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

2013-04-12 Thread Olav Vitters
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 be interesting if this became GNOME OS. GNOME OS is not about creating or replacing distributions. It is more like: - providing an SDK - being able to build GNOME on any

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

2013-04-12 Thread Olav Vitters
On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 10:57:00AM -0400, 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

Expectations of 'Classic' mode

2013-02-15 Thread Olav Vitters
In GNOME 3.8 there will be a new mode. The workflow will be a bit like GNOME 2.x, but it is still based on 3.x. As such, the wording is really important to not give a wrong expectation. If the expectation is off, then likely we'll get negative responses. Names have been thought of: - Traditional

Worried but very happy GNOME 3 user

2013-02-07 Thread Olav Vitters
See following email to release team: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/release-team/2013-February/msg6.html I already responded. I really like the involvement and the nice words, so wanted to share. -- Regards, Olav -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org

Re: [Fwd: FOSDEM stands, practical information]

2013-01-11 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 06:26:55PM -0500, Karen Sandler wrote: We've assigned the stand places as such: '''Group A''' 3. QT 1. KDE 2. KDE 4. Gnome 5. Gnome 8. Mageia FWIW, I've asked via Mageia if the order could be changed as per above. This as being right next to KDE is IMO nicer, as

Re: instructions for SIP calling

2012-12-11 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 10:47:31AM -0800, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: Can someone who was able to reliably get a call going, post some instructions on how to dial in? See my post for Ekiga (no account needed actually, just ignore that part of the wizard). I also managed with CSipSimple on Android.

Re: marketing meeting next week!

2012-12-08 Thread Olav Vitters
On Sat, Dec 08, 2012 at 01:49:10PM +, Juanjo Marín wrote: b) Fedora 18 + Ekiga 4 + ekiga.net free account (https://www.ekiga.net/?page=register) Use the Configuration Assistant You only need to add your user and password you don't need to sign up a call out account use default options

Re: marketing meeting next week!

2012-12-08 Thread Olav Vitters
On Sat, Dec 08, 2012 at 06:10:44PM +0100, Olav Vitters wrote: On Sat, Dec 08, 2012 at 01:49:10PM +, Juanjo Marín wrote: b) Fedora 18 + Ekiga 4 + ekiga.net free account (https://www.ekiga.net/?page=register) Use the Configuration Assistant You only need to add your user and password

Re: GNOME in the press - 2012-12-05

2012-12-05 Thread Olav Vitters
On Wed, Dec 05, 2012 at 09:01:57AM +0100, Dave Neary wrote: LinuxInsider.com: Return of the King: GNOME 2 Is Making Its Way Back: http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/Return-of-the-King-GNOME-2-Is-Making-Its-Way-Back-76753.html WTF. An article consisting of opinions of people on slashdot and

Re: GNOME in the press - 2012-12-05

2012-12-05 Thread Olav Vitters
On Wed, Dec 05, 2012 at 02:56:05PM +0100, Dave Neary wrote: On 12/05/2012 11:05 AM, Olav Vitters wrote: On Wed, Dec 05, 2012 at 09:01:57AM +0100, Dave Neary wrote: LinuxInsider.com: Return of the King: GNOME 2 Is Making Its Way Back: http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/Return-of-the-King-GNOME

Re: release notes help

2012-09-11 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 10:37:07PM -0700, Sri Ramkrishna wrote: OK, as promised here is the breakdown of what is being worked on and what needs to be done. Please correct, and then let's get working on this. We really need to get this done by next weekend. (I might have made some mistakes,

Release notes: behind schedule

2012-09-10 Thread Olav Vitters
Could someone assist in helping to write these? They're pretty much behind schedule now. -- Regards, Olav -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Re: push back on negative articles

2012-08-20 Thread Olav Vitters
On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 08:53:16PM -0700, Larry Cafiero wrote: I read the code of conduct and I don't think it violates it. Maybe you should read it yourself. Comparing GNOME to the racism what happened in the USA is not acceptable. [..] Pity. Anyway, you're welcome. Same with getting

