Re: GNOME Amazon stores up and running

2009-09-05 Thread Jaap A. Haitsma
On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 07:44, Diego Escalante Urrelodie...@gnome.org wrote:
 Hey Jaap!

 On Sat, 2009-09-05 at 01:20 +0200, Jaap A. Haitsma wrote:
 I've added a logo and text to the sidebar.
 Test site: http://gnome.haitsma.org/friends/

 What do you think, ready to commit?


 Nice work!, thanks for your effort :-).

 I have a comment about the current store, on the right side I see this
 Install search plugin link. This says little to me, maybe a firefox
 extension icon and some sort of banner-button and a further explanation
 of what does the search plugins does would be better.

It's not a Firefox extension but a search plugin (It even works in IE).
Anybody any good suggestions?
Patches are appreciated

 Also I would say that 2 columns would be better than 3, the third one
 being right now the 'Install search plugin' link, maybe put that as the
 top banner of the right column (in a 2 column layout) would be better.

I can't control all columns the first two are part of an iframe that
amazon produces. Over that iframe I don't have a lot of control



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Re: GNOME Amazon stores up and running

2009-09-05 Thread Jaap A. Haitsma
On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 01:52, Patrick Feyins...@nachtarbeiter.net wrote:
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 Hi Jaap,

 I've added a logo and text to the sidebar.
 Test site: http://gnome.haitsma.org/friends/

 What do you think, ready to commit?

 looks nice. I think you did a very good job on the whole Amazon project!
 Two caveats, though:

 a) I'm not a native speaker, but shouldn't it be purchase at instead
 of purchase in?

 b) I'd at a dot at the end of the sentence.

 While you're at it, could you please

 a) add a dot at the end of For details contact fundraising at gnome org

 b) Change the corporate sponsorship paragraph at the end of the page to:

 Do you as a company want to sponsor GNOME and take a seat in the GNOME
 Advisory Board? Please contact fundraising at gnome org. (added
 question mark in between and changed sponsoring to sponsor)

Thanks for your comments. I made all the above changes.

 I think we also need to update the check.html page, since the amounts
 mentioned there do not match what we have on the index page right now.
 Or is this intentional?

I never worked on it, so I don't know
Stormy shall I change the check page to the amounts and levels as on
the index page?

Regards

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Re: GNOME Amazon stores up and running

2009-09-05 Thread Stormy Peters
On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Jaap A. Haitsma j...@haitsma.org wrote:


 I never worked on it, so I don't know
 Stormy shall I change the check page to the amounts and levels as on
 the index page?


That'd be great. Thanks for all your work on these pages.

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Re: GNOME Amazon stores up and running

2009-09-04 Thread Jaap A. Haitsma
On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 01:34, Jaap A. Haitsmaj...@haitsma.org wrote:
 Hi,

 I think I now have the GNOME Amazon stores is such a shape that we can
 start advertising them.
 Please go to:
 http://www.gnome.org/friends/amazon/
 and take a look or even better buy something. To make it easy every
 store has a searchplugin which you can install in firefox. Just click
 on the dropdown of the search engines and you can add it.


 I've also released version 1.0 of GNOME Amazon Firefox add-on here
 https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/13182/
 It's still needs to be reviewed by addons.mozilla.org but you can
 already use it.

 That extension automatically puts in the friend of gnome referal code,
 if there is none yet. So if you want to make sure that a percentage of
 what you buy goes to the GNOME foundation you better check that
 tag=friendofgnome-xx (where xx is 20, 21 or 22) is part of the URL or
 just buy directly in the GNOME amazon store.
 However I think the extension is something what you can install at
 computers of family members or friends (with their permission of
 course) who buy stuff at Amazon. For them nothing changes. They can
 just shop as they do normally but 4-6% of what they buy goes to the
 GNOME foundation


 So that's the technical part. Now how are we going to market this?

 1) Stormy asked me to write about it on my blog. I'm waiting to get
 added to planet gnome. When that's the case I can write something
 2) We can add a logo plus some text in the sidebar of www.gnome.org/friends
 3) We could add something at the gnome homepage
 4) Maybe even a press release.

I've added a logo and text to the sidebar.
Test site: http://gnome.haitsma.org/friends/

What do you think, ready to commit?

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Re: GNOME Amazon stores up and running

2009-09-04 Thread Patrick Fey
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Hi Jaap,

 I've added a logo and text to the sidebar.
 Test site: http://gnome.haitsma.org/friends/
 
 What do you think, ready to commit?

looks nice. I think you did a very good job on the whole Amazon project!
Two caveats, though:

a) I'm not a native speaker, but shouldn't it be purchase at instead
of purchase in?

b) I'd at a dot at the end of the sentence.

