Re: Release Notes Time!
This is your final call! The Release Notes are pretty much done and I'm looking to get them nailed down at the beginning of next week. If you have anything that should be included and isn't [1], please fill in the wiki page [2] asap. Allan [1] https://git.gnome.org/browse/release-notes/tree/?h=gnome-3-8 [2] https://live.gnome.org/ThreePointSeven/ReleaseNotes -- IRC: aday on irc.gnome.org Blog: http://afaikblog.wordpress.com/ -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: GNOME 3.8 Release Notes
Hi all, I've completed the first draft of the release notes [1] (albeit without screenshots). Please take a look and let me know if you spot anything that can be improved. Allan [1] https://git.gnome.org/browse/release-notes/tree/?h=gnome-3-8 -- IRC: aday on irc.gnome.org Blog: http://afaikblog.wordpress.com/ -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: GNOME 3.8 Release Notes
Hello Allan, I think you're missing Notifications System. - Task Switching - Apps Launching - Notifications Is something that you can't miss from any release notes. There are changes in all these three. For Example 1. Task Switching - Easier recognize apps by size (instead of Windows View) 2. Apps Launching - Launch multiple Apps (by holding Ctrl) 3. Notifications - Super+N to directly respond, new Message Tray behavior, new Notifications design inside Overview. Even if they weren't major changes in these three, I think you might want to refer them in every release notes of any OS. - alex On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 6:30 PM, Allan Day allanp...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I've completed the first draft of the release notes [1] (albeit without screenshots). Please take a look and let me know if you spot anything that can be improved. Allan [1] https://git.gnome.org/browse/release-notes/tree/?h=gnome-3-8 -- IRC: aday on irc.gnome.org Blog: http://afaikblog.wordpress.com/ -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Want to review a book about GNOME 3?
I was wondering if you have to encouraging anyone to buy a book about GNOME from anywhere, and not just Amazon. There are two separate issues here: free manuals, and Amazon. For the sake of free software, we must not recommend non-free manuals. The issue of free manuals, like the issue of free software, is about users' freedom, not about price. It's free as in freedom. Selling manuals is ok as long as they are free/libre/elefthero. The FSF sells copies of free manuals, and some companies do too. Amazon is a separate issue. http://stallman.org/amazon.html explains why I think it is bad to recommend buying from Amazon. That is only my personal position -- the GNU Project doesn't have a position on this issue -- but I hope that some of you will share my concerns. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Want to review a book about GNOME 3?
FWIW, in my first email back to Packt I requested that they consider releasing this under a free license. Based on the response, I'm a little unclear about what the license terms are but I suppose it will be cleared up when we get the sample copies. I suggest you press them on this without delay -- don't wait to receive sample copies, because by then it could be harder to change anything, and they might use that as an excuse not to consider the issue. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Want to review a book about GNOME 3?
1. A development guide tells you how-to use many different FOSS products with explanation on how they will work together to help the reader create more free software. That is a kind of manual. Any book that explains how to use some software is a manual. One kind of manual is a _reference manual_ which explain all the details of each construct or command. But documentation to teach a beginner the basic use of a program is a manual too. My two cents is that going by the rule of free works and their derivatives must also be free, the author should consider releasing the book under a free license and to be fair to the effort the author has put in, he should charge a fee for the hardcopy/printed/paper edition. If he releases the book under a free license, he can sell copies, and we should encourage people to buy copies. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