Re: push back on negative articles

2012-08-20 Thread Olav Vitters
On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 10:08:19PM -0400, Karen Sandler wrote: our press about the new release? I think a free software community run project is different than a company's product in that we'll always be a work in progress. It's ok to talk about areas that can be improved for future, for

Re: Ubuntu GNOME Flavor naming

2012-08-20 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 11:56:04AM -0400, Jeremy Bicha wrote: At the Ubuntu Developer Summit in May, several of us that work with GNOME in Ubuntu discussed the need for a Ubuntu community derivative similar to Kubuntu, Xubuntu, and others but which will try to ship a relatively pure GNOME

Re: Ubuntu GNOME Flavor naming

2012-08-20 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 11:25:59AM +0200, Olav Vitters wrote: On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 11:56:04AM -0400, Jeremy Bicha wrote: At the Ubuntu Developer Summit in May, several of us that work with GNOME in Ubuntu discussed the need for a Ubuntu community derivative similar to Kubuntu, Xubuntu

Re: push back on negative articles

2012-08-20 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 09:54:56AM -0500, Brian Cameron wrote: the userbase that wants it. The GNOME community could, I think, be more clear and proactive about how GNOME 2 and GNOME Fallback will be supported going forward. Any GNOME release is supported for about 6 months. GNOME 2: is not

Re: push back on negative articles

2012-08-20 Thread Olav Vitters
Hi Bruce, On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 11:10:18AM -0700, Bruce Byfield wrote: Negative articles? Are you kidding? Because I mention what many people in the community are saying? What some GNOME developers are saying? I totally was wrong about you. My apologies. I honestly was only reading the

Re: push back on negative articles

2012-08-20 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 08:36:10AM +0200, Olav Vitters wrote: As stated before: you can disagree what you want. But do so nicely. You've given no arguments, just focussed on trying to rile emotions. Such behaviour is not acceptable here. So bye. As pointed out by others, but also realized

Re: push back on negative articles

2012-08-19 Thread Olav Vitters
On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 07:54:44PM -0700, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: seriously. What the hell. It is just a troll. Probably to generate clicks or make the site name known by hoping people link to it. Not sure what to do. I suggest someone should get media training. -- Regards, Olav --

Re: push back on negative articles

2012-08-19 Thread Olav Vitters
On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 12:01:20PM -0700, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 5:42 AM, Olav Vitters o...@vitters.nl wrote: On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 07:54:44PM -0700, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: seriously. What the hell. It is just a troll. Probably to generate clicks or make

Re: push back on negative articles

2012-08-19 Thread Olav Vitters
On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 03:02:17PM -0700, Larry Cafiero wrote: Observations from a former participant who is now an outside observer: On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 2:30 PM, Olav Vitters o...@vitters.nl wrote: There are a lot of sites out there whose only intention is to cause controversy

Re: push back on negative articles

2012-08-19 Thread Olav Vitters
On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 02:59:16PM -0700, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: Is there some place to learn about media training? I don't know. I go with my gut on some of this stuff and I haven't had any negative consequences, but then I'm not dealing with the press, I'm dealing with people in forums

Re: push back on negative articles

2012-08-19 Thread Olav Vitters
On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 03:49:54PM -0700, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 3:34 PM, Olav Vitters o...@vitters.nl wrote: I find this comparison over the top offence. I urge you to read https://live.gnome.org/CodeOfConduct He was quoting Bruce Byfield, so I don't

Re: Any chance to move your MLs to Google Groups?

2012-08-16 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 02:51:27PM +0300, alex diavatis wrote: *Easy of Use* Nothing to say here, you all have used Google Groups(GG) :) One thing only is the good searching inside the GG and how easily you can follow, respond, star a subject etc etc Google groups is only webbased right?

