Re: propose new time for marketing meeting

2013-07-11 Thread Brett Legree
Thanks sri - this time slot would work better for me, for sure - or 1900 UTC any other weekday as well. I do want to throw in my 5 cents Canadian after all (since we don't have pennies anymore, we're up from 2 cents!) Brett On Jul 11, 2013 10:13 AM, Sriram Ramkrishna sriram.ramkris...@gmail.com

Re: propose new time for marketing meeting

2013-07-11 Thread Brett Legree
That would work for me too. Brett On Jul 11, 2013 11:28 AM, Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.me wrote: I'm flexible.. we can go for 18:00 UTC. That would make it about 11am my time. On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 8:01 AM, Andreas Nilsson li...@andreasn.sewrote: On 07/11/2013 10:14 AM, Sriram

Re: markeiting meeting today

2013-07-02 Thread Brett Legree
I am at a fairly remote location this week, so it could be even spottier than usual for me - no worries about postponing! Brety On Jul 2, 2013 1:47 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.me wrote: I have not heard much feedback. I know a couple of people cannot make it. Would it work best if

Re: Marketing meeting Tuesday June 10th 20:00 UTC

2013-06-11 Thread Brett Legree
Hello all... I had hoped to get out today, having missed the last few - sadly, a fire water system pressure test has vetoed my plans :-) Maybe next time! Brett On Jun 11, 2013 10:35 AM, Karen Sandler ka...@gnome.org wrote: here's the info to dial in, same as usual: 718-247-9666, PIN 9090

Re: Go-ahead for a community survey

2013-05-23 Thread Brett Legree
I think that it looks great, and I agree with Fabiana and Karen that it would be good to expand it beyond just GNOME 3.8 (to perhaps see just what versions people are using). Brett On May 23, 2013 1:49 PM, Fabiana Simões fabianapsim...@gmail.com wrote: That looks great! This kind of information

Re: Fwd: Good day - re: new direction for Cinnarch

2013-04-14 Thread Brett Legree
. Perhaps that is something to focus on? sri On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 2:22 AM, Brett Legree brett.leg...@gmail.comwrote: Hashem, I spoke directly with Alexandre (the Cinnarch project lead) after reading a post in the news section of the project web page - they've already made GNOME

Re: Fwd: Good day - re: new direction for Cinnarch

2013-04-13 Thread Brett Legree
, Hashem Nasarat hnasa...@gmail.com wrote: This site admin on their forum seemed against association with a particular desktop environment. Has anyone actually reached out to contact those involved? http://forum.cinnarch.com/viewtopic.php?f=13t=905#p2581 On 04/12/2013 07:32 AM, Brett Legree

Fwd: Good day - re: new direction for Cinnarch

2013-04-12 Thread Brett Legree
alexfilgue...@cinnarch.com Date: Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 6:35 AM Subject: Re: Good day - re: new direction for Cinnarch To: Brett Legree brett.leg...@gmail.com Hi Brett Well, becoming the GNOME OS would be fun, and I think, like you said, that using Arch as basis, it's the best option to GNOME to show

Re: Fwd: Good day - re: new direction for Cinnarch

2013-04-12 Thread Brett Legree
. If not, no worries and Alexandre is obviously going to continue regardless. Thanks - Brett On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 7:11 AM, Olav Vitters o...@vitters.nl wrote: On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 07:07:41AM -0400, Brett Legree wrote: I thought since a few GNOME users are using Arch that it might

Re: Fwd: Good day - re: new direction for Cinnarch

2013-04-12 Thread Brett Legree
devices :-) On 12/04/13 13:07, Brett Legree wrote: Good day all, I had a brief exchange with Alexandre of Cinnarch today - if you did not see my little note on IRC, they are moving to GNOME http://www.cinnarch.com/important-notice-the-future-of-cinnarch/ and seeking a new name. I

