Re: 4/14 Friends of GNOME videos finished and posted
Jason D. Clinton wrote: Unlike the previews from late November, these files can be considered done. I have reduced the bandwidth requirements by half while mostly retaining the same level of quality. (Yay, codec progress!) http://people.gnome.org/~jclinton/FoG/ I think it would be fine to put these finalized versions in the git repo. for site development convenience. (I would not put anything this large which is anticipated to change in to a git repo.) There will not be H.264 versions of these files as we cannot pay the streaming licenses and the FoG target audience is going to be running a browser which can play Theora or WebM. Also, these files are so small, bandwidth shouldn't be a concern. My suggestion would be to use straight-forward, browser UI, nested video tags to put these on the FoG site update (with the WebM version on the outside so that it is preferred). The video URL would be randomly selected from a list that we provide by either client-side JS or server-side scripting. I also believe that http://universalsubtitles.org/ is the method by which we should solve the a11y and i18n challenges; it's crowd sourced via this method. If there aren't any show-stoppers and no one else steps up to implement this change, I will implement the suggested site changes. Later, if bandwidth becomes a problem, perhaps we can distribute the load by asking people to mirror a video and we can use the same random URL provider to rotate between mirrors. All videos are 720P 30fps with 128Kbit/s Vorbis stereo audio. The WebM videos targeted 1Mbit/s. The Theora videos targeted 2Mbit/s and have slightly more artifacting despite being almost twice as large. Wow, this all looks great! I am still thinking about what to do about the gnome3.org video hosting and video format questions as the audience and bandwidth situation is slightly different. And no solution proposed so far is perfect. I've solved a number of problems with my video workflow (by building a bunch of stuff from svn and git, by hand) so I can crank the remaining 10 FoG videos out over the coming days including that re-spin of the GNOME 3 preview that I have promised. It'll be wonderful to have video material on gnome3.org. Also, I just today finished assembling a GNOME 3 installation with the finalized Adwaita theme, the new GNOME font (Cantarell) with git master OTF hinting, the latest GNOME Shell git, and most of the GNOME 3 applications in their current state. GNOME 3 is looking *fantastic* now that the design vision is coming together with the art team's work. I'm hugely optimistic about the GNOME 3 final product and we are rapidly approaching the time when producing materials that look near-identical to the final version becomes achievable. It would be really good to have screenshots from this kind of system for gnome3.org. (Hint hint!) Regarding updates to gnome3.org: it would be good to try and time these so they come in a steady flow rather than all once. That way we can generate regular announcements for the microblogs. Allan -- Blog: https://afaikblog.wordpress.com/ IRC: aday on irc.gnome.org -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Need advice on GNOME-A11y giveaways
Hello GNOMEie Marketeers and A11y'ers! I'd like your advice before I start ordering up stuff for the upcoming CSUN conference in San Diego in March. I actually need this nailed down much sooner as I'll be leaving for California in February. - I will be ordering some nice vinyl banners that Andreas Nillson helped design for me a while ago. This will help our booth look very spiffy at CSUN. I intend to reuse these banners elsewhere after CSUN. One set I already ordered should still be residing in Spain if anyone wants to use it for a European event. - I created some 5x7 postcard handouts and still have a bunch left that I can give out, but I'd like to redo them in a way that might be better. The design I did was a last minute design and you can see here http://www.bryen.com/images/Gnomea11y.pdf Keep in mind that the audience at CSUN is non-open source oriented. And we'll be literally buried in a sea of hundreds of other a11y booths. (It's a pretty big event!) So, I believe the cards really have to speak to why look at open source as an option? So... does what I have created speak to that well enough? And how can we design it in a way that looks better/more appealing? One drawback to this card was that we crammed a lot of text into what is a fairly sizable piece of paper. So large-print wasn't really going to work well. I'd like to be able to address large-print goals this time around. - I want to create some really cool sticker (in 2inchx2inch format) that would appeal to non-open source folks. Yes we have the nice GNOME stickers which I intend to give out as well. But it doesn't inspire people to use and display them if they aren't adopting GNOME right away. I'm looking for a very cool design that says I'm proud to be an a11y user! and yet still has some reference to GNOME for anyone to look up at a later time. Something that says Accessibility ROCKS! I did think previously about removable tattoos and pins. But removable tattoos, while cool, can only be used once. And pins cost too much if I don't order in significant bulk. :-( Stickers though are very economical and I can afford to pony up for those if we can move quickly before the current sale price goes away. Any ideas, folks? Bryen -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: 4/14 Friends of GNOME videos finished and posted