Re: happy birthday GNOME website!

2012-08-13 Thread Olav Vitters
On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 11:17:00AM -0400, Karen Sandler wrote: What should we have on the site? It would be nice if people could respond. E.g. share their stories / memories. Explicitly maybe ask for certain type of responses. Suggest disqus, though the non-free javascript might get a comment

Re: happy birthday GNOME website!

2012-08-13 Thread Olav Vitters
On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 11:17:00AM -0400, Karen Sandler wrote: HappyBirthdayGNOME.com and HappyBirthdayGNOME.org Make sure following is in /etc/hosts: 209.132.180.176 HappyBirthdayGNOME.org 209.132.180.176 HappyBirthdayGNOME.com To commit things to the website: - Git repository

Re: Ubuntu GNOME Flavor naming

2012-08-13 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 11:56:04AM -0400, Jeremy Bicha wrote: At the Ubuntu Developer Summit in May, several of us that work with GNOME in Ubuntu discussed the need for a Ubuntu community derivative similar to Kubuntu, Xubuntu, and others but which will try to ship a relatively pure GNOME

Re: GNOME Commit digest on Planet GNOME

2012-08-01 Thread Olav Vitters
On Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 04:46:32PM +0200, Andreas Nilsson wrote: In short; Planet GNOME is currently only for Humans, not robots, ie. A blog needs to be strongly tied to a individual in order to be added. Project news etc. go on news.gnome.org I never read news.gnome.org anymore; due to not

Re: GNOME Commit-Digest

2012-06-05 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Jun 04, 2012 at 04:56:22PM +0300, alex diavatis wrote: I was wondering how can extract the commits data from gnome git similar the way that http://blogs.gnome.org/commitdigest/ does, in order to make some html5 pies charts, just to compare the development per week/month/year/version.

Re: Microblogging Workflow

2012-05-17 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 05:17:03PM +0100, Allan Day wrote: Thoughts? Opinions? I saw a post somewhere on Google+ that with Feedburner you can automatically turn your RSS stuff into posts on twitter. The idea was: Google+ - Some RSS thing for G+ - Feedburner - Twitter But you could use this as

Re: Greetings

2012-05-09 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, May 08, 2012 at 09:01:09PM -0400, Jayson Rowe wrote: I was previously involved with the GNOME Journal, and I understand that the Journal itself has been absorbed into this group, so I wanted to introduce myself, and let you all know that I'm willing to help out with the group in any

Re: Website(s) todo list

2012-04-26 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 03:19:31PM +0200, Andreas Nilsson wrote: Related to this, Elena Petrevska have been accepted as an intern to work on implementing the style changes to these sites during the summer, but if anyone else have experience with say cgit or mailman styling, I'm sure she'll

Re: Getting GNOME page on gnome.org

2012-04-03 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Apr 03, 2012 at 10:54:25AM -0400, Karen Sandler wrote: I know it's not ideal, but it does at least sort of solve the problems we're discussing here, without cluttering up our main page for new users... I don't see anything wrong with only having good GNOME 3 distributions listed here.

Re: Getting GNOME page on gnome.org

2012-04-03 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Apr 03, 2012 at 05:05:39PM +0200, Olav Vitters wrote: On Tue, Apr 03, 2012 at 10:54:25AM -0400, Karen Sandler wrote: I know it's not ideal, but it does at least sort of solve the problems we're discussing here, without cluttering up our main page for new users... I don't see

Re: Getting GNOME page on gnome.org

2012-04-02 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 01:57:29PM +0100, Allan Day wrote: GNOME 3. It is also a nice place to illustrate the communities and values associated with GNOME, of course, and this page can do a bit of that, but this shouldn't detract from its primary focus. Having a less prominent secondary list

Re: Getting GNOME page on gnome.org

2012-04-02 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 02:06:16PM +0100, Allan Day wrote: I want Mageia to be removed from this list the way it is now. You're not getting GNOME 3 with the stated instructions. As such, I don't want it in there. I'd be sorry to see it removed. Would it be possible for Mageia to host

