Re: On breaking the woohoo barrier...thoughts on how GNOME can get great

2006-07-25 Thread Claus Schwarm
Hi, On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 17:11:44 +0100 (BST) Paul Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At the risk provoking a further rant, I suggest having a look at the latest SuitWatch from Doc Searls, http://lists.ssc.com/pipermail/suitwatch/attachments/20060720/b35fd219/attachment.cc wherein amongst

Re: On breaking the woohoo barrier...thoughts on how GNOME can get great

2006-07-25 Thread Dave Neary
Hi Claus, Claus Schwarm wrote: snip If Doc Searls' thesis about the viability of traditional marketing is correct, why are OSS projects that care about this traditional marketing more successful than those who not? I think you have the cart and the horse in the wrong order there. What has

Re: CEBIT Expo 2006 GNOME Booth

2006-07-25 Thread Baris Cicek
On Tue, 2006-07-25 at 15:29 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote: Hi Murray; There's a possibility that we might have a GNOME Booth at CEBIT Eurasia, and we might need GNOME Event Box for that event. Expo is 5 days long, and it's possible that we will there for 5 days. Expo starts at 5th of

Re: CEBIT Expo 2006 GNOME Booth

2006-07-25 Thread Murray Cumming
On Tue, 2006-07-25 at 15:29 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote: Hi Murray; There's a possibility that we might have a GNOME Booth at CEBIT Eurasia, and we might need GNOME Event Box for that event. Expo is 5 days long, and it's possible that we will there for 5 days. Expo starts at 5th

Map of gnome.org content

2006-07-25 Thread Thomas Wood
Here is a draft map of the current wgo structure: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeWeb/CurrentWgoStructure It was generated by running `tree -L 3 -d -I CVS` over the gnomeweb-wml module. I will try to create a new version over the actual website directory as soon as gnomeweb-wml is actually

Re: On breaking the woohoo barrier...thoughts on how GNOME can get great

2006-07-25 Thread Claus Schwarm
Hi, Dave! Open Source is useful in a number of ways but there's no need to exaggerate its influence, especially not because some projects re-invented a known wheel after they threw the existing one away. As a very simple example: Traditional marketing theory tells you to care about the

Re: On breaking the woohoo barrier...thoughts on how GNOME can get great

2006-07-25 Thread Santiago Roza
On 7/25/06, Claus Schwarm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've never really understood why so many people seem to listen to Doc Searls. Maybe, that's because he tells geeks what they would like to hear? yes, exactly. we geeks love to hear these optimistic things about supposed geeky revolutions...

Re: Experiences with these CMSs

2006-07-25 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Quim Gil The decision must be made also having in mind the context for next releases. Aspects as user integration with other web tools we are using, integration of eCommerce/donation system and CRM tool are also relevant. Neither of those things (including the CMS itself) has to be

Re: Experiences with these CMSs

2006-07-25 Thread Quim Gil
El dt 25 de 07 del 2006 a les 11:27 +0100, en/na Thomas Wood va escriure: I still don't think we should rule out a good build system that creates static pages. As Greg requests, can the people in favor of keeping the current system make an evaluation of the requirements, as we are doing with