Re: GNOME files disabled
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 problem of gnomefiles. Not specific to gnomefiles.org. Thats the same problem gnome.org has. Like new GNOME but you have to compile yourself. Also same problem most linuxbased FLOSS has. The importance I can see with gnomefiles.org is that it focuses on intermediate users, those that can afford to install some development packages, then run ./configure, make, sudo make install. These users have a higher chance to pick up a project of their own, and convert to GNOME developers later on. Simos Maybe a revision based directory would be cool. Like every distro has another version of an application. They then could link to one directory with version=2.22rev=0 or so - this would enable the view of one application to be exact that of the linked version. So actually very wiki-like, except that the revisions would be hardcoded. So this descriptions could be used by every package manager and distribution. Distributions may want to add some bits if they patch a version. But that would be much nicer than of every distro needs to essentially copy and paste the same bits. This could also be matched to a RSS feed, so that people see when which version or description was updated. 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-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
GNOME Tagline (WAS: Re: Revamping Friends of GNOME: help with web page text)
We need a good tagline. (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagline, and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advertising_slogan.) I debated suggesting a contest or vote ... but I thought I'd start with an email. A tagline doesn't have to explain what GNOME is, although it should be representative of the GNOME project, community, personality, etc. Think Nike's Just Do It. Words that come to mind when you think of GNOME: free desktop open source user interface fun pretty beautiful easy accessible inclusive powerful friends friendly party idealistic committed smart helpful ... Slogans: a free and open source desktop for all Because GNOME is free, every contribution put into GNOME is available to everyone (from Diego's mail) Making the world available to you Making your computer work for you Your desktop, your world By volunteers, for volunteers Making it just work Just right just right for you just right for the world one desktop for all the interface to the world ... Stormy On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 1:52 PM, Diego Escalante Urrelo [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: On 9/4/08, Brian Cameron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andreas: I really like the photo of the one-laptop-per-child program and the text. I don't know how much room you have in the caption, but it would be better to highlight the following: - GNOME is free, which makes it the perfect desktop choice for humanitarian efforts, such as the one-laptop-per-child program which require an affordable desktop. I confess I haven't read carefully every word in the text, but as I read your email I thought that a nice thing to add would be something like: Because GNOME is free, every contribution put into GNOME is available to everyone Ok, not the best wording, but I got the idea from a quick flashback to those IBM videos of linux kid where the narrator says what he learns we all learn, what he knows we all benefit from. I think it's a nice idea we might want to take. greetings -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: GNOME Tagline (WAS: Re: Revamping Friends of GNOME: help with web page text)
On Mon, 2008-09-08 at 06:07 -0600, Stormy Peters wrote: We need a good tagline. (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagline, and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advertising_slogan.) I debated suggesting a contest or vote ... but I thought I'd start with an email. A tagline doesn't have to explain what GNOME is, although it should be representative of the GNOME project, community, personality, etc. Think Nike's Just Do It. [snip] Previous bikeshedding about this: http://gnomedesktop.org/node/2510 (a poll that was published accidentally before it was finished, but anyway). http://gnomedesktop.org/node/2506 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.murrayc.com www.openismus.com -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: GNOME Tagline (WAS: Re: Revamping Friends of GNOME: help with web page text)
On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 9:43 AM, Murray Cumming [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2008-09-08 at 06:07 -0600, Stormy Peters wrote: We need a good tagline. (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagline, and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advertising_slogan.) I debated suggesting a contest or vote ... but I thought I'd start with an email. A tagline doesn't have to explain what GNOME is, although it should be representative of the GNOME project, community, personality, etc. Think Nike's Just Do It. [snip] Previous bikeshedding about this: http://gnomedesktop.org/node/2510 (a poll that was published accidentally before it was finished, but anyway). http://gnomedesktop.org/node/2506 See also http://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/CoreMessage and the 'more random brainstorming' thread here: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/marketing-list/2005-May/thread.html#00119 Luis -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Fwd: free graphic excitement
