Re: OSCON

2012-01-30 Thread Allan Day
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Bryen M Yunashko a11yro...@bryen.com wrote: On Sun, 2012-01-29 at 15:37 +0100, Dave Neary wrote: The best booths are the ones that engage people passing by. I had a few ideas but they may be way out there... could be cool for OSCON, though. Interesting

Brno Hackfest News Coverage

2012-01-30 Thread Allan Day
Hi all, The a11y hackfest news coverage is almost done, and the preparations for the FOSDEM stories are in full swing. Thanks to Juanjo, Christy and Emily for their contributions! The next event on the calendar [1] is the Brno hackfest, which will combine a Gtk+ and a documentation event. Does

ATK and AT-SPI Hackfest

2012-01-13 Thread Allan Day
Hi all, In line with our new awesometastic news strategy [1], I've taken the lead for posting news about the upcoming ATK and AT-SPI hackfest [2]. I've already written a news post to be sent out in advance of the event. Now I'm looking for someone to write a news post after it has happened. This

Re: ATK and AT-SPI Hackfest

2012-01-13 Thread Allan Day
Juanjo Marin juanj.ma...@juntadeandalucia.es wrote: El vie, 13-01-2012 a las 12:02 +, Allan Day escribió: Hi all, In line with our new awesometastic news strategy [1], I've taken the lead for posting news about the upcoming ATK and AT-SPI hackfest [2]. I've already written a news post

Re: youtube GNOME channel..

2012-01-12 Thread Allan Day
On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 7:40 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.me wrote: On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 2:49 AM, Allan Day allanp...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 2:24 AM, Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.me wrote: It seems that our GNOME channel is languishing.  For the life of me I

FoG Campaign Update?

2012-01-12 Thread Allan Day
Hi all, I haven't been particularly involved in this, and I thought the initial announcement was awesome. I just wanted to ask if there are any plans to produce updates? For a campaign like this it is really important to keep the pressure up and to make people feel like it is an ongoing effort. A

Re: FoG Campaign Update?

2012-01-12 Thread Allan Day
2012/1/12 Juanjo Marín juanjomari...@yahoo.es: - Mensaje original - De: Allan Day allanp...@gmail.com Para: GNOME Marketing List marketing-list@gnome.org CC: Enviado: jueves 12 de enero de 2012 10:49 Asunto: FoG Campaign Update? Hi all, I haven't been particularly involved

Organising GNOME News

2012-01-12 Thread Allan Day
Hi all, We can do a much better job at organising our news generating activities, so that we have a more regular flow of posts and so that we adequately cover events when they happen. To this end, I've started some planning pages on the wiki. There's a high-level [1] page covering goals and,

Re: FoG Campaign Update?

2012-01-12 Thread Allan Day
2012/1/12 Juanjo Marín juanjomari...@yahoo.es:  There were some problems in the original launching so we are  thinking about trying to re-launch the FoG campaign  We had  problems with the donation progress bar, so I think  is good idea to add it with the relaunching.. I'm in contact with  

Re: marketing mini meeting at FOSDEM

2012-01-12 Thread Allan Day
My talks are going to be late afternoon on the Saturday and lunchtime on the Sunday. I can meet at any other time. Allan On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 3:47 PM, Tobias Mueller mue...@cryptobitch.de wrote: Heya :) On 09.01.2012 18:38, Karen Sandler wrote: let me know if you'd like to be added to the

Re: youtube GNOME channel..

2012-01-09 Thread Allan Day
On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 2:24 AM, Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.me wrote: It seems that our GNOME channel is languishing.  For the life of me I cannot figure out how to mark videos as part of the GNOME channel.  We have several 3.0 related videos that I would like to see tagged. Which videos

Re: marketing mini meeting at FOSDEM

2012-01-06 Thread Allan Day
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 10:01 PM, Karen Sandler ka...@gnome.org wrote: I know that Allan, Emily G. and I are planning to attend FOSDEM. Is anyone else? I'd love to schedule a time for us to meet up. Yep, me too. I'm giving a couple of talks which I don't know the time of yet. I'll be in touch as

Re: [Fwd: Re: Additional Hackfests - Brno]

2011-12-13 Thread Allan Day
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 3:58 AM, Emily Gonyer emilyyr...@gmail.com wrote: I've pretty much committed to going to FOSDEM (though tickets aren't bought yet... I keep procrastinating), though I spose I could switch and go to Brno instead, but both would be pretty hard. I'm in exactly the same