Re: Getting GNOME page on gnome.org

2012-04-02 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 03:10:35PM +0200, Dave Neary wrote: I'm sure that wasn't your intention, but you're coming across as rude demanding here. The image of my son shouting I don't want to take a bath comes to mind. There may be good reasons to include or exclude Mageia from the list -

Re: Getting GNOME page on gnome.org

2012-04-02 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 09:30:45AM -0400, Emily Gonyer wrote: So, what your saying is that its really hard to get a good GNOME 3 install on Mageia and therefor it shouldn't be on the list of distros, correct? I get that. Theres a reason we don't list *every* distro on the page afterall! Maybe

Re: Getting GNOME page on gnome.org

2012-03-31 Thread Olav Vitters
On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 03:40:41PM +0200, Andreas Nilsson wrote: So what about the others then? I forgot about the Amazing Distro X! :) I felt that the instructions for Arch (GNOME is available in the _extra_ repository), Mageia (GNOME 3 is coming in the next I don't like this change. I help

Re: Sound-juicer: is it the part of official release

2012-03-27 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 03:23:43PM +0300, Ihar Hrachyshka wrote: in GNOME 3.4 release-notes, some improvements in sound-juicer are mentioned [1]. Though this module is not listed as part of official 3.4 release set [2]. Doesn't it indicate that it should be moved to official release set,

Release notes announcement to press

2012-03-21 Thread Olav Vitters
Hey, The release notes have now been finalized. Does someone have contacts with the press? If so, please share below with them. Details: URL: http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.4/ Username: gnome Password: 3.4 -- Regards, Olav -- marketing-list mailing list

Re: 3.4 Release Notes

2012-03-16 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Mar 06, 2012 at 01:31:41PM +0100, Andre Klapper wrote: @fpeters: Could you please set up http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.4/ with password protection? To get in: gnome / 3.4 Please remember: it is all lies until the password protection has been removed (not kidding, I've

Re: 3.4 Release Notes

2012-03-15 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 12:03:43AM +0100, Andre Klapper wrote: On Wed, 2012-03-14 at 15:50 -0700, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: We're pretty much out of time for this. We should really have a draft of the release notes finished already. I'm busy working on them

Re: 3.4 Press Release

2012-03-15 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 09:12:28AM +, Allan Day wrote: We should already be making progress with the press release for the 3.4 release. Is anyone willing to take it on? I'm going to be busy with the release notes, but I'll chip in where I can. You mentioned yesterday that ideally you

Re: GNOME News - Progress and Plans

2012-03-01 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 10:26:03AM +, Allan Day wrote: 1. Aggregate news feeds just like the current news site does So all existing feeds would be preserved? Currently it has various mailing lists as source. The resulting post is not that great, but it is pretty nice to just be able to send

Re: GNOME News - Progress and Plans

2012-03-01 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 04:33:51PM +0100, Dave Neary wrote: It might be nice for the sender, but as you say, it's not that nice for the reader. I would discourage that practice. I'd much prefer that interesting announcements get a news article which can point to the announce email (like on

Re: GNOME News - Progress and Plans

2012-03-01 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 05:37:15PM +0100, Dave Neary wrote: On 03/01/2012 04:36 PM, Olav Vitters wrote: As long as it is on there within 24 hours, all is fine. I don't understand. Is this a requirement you'd like to suggest for the news site? That all emails sent to announcement lists get

We are GNOME movie

2012-02-10 Thread Olav Vitters
I noticed the following: http://launch.wearemaersk.com/ It is a movie which pretty much explains the goal of a company. It also talks about some challenges. I think it would be nice to have a movie like that to explain GNOME. And then something which is not out of date within a year. I guess it