While you're at it, could you please

a) add a dot at the end of For details contact fundraising at gnome org

b) Change the corporate sponsorship paragraph at the end of the page to:

Do you as a company want to sponsor GNOME and take a seat in the GNOME
Advisory Board? Please contact fundraising at gnome org. (added
question mark in between and changed sponsoring to sponsor)

I think we also need to update the check.html page, since the amounts
mentioned there do not match what we have on the index page right now.
Or is this intentional?

:-) Patrick
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Re: GNOME Amazon stores up and running

2009-08-31 Thread Stormy Peters
On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 5:10 PM, Alberto Ruiz ar...@gnome.org wrote:



 I wonder if it's worth publicizing so outdated books, buying those
 would be a total waste of time. Most of the technologies explained on
 those books are deprecated, with the exception of Foundations of Gtk+
 and the distro related books.


We can add whatever we want to the store. Do you have some suggestions?

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Re: GNOME Amazon stores up and running

2009-08-31 Thread Andre Klapper
Am Montag, den 31.08.2009, 00:10 +0100 schrieb Alberto Ruiz:
 2009/8/30 Jaap A. Haitsma j...@haitsma.org:
  http://www.gnome.org/friends/amazon/

 I wonder if it's worth publicizing so outdated books, buying those
 would be a total waste of time.

+1.

Also, when I go to http://www.gnome.org/friends/amazon/ and click all
available 8 items, I get the following message for 5 of them:
This item is not available for purchase from this store.
Click here to go to Amazon to see other purchasing options.
Is that intended?

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Re: GNOME Amazon stores up and running

2009-08-31 Thread Simos Xenitellis
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Andre Klapperak...@gmx.net wrote:
 Am Montag, den 31.08.2009, 00:10 +0100 schrieb Alberto Ruiz:
 2009/8/30 Jaap A. Haitsma j...@haitsma.org:
  http://www.gnome.org/friends/amazon/

 I wonder if it's worth publicizing so outdated books, buying those
 would be a total waste of time.

 +1.

 Also, when I go to http://www.gnome.org/friends/amazon/ and click all
 available 8 items, I get the following message for 5 of them:
 This item is not available for purchase from this store.
 Click here to go to Amazon to see other purchasing options.
 Is that intended?

I would dare to guess that the 'GNOME Books' and 'GNOME Laptops' are
merely categories that we created of selected products.
I really like the 'GNOME Laptops' category.

So, indeed, we need a call for more books related to GNOME, and more
laptops that come with GNOME software.

1. Create a wiki page such as
http://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/GNOMEProductsAtAmazon

I created the page and added initial text.

2. We need to go through the books and check
a. they are not out of print
b. they are relevant to GNOME (could be peripheral to GNOME), such as
http://live.gnome.org/RecommendedReading
It would make sense to follow the format at
http://live.gnome.org/RecommendedReading
which has the name of the person promoting the book, and a rational
why it is relevant to GNOME.

3. Regarding the laptops, we want Linux laptops.
What is missing is to investigate whether we can call GNOME laptops
those laptops that come with Linpus Linux or Xandros Linux.
Are there based on core GNOME technologies? At least GTK+ apps?

4. I can also see other products apart from books, laptops. If someone
knows something, they might fit as well.

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Re: GNOME Amazon stores up and running

2009-08-31 Thread Stormy Peters
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Simos Xenitellis 
simos.li...@googlemail.com wrote:

 4. I can also see other products apart from books, laptops. If someone
 knows something, they might fit as well.

 There are other products that have GNOME technologies in them like the
Garmin Nuvo and the new Nokia phone. I don't know whether they are sold on
Amazon or not but there might be some products that both have GNOME in them
and are sold on Amazon.

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Re: GNOME Amazon stores up and running

2009-08-31 Thread Simos Xenitellis
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Stormy Peterssto...@gnome.org wrote:


 On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Simos Xenitellis
 simos.li...@googlemail.com wrote:

 4. I can also see other products apart from books, laptops. If someone
 knows something, they might fit as well.

 There are other products that have GNOME technologies in them like the
 Garmin Nuvo and the new Nokia phone. I don't know whether they are sold on
 Amazon or not but there might be some products that both have GNOME in them
 and are sold on Amazon.