Fwd: [gnome.org #12283] Re: Storing marketing materials

2011-11-15 Thread Allan Day
Forwarding Jeff's mail. -- Forwarded message -- From: Jeff Schroeder via RT accou...@gnome.org Date: Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 7:31 PM Subject: [gnome.org #12283] Re: Storing marketing materials To: allanp...@gmail.com On Mon Nov 14 08:51:50 2011, allanp...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [gnome.org #12283] Re: Storing marketing materials

2011-11-15 Thread Allan Day
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 4:01 PM, Emily Gonyer emilyyr...@gmail.com wrote: K... so how/where else can we host this stuff? ... The choices would seem to be: 1) Continue with the wiki 2) Git/Sparkleshare on Gitorious or Github 3) Wait for a better solution, such as a GNOME owncloud.org

Re: Storing marketing materials

2011-11-14 Thread Allan Day
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 12:53 PM, Andreas Nilsson andr...@andreasn.se wrote: On 11/11/2011 10:18 AM, Allan Day wrote: Hi all, Our marketing resources are currently stored on the wiki. This isn't great, since things get fragmented across different pages and it's hard work to maintain. I'd

Storing marketing materials

2011-11-11 Thread Allan Day
Hi all, Our marketing resources are currently stored on the wiki. This isn't great, since things get fragmented across different pages and it's hard work to maintain. I'd really like for us to have a single shared repository for all our marketing materials, including assets (such as photos,

Re: marketing hackfest?

2011-11-02 Thread Allan Day
2011/11/2 Juanjo Marín juanjomari...@yahoo.es: - Mensaje original - De: Karen Sandler ka...@gnome.org Para: marketing-list@gnome.org CC: Enviado: martes 1 de noviembre de 2011 5:28 Asunto: marketing hackfest? It's starting to look like there are a few different hackfests

Re: tasks for Google's code-in!

2011-10-28 Thread Allan Day
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 1:00 AM, Karen Sandler ka...@gnome.org wrote: Hey marketing team, Hopefully you saw André Klapper's email to desktop-devel about the Google Code-in: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2011-October/msg00175.html We only have a few days to add tasks,

Developing GNOME News

2011-10-28 Thread Allan Day
Hi all, My action item from last week's meeting was to mail the list about options for our news sites. So here we go! The question is how we should develop GNOME's news sites and what role GNOME Journal should have. A number of goals were brought up in our discussion last week, including: *

Re: Developing GNOME News

2011-10-28 Thread Allan Day
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Olav Vitters o...@vitters.nl wrote: On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 12:25:31PM +0100, Allan Day wrote: *** Use news.gnome.org *** This only carries syndicated content right now. We could turn it into a site that pushes stories from elsewhere and has its own original

Re: Developing GNOME News

2011-10-28 Thread Allan Day
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Emily emilyyr...@gmail.com wrote: I feel like having a base page, where we can update frequently w/ stuff as it occurs - ie a news site, is definetly important. I also feel like having a link to the dedicated GNOME Journal would be a good thing, and that

Re: Developing GNOME News

2011-10-28 Thread Allan Day
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 2:00 PM, alex diavatis alexis.diava...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Allan, I think that gnome.org consistency is a bit broken on several areas, for example on gnome.org we have latest news that are totally different from latest news on news.gnome.org. I agree. We could maybe

Re: Tommorrow's meeting

2011-10-20 Thread Allan Day
Hey Emily, Emily emilyyr...@gmail.com wrote: Wondering what some of the stuff thats likely to be discussed at tommorow's meeting will be so I can try and research it so that I'm at least semi-informed. Look forward to chatting!! There's an agenda (feel free to add to it):

Meeting: 21 October

2011-10-14 Thread Allan Day
Hi all, Due to popular demand, we're holding a meeting to discuss where GNOME marketing is and what needs doing. Date: Friday 21 October Time: 15:00 UTC Place: #marketing on irc.gnome.org I've started a wiki page [1] for the meeting, which includes an agenda. Please add any items you would like

Re: marketing list round up

2011-10-13 Thread Allan Day
Pockey Lam pockey...@gnome.org wrote: Hi Allan, On 10/13/2011 04:34 AM, Allan Day wrote: There's been a good response to the meeting poll. It looks like Friday 21 October at 15:00 UTC is the most popular time. Only Pockey can't make it then - sorry about that Pockey, Let us know if there's

