Re: Why Google funds open source development?

2005-08-16 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Quim Gil All the (very few) infos I've read about the Summer of Code talk about free projects, young developers and money... but they don't mention why Google is funding them. Chris Dibona (who is running SoC and Google's Open Source efforts) says they love Open Source, use Open

Re: Why Google funds open source development?

2005-08-16 Thread David Neary
Hi, Quim Gil wrote: Sorry for the wide topic, but considering thet GNOME has got a Google's Summer of Code fund I think this is an appropriate list to ask. It would perhaps have been better to ask Google... ;) Why Google is funding open source development? Why Google is funding GNOME? Just

TUX Magazine Reader's Choice Awards [Was: Some criticisms of GNOME]

2005-08-16 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=David Neary Here's an e-mail I got from the editor of tuxmag, which details some criticisms of the desktop. It raises some points that are interesting, and to which we should probably have an answer. Meanwhile, vote in the TUX Magazine Reader's Choice Awards, here:

Re: TUX Magazine Reader's Choice Awards [Was: Some criticisms of GNOME]

2005-08-16 Thread Travis Reitter
On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 16:55 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=David Neary Here's an e-mail I got from the editor of tuxmag, which details some criticisms of the desktop. It raises some points that are interesting, and to which we should probably have an answer. Meanwhile, vote in the

Re: Some criticisms of GNOME

2005-08-16 Thread Claus Schwarm
On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 07:57:12 +0200 Quim Gil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] We have much better things to do. I would acknowledge all criticism, think about it and discuss common answers to be published in this page we can link to when falling in those discussions. I basically agree. I

Re: Why Google funds open source development?

2005-08-16 Thread Quim Gil
Thanks Chris for this quick and concise answer. Also thanks for the Summer of Code itself. I'll try to remember this answer in 5 years time. :) Quim En/na Chris DiBona ha escrit: Hi. 1) We like open source. 2) We like open source people, including Gnomers (gnomites? Gnomes?) 3) We use

Re: Looking for some pointing

2005-08-16 Thread Andreas Nilsson
Luis Villa wrote: On 8/12/05, YetZero [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here, I have my entries. I tried sending them last week, but I had to wait for moderator confirmation to send the images to the list as an attachment. Well, they didn´t come at all, and I found where to upload them. Here they

Re: I need for some copywriting for gnome.org

2005-08-16 Thread Javier Aravena
about the trademarks issue, I guess we could put something like if you or the company you work for provide any way to get the gnome desktop, a href="" link with someone dedicated to this pageplease let us know!/a, that way they cannot say that we didn't gave them a way to appear on the linux

Re: Some criticisms of GNOME

2005-08-16 Thread Juan Carlos Inostroza
On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 15:47 -0400, Javier Aravena wrote: in a little thing: tell gtk developers to make couloring windows easier!!... I dunno if it's a good idea You said it : this is a marketing list. Try gtk-list@gnome.org ;) -- Juan Carlos Inostroza [EMAIL PROTECTED] The world will end in

Re: Some criticisms of GNOME

2005-08-16 Thread Javier Aravena
yes, I know it and I'm sorry, I had to say it, I couldn't help myself.2005/8/16, Javier Aravena [EMAIL PROTECTED]: yes, I know it and I'm sorry, I had to say it, I couldn't help myself. vo cachai... (no había leído que erai jci)2005/8/16, Juan Carlos Inostroza [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue,

Re: Looking for some pointing

2005-08-16 Thread YetZero
Well, thanks for the feedback! I think you're right about the version number, I think it doesn't fit too well for this purpose, I put it there for adding something to the composition (although I liked the folding corner version). Now I modified the splash and wallpaper replacing the ubuntu brand