Re: GNOME FOSDEM Stand

2012-02-07 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 03:05:40PM +, Allan Day wrote: Thanks to everyone who staffed the GNOME stand at FOSDEM! It was great to have so many enthusiastic volunteers. If you were there - how did you think the stand worked, and what could we improve for next time? The information leaflets

Re: GNOME FOSDEM Stand

2012-02-07 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Feb 07, 2012 at 12:01:55PM +0100, Tobias Mueller wrote: Heya :) On 07.02.2012 11:48, Olav Vitters wrote: The information leaflets are in black and white [...] ^^ send me a (link to a) PDF and I'll print Yeah, well. I guess we'd need a leaflet first ;-) I prepared something here

Fwd: feedback on stands

2012-02-07 Thread Olav Vitters
I registered the stand, so received this email. I cleared out the To: list. Any feedback we want to give to FOSDEM? IMO, I think the stands are too far away from the real action (talks). But maybe that was due to the cold. Didn't like going outside much :P -- Regards, Olav ---BeginMessage---

Re: flyers at FOSDEM

2012-01-31 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 07:40:23PM -0500, Marina Zhurakhinskaya wrote: Please take these flyers if you are going to any other conference in the near future too. The flyers are here: https://live.gnome.org/GnomeWomen/OutreachProgram2012/SpreadTheWord Made be think of the following:

Re: FOSDEM stand

2012-01-23 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 08:58:03AM +0100, Tobias Mueller wrote: Let me draw your attention at the wiki: https://live.gnome.org/GnomeEvents/FOSDEM/2012/Stand. It'd be awesome if you could add yourself to the list of people helping out at the FOSDEM stand. So far, it's only a couple of people

Re: promoting the a11y FoG campaign

2012-01-04 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 02:04:40PM -0500, Karen Sandler wrote: Because of sys admin problems we've been unable to get the progress bar going, but looking at out paypal account, it looks like we've gotten a fairly weak response (less than $2k). The big issue preventing this was resolved

Re: GNOME+ page managers

2011-12-21 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 10:50:55PM -0800, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: Am I missing anybody else or would someone else also like to help out with managing the GNOME+? Me too please. -- Regards, Olav -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org

extensions.gnome.org release

2011-11-21 Thread Olav Vitters
extensions.gnome.org is going to be finished soon Though I no it is not according to design, some gnome-shell maintainers even hate it I think. We'll need to think of the message to send. IMO, as a funny reference, we should put a car analogy in there. I'm thinking of: - most people just buy a

Re: extensions.gnome.org release

2011-11-21 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 12:01:34PM -0500, Jasper St. Pierre wrote: My current plan of attack is to launch quietly and see how many people notice it. I'm expecting that the release will still be a bit buggy and broken, so I don't want to launch too triumphantly and then fail completely. Can't

Re: extensions.gnome.org release date?

2011-11-11 Thread Olav Vitters
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 01:58:55PM +0100, Olav Vitters wrote: On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 02:58:44PM +0200, alex diavatis wrote: Do we know when the extensions.gnome.org is opening? Under active development @ gnome-shell-list (cc'ed). Heard there will be a public beta on Dec 1st. No guarantees

Re: Developing GNOME News

2011-10-28 Thread Olav Vitters
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 content, however (like LWN does). This approach appeals to me because

gnome3.org is gone

2011-09-28 Thread Olav Vitters
As per request, http://www.gnome3.org/ now redirects to http://www.gnome.org/gnome-3/ We had some pretty awesome videos @ gnome3.org. Not sure what the plan is with them.. oh.. and PiTiVi looks awesome :P -- Regards, Olav -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org

Re: Urgent - 3.2 Press Release

2011-09-27 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 12:26:46PM -0400, Karen Sandler wrote: I'd like to offer my congratulations to GNOME team for their 3.2 release, said Rick Spencer, Director of Engineering, Ubuntu, at Canonical. Coming on the heals of the groundbreaking 3.0 release, 3.2 continues to offer innovation