Re: Fwd: Good day - re: new direction for Cinnarch

2013-04-12 Thread Brett Legree
to something completely different. On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 9:58 AM, Olav Vitters o...@vitters.nl wrote: On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 09:11:01AM -0400, Jeremy Bicha wrote: On 12 April 2013 07:21, Brett Legree brett.leg...@gmail.com wrote: In any case, does anyone have any interest in a sort of nice

Re: Fwd: Good day - re: new direction for Cinnarch

2013-04-12 Thread Brett Legree
of the easy to install rolling release with GNOME as default. On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 11:05 AM, Andreas Nilsson li...@andreasn.se wrote: On 2013-04-12 10:58, Olav Vitters wrote: On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 09:11:01AM -0400, Jeremy Bicha wrote: On 12 April 2013 07:21, Brett Legree brett.leg

Re: Fwd: Good day - re: new direction for Cinnarch

2013-04-12 Thread Brett Legree
, Brett Legree wrote: The Getting GNOME link doesn't include a nice to point to rolling release distribution that uses GNOME as default, though. But anyway... no matter, all feedback is valuable, and I have emailed Alexandre to say that no one seemed to think it was appropriate as the name

Re: Fwd: Good day - re: new direction for Cinnarch

2013-04-12 Thread Brett Legree
Good question, Andreas - that would be a problem for the experience. I will inquire, test, and pass on what I find. -Brett On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 1:33 PM, Andreas Nilsson li...@andreasn.se wrote: On 2013-04-12 12:13, Brett Legree wrote: I suppose then, if I put on my Hello, I am a new user

Re: marketing hackfest?

2013-04-04 Thread Brett Legree
I could be there virtually :) -Brett On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 10:24 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.mewrote: Let me see off the top of my head: * updated marketing materials for conferences - * talking points when discussing GNOME with others, formulating a FAQ * outreach discussion -

Re: collab time - 20:00 UTC Tuesday April 2nd

2013-04-02 Thread Brett Legree
As long as I'm not in a meeting and my 3G holds up, I will hang around IRC :) -Brett On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 1:35 AM, Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.me wrote: Reminder that we are working on Annual report and getting it in shape. So freel free to block an hour tomorrow and help work on

Re: marketing meeting Tuesday 20:00 UTC

2013-03-26 Thread Brett Legree
I may be available via IRC, I'll do my best to join in - Brett On Mar 26, 2013 2:22 AM, Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.me wrote: Sorry, this is really last minute. I completely forgot to send out a reminder. This is our last marketing meeting before the release. So I think we should try

Re:press release

2013-03-26 Thread Brett Legree
Wow, it is looking very good indeed - it was a pleasure to be part of the process this year, and as Flavia said, thanks to *all* for contributing. GNOME 3.8 is going to be one very solid release, and all should be proud. -Brett On Mar 26, 2013 5:20 AM, fla...@weisghizzi.it fla...@weisghizzi.it

Re: revised the press release

2013-03-22 Thread Brett Legree
I had a brief look just now, and so far it looks great - I'll sit down with a cup of coffee at my morning break and put on my nuclear inspector hat to see how it would look if I were rolling it out to a team of government workers. (Personal bias here - I think everyone where I work would LOVE it,

Re: revised the press release

2013-03-22 Thread Brett Legree
in commenting! Very much appreciate the feedback. I will take a look at the first paragraph and see if we can add more detail on GNOME. Sri On Mar 22, 2013 2:24 AM, Brett Legree brett.leg...@gmail.com wrote: I had a brief look just now, and so far it looks great - I'll sit down with a cup of coffee

Re: Annual report design

2013-03-19 Thread Brett Legree
I agree with you Emily, I prefer the first cover too and the second interior - plus, the second interior design may be easier to read (black text on light background). Brett On Mar 19, 2013 2:49 PM, Emily Gonyer emilyyr...@gmail.com wrote: FWIW I love the 1st cover and the 2nd interior design -

Re: Want to review a book about GNOME 3?