Re: The GNOME Annual Report

2011-10-12 Thread Allan Day
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 11:39 PM, Emily emilyyr...@gmail.com wrote: What about doing both - a PDF vs with a website to back it up with more info? The PDF/report could be slimmed down, basics of whats going on just a page or two, maybe 3 at most long, while the website could include

Re: marketing list round up

2011-10-12 Thread Allan Day
Thanks to everyone who has already completed the Doodle poll. If you would like to attend the meeting, please follow suit asap. Allan On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 10:22 AM, Allan Day allanp...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I'm coming back to this after a break. Let's shoot for a meeting next week

Re: marketing list round up

2011-10-12 Thread Allan Day
for anyone else). Barring objections or counter proposals, I'll announce the meeting date shortly. Allan On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 10:04 AM, Allan Day allanp...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks to everyone who has already completed the Doodle poll. If you would like to attend the meeting, please follow suit

Re: marketing list round up

2011-10-10 Thread Allan Day
Hi all, I'm coming back to this after a break. Let's shoot for a meeting next week, shall we? That should help us to see where we are. I've started a Doodle poll. Please use it to indicate your availability: http://www.doodle.com/3ea23du665wqspng Best wishes, Allan -- IRC: aday on

GNOME Summit publicity

2011-10-10 Thread Allan Day
Hi all, So, the Boston/Montreal summit is currently underway. It's a great opportunity for us to do some publicity work - does someone want to write a short news piece for gnome.org? Allan -- IRC: aday on irc.gnome.org Blog: http://afaikblog.wordpress.com/ -- marketing-list mailing list

Re: Urgent - 3.2 Press Release

2011-09-27 Thread Allan Day
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 6:00 PM, Olav Vitters o...@vitters.nl wrote: On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 02:46:02PM +0200, Andreas Nilsson wrote: As in trying by building the tarballs? I don't think we have live-cd's this time around. Plan is to have them. Suggest *not* to advertise tarballs. We don't in

Re: interview for SCALE website

2011-09-19 Thread Allan Day
2011/9/19 Juanjo Marín juanjomari...@yahoo.es: - Mensaje original - De: Andre Klapper ak...@gmx.net Para: marketing-list@gnome.org CC: Enviado: lunes 19 de septiembre de 2011 10:35 Asunto: Re: interview for SCALE website On Mon, 2011-09-19 at 07:46 +0100, Juanjo Marín wrote:  

Re: Urgent - 3.2 Press Release

2011-09-14 Thread Allan Day
Hi Karen, On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 3:29 PM, Karen Sandler ka...@gnome.org wrote: On Wed, September 14, 2011 4:44 am, Allan Day wrote: Hi all, The release notes seem to be progressing well, but no one seems to have stepped forward to do the press release. This really needs taking care

Re: 3.2 Release Parties [was: Re: Kick starting the 3.2 campaign]

2011-09-12 Thread Allan Day
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 10:57 AM, Andre Klapper ak...@gmx.net wrote: On Sun, 2011-08-28 at 13:08 +0100, Allan Day wrote: It's time to think about how we're going to promote the 3.2 release. As we don't plan big release parties and as https://mail.gnome.org/archives/marketing-list/2011

Re: 3.2 Release Notes: Featured Apps

2011-09-11 Thread Allan Day
On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 11:58 AM, Olav Vitters o...@vitters.nl wrote: On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 01:43:33PM +0200, Olav Vitters wrote: I'll also try and assist in the release notes. I'll assist, so if you (Andre/Alan/sri) think something I wrote is bad, just change please. I've changed loads of

Re: Kick starting the 3.2 campaign

2011-09-08 Thread Allan Day
Vinicius! Vinicius Depizzol vdepiz...@gmail.com wrote: Hey Allan! On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 09:08, Allan Day allanp...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all,  * We need volunteers for other tasks. The planning page [1] contains a list of things that need doing. It includes art work, web development

Re: Are there some community/marketing indicators defined?

2011-09-08 Thread Allan Day
Hi Félix, 2011/9/8 J. Félix Ontañón fonta...@emergya.es: Hi Marketing Team! I've been diving into live.gnome.org (up again! it's a good thing!) looking for some indicators, kpi, metrics or something related the way you measure the success of the activities the marketing team does and how

Re: Are there some community/marketing indicators defined?

