GNOME project description for EuroOSCON .org day]

2006-08-05 Thread Marcus Bauer
Comprised of hundreds of volunteer developers and industry-leading companies, the GNOME Foundation is an organization committed to supporting the advancement of GNOME. GNOME is a free software project that provides a complete, easy to use desktop for a variety of operating

Re: [Fwd: [Foundations] EuroOSCON .org day]

2006-08-04 Thread Marcus Bauer
On Fri, 2006-08-04 at 17:44 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Dave Neary EurOSCon is reserving place for free software projects to present in Amsterdam this year - is there any interest in a GNOME stand there? Amsterdam just sounds cool, but isn't it in Brussels? :^) My initial

Re: [Fwd: Gnome 2.14 Live CD ??]

2006-03-24 Thread Marcus Bauer
Hi, I wrote a mail to the list and a couple of private mails but people were busy or didn't respond at all. The liveCD is at the bottom of the directory. Actually it is just a temporary location but it's the only place where I have upload rights. The point is that the CD is based on the ubuntu

GNOME/KDE success story

2006-03-23 Thread Marcus Bauer
There is a nice article on newsforge about a free desktop success story by an art professor, featuring peaceful and sense-making coexistence of GNOME and KDE, showing the readiness of open source in environments outside the worlds of enterprises and computer freaks.

liveCD 2.14

2006-03-14 Thread Marcus Bauer
A quite final version of the liveCD is at: http://ftp.gnome.org/mirror/temp/gnome-livecd-2.12/gnome-livecd-2.14-i386-en-1.iso It is based on ubuntu and still contains some ubuntu branding. I had liked to get it more vendor neutral but simply didn't have enough computing power. Blame it on DHL

Re: release notes: first draft

2006-03-06 Thread Marcus Bauer
On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 23:57 +0800, Davyd Madeley wrote: Addendum: - If anyone knows the status of the LiveCD, that section requires updating. As I wrote the other day I ordered a new computer but it hasn't yet arrived. Thus I'll clear up some space on my laptop and start producing the liveCD

Re: Desktop personas (draft)

2005-12-07 Thread Marcus Bauer
Le mardi 06 décembre 2005 à 21:04 -0300, Santiago Roza a écrit : cool... could you throw it in the wiki so we can build on it? i'd do it myself, but i don't think i should appear as the original author :) The whole idea behind this little draft was to show that the often requested data is

Tarzan and Jane - GNOME personas 2005

2005-12-07 Thread Marcus Bauer
Le mercredi 07 décembre 2005 à 13:54 +0100, Dave Neary a écrit : Hi, Alex Hudson wrote: I would be happy to help contribute to some personas if people think it's worth doing. I think it is. Ideally, we could go into real depth on the personas and how they might interact with GNOME

Re: Tarzan and Jane - GNOME personas 2005: JANE

2005-12-07 Thread Marcus Bauer
Le mercredi 07 décembre 2005 à 14:08 +0100, Marcus Bauer a écrit : Sounds all very good. Here are my suggestions for five personas: Jane, 19yo, college student. Tarzan, 30yo, no kids, running a small business Doris, 35yo, two kids, parttime job freelance design Cary, 45yo, decision maker

Re: Tarzan and Jane - GNOME personas 2005

2005-12-07 Thread Marcus Bauer
Le mercredi 07 décembre 2005 à 15:17 +0100, Dave Neary a écrit : Hi, Marcus Bauer wrote: Sounds all very good. Here are my suggestions for five personas: Jane, 19yo, college student. Tarzan, 30yo, no kids, running a small business Doris, 35yo, two kids, parttime job freelance design

Desktop personas (draft)

2005-12-06 Thread Marcus Bauer
Le mardi 06 décembre 2005 à 18:08 +0100, Dave Neary a écrit : Hi, Murray Cumming wrote: I think both our development and marketing would be helped (to have organisational focus) by having Personas. A university was working on them a couple of years ago, but that effort seems to have

Re: GNOME 2.12 Live CD contains beta packages + suggestion

2005-09-13 Thread Marcus Bauer
On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 14:31 +0200, Reinout van Schouwen wrote: Op Mon, 12 Sep 2005 23:27:50 +0200, schreef Jaap Haitsma: some are heavily patched with features (E.g. the Add To Panel dialog) which are not present in stock gnome. I already suggested to revert that customization to the

Re: GNOME 2.12 Live CD contains beta packages + suggestion

2005-09-13 Thread Marcus Bauer
On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 19:18 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Currently it is based on ubuntu and ubuntu releases one month later thus their CD is during the release of GNOME still under heavy development. I'm investigating a bit into the direction of completly building the CD instead of