-- Forwarded message -- From: James Coddington [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 12:54 PM Subject: free graphic excitement To: marketing-list@gnome.org Greetings GNOME Community! My name is James Coddington, digital media artist and principle of Zero Point Systems. I find myself fortunate to have found you all and am inspired by your humanitarian direction. I greatly appreciate that free software makes it possible for people in 3rd world countries to use computers and connect to the greater world at large, is affordable for the disadvantaged and is accessible to the disabled. The ability to translate into so many different languages is particularly exciting to me! I come to you with enthusiastic inspiration regarding the graphic media (or lack thereof) of the GNOME community. I must admit, however, that I am novice GNOME user. Upon being familiarized with your cause and software I feel you could reach a much broader audience if you were to integrate a little more flash (asthetically) and could be made much more attractive with animation, video and sounds. It is my hope and vision to create compelling visual stimulus for this emerging and growing community. I designed and created an animation that could be played as the user logs into their machine to make the experience more exciting. I have a wellspring of ideas of how video and animation could be used in the desktop space. One of which could be that we provide an introductory video that could be viewed to highlight the usability, freedom and humanitarian aspect of the project and why people should even consider using GNOME. We could then turn this animation/video in to a television commercial with the idea it could be played on PBS or other types of public access. I know that showcasing work on some public access channels is completely free. This would be a great place to get airtime for humanitarian related content. Some things that could easily and should be highlighted It's Free It's Easy It's Accessible Support Many Humanitarian aspects, like the fact it is used by the one laptop per child program. I'm sure there is more that could be added here. Any suggestions of what we could add? I have already donated a significant amount of time on this intro animation, so it is my hope that that translates into how emphatically enthusiastic I am about this project! It is also my hope to release this under the Creative Commons with a small personal signature for networking purposes. Perhaps I will utilize the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported Liscense. Again, your cause and community is something that I am very excited about and would love to get some ideas and feedback on the animation I created. http://www.soaringbrain.com/GnomeTest2.swf I am aware that to be truly free these movies need to be converted to Theora or another free format, but I thought I would get your input and feedback before progressing any further. Keep in minds these are low-resolution renders. Perhaps together, we can sink our teeth into this amazing opportunity and create a very compelling, high res series of projects that will generate interest, momentum and wonder in the open source project known as GNOME! Lets set Gnome apart from the rest with rich visual content that grabs the user and won't let go! Feel free to view and get back to me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gratefully Yours, James Coddington MVM Digital Media 773 780 3473 -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Revamping Friends of GNOME: help with web page text
I took everyone's feedback on the wording and updated the text. Andreas uploaded new png files to the URLs below, if you want to see them. I also attached an odt document with the text. Now I'm going to go recruit some new volunteers for GNOME. I'm going to get a couple of people that aren't familiar with GNOME to take a look at the web pages and give their feedback. Stormy On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 4:13 PM, Andreas Nilsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andreas Nilsson wrote: Stormy Peters wrote: Thoughts? Anyone willing to help with the web page? Kalle Persson and myself want to look into the design of this during the weekend. Hi! Here are the designs Kalle and I did: http://www.andreasn.se/diverse/temp/friends-of-gnome/fog-page1.png http://www.andreasn.se/diverse/temp/friends-of-gnome/fog-page2.png http://www.andreasn.se/diverse/temp/friends-of-gnome/fog-page3.png We were uncertain about some details, such as if it was only the Adopt a Hacker level that was monthly, plus some other stuff that I can't remember right now (do you Kalle?). As the hippies we are, we also took the liberty to not follow the specification specifically. ;) Hrm, no, seriously, we mostly rearranged some stuff and we hope it came out for the better. There is also a svg with all the elements in it here if anyone wants to modify it: http://www.andreasn.se/diverse/temp/friends-of-gnome/friends-of-gnome-design.svg We can fix the html and css for this unless someone else eagerly wants to do it (I recall some e-mail about this, but I can't seem to find it now). Not sure what's easiest. - Andreas FriendsOfGNOME.odt Description: application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Fwd: free graphic excitement
Am Montag, den 08.09.2008, 14:38 -0500 schrieb James Coddington: http://www.soaringbrain.com/GnomeTest2.swf (Personal feedback, not speaking on behalf of Marketing team:) From a technical point of view I wonder how much slower this will make login time. If we still have a splash screen in ten years, we have done something wrong. (I think I quoted dobey here.) Also wondering if this would annoy me when I log in for the, say, 30th time. andre -- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | failed http://www.iomc.de/ | http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list