2011-09-08 Thread Allan Day
2011/9/8 J. Félix Ontañón fonta...@emergya.es: El día 8 de septiembre de 2011 10:22, Allan Day allanp...@gmail.com escribió: Hi Félix, 2011/9/8 J. Félix Ontañón fonta...@emergya.es: Hi Marketing Team! I've been diving into live.gnome.org (up again! it's a good thing!) looking for some

Re: 3.2 Release Notes: Featured Apps

2011-08-31 Thread Allan Day
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 8:49 PM, Jason D. Clinton m...@jasonclinton.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 14:30, Allan Day allanp...@gmail.com wrote: For reference, the existing featured apps can be found on gnome.org [1]. Asking whether the applications on that page are the best non-core GNOME

Re: bad press in the G+ circles/press

2011-08-08 Thread Allan Day
Bryen M Yunashko a11yro...@bryen.com wrote: And this thread is already pointing out that we don't seem to want to hear dissenting opinions, only those that rave and glorify.  That's not exactly productive in my opinion. Thanks for twisting my words. I write that Joe wasn't being helpful and

Re: Marketing update at AGM

2011-08-08 Thread Allan Day
Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org wrote: Hi GNOME Marketing folks, We have been asked to give a 5 minute update at the AGM tomorrow afternoon. If there is someone on the list that is here at the Desktop Summit that would like to do it, please speak up, otherwise I am happy to do it. Looks like

Re: bad press in the G+ circles/press

2011-08-08 Thread Allan Day
Joe apos;Zonkerapos; Brockmeier j...@zonker.net wrote: On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Jason D. Clinton m...@jasonclinton.com wrote: And how was I not constructive? Stop this. No, really - how was what I wrote non-constructive? I didn't flame anybody - I wasn't rude, I expressed my

Re: bad press in the G+ circles/press

2011-08-05 Thread Allan Day
Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.me wrote: We've been getting a slew of psots on G+ and in the press.  Started by Linus, has now caused a stampede of well known Linux kernel developers feeling the need to reject Gnome 3 in public. Since the press now senses red meat, I wonder if we might be

Re: bad press in the G+ circles/press

2011-08-05 Thread Allan Day
Luc Pionchon pionchon@gmail.com wrote: What about? - be open - listen to the feedback, - don't give canned answers - engage in constructive discussion, - avoid derision - show interest in feedback - get to the facts; - go to the source, tackle rumors; what is it founded on? - if

Re: material for desktop summit press kit

2011-08-04 Thread Allan Day
Sumana Harihareswara suma...@panix.com wrote: From: Karen Sandler ka...@gnome.org ... We're putting together information for the Desktop Summit Press Kit, and one of the sections is hot issues for both KDE and GNOME. ... Additional hot issues (that is, some of these are salient and somewhat

Re: material for desktop summit press kit

2011-08-02 Thread Allan Day
Karen Sandler ka...@gnome.org wrote: Hi board and marketing list! We're putting together information for the Desktop Summit Press Kit, and one of the sections is hot issues for both KDE and GNOME. here's the KDE draft so far: Key issues for KDE at the Desktop Summit The KDE community will

Re: Can we document how to do GNOME announcements, please?

2011-06-08 Thread Allan Day
Hi Dave, Thanks for kicking off this discussion. It's something I've meant to do myself at various points in the past (I think I even started writing up an analysis at one point...) A few general remarks (apologies for the brain dump): news.gnome.org has evolved into something that is often

Re: preparing to market GNOME 3.2

2011-05-06 Thread Allan Day
Sumana Harihareswara wrote: According to http://live.gnome.org/ThreePointOne Monday will mark the end of the feature proposal discussion period for the 3.1.x development series. Once we know what sorts of improvements are going to be in 3.2 We have a good idea of what's going to be

Fedora 15 Release

2011-05-06 Thread Allan Day
Hi all, Fedora 15 is scheduled for release on May 24th. That's roughly three and a half weeks from now. This will be the first release of a distro using GNOME 3 by default. In some respects, it is the real launch of GNOME 3 (in the sense that a usable product is being made available). We put a

Re: preparing to market GNOME 3.2

2011-05-06 Thread Allan Day
On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 18:00 +0800, Frederic Muller wrote: So would these bugs be considered as annoying? 1. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=647441 alt key for shutdown isn't usable on tablets - but I think a lot of people have complained about it on IRC, people with only one

