Re: 3.0 parties - amazing job!

2011-02-11 Thread Allan Day
Dave Neary wrote: Hi all, Pockey Fred are doing a really amazing job with the 3.0 release party drive - it is quite astonishing to see the number of parties sprouting up around the world! Truly, this is an amazing job. Hear hear! It's great to have these events - they add a whole extra

Re: 3.0 parties - amazing job!

2011-02-11 Thread Allan Day
Emily Chen wrote: 2011/2/11 Dave Neary dne...@gnome.org Hi all, Pockey Fred are doing a really amazing job with the 3.0 release party drive - it is quite astonishing to see the number of parties sprouting up around the world! Truly,

Re: GNOME 3 QA

2011-02-10 Thread Allan Day
Allan Day wrote: Allan Day wrote: Frederic Muller wrote: On 02/04/2011 03:44 AM, Stormy Peters wrote: On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 2:19 AM, Allan Day allanp...@gmail.com mailto:allanp...@gmail.com wrote: [1] http://www.doodle.com/nhgec7p29ebyfgcf I

Re: GNOME Ambassadors

2011-02-10 Thread Allan Day
Sumana Harihareswara wrote: As I catch up on marketing email: Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 15:06:41 + From: Allan Dayallanp...@gmail.com To: marketing-list@gnome.org Subject: 3.0 Marketing Schedule Message-ID:1295449601.4813.13.ca...@blackbox.lan * GNOME Ambassadors - what is

Re: GNOME Marketing and Communications Channels

2011-02-08 Thread Allan Day
Juanjo Marin wrote: On Tue, 2011-02-01 at 16:53 +0100, Juanjo Marin wrote: Hi, GNOME has a number of marketing channels which can be used to spread information and news about the project. The idea is to concentrate the marketing efforts in just a few channels in order to give a better

Re: www.gnome.org front page

2011-02-07 Thread Allan Day
Frederic Muller wrote: Dear all, The t-shirt contest expired on January 31st (http://blogs.gnome.org/foundation/2011/01/12/gnome-t-shirt-design-contest-extended/) . what should be the next home page 'campaign'? Do we already have something in the oven and is there anything that needs

Re: GNOME 3 QA

2011-02-07 Thread Allan Day
Allan Day wrote: Frederic Muller wrote: On 02/04/2011 03:44 AM, Stormy Peters wrote: On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 2:19 AM, Allan Day allanp...@gmail.com mailto:allanp...@gmail.com wrote: [1] http://www.doodle.com/nhgec7p29ebyfgcf I filled out the time. But like

Re: GNOME 3 QA

2011-02-04 Thread Allan Day
Frederic Muller wrote: On 02/04/2011 03:44 AM, Stormy Peters wrote: On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 2:19 AM, Allan Day allanp...@gmail.com mailto:allanp...@gmail.com wrote: [1] http://www.doodle.com/nhgec7p29ebyfgcf I filled out the time. But like Sri, if I'm not traveling, I can

Re: GNOME 3 QA

2011-02-03 Thread Allan Day
Hi all, Apologies for not chasing this up sooner. I've been out of action for a good part of this week. Frederic Muller wrote: On 01/28/2011 12:47 AM, Dave Neary wrote: Hi, Allan Day wrote: How about we organise this as a 'GNOME 3 User Day', with three sessions over 24 hours

Re: gnome3.org update [Was: 4/14 Friends of GNOME videos finished and posted]

2011-01-29 Thread Allan Day
Paul Cutler wrote: Sounds great. Do you think you might have time to add these to a wiki page? That way, if we get any new volunteers looking to help, we can easily point them to a set of tasks that need to be worked on. Done:

Outward facing media [Was: Goodies for GNOME 3.0 launch parties]

2011-01-29 Thread Allan Day
Stormy Peters wrote: In fact I am also interested in a more generic question which is how do we usually use our channels to announce stuff? I tried to motivate people with the T-shirt contest but didn't receive much feedback except

gnome3.org update [Was: 4/14 Friends of GNOME videos finished and posted]

2011-01-27 Thread Allan Day
Jason D. Clinton wrote: On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 15:10, Jason D. Clinton m...@jasonclinton.com wrote: The last commit adds the text areas and needs a little iteration. Please feel free to tweak it without clearing it with me before posting it. Also

Re: GNOME 3 QA

2011-01-27 Thread Allan Day
Dave Neary wrote: Stormy Peters wrote: I too think regular office hours would be good. I'm willing to help out with a regular time each week. We could keep an archive of the questions asked and the answers to help out people answering questions. I'd suggest having 3 different office

GNOME 3 QA

2011-01-26 Thread Allan Day
Hi all, A GNOME 3 QA session would be an extremely beneficial part of our marketing campaign. It would demonstrate that GNOME is open and cares about its users, and it would be an effective way of dealing with negative comments on the web. It's really good to be able to say 'if you have concerns,

Re: GNOME 3 QA

2011-01-26 Thread Allan Day
Jason D. Clinton m...@jasonclinton.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 10:03, Allan Day allanp...@gmail.com wrote: A GNOME 3 QA session would be an extremely beneficial part of our marketing campaign. It would demonstrate that GNOME is open and cares about its users, and it would

Re: 4/14 Friends of GNOME videos finished and posted

2011-01-24 Thread Allan Day
Jason D. Clinton wrote: On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 07:05, Allan Day allanp...@gmail.com wrote: It would be really good to have screenshots from this kind of system for gnome3.org. (Hint hint!) Thoughts on optimal screen size for screen shots? I'm