Re: Colour management in release-notes

2011-09-13 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 02:30:55PM +0100, Richard Hughes wrote: On 12 September 2011 13:21, Olav Vitters o...@vitters.nl wrote: I need some urgent help with the release-notes. I want to finish the release-notes within 2 days, but I know nothing about the colour management. Could you assist

Colour management in release-notes

2011-09-12 Thread Olav Vitters
Hey Richard, I need some urgent help with the release-notes. I want to finish the release-notes within 2 days, but I know nothing about the colour management. Could you assist to explain and give a screenshot? I read https://live.gnome.org/ThreePointOne/Features/ColorManagement but not sure

Re: 3.2 Release Notes: Featured Apps

2011-09-11 Thread Olav Vitters
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 things. See http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.2

Re: Volunteers needed for the Desktop Summit!

2011-07-22 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 03:34:32PM +0200, Ekaterina Gerasimova wrote: - find trustworthy volunteers to man the stand Don't think I'll arrive earlier, but have manned the stand at The Hague for a while and can also put in some time during the Desktop Summit. -- Regards, Olav -- marketing-list

Re: [Fwd: Fwd: Tuesday announcement of Desktop Summit sponsors]

2011-07-19 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 09:51:34AM +0200, Dave Neary wrote: Is there anyone who can ensure that this announcement gets published on gnome.org/news, please? done. was not specified if this was a press release or just news, so I ticked news. pemSUSE is proud to be a Gold Sponsor of the Desktop

Re: Syndicating gnome.org/news to news.gnome.org

2011-06-22 Thread Olav Vitters
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 10:46:32AM +0200, Dave Neary wrote: Could we get gnome.org/news syndicated to news.gnome.org straight away, please? Regardless of other changes we might make, I think this is a good idea. Just add the feed to planet-web module. -- Regards, Olav -- marketing-list

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

2011-06-09 Thread Olav Vitters
On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 06:38:39PM +0200, Vincent Untz wrote: I'd actually simply make news.gnome.org redirect to www.gnome.org/news and find a better place for the other feeds on the current news.gnome.org. What to do about the existing content on news.gnome.org? Rename it to

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

2011-06-09 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 10:32:23AM +0200, Dave Neary wrote: Olav Vitters wrote: On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 06:38:39PM +0200, Vincent Untz wrote: I'd actually simply make news.gnome.org redirect to www.gnome.org/news and find a better place for the other feeds on the current news.gnome.org

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

2011-06-09 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 11:23:50AM +0200, Dave Neary wrote: Olav Vitters wrote: So news.gnome.org: redirect to www.gnome.org/news but news.gnome.org/announce: show existing content? I don't think it should redirect - it should be: news.gnome.org and gnome.org/news: Aliases for same

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

2011-04-28 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 05:10:08AM -0600, Stormy Peters wrote: I didn't set comments to disabled but I find I don't feel strongly one way or the other. Thoughts? If we want to turn them on, any one willing to help with moderating? What the hell is wrong with you? You're part of the open

Re: getting a domain of srilanaka.gnome.org

2011-04-19 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 06:55:22AM -0600, Christer Edwards wrote: On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 6:37 AM, Olav Vitters o...@vitters.nl wrote: It first starts off with 'events'. Wordpress doesn't do 'events'. It is going to be wasteful if we spend time setting something up if apparently everything

Re: getting a domain of srilanaka.gnome.org

2011-04-19 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 07:03:47PM +0530, Danishka Navin wrote: Why we localize? Why we market the product? Why do we release parties? We are talking about different things. I am not after if you get a subdomain or not. That's totally fine. I understand for marketing you want something

Live image downloads

2011-04-12 Thread Olav Vitters
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 downloads up to now. I have asked

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

2011-04-05 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 01:37:37AM -0300, Vinicius Depizzol wrote: On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 14:37, Olav Vitters o...@vitters.nl wrote: I've created a page on live.gnome.org to describe the things which needs to be figured out: https://live.gnome.org/MigrateWwwGnomeOrg Thanks