2013-03-06 Thread Brett Legree
I would be willing to have a good look at it from the perspective of a government/technology worker. Brett On Mar 6, 2013 3:20 PM, Emily Gonyer emilyyr...@gmail.com wrote: I'd be happy to read review a copy :) Emily On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 3:16 PM, Karen Sandler ka...@gnome.org wrote:

Re: GNOME 3.8 Release Notes

2013-03-04 Thread Brett Legree
If you've not received any suggestions yet, what about combining two of the first three in your list to make a GNOME 3.8 Top 10 of sorts? Brett On Mar 4, 2013 5:57 AM, Allan Day allanp...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I'm in the process of writing the release notes and they're going pretty well.

Re: 3.8 Release Planning

2013-02-28 Thread Brett Legree
Working away here at the responses to the interview questions (Hi Flavia! Expect my reply by tomorrow morning at the very latest) as well as my section for the Annual, should have that tightened up by the weekend. -Brett On Feb 28, 2013 1:30 PM, Flavia Weisghizzi fla...@weisghizzi.it wrote:

Re: Expectations of 'Classic' mode

2013-02-25 Thread Brett Legree
GNOME Redux :) On Feb 25, 2013 12:49 PM, Calum Benson calum.ben...@oracle.com wrote: On 25 Feb 2013, at 17:40, Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.me wrote: Eww.. let's not call it Lite anything because it sounds like it is inferior to GNOME 3 and I don't want to give that impression. Don't

Re: Expectations of 'Classic' mode

2013-02-15 Thread Brett Legree
Well, as the distinguishing feature (or one that stands out, anyway) is the fact that it goes back to the older style with panels, why not call it GNOME Panels? Though Classic didn't sound too bad to me, it isn't technically the classic GNOME anymore, so why not break from the name. Brett On Feb

Re: distro that is focused on accessibilty

2013-02-05 Thread Brett Legree
Agreed, this is good (I have a lovely blind spot in my left eye that so far shows no signs of growing, but it is something that may be a factor in the future...) The Sonar Project looks promising and anything we can do to help out will be beneficial for all involved. Hi All, I was reading on

Re: Annual report

2013-01-25 Thread Brett Legree
Okay, this looks good - as per the next thread on the topic, I'll have a look at the wiki page and throw my hat into the ring for something. Let's get to work! -Brett So we have had a thread on this back in November. Please read through the thread and then put forth any ideas from that thread

Re: Marketing Minutes December 13, 2012

2012-12-14 Thread Brett Legree
Karen - perhaps Jakub Steiner would be a good person to interview (since you had suggested having a designer in there, he's a great place to start I think!) -Brett On Dec 14, 2012 4:22 PM, Karen Sandler ka...@gnome.org wrote: On Fri, December 14, 2012 1:57 pm, Allan Day wrote: Thanks again

Re: marketing meeting next week!

2012-12-13 Thread Brett Legree
2133 I use around the house early in the morning) - I left the installer running today as I dashed out the door to drop my four children off at school... ! -Brett On Dec 12, 2012 10:45 PM, Karen Sandler ka...@gnome.org wrote: On Fri, December 7, 2012 10:18 am, Brett Legree wrote: Okay, I

Re: marketing meeting next week!

2012-12-13 Thread Brett Legree
! It has some performance issues that is related to the driver. I have to bug Fedora QA about it, I think. On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 6:56 AM, Brett Legree brett.leg...@gmail.comwrote: That sounds great to me, a series of interviews with different types of users would be very interesting

Re: marketing meeting on Thursday, Dec 13, 2012 20:00 UTC

2012-12-13 Thread Brett Legree
Thanks for this - looks like a good start. I have been pulled into a meeting at 19:30 UTC - hopefully I can get out to join the call. (Argh. Such is life as a nuclear inspector.) Wish me luck, and apologies if I don't make the call - I can always review the minutes. Just give me some actions

Re: marketing test call tomorrow (Friday) (was Re: marketing meeting next week!)

2012-12-07 Thread Brett Legree
I'll be in the middle of a lunch meeting then, however, as I'll be calling in by phone for the real call next week, it shouldn't be a problem. Brett On Dec 7, 2012 1:57 AM, Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.me wrote: Thanks Karen for setting this up! The current bits of software that we have

Re: marketing meeting next week!