Re: preparing to market GNOME 3.2

2011-05-06 Thread Allan Day
On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 11:39 +0100, Allan Day wrote: We are looking for bugs that (a) have been brought up by users and/or reviewers (ie. not us ;) ) and (b) are valid (ie. things we want to fix). Let's not be too restrictive though. The main criteria is that it's annoying and we've fixed

Trademark Guidelines

2011-05-02 Thread Allan Day
] to the licensing [1] page itself? Thanks in advance for your help with this matter. Allan Day [1] http://foundation.gnome.org/licensing/ [2] https://live.gnome.org/BrandGuidelines [3] https://live.gnome.org/BrandGuidelines/DraftAdditions -- Blog: http://afaikblog.wordpress.com/ IRC: aday

Re: Brand Guidelines Update

2011-05-02 Thread Allan Day
On Fri, 2011-04-29 at 15:13 -0500, Brian Cameron wrote: Allan: The question seems to be what the most appropriate place for this content is. Can the specification of our logo usage sit on the same page as a potentially looser set of branding guidelines and still perform its legal

Re: Brand Guidelines Update

2011-04-29 Thread Allan Day
On Thu, 2011-04-28 at 22:07 +0200, Dave Neary wrote: Hi Allan, Allan Day wrote: I wasn't aware that the brand guidelines are official or legal documents. They are guidelines. Maybe the foundation should bless them with officialdom... I'm not sure what that would achieve though. It's

Re: Fwd: Tanath9 sent you a message: Comments disabled?

2011-04-28 Thread Allan Day
Stormy Peters wrote: I didn't set comments to disabled No, I did. :) but I find I don't feel strongly one way or the other. Thoughts? The YouTube channel wasn't meant as a delivery platform. It was primarily intended as a hosting solution, with the videos then being embedded in our

Re: Brand Guidelines Update

2011-04-28 Thread Allan Day
Brian Cameron wrote: Allan: We typically have our lawyers review official documents that relate to legal issues such as trademark before we make changes to them. Is this because the Wiki version of our Guidelines is not yet official? Most official GNOME legal documents should probably be

Re: Brand Guidelines Update

2011-04-28 Thread Allan Day
On Thu, 2011-04-28 at 08:59 -0500, Brian Cameron wrote: Allan: On 04/28/11 08:32 AM, Allan Day wrote: Brian Cameron wrote: Allan: We typically have our lawyers review official documents that relate to legal issues such as trademark before we make changes to them. Is this because

Brand Guidelines Update

2011-04-27 Thread Allan Day
Hi all, I spent some time elaborating our brand guidelines [1] today. The sections that I added are marked as draft status. Feedback would be welcome. To date, the guidelines only addressed the GNOME logo and its usage. My aim with the update is to expand them to cover terminology and additional

Re: Fwd: Re: Longtime KDE user, excited by Gnome 3

2011-04-15 Thread Allan Day
On Thu, 2011-04-14 at 10:37 -0400, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: I love this quote (below). Andreas, Allan, et al. -- is there a place for this on gnome3.org? Perhaps what people are saying? No, but there should be! If anyone can help with this, it would be appreciated. Allan -- Blog:

Re: Announce the best photo competition as latest news

2011-04-14 Thread Allan Day
Hi Emily! Emily Chen wrote: Hi Allan, We got lots of best photo during the launch of GNOME 3.0 Launch Party. Thank you for initiating the idea. Yes, we've had some great entries, haven't we?! See more from: http://live.gnome.org/action/edit/ThreePointZero/LaunchParty/PhotoCompetition

Re: new wgo and friends of gnome

2011-04-13 Thread Allan Day
On Wed, 2011-04-13 at 22:24 +0800, Frederic Muller wrote: On 04/13/2011 10:06 PM, Jason D. Clinton wrote: On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 08:55, Frederic Muller fr...@gnome.org mailto:fr...@gnome.org wrote: I was actually trying to find the new page for friends of gnome and get

Re: Live image downloads

2011-04-12 Thread Allan Day
Olav Vitters wrote: http://www.acc.umu.se/technical/statistics/ftp/gnome.html.en ignore the number of downloads, those include partials as well (download tools). 17,173,908,500,707 bytes for the -latest.iso link. about 650MB for the iso. dividing using the real size I get 22600