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

2011-04-05 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 10:40:01AM +0100, Lucas Rocha wrote: Can we all meet at 16h (UTC) today for a meeting to draw plan for the deployment? Olav, maybe Christer could join to help us too? What do you think? Ok. Note: I have almost 0 wordpress experience. -- Regards, Olav --

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

2011-04-05 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 09:38:57AM +0100, Allan Day wrote: Resources / User support It think there should be a top level entry, in first place, for users only: User support. I am a user, I am lost on jhbuild page, where should I go? Documentation, forums, ml, irc, bug reports, etc. The

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

2011-04-03 Thread Olav Vitters
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 11:34:50PM -0300, Vinicius Depizzol wrote: | $cmd = /usr/bin/xml2po -m xhtml -p . PO_DIR . $po_file -o $translated_xml_file . XML_DIR . gnomesite.xml; that is also *very* bad. Don't execute via shell! I fully agree this is pretty ugly. Do you have any

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

2011-04-03 Thread Olav Vitters
On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 12:51:28AM +0100, Andreas Nilsson wrote: http://wptest.gnome.org/ is design-wise in a pretty good shape. I've created a page on live.gnome.org to describe the things which needs to be figured out: https://live.gnome.org/MigrateWwwGnomeOrg It is really incomplete, but at

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

2011-03-30 Thread Olav Vitters
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 04:49:19PM +0100, Lucas Rocha wrote: If the current css is the only thing that causes problems on other sites, maybe we could just keep it inside our Wordpress instance (using same path) while we figure out a long-term plan after the release? It wasn't the only thing I

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

2011-03-30 Thread Olav Vitters
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 02:39:46PM +0200, Olav Vitters wrote: Did you talk to someone from gnome-sysadmin or arrange it'll actually happen? Looking at: http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnomeweb-wp/tree/wp-content/plugins/wppo/wppo.php | $wppo_cache[$p-ID] = $wpdb-get_row (SELECT * FROM . $wpdb

Re: ROUGH draft of GNOME 3.0 press release (request for comments)

2011-03-29 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 08:24:29PM -0400, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: Groton, MA, April 6 2011: Today the GNOME Desktop project releases GNOME 3.0, its first major release in nine years. A revolutionary new user interface, new features for developers, and a stronger accessibility foundation

[les...@osuosl.org: [Hosting] Help with signups for the Communities mailing list]

2011-03-22 Thread Olav Vitters
Anyone interested? -- Regards, Olav ---BeginMessage--- Hello everyone, We've created a new mailing list for the folks at your projects who care about community management, outreach and news. We're asking that the right points of contact join this list for a few reasons: - We've heard from many

Re: Fallback / Classic Mode

2011-03-21 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 11:15:26AM +, Alberto Ruiz wrote: The large deployment sysadmins, basically the users of the distros providing corporate desktop (such as RHEL/Solaris/SLED), Dave Richards from PGO is probably a good example of the type I'm thiking about. I'm unaware of any plans

Re: Video #2 RFC

2011-03-20 Thread Olav Vitters
On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 01:46:50PM -0500, Jason D. Clinton wrote: On Mar 19, 2011 11:37 PM, Olav Vitters o...@vitters.nl wrote: == 1.4 GB in 31 days max I am guessing you provided these numbers to help guide our bandwidth consumption? It is my intention to only use people.g.o

Re: Video #2 RFC

2011-03-20 Thread Olav Vitters
On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 12:09:29PM -0700, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: In future I think we should have multiple mirrors and perhaps make it more easy to share .webm files. But not sure if we're setup for that (hard drive space, backup space, webserver which doesn't bog down when we get a few

Re: Video #2 RFC

2011-03-19 Thread Olav Vitters
On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 07:05:49PM -0500, Jason D. Clinton wrote: A first production attempt of launch video #2 is available here. Comments, please. The sooner, the better because two more will be produced tomorrow.