2012-12-07 Thread Brett Legree
Good day all, One suggestion is to engage various journalists, tech bloggers, or other online personalities who either write about GNOME (good or bad feedback) or use/have used it. For example, Bruce Byfield just wrote a fairly positive article on how we need to engage with the community, get

Re: marketing meeting next week!

2012-12-07 Thread Brett Legree
there. -Brett On Dec 7, 2012 9:56 AM, Karen Sandler ka...@gnome.org wrote: On Fri, December 7, 2012 4:28 am, Brett Legree wrote: Good day all, One suggestion is to engage various journalists, tech bloggers, or other online personalities who either write about GNOME (good or bad feedback) or use

Re: marketing meeting next week!

2012-12-07 Thread Brett Legree
Sandler ka...@gnome.org wrote: On Fri, December 7, 2012 10:05 am, Brett Legree wrote: Great! Yes, Katherine Noyes is another friendly, positive person I had in mind. That's a good plan - to figure out what we want to showcase, and then start writing and submitting. One thing I've

Re: Marketing meeting..

2012-11-26 Thread Brett Legree
So much for me getting back to you :-( I'll respond formally to the other message now. Brett On Nov 26, 2012 3:34 AM, Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.me wrote: I would like any of the other volunteers for community organizer (or enthusiasts, whatever) to join as well. Brett and others, if

Re: Tuesday 18:00 UTC meeting (was Re: Marketing meeting..)

2012-11-26 Thread Brett Legree
Just checking my work schedule, and I will not be able to make the meeting - I have to provide oversight of a commissioning test for a very high profile project that will be starting up this week. All the best for the meeting, Brett On Nov 26, 2012 8:28 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.me

Re: installing owncloud..

2012-09-18 Thread Brett Legree
Seems pretty logical to me. -Brett On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 1:02 AM, Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.mewrote: Guys, What do you think about using owncloud for collaboration? It allows us to share a calendar I believe and files and what not. It is completely open source. Also, I

Re: push back on negative articles

2012-08-19 Thread Brett Legree
Agreed - that article was complete and utter sensationalistic garbage. GNOME 3 doesn't seem to be failing on my desktop. -Brett On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 10:54 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.me wrote: We really need to push back on negative articles like this one:

Re: Ubuntu GNOME Flavor naming

2012-08-16 Thread Brett Legree
GNUntu - yeah, that's good. Clever. Brett On Aug 16, 2012 6:15 AM, Klaus Bogotz kla...@gr7.org wrote: Jeremy Bicha jbicha at ubuntu.com writes: We want to run our proposed name past GNOME first to avoid the hassle and conflicts of being forced to later rename the project. Why not name

Re: Ubuntu GNOME Flavor naming

2012-08-16 Thread Brett Legree
Good point, Juanjo - it should be neutral. Brett On Aug 16, 2012 7:17 AM, Juanjo Marín juanjomari...@yahoo.es wrote: De: Brett Legree brett.leg...@gmail.com Para: Klaus Bogotz kla...@gr7.org CC: marketing-list@gnome.org Enviado: Jueves 16 de agosto de

Re: Ubuntu GNOME Flavor naming

2012-08-16 Thread Brett Legree
Sri, that's excellent! Brett On Aug 16, 2012 1:49 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.me wrote: On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 10:11 AM, Karen Sandler ka...@gnome.org wrote: I'm still partial to GNObuntu, but that's probably because I always pronounce the G so there's no negative association.

Re: Ubuntu GNOME Flavor naming

2012-08-13 Thread Brett Legree
I have spent some time reviewing this http://www.ubuntu.com/aboutus/trademarkpolicy for other reasons, and there is a section pertaining to naming remixes. I would suggest Ubuntu GSR (for GNOME Shell Remix), it sounds kind of high-tech, mysterious, perhaps a bit mechanical (a motorcycle of some

Re: Ubuntu GNOME Flavor naming

2012-08-13 Thread Brett Legree
Good point :-) Brett On Aug 13, 2012 5:17 PM, Juanjo Marín juanjomari...@yahoo.es wrote: De: Brett Legree brett.leg...@gmail.com Para: Jeremy Bicha jbi...@ubuntu.com CC: Ryan Lortie de...@desrt.ca; Robert Ancell robert.anc...@ubuntu.com; marketing-list

Re: happy birthday GNOME website!