Re: The last long steps of the gnome.org website

2011-04-05 Thread Allan Day
Hi Luc, Thanks for all the comments! Much appreciated. Luc Pionchon wrote: Hello, I am looking at http://wptest.gnome.org/. There has been a huge work done since last time I looked at it, wow! Here are a few quick comments, In the front page, For more GNOME news: I would not point

Re: The last long steps of the gnome.org website

2011-03-30 Thread Allan Day
Vinicius Depizzol wrote: Hey Allan and Andreas! I'll be working the most I can to help on that during all the following days. I'll give a pause in the localization plugin by now and focus in the design of the pages (we can't have translated content in time anyway). Great news. By the

Re: The last long steps of the gnome.org website

2011-03-28 Thread Allan Day
On Wed, 2011-03-09 at 00:51 +0100, Andreas Nilsson wrote: I won't go about with some kind of inpirational blah-blah-blah about how the last steps of climbing a mountain, when you are closest to the top are the hardest, because I never did that. I saw some dude on TV saying that though.

Re: Fallback / Classic Mode

2011-03-25 Thread Allan Day
Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 11:12 AM, Brian Cameron brian.came...@oracle.com wrote: My understanding was that GNOME 3.0 was simply not targeting these users, and that the expectation was that Fallback/Classic mode would

Re: GNOME: numbers of users, patches/revisions

2011-03-25 Thread Allan Day
Dave Neary wrote: snip GNOME 3 will reach [number] of users around the world. What's a reasonable number to predict? Ah, now we're getting into whether GNOME apps platform + Unity = GNOME 3. Touchy subject... We're primarily marketing GNOME 3 as the GNOME 3 desktop. It would seem

Re: Next GNOME User Day (31 March) needs 2 more co-hosts

2011-03-23 Thread Allan Day
On Tue, 2011-03-22 at 11:34 +, Luis Medinas wrote: 2011/3/22 Allan Day allanp...@gmail.com: Sumana Harihareswara wrote: I'm planning another GNOME User Day -- http://live.gnome.org/ThreePointZero/UserDays -- for Thursday, 31 March 2011. We'll answer user questions, especially about

Re: Fallback / Classic Mode

2011-03-22 Thread Allan Day
Hey John, John Stowers wrote: Fine. Here is my suggestion; GNOME 3 RELEASE NOTES GO HERE * PRETTY LIST OF FEATURES * I MAKE LIFE EASY * SHINY SCREENSHOTS FOOTNOTES START HERE Known Issues: * The GNOME 3 shell experience does not work over VNC or when the desktop is run in a

Re: GNOME 3.0 parties - photo gallery and Photo competition ?

2011-03-22 Thread Allan Day
Emily Chen wrote: 2011/3/18 Allan Day allanp...@gmail.com On Tue, 2011-03-15 at 12:31 +0800, Emily Chen wrote: 2011/3/12 Frederic Crozat f...@crozat.net On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 5:40 PM, Emily Chen emilychen...@gmail.com

Re: Next GNOME User Day (31 March) needs 2 more co-hosts

2011-03-22 Thread Allan Day
Sumana Harihareswara wrote: I'm planning another GNOME User Day -- http://live.gnome.org/ThreePointZero/UserDays -- for Thursday, 31 March 2011. We'll answer user questions, especially about GNOME 3, via IRC. I need about six people to each help host a session for an hour -- we'll have

Re: Fallback / Classic Mode

2011-03-21 Thread Allan Day
Brian Cameron wrote: Allan: On 03/18/11 04:28 AM, Allan Day wrote: The message, as Olav has already pointed out, is that it is 'fallback', not 'classic' GNOME. It's what you get if you are unlucky enough not to be able to run the full GNOME 3 desktop. It isn't intended as something

Re: Video #2 RFC

2011-03-21 Thread Allan Day
Jason D. Clinton wrote: On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 22:53, Jason D. Clinton m...@jasonclinton.com wrote: On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 19:05, Jason D. Clinton m...@jasonclinton.com wrote: A first production attempt of launch video #2 is available here. Comments, please. The sooner, the better

Re: Fallback / Classic Mode

2011-03-21 Thread Allan Day
Alberto Ruiz wrote: Hello Allan, I'm actually quite worried about this use case and the impact that 3.0 can have on them. Yes, corporate desktop is not the primary target for GNOME 3.0, but it is our largest install base by a long shot (schools, corporations, public entities,

About GNOME, Support GNOME

2011-03-21 Thread Allan Day
Hi all, I've been working on the content for the new gnome.org site recently. There are a couple of pages that I would appreciate feedback on: About GNOME [1] and Support GNOME [2]. Both are early drafts. About About GNOME: it's a new version of an existing page [3]. I wanted it to be a

Re: GNOME 3.0 parties - photo gallery and Photo competition ?

