Re: Getting GNOME banners created

2006-08-10 Thread Corey Burger
On 8/10/06, Andreas Nilsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Corey Burger wrote: Hey all, Jorge and I are headed to LWE:SF next week and I discovered that we have no banners. I thus decided to take this into my own hands and get one printed. However, I need feedback on the attached file within

Re: Getting GNOME banners created

2006-08-10 Thread Corey Burger
On 8/10/06, Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: quote who=Corey Burger http://warbard.ca/temp/official-desktop-happy-corey-2.svg Could we avoid the Official Desktop of Happy People thing? It really isn't a very positive message... Given that it doesn't say anything about GNOME, I have

Getting GNOME banners created

2006-08-09 Thread Corey Burger
Hey all, Jorge and I are headed to LWE:SF next week and I discovered that we have no banners. I thus decided to take this into my own hands and get one printed. However, I need feedback on the attached file within 3 hours, in order for them to get it printed by Monday, for me to go. Corey

Re: Writing the 2.16 release notes (and press release)

2006-08-08 Thread Corey Burger
On 8/8/06, Davyd Madeley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2006-08-07 at 13:35 +0200, Vincent Untz wrote: Could we do a meeting this week? Yes. We need to get on it. What day and time is good for people? I'm at UTC+8, so UTC 18:00-23:00 is a little bit crap for me, but I can probably do

Re: Upcoming Events: LWE SFO

2006-08-01 Thread Corey Burger
On 8/1/06, Dave Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Corey, Lloyd, Just removing a few mailing lists from the mix, and adding Jorge's name on here. He's probably on marketing-list already, but no harm being safe. Thanks Jeff for sending out the call for help! Cheers, Dave. Dave, Jorge and

Re: Upcoming Events: LWE SFO

2006-07-31 Thread Corey Burger
On 7/31/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/19/06, Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: LinuxWorldExpo, San Francisco is *the* big Linux tradeshow to be seen at, and GNOME will be there in force! Well, that's what we want to do, anyway. GNOME usually has a booth in the .org

Re: gnome live cd - belgian keyboard layout

2006-07-30 Thread Corey Burger
On 7/24/06, ghislaine de vos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Is it possible to choose the belgian keyboard layout during boot as a cheatcode ? What is the exact sentence I would have to type ? Or is it done after the cd is started, in the terminal ? What is the exact sentence then ? Do I

Re: Writing the 2.16 release notes (and press release)

2006-07-22 Thread Corey Burger
On 7/22/06, Vincent Untz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, We're looking for a small group of volunteers to handle the writing of the release notes for GNOME 2.16. There's no need to be a technical person for this. Really. Murray, and then Davyd have been leading this effort for past

The way forward

2006-03-15 Thread Corey Burger
Well, congratulations on another release. However, our work is never done. Here are some ideas for the way forward: During the 2.14 lifecycle: -Cleanup the About GNOME page so it is actually pretty -Showcase upcoming technologies such as Gimmie, leaftag and others. This should be fairly

Re: Press releases

2006-03-14 Thread Corey Burger
This is now on the wiki at: http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointThirteen/PressRelease thanks to the excellent suggestion of jeff. Corey -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Re: Writing the press release for 2.14.0 (was Re: release notes: first draft)

2006-03-10 Thread Corey Burger
On 3/9/06, Rajiv Vyas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/9/06, Vincent Untz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Le lundi 06 mars 2006 à 23:57 +0800, Davyd Madeley a écrit : - Does anyone want to take charge on writing a press release? I am willing to raise my hand again if so required. Did

Press releases

2006-03-10 Thread Corey Burger
Hello all, We currently have two press releases, from myself and Claus. I have attached both. The key difference between the two is length. Mine is fashioned on the 2.12 press release, as well as looking at a few other non-gnome ones. They tend to be short, with very few actual details. Claus' is

Re: Press releases

2006-03-10 Thread Corey Burger
Claus et al, I sincerely apologize. Davyd said he had recieved something from you and he offered to forward it on to me. It didn't post it to hack anybody down. I have never written any press releases and wanted some geniune feedback. There some really great things from each press release. I will

Re: GNOME Education

2006-03-09 Thread Corey Burger
On 3/2/06, Gonzalo Odiard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think we can promote the use and development of applications for education. Actually there are very good applications, but its not easy for teachers have a working enviroment. The Gnome Education may be a point of reference with

Re: multilanguage support (of GNOME.org)

2005-09-25 Thread Corey Burger
On 9/24/05, Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: quote who=Murray Cumming So far, the only system I know of that can do this is DocBook with xml2po, which we use for release notes. I'd be surprised if it's the only possible way, but it's not my area of expertise. xml2po will work on any

Re: Create your own customised GNOME liveCD

2005-07-25 Thread Corey Burger
The idea of an installable live cd is a great one, until you realize the implications. The basically makes Gnome a distribution, which does the following bad things: 1. Gnome does not have the support structure to support average users, nor should it gain one. That is the job of Novell, RH,

Re: Create your own customised GNOME liveCD

2005-07-25 Thread Corey Burger
Wow, that was a lot of anger. I am not advocating that gnome stop marketing itself. I am merely saying that once you start installing something on a machine, you have to support it. And no, gnomesupport is not the kind of support I am talking about. I am talking about security patches and