The Garmin nĂ¼vi is at
http://www.amazon.com/Garmin-3-5-Inch-Bluetooth-Portable-Navigator/dp/B000EXS1BS

The Nokia N900 is not yet available on Amazon.
The Nokia N810 is still on sale, at
http://www.amazon.com/Nokia-N810-Portable-Internet-Tablet/dp/B000Y4AH3C/

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Re: GNOME Amazon stores up and running

2009-08-31 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Great work, Jaap!  The plugin is a good start!

sri

On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Jaap A. Haitsma j...@haitsma.org wrote:

 Hi,

 I think I now have the GNOME Amazon stores is such a shape that we can
 start advertising them.
 Please go to:
 http://www.gnome.org/friends/amazon/
 and take a look or even better buy something. To make it easy every
 store has a searchplugin which you can install in firefox. Just click
 on the dropdown of the search engines and you can add it.


 I've also released version 1.0 of GNOME Amazon Firefox add-on here
 https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/13182/
 It's still needs to be reviewed by addons.mozilla.org but you can
 already use it.

 That extension automatically puts in the friend of gnome referal code,
 if there is none yet. So if you want to make sure that a percentage of
 what you buy goes to the GNOME foundation you better check that
 tag=friendofgnome-xx (where xx is 20, 21 or 22) is part of the URL or
 just buy directly in the GNOME amazon store.
 However I think the extension is something what you can install at
 computers of family members or friends (with their permission of
 course) who buy stuff at Amazon. For them nothing changes. They can
 just shop as they do normally but 4-6% of what they buy goes to the
 GNOME foundation


 So that's the technical part. Now how are we going to market this?

 1) Stormy asked me to write about it on my blog. I'm waiting to get
 added to planet gnome. When that's the case I can write something
 2) We can add a logo plus some text in the sidebar of
 www.gnome.org/friends
 3) We could add something at the gnome homepage
 4) Maybe even a press release.

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Re: GNOME Amazon stores up and running

2009-08-30 Thread Alberto Ruiz
2009/8/30 Jaap A. Haitsma j...@haitsma.org:
 Hi,

 I think I now have the GNOME Amazon stores is such a shape that we can
 start advertising them.
 Please go to:
 http://www.gnome.org/friends/amazon/
 and take a look or even better buy something. To make it easy every
 store has a searchplugin which you can install in firefox. Just click
 on the dropdown of the search engines and you can add it.

I wonder if it's worth publicizing so outdated books, buying those
would be a total waste of time. Most of the technologies explained on
those books are deprecated, with the exception of Foundations of Gtk+
and the distro related books.


 I've also released version 1.0 of GNOME Amazon Firefox add-on here
 https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/13182/
 It's still needs to be reviewed by addons.mozilla.org but you can
 already use it.

 That extension automatically puts in the friend of gnome referal code,
 if there is none yet. So if you want to make sure that a percentage of
 what you buy goes to the GNOME foundation you better check that
 tag=friendofgnome-xx (where xx is 20, 21 or 22) is part of the URL or
 just buy directly in the GNOME amazon store.
 However I think the extension is something what you can install at
 computers of family members or friends (with their permission of
 course) who buy stuff at Amazon. For them nothing changes. They can
 just shop as they do normally but 4-6% of what they buy goes to the
 GNOME foundation


 So that's the technical part. Now how are we going to market this?

 1) Stormy asked me to write about it on my blog. I'm waiting to get
 added to planet gnome. When that's the case I can write something
 2) We can add a logo plus some text in the sidebar of www.gnome.org/friends
 3) We could add something at the gnome homepage
 4) Maybe even a press release.

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GNOME Amazon stores up and running

2009-08-29 Thread Jaap A. Haitsma
Hi,

I think I now have the GNOME Amazon stores is such a shape that we can
start advertising them.
Please go to:
http://www.gnome.org/friends/amazon/
and take a look or even better buy something. To make it easy every
store has a searchplugin which you can install in firefox. Just click
on the dropdown of the search engines and you can add it.


I've also released version 1.0 of GNOME Amazon Firefox add-on here
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/13182/
It's still needs to be reviewed by addons.mozilla.org but you can
already use it.

That extension automatically puts in the friend of gnome referal code,
if there is none yet. So if you want to make sure that a percentage of
what you buy goes to the GNOME foundation you better check that
tag=friendofgnome-xx (where xx is 20, 21 or 22) is part of the URL or
just buy directly in the GNOME amazon store.
However I think the extension is something what you can install at
computers of family members or friends (with their permission of
course) who buy stuff at Amazon. For them nothing changes. They can
just shop as they do normally but 4-6% of what they buy goes to the
GNOME foundation


So that's the technical part. Now how are we going to market this?

1) Stormy asked me to write about it on my blog. I'm waiting to get
added to planet gnome. When that's the case I can write something
2) We can add a logo plus some text in the sidebar of www.gnome.org/friends
3) We could add something at the gnome homepage
4) Maybe even a press release.

Jaap
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