Re: GNOME liveCD 2.12 help needed

2005-09-07 Thread Marcus Bauer
On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 04:33 +0200, Roy Jacobusse wrote: I have been using the scripts from the livecd-project cvs to build a localized dutch version for the GNOME-NL people could you forward me your dutch isolinux.txt please? I just gave the Gnome 2.12 LiveCD a spin, some things caught my

GNOME liveCD 2.12 help needed

2005-09-06 Thread Marcus Bauer
The liveCD is up for testing, please give it a ride/thorough test and post your feedback to the list :-) Download it here: http://www.gnoppix.org/download/gnome-livecd-2.12-i386-en-1.iso And a quick translation is needed - ASCII only. If that makes no sense in some languages we should leave it

Re: crappy first cut at 2.11.92-ish CD

2005-08-24 Thread Marcus Bauer
On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 06:42 -0400, Luis Villa wrote: Some known issues, not all of which have known solutions ATM: * Luis is a silly person and has not contacted Marcus lately. Hope to fix this tonight as well. :( Luis might have saved himself some work :-P * totem can't launch the music

Re: Create your own customised GNOME liveCD

2005-08-17 Thread Marcus Bauer
On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 18:13 +0200, Арангел Ангов wrote: Hi, Anyone tried to make a liveCD using a daily breezy build? Yes :) I downloaded the one from yesterday, added thunderbird and firefox for windows in the winprogs dir and changed all the splash screens and background and stuff.

Re: Create your own customised GNOME liveCD

2005-07-26 Thread Marcus Bauer
On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 13:58 +0200, Christian Meyer wrote: Hi, I just want to throw in something: [...] Christian, development here has been done in an open way since months and everbody is invited to participate. But you are right: it would definitly make sense to stop the parallel efforts on

Re: Create your own customised GNOME liveCD

2005-07-25 Thread Marcus Bauer
On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 15:33 +0200, Andreas Mueller wrote: I am surprised that there is ZERO communication. Hi Andreas, googling for gnome livecd gives as first hit: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeLiveCd Additionally it has even been featured on planet.gnome.org and Luis Villa is quite talkative

Re: Create your own customised GNOME liveCD

2005-07-25 Thread Marcus Bauer
On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 15:45 +0100, Simos Xenitellis wrote: Maybe I am wrong, my view is that we (GNOME Marketing) want to get a LiveCD ISO image out to the masses that support both English and other languages. We (GNOME Marketing) are flexible with how it is done, we would like it done in

Re: Create your own customised GNOME liveCD

2005-07-25 Thread Marcus Bauer
Hi Murray, The GNOME LiveCDs are for marketing, and testing, not for installing or otherwise messing with your system. do you really mean that installing GNOME is messing with someones system? Since quite some time I thought that this is the coolest thing that can happen to a computer...

Re: Create your own customised GNOME liveCD

2005-07-25 Thread Marcus Bauer
On 7/25/05, Simos Xenitellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just like Ubuntu, they send you by post two CDs, an install CD and a LiveCD. They are going to change that with the next release. -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Re: Create your own customised GNOME liveCD

2005-07-25 Thread Marcus Bauer
On 7/25/05, Corey Burger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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,

Re: Create your own customised GNOME liveCD

2005-07-25 Thread Marcus Bauer
On 7/26/05, Corey Burger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wow, that was a lot of anger. *smile* 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

Re: Create your own customised GNOME liveCD

2005-07-25 Thread Marcus Bauer
On 7/26/05, Luis Villa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/25/05, Marcus Bauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, have I lately talked about KLA? :) Did I mention that they are spreading out 50.000 copies to schools in France? They are two and a half part time developers. There are no timely security

Re: italian and spanish (v2) live CD now available

2005-05-23 Thread Marcus Bauer
On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 10:31 -0400, Luis Villa wrote: Should probably forward that to gnome-i18n@gnome.org if you want really overwhelming support :) I'm wouldn't be scared of that ;) However let's wait with that until we have everything in cvs and some more languages out. Currently there are

more gnome liveCDs: now german and spanish

2005-05-21 Thread Marcus Bauer
Gnome-industries proudly presents: ;-) The GNOME liveCD in * german and * spanish Get them now until there aren't any left :o) A bit more seriously: download them and play around with them. They are quite polished already but there are certainly things left to optimize. I intend to

Re: evangelist users- the other key note from LCA marketing BOF

2005-05-19 Thread Marcus Bauer
On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 22:15 +0200, Claus Schwarm wrote: Maybe you could move the README into the wiki so it could be polished? Basically it says: * the question whether or not to include a new feature isn't Why not but Why? Is it really necessary to have that? * instead of giving the user the

Gnome live cd: french version

2005-05-11 Thread Marcus Bauer
Hi, I have remastered the gnome live cd into a french version. Screenshots and download here: http://project77.info/gnomelive/ I intend to do a german version as well and maybe some others too. However the question is where the images can be hosted (even unofficial testing versions) as it only