Re: Official announcement and invitation to GNOME 3.0 Hackfest and GNOME.Asia Summit 2011

2011-01-24 Thread Allan Day
Vincent Untz wrote: Le vendredi 21 janvier 2011, à 23:41 +0800, Frederic Muller a écrit : So Hackfest registration is happening here: http://live.gnome.org/Hackfests/GNOME.Asia2011 , call for papers for the conference is here http://live.gnome.org/GnomeAsia/CallForPaper and conference

Re: 4/14 Friends of GNOME videos finished and posted

2011-01-22 Thread Allan Day
Jason D. Clinton wrote: Unlike the previews from late November, these files can be considered done. I have reduced the bandwidth requirements by half while mostly retaining the same level of quality. (Yay, codec progress!) http://people.gnome.org/~jclinton/FoG/ I think it would be fine to

Re: 3.0 Marketing Schedule

2011-01-21 Thread Allan Day
Brilliant :-) The talking points, which are linked from the site you've mentioned (http://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/TalkingPoints) are propabably outdated. At least it reads GNOME 3.0 is coming September, 2010 (GNOME 2.32). Also, I'm not too sure about the accessibility stuff that it

Re: www.gnome3.org launch

2011-01-19 Thread Allan Day
Pockey Lam wrote: Someone just reported there is a dead link regarding the FAQ page (common questions and answers): Try it: http://gnome3.org/www.gnome3.org/trytit.html Thanks for the tip! All fixed. Allan -- Blog: http://afaikblog.wordpress.com/ IRC: aday on irc.gnome.org --

3.0 Marketing Schedule

2011-01-19 Thread Allan Day
Hi all, I've spent some time working on the 3.0 wiki pages recently. We now have a home page for 3.0 marketing [1] and an updated schedule [2]. (I have removed some names from this - I did try and contact the relevant individuals - please put yours back if I made a mistake!) I have a couple of

Re: Goodies for GNOME 3.0 launch parties

2011-01-18 Thread Allan Day
Frederic Muller wrote: Dear marketing, Last foundation IRC meeting we touched on the Foundation approval of some budget for goodies to teams that will celebrate GNOME 3.0 on the release date. Great stuff! I'm looking forward to hearing the details of this (as well as trying to bag me some

www.gnome3.org launch

2011-01-17 Thread Allan Day
Hi all, We're pretty much at the stage where we can launch a preliminary version of gnome3.org. Ideally, we'd set a launch date and circulate a press release in advance, so that sites and blogs can break the story as it happens [1]. I had originally planned to take care of this, but I've realized

Re: Made of Easy - Made of Inspiration

2011-01-15 Thread Allan Day
Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: +1 On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 10:50 AM, Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org wrote: Made to Inspire? I really like this as a tag line. Can I just check though: can we give an account of why it will inspire? We should be able to give a decent answer if we're asked,

Re: about gnome3 dev marketing

2011-01-13 Thread Allan Day
Juanjo Marin wrote: Hi! I think is a good idea to improve the GNOME marketing for developers. Obviously, what developers really appreciate is documentation, and the documentation team is working hard on this area. I think is especially interesting the set of 10-minute-tutorials they are

Re: getting www.gnome3.org

2011-01-10 Thread Allan Day
Andreas Nilsson wrote: On 01/04/2011 09:11 PM, Stormy Peters wrote: We do have gnome3.org and we worked on it at the last marketing hackfest. At that time, it was really close to launching ... http://www.andreasn.se/diverse/temp/gnome3.org/ This design is a bit different from the one I did

Re: getting www.gnome3.org

2011-01-10 Thread Allan Day
snip So, my observations regarding KDE4 on slashdot and other forums are that users are nuts. KDE 4.0 was released as a preview release and people were bitching constantly about regressions despite whatever was said about it. Basically, they've decided that if you put 4.0 in front of it it

Re: Pre-release marketing and community management [Was: getting www.gnome3.org]

2011-01-07 Thread Allan Day
Stormy Peters wrote: On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 6:09 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.me wrote: We didn't do this for 2.0 which fed into a lot of rage on a number of forums. Nobody could understand why we were removing features or the philosophy behind

Re: Pre-release marketing and community management [Was: getting www.gnome3.org]

2011-01-06 Thread Allan Day
Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 8:41 AM, Dave Neary dne...@gnome.org wrote: Hi, Stormy Peters wrote: It seems like we need two things: 1) a website to speak to the world (our our community) about GNOME 3.0 -

Pre-release marketing and community management [Was: getting www.gnome3.org]

2011-01-05 Thread Allan Day
On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 13:50 -0800, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 12:34 PM, Jason D. Clinton m...@jasonclinton.com wrote: Since it was supposed to be almost entirely video thumbnails on the front page, the videos need to go up there. And since we

Re: Pre-release marketing and community management [Was: getting www.gnome3.org]

2011-01-05 Thread Allan Day
On Wed, 2011-01-05 at 09:05 +, Allan Day wrote: On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 13:50 -0800, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 12:34 PM, Jason D. Clinton m...@jasonclinton.com wrote: Since it was supposed to be almost entirely video thumbnails on the front

Re: GNOME marketing material git repository

2010-12-17 Thread Allan Day
On Fri, 2010-12-17 at 14:19 +0100, Ben Konrath wrote: Hi, Is there a git repository where I can store revisions of my brochures and posters? I'm using a git repository locally and thought it be might be a good idea to start keep track of things on git.gnome.org. I realize that a 'git diff'

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