Dave Neary
. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Re: [Fwd: Re: gnome 2.21 schedule.]

2007-10-03 Thread Dave Neary
reason. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Re: [gugmasters] GNOME demo storyboards

2007-10-03 Thread Dave Neary
Dave Neary wrote: It's a start - feedback ideas welcome. If people think it's worthwhile, we can get the basic storyboards started in the Wiki, and start filling out some demos - functionality to show, prerequisites, and then plan the running of the demo. I'll take that as a yes

Re: Logos on GUADEC badges/buttons

2007-10-31 Thread Dave Neary
you think it is a good thing to do ? Absolutely! Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Re: Logos on GUADEC badges/buttons

2007-11-07 Thread Dave Neary
format, is here: http://www.viralata.net/gnome/promotion/source/ It is worth bringing these files into the wiki as attachments, since external links can disappear. I was sure I had done this already, but cannot find the files now. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Promoting events in South America

2007-11-07 Thread Dave Neary
should know about this. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Re: Candidate names for Gnome Asia Event in Beijing

2007-11-19 Thread Dave Neary
ring my bell at all. The Beijing Summit would work if it's going to be annual, in Beijing. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Re: Candidate names for Gnome Asia Event in Beijing

2007-11-19 Thread Dave Neary
in late September, 2008. Currently we have several candidate names for Oh - and, names aside, yay! Congratulations on taking this initiative and making another GNOME regional conference a reality. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list

Re: Event to be added to Upcoming Events on www.gnome.org : Help requested

2007-12-01 Thread Dave Neary
are available at: http://foss.in/2007/schedules/ For details about foss.in visit http://foss.in/2007/info/Home [end note] Can this be done before 4th Dec 2007 ? :sankarshan -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http

GNOME at SCALE 7x?

2007-12-01 Thread Dave Neary
, but know someone living in the region who might be able to help, please send me a mail introducing me. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Re: GNOME at SCALE 7x?

2007-12-03 Thread Dave Neary
in the wiki, if they aren't already. This reminded me - I just added the Marketing GNOME presentation I gave at FOSDEM to the page. It'd be great if Quim could add his similar GUADEC presentation too ;) Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org

Re: t-shirt on hackerheads

2008-01-31 Thread Dave Neary
(TM) or (R) in their branding for aesthetic reasons. (TM) and (R) also send a message about the kind of organisation we are which I'd rather avoid. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org

Re: Banner for GNOME 2.22 release

2008-03-10 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Lucas Rocha wrote: Comments? A bit plain, isn't it? Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Re: Banner for GNOME 2.22 release

2008-03-11 Thread Dave Neary
features in GNOME - however, this is not how we operate right now. I will admit that André could have perhaps been nicer about it, but he simply pointed out that your post is unrelated to the issue of getting a banner to announce the release. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member

Re: Banner for GNOME 2.22 release

2008-03-12 Thread Dave Neary
Dave Neary wrote: Hi, Lucas Rocha wrote: Vinicius prepared a new version of the banner taking into account our comments. Image is attached. Comments? Much better! I like it. Thanks Vinicius! Just one minor change I'd like to see: can he drop the TM from GNOME? Cheers, Dave. -- Dave

Re: GNOME Mug Update

2008-03-12 Thread Dave Neary
: there are inks that turn transparent when hot, which allow you to have a logo covering up something underneath (this is just an idea). Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: GNOME Mug Update

2008-03-17 Thread Dave Neary
somewhere like Cafepress? But then why would people donate $50? Personally, I would like to see a special design for Freidns of GNOME, with perhaps other models being sold on Cafepress or similar. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing

Re: GNOME Mug Update

2008-03-17 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Hugh Buzacott wrote: Dave Neary wrote: But then why would people donate $50? Personally, I would like to see a special design for Freidns of GNOME, with perhaps other models being sold on Cafepress or similar. As if you donate $50 just for the cup -- you do it for GNOME. I see your

Finding case studies in the wiki

2008-03-27 Thread Dave Neary
time ago), rather than to pages which start we should Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +33 9 51 13 46 45 Cell: +33 6 77 01 92 13 -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Re: Finding case studies in the wiki

2008-03-27 Thread Dave Neary
like Case studies or Our users or Our customers (if we were a company). Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +33 9 51 13 46 45 Cell: +33 6 77 01 92 13 -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Re: Finding case studies in the wiki

2008-03-28 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Thilo Pfennig wrote: Am Thu, 27 Mar 2008 09:51:28 +0100 schrieb Dave Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Can anyone tell me the shortest navigation path to get to the GNOME case studies, please? I did find a link to http://live.gnome.org/MarketingTeam/ExistingGnomeDeployments which doesn't

Kudos from a surprising source

2008-04-21 Thread Dave Neary
friends at KDE, and appreciate all their good work as well, and I know for many that is their preference, but for me, I'm happy to have made the switch. Which is nice... Although I don't think that we should make *too* much noise about it. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel

Re: Boosting Friends of GNOME in 2008

2008-05-05 Thread Dave Neary
in? In particular, you need to think of a very novel way to present the costs of a sysadmin, if you want to raise funds against it. And I think adopting a hard drive or motherboard or somesuch might actually get you some of the way there. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member [EMAIL