Re: Fallback / Classic Mode

2011-03-17 Thread Olav Vitters
On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 11:07:39PM +, 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. Maybe showing a startup splash explaining it the first time it falls back. It is called fallback. There is a bug about

[cosi...@gnome.org: Re: [patch] confirm before sending to trash]

2011-03-16 Thread Olav Vitters
for the roadmap -- Regards, Olav ---BeginMessage--- Hi Giorgio, On Tue, 2011-03-15 at 15:23 +, giorgio wrote: Is there any chance this could be considered? That would make a lot of people happy, really. Thanks for your patch, and for your interest in improving Nautilus. I think your use

[ori.liv...@gmail.com: Unintentional hilarity on gnome3.org]

2011-03-11 Thread Olav Vitters
fyi -- Regards, Olav ---BeginMessage--- Hi guys, The header Distraction-free computing is positioned right next to a screenshot of an IM popup that is partially obscuring an open browser window. It's a bit absurd, no? Do you think it may be a good idea to move things around a bit? Great work

Index page for projects.gnome.org

2011-02-16 Thread Olav Vitters
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. I want the main page for projects.gnome.org to show a quick overview of the information available in the DOAP

Re: Index page for projects.gnome.org

2011-02-16 Thread Olav Vitters
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 02:34:55PM +, Allan Day wrote: Olav Vitters wrote: I want the main page for projects.gnome.org to show a quick overview of the information available in the DOAP files. I have a current example: http://people.gnome.org/~ovitters/tmp/repositories.html

Re: gnome.org web page mistype

2011-02-09 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 09:12:17AM -0500, Virgil Brummond wrote: On the page http://www.gnome3.org/tryit.html there is an error. It says: # Run the image writer script: $ sudo ./image-writer path_to_the_live_image.iso Instead it should say: # Run the image writer script: $ sudo

Conference t-shirts: kids sizes

2011-02-07 Thread Olav Vitters
Got a few requests @ FOSDEM for kids size t-shirts. This was started at last years GUADEC. I think for at least Europe it might be nice to make such sizes available (together with mens + womans sizes). How do I make this known? I know guadec-list... but I'd like to contact conference people in

Re: www.gnome3.org launch

2011-01-18 Thread Olav Vitters
gnome3.org has been setup by Christer Edwards. Some typos were found, so created a repos for the website called gnome3-web. It'll auto-update the site within 5min from cron. Just clone, commit and push the changes. -- Regards, Olav -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org

Re: Made of Easy - Made of Inspiration

2011-01-15 Thread Olav Vitters
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 11:50:10AM -0700, Stormy Peters wrote: Made to Inspire? Playing devil's advocate: What is the benefit of an OS if it inspires? Inspires me? Inspires other OS makers? -- Regards, Olav -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org

Re: Live media of GNOME 2.30

2010-04-01 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 12:17:27PM +0200, Vincent Untz wrote: Le jeudi 01 avril 2010, à 12:08 +0200, Andreas Nilsson a écrit : In the GNOME 2.30 release notes there is a link to the 2.30 live images, but upon arrival on http://torrent.gnome.org/ , the only thing you can download is 2.26

Re: Facebook GNOME page

2010-03-18 Thread Olav Vitters
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 02:30:42PM -0600, Stormy Peters wrote: I think we are missing an opportunity to reach out to our users via Facebook - see the stats below. 6,464 fans!!! Can there be more than one administrators? Especially for the comments? Can you make me one or remove the Mono troll?

Re: Friends of GNOME Ruler

2010-02-12 Thread Olav Vitters
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 11:10:07AM +, Lucas Rocha wrote: So, what we need now is: 5. A [hide] link like on wikipedia.org? I don't mind such a ruler, but would want to dismiss it. -- Regards, Olav -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org

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