2012-08-03 Thread Brett Legree
How about a look how far we've come piece, very brief, could be done with pictures e.g. a screenshot of GNOME 1.0, 1.4, 2.0, 2.32, and the latest build of 3.6 (or go with 3.4, if we want to keep it to releases)? That might be a nice visual retrospective. -Brett On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 11:17 AM,

Re: SELF

2012-06-10 Thread Brett Legree
Awesome. Regarding desktop share, you know the saying: There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. -Brett On Jun 10, 2012 5:02 PM, Jayson Rowe jayson.r...@gmail.com wrote: Just wanted to follow-up by saying that the Fedora booth (where I hung out a bit) had quite a few

Re: New design Live Gnome

2012-06-09 Thread Brett Legree
elenapetrevsk...@gmail.com wrote: Brett, at first, thanks for the encouragement and for the contribution. I will comment as I go through the mail. On 06/09/2012 07:53 PM, Brett Legree wrote: Good day Elena, Just a few more ideas to add to the mix, and sort of build on what Sri suggested. I

Re: Interviews please? :)

2012-06-07 Thread Brett Legree
AM, Brett Legree brett.leg...@gmail.comwrote: Re: #4: CafePress does nice work for stickers/decals, and coincidentally I had a custom one made for myself some time ago just like this http://i1-news.softpedia-static.com/images/news2/How-to-Install-GNOME-3-on-Ubuntu-11-04-2.jpg I thought

Re: Interviews please? :)

2012-06-07 Thread Brett Legree
Okay, great. I am ready to go at any time! On Jun 7, 2012 6:49 AM, alex diavatis alexis.diava...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Dave Neary dne...@gnome.org wrote: Hi, On 06/07/2012 11:24 AM, Brett Legree wrote: I guess I misunderstood your original question :) Once

Re: Hello - wish to contribute to GNOME Marketing

2012-06-04 Thread Brett Legree
feedback I will let the team know, and after I get my feet wet and have some experience, I'm definitely keen to work on new projects as they arise too. Thanks again, -Brett On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 12:09 AM, Karen Sandler ka...@gnome.org wrote: On Sat, June 2, 2012 4:18 pm, Brett Legree wrote

Re: Hello - wish to contribute to GNOME Marketing

2012-06-03 Thread Brett Legree
Anybody else I've missed? On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 4:03 PM, Brett Legree brett.leg...@gmail.comwrote: Thanks Jayson - I have a feeling this will be great. Question, if I may, about how many folks are part of the team? -Brett On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 5:34 PM, Jayson Rowe jayson.r

Hello - wish to contribute to GNOME Marketing

2012-06-02 Thread Brett Legree
Hello, Just a quick note to say hello - my name is Brett Legree, I am a nuclear and chemical engineer by trade, a technology enthusiast by passion, mostly in the area of UI/UX, and so this means that I work with and test as many different operating systems and interfaces as I can find. I like

Re: Hello - wish to contribute to GNOME Marketing

2012-06-02 Thread Brett Legree
...@ramkrishna.me wrote: Welcome Brett! Glad you finally got around to posting on marketing-list. :-) Having more people is always helpful! Stop in on IRC and we can chat! sri On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 1:18 PM, Brett Legree brett.leg...@gmail.comwrote: Hello, Just a quick note to say

Re: Hello - wish to contribute to GNOME Marketing

2012-06-02 Thread Brett Legree
Thanks Jayson - I have a feeling this will be great. Question, if I may, about how many folks are part of the team? -Brett On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 5:34 PM, Jayson Rowe jayson.r...@gmail.com wrote: Welcome Brett! I'm actually just getting back into the swing of things myself. -- -jayson --