2011-03-18 Thread Allan Day
On Tue, 2011-03-15 at 12:31 +0800, Emily Chen wrote: 2011/3/12 Frederic Crozat f...@crozat.net On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 5:40 PM, Emily Chen emilychen...@gmail.com wrote: For Best Photo Competition, in my mind, it is easy to do if we choose one

Re: Fallback / Classic Mode

2011-03-18 Thread Allan Day
Alberto Ruiz wrote: Then again, I think we should keep the fallback mode as close to the 2.x look as possible tbh to avoid confusion. The confusion lies in the fact that the fallback mode is clearly made from GNOME 2 components. It would have been clearer if it were more divorced from the

Re: Any Shared Slides - New Features for GNOME 3.0

2011-03-17 Thread Allan Day
On Thu, 2011-03-17 at 17:19 +0800, Emily Chen wrote: 2011/3/17 Allan Day allanp...@gmail.com Hi Emily, What do you want these slides for, exactly? I know in some GNOME Launch parties, like in Beijing and Taipei, they are planning a talk about GNOME 3.0, after

Re: Any Shared Slides - New Features for GNOME 3.0

2011-03-16 Thread Allan Day
Hi Emily, What do you want these slides for, exactly? Will they be to have on in the background, or the focus of presentations? If they are for background, I would suggest a slideshow that is low on text and high on images. I can think of some good candidates, and it shouldn't be too hard to

Re: GNOME 3.0 parties - photo gallery and Photo competition ?

2011-03-11 Thread Allan Day
Hi Emily! On Fri, 2011-03-11 at 16:54 +0800, Emily Chen wrote: Hi Allan and all, I would like to continue our discuss about a possible photo gallery or Photo competition for GNOME 3.0 launch parties. Thanks for following this up. A photo competition would be great. Andreas or Paul: since

Re: GNOME 3 videos

2011-03-11 Thread Allan Day
Hi Will, will kahn-greene wrote: Miro is a desktop media player application. You can download it at http://getmiro.com/. It has nothing to do with this conversation. GNOME Miro Community is a web-site that indexes GNOME videos regardless of where they are on the Internet. It is at

Re: first draft of my response to Linux Format magazine

2011-03-10 Thread Allan Day
Hey Sri, Thanks for taking this on! This looks really good. Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: Please check for accuracy and if there is anything that needs to be added, please edit and send back to me: A few minor comments... (do what you want with them ;) ) 1. What advantages does GNOME 3 offer to

Re: GNOME.Asia lightning talk re GNOME 3 marketing

2011-03-09 Thread Allan Day
On Mon, 2011-03-07 at 18:45 -0500, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeAsia/2011Summit/LightningTalks Allan, or someone else who is planning on going to the Bangalore summit: want to sign up for a lightning talk about GNOME 3 or marketing GNOME? I just signed up. Thanks

GNOME Plumbing [Was: GNOME Journal]

2011-03-08 Thread Allan Day
John Stowers wrote: I know there are some concerns about customisation and GNOME 3. A few points here: * Some of us who are involved in marketing have already been pushing for the GNOME tweak tool. We're aware that it needs to become a reality. Would you be interested in working on

Re: GNOME 3 videos

2011-03-07 Thread Allan Day
Hey Jason! Jason D. Clinton wrote: On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 17:33, Sumana Harihareswara suma...@panix.com wrote: I'm looking at http://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/Gnome3In30Seconds and http://jasondclinton.livejournal.com/82744.html -- I'm downloading some

Re: GNOME 3 videos

2011-03-07 Thread Allan Day
On Sat, 2011-03-05 at 17:07 -0500, will kahn-greene wrote: On 03/05/2011 04:22 PM, Jason D. Clinton wrote: On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 14:27, will kahn-greene wi...@bluesock.org wrote: This last bit is kind of important. The last time I checked, you couldn't access the html5/webm version of