On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 07:05, Allan Day allanp...@gmail.com wrote: It would be really good to have screenshots from this kind of system for gnome3.org. (Hint hint!) Thoughts on optimal screen size for screen shots? I'm targeting 1280x720 for the videos (for obvious reasons) but I could use the xrandr scale magic to get a native screen of any size for the screen shots. -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Official announcement and invitation to GNOME 3.0 Hackfest and GNOME.Asia Summit 2011
Le vendredi 21 janvier 2011, à 23:41 +0800, Frederic Muller a écrit : So Hackfest registration is happening here: http://live.gnome.org/Hackfests/GNOME.Asia2011 , call for papers for the conference is here http://live.gnome.org/GnomeAsia/CallForPaper and conference registration will be opening soon. What's the plan on the marketing team side? Do we have people who can go? I didn't see any replies on marketing-list to the previous mails, unless I missed something. Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Official announcement and invitation to GNOME 3.0 Hackfest and GNOME.Asia Summit 2011
On Sat, 2011-01-22 at 19:04 +0100, Vincent Untz wrote: Le vendredi 21 janvier 2011, à 23:41 +0800, Frederic Muller a écrit : So Hackfest registration is happening here: http://live.gnome.org/Hackfests/GNOME.Asia2011 , call for papers for the conference is here http://live.gnome.org/GnomeAsia/CallForPaper and conference registration will be opening soon. What's the plan on the marketing team side? Do we have people who can go? I didn't see any replies on marketing-list to the previous mails, unless I missed something. Same question goes for Documentation. andre -- mailto:ak...@gmx.net | failed http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Official announcement and invitation to GNOME 3.0 Hackfest and GNOME.Asia Summit 2011
On Jan 22, 2011 12:04 PM, Vincent Untz vu...@gnome.org wrote: Le vendredi 21 janvier 2011, à 23:41 +0800, Frederic Muller a écrit : So Hackfest registration is happening here: http://live.gnome.org/Hackfests/GNOME.Asia2011 , call for papers for the conference is here http://live.gnome.org/GnomeAsia/CallForPaper and conference registration will be opening soon. What's the plan on the marketing team side? Do we have people who can go? I didn't see any replies on marketing-list to the previous mails, unless I missed something. Since the dates selected are the span of a work week I cannot go. The scheduling reprecussions would be too difficult to absorb. I would be happy to make myself available on Monday and Wednesday evening on IRC, however. If enough people can't make it and doing telepresence on a larger scale makes sense, I would be willing to take a few days off work to make that more productive. I don't think doing telepresence makes sense if there is a conference as those who would be remote would likely reduce the conference productivity as much as aid it due to synchronization overhead. -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Official announcement and invitation to GNOME 3.0 Hackfest and GNOME.Asia Summit 2011
On 01/23/2011 03:06 AM, Jason D. Clinton wrote: On Jan 22, 2011 12:04 PM, Vincent Untz vu...@gnome.org mailto:vu...@gnome.org wrote: Le vendredi 21 janvier 2011, à 23:41 +0800, Frederic Muller a écrit : So Hackfest registration is happening here: http://live.gnome.org/Hackfests/GNOME.Asia2011 , call for papers for the conference is here http://live.gnome.org/GnomeAsia/CallForPaper and conference registration will be opening soon. What's the plan on the marketing team side? Do we have people who can go? I didn't see any replies on marketing-list to the previous mails, unless I missed something. Since the dates selected are the span of a work week I cannot go. The scheduling reprecussions would be too difficult to absorb. I would be happy to make myself available on Monday and Wednesday evening on IRC, however. If enough people can't make it and doing telepresence on a larger scale makes sense, I would be willing to take a few days off work to make that more productive. I don't think doing telepresence makes sense if there is a conference as those who would be remote would likely reduce the conference productivity as much as aid it due to synchronization overhead. What about 3 days only, from March 30th to April 1st? Fred -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