Re: Boosting Friends of GNOME in 2008

2008-05-05 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 15:48 +0200, Dave Neary wrote: * Send them an email at every release pointing to the release notes * Send them a quarterly/biannual newsletter of the foundation's activities (a text-only email will do) * Solicit donations for specific

Removing 10x10

2008-05-22 Thread Dave Neary
this up here first, to get opinions feedback. Particularly since I'm not proposing to replace it with anything else. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Re: GNOME Weekly News

2008-06-25 Thread Dave Neary
on the articles, before I can release them under CC BY-NC-ND. I've asked for permission to get them translated too, since in general translations aren't possible with ND. There is lots happening around GNOME! Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list

Issuing a press release about GNOME 3

2008-07-12 Thread Dave Neary
- 3 year major arcs, with regular 6 month releases) and, above all, that this represents an evolution of existing GNOME, and not a massive re-write or re-design of the desktop. Thoughts? Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list

Re: Issuing a press release about GNOME 3

2008-07-15 Thread Dave Neary
is the bee's knees for this kind of thing. Just be consistent in your tags (say gnome3 article) and you can find all the articles you tag later. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman

Re: Issuing a press release about GNOME 3

2008-07-16 Thread Dave Neary
need to do to be a GNOME project? bits. Cheers, Dave. Vincent Untz wrote: Le mardi 15 juillet 2008, à 16:36 +0200, Dave Neary a écrit : Hi, Vincent Untz wrote: Le lundi 14 juillet 2008, à 13:00 +0200, Olav Vitters a écrit : Rough document is at: http://live.gnome.org/GNOME3. I want to add loads

Re: Issuing a press release about GNOME 3

2008-07-16 Thread Dave Neary
again. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Re: Issuing a press release about GNOME 3

2008-07-16 Thread Dave Neary
Luis Villa wrote: On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 9:55 AM, Dave Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, Luis, I think you were being a little harsh - GNOME's been lethargic for so long, you're expecting to see us sprinting, when we're still at the stage of learning to walk again. I'm expecting us

Re: Issuing a press release about GNOME 3

2008-07-17 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Dave Neary wrote: I think we need to wrap this up as like this, and no more: We're moving to a 6 month/2 year time-based cycle. Our first 2-year cycle started in March (that means we're now behind schedule! Ouch!) 2 year cycle: Identify big overriding theme - current low-hanging

Re: Issuing a press release about GNOME 3

2008-07-17 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, The PNG was too big for the mailing lists - resending with SVG attachment. Dave. Dave Neary wrote: Dave Neary wrote: I think we need to wrap this up as like this, and no more: We're moving to a 6 month/2 year time-based cycle. Our first 2-year cycle started in March (that means we're

Re: random request: security GNOME angles?

2008-07-28 Thread Dave Neary
-spec.html Maintainer: David Zeuthen I guess you could also talk about integration with encryption and message signing in Evolution... Beyond that, I'm not sure what they're looking for - and of course, the raw material isn't really a story to tell. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member

Re: Revamping Friends of GNOME: help with web page text

2008-08-04 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Stormy Peters wrote: Thoughts? Anyone willing to help with the web page? I would *love* to help with this, but I don't think I'm going to have any time to give to it over the next couple of months, sorry. I hope others will step in to help, though. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME

Integrating testimonials in GNOME's web pages

2008-08-05 Thread Dave Neary
it gets into svn. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Re: GNOME files disabled

2008-09-10 Thread Dave Neary
be cool to get at least the data. The site filled a important gap. Welcome to the world of proprietary software. Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Re: Cool GNOME Video for GNOME.Asia Summit

2008-09-10 Thread Dave Neary
blooper video from all of the raw video that's been created over the years... Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

GNOME Accessibility presentation - contribution to stock GNOME presentations

2008-09-10 Thread Dave Neary
applications GUI scriptable - allowing the creating of automated testing frameworks like Accerciser, Strongwind, LDTP and Dogtail. These applications weren't the primary motivation behind it, but a nice useful side-effect. Thanks! Questions? -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [g-a-devel] GNOME Accessibility presentation - contribution to stock GNOME presentations

2008-09-11 Thread Dave Neary
(i.e., here's theming, here's stickykeys, here's bouncekeys, here's GOK in dwell mode, here's Dasher, here's MouseTweaks, here's Orca, etc.). What do you think about that? I think this is a wonderful idea! And an excellent way to get some non-technical contributions. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave

Re: GNOME 2.24.0 promotion

2008-09-23 Thread Dave Neary
stuff (ie, at least a new wgo splash), but I'm pretty sure we could do more than that :-) Vincent -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list

Re: Software Freedom Day

2008-09-23 Thread Dave Neary
todo list right now. Anyone else? Thilo? Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Community calendar (was: Re: Software Freedom Day)

2008-09-24 Thread Dave Neary
or so people who can add events to the calendar and I will add anyone who asks (on condition that I know them at least by name - I don't want it to grow spam). The list currently includes: Dave Neary Anne Oestergaard Glynn Foster Jeff Waugh Quim Gil Rosanna Yuen Behdad Esfahbod Vincent Untz Kevin

Re: GNOME 2.24 press release

2008-09-26 Thread Dave Neary
monitor mailing lists?), I'm going to add Diego and Brian's comments and then just send it out directly to the press contacts I have. As opposed to doing a press release. Other thoughts from people? Sounds good. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member [EMAIL PROTECTED

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