Re: GNOME Journal

2011-03-06 Thread Allan Day
Hey John, John Stowers wrote: On Sat, 2011-03-05 at 18:45 -0800, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 3:06 PM, Sumana Harihareswara suma...@panix.com wrote: Sri, can you do an article on GNOME Shell extensions (with an emphasis on GNOME 3 of course) and

Week 1 Update

2011-03-04 Thread Allan Day
Hi all! It's nearly the end of the first week of my GNOME 3 marketing contract, so I thought it would be a good time to let you all know what I've been up to. Here's a list of the main tasks I've taken care of this week as a part of the contract: * Wrote to the marketing list about plans for

Re: updating http://live.gnome.org/RoadMap

2011-03-03 Thread Allan Day
Sumana Harihareswara wrote: On 03/01/2011 03:51 PM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: I think there's value in having http://live.gnome.org/RoadMap as a place where what's new in GNOME 3 for admins, users, developers gets summarized in a few bullet points, for developers to see. This seems

Getting GNOME 3

2011-03-03 Thread Allan Day
Hi all, We need to decide on what instructions we want to give users for how to get this amazing new release of ours. I'd like to put this information on gnome3.org, but we might want to use it elsewhere, too. I have a few criteria I'd like to suggest for how we select the installation and

Re: GNOME 3 DVD, help needed

2011-03-03 Thread Allan Day
Vincent Untz wrote: Hi, Novell will produce GNOME-branded LiveDVD for GNOME 3.0, and will give them to the community. Awesome! To make it's all perfect, we need a few things: + test the GNOME 3 images produced by Fred Crozat, and report everything that's wrong or missing (which

Re: How GNOME can help distros for GNOME 3

2011-03-01 Thread Allan Day
On Mon, 2011-02-28 at 19:33 +0100, Vincent Untz wrote: Hey, After I got summoned in #marketing, and discussing a bit with Sumana and Allan, I sent a mail to distributor-list to find out how we can help distro with the switch to GNOME 3:

Re: GNOME Hires 2 Marketing Contractors

2011-02-28 Thread Allan Day
with GNOME marketing activities and were looking to hire a contractor to fill the position. I'm pleased to announce that the GNOME Foundation has hired Allan Day and Sumana Harihareswara to fill this role. Allan and Sumana

Re: GNOME 3.0 Release Notes

2011-02-28 Thread Allan Day
Paul Cutler pcut...@gnome.org wrote: It's that time to start working on and planning the GNOME 3.0 release notes. I've done the last couple of release notes, and with the importance of GNOME 3.0, I'm hoping for some help.  :) I wouldn't mind re-thinking the release notes, for a couple of

Re: window controls removing max and min from windows committed..

2011-02-23 Thread Allan Day
Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: Hey guys, So Owen committed the windows control here as explained here: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-shell-list/2011-February/msg00192.html We'll need to update the faq and also we'll need to figure out how to explain how this is an improvement. Indeed

Re: Speaking opportunity at SVLUG on April 6 about GNOME 3.0

2011-02-18 Thread Allan Day
We should have a pool of GNOME 3 presentation materials available by that point - it shouldn't be too much work (if any) for someone to pull a presentation together. Allan On Fri, 2011-02-18 at 10:53 +0100, Dave Neary wrote: Hi, You might pitch Behdad too, he's in Mountain View. Cheers,

Re: Index page for projects.gnome.org

2011-02-16 Thread Allan Day
Hey Olav! Olav Vitters wrote: Hello, I'm working on an automated index for projects.gnome.org (so, http://projects.gnome.org). It retrieves information from the various DOAP files hosted in the various modules. Great stuff - really good idea. I want the main page for projects.gnome.org

GNOME 3 User Day: Debrief and analysis

2011-02-16 Thread Allan Day
Hi all, Yesterday was the first GNOME 3 user day [1, 2]. Many thanks to everyone who contributed. I was really pleased with how the event went. Attendance was excellent, and those who participated seemed to get a lot out of it. It certainly seemed to boost enthusiasm, and I daresay that we

Re: 3.0 parties - amazing job!

2011-02-14 Thread Allan Day
Pockey Lam wrote: It would be great if we define a tag for those medias. How about define tag as : GNOME3_launch_party The official tag has been announced, which is #gnome3parties, I already informed all the party organizers by email as well. We asked them to blog / tag pictures,

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