Re: GFOSS conference in Greece

2012-02-29 Thread Simos Xenitellis
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 10:51 PM, Andre Klapper ak...@gmx.net wrote: Heja, On Wed, 2012-02-29 at 10:46 +0200, Stathis Iosifidis (aka diamond_gr) wrote: I just saw a post (in Greek) [1] that there will be a day conference. This conference will be held to 4 cities in Greece (different days).

Re: GNOME 3 DVDs

2011-04-27 Thread Simos Xenitellis
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 1:49 AM, Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.me wrote: Who do I need to talk to about getting some DVDs shipped here?  I believe some were shipped to the U.S.  I have a conference this weekend so it would be beneficial if I could give out some live cds after my talk. I

Re: GNOME 3 DVDs

2011-04-26 Thread Simos Xenitellis
On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 10:42 PM, Andreas Jaeger a...@novell.com wrote: On Thursday, April 07, 2011 07:46:29 PM Bryen M Yunashko wrote: On Thu, 2011-04-07 at 19:32 +0200, Patrick Fey wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bryen, Am 07.04.2011 19:22, schrieb Bryen

Re: Stack Overflow: a de facto hub for GNOME support questions

2011-04-05 Thread Simos Xenitellis
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 5:34 PM, Sumana Harihareswara suma...@panix.com wrote: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/gnome There are 204 questions about GNOME on Stack Overflow (a trying-to-be-quality programmers' QA site with lots of traffic).  So if you have some spare time to look at

Re: Updating outdated GNOME programming books

2009-09-01 Thread Simos Xenitellis
On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 11:46 PM, Jaap A. Haitsmaj...@haitsma.org wrote: In my mail about the GNOME Amazon store most of the comments were about the outdated GNOME books which I listed here: http://www.gnome.org/friends/amazon/ (We can change the entries so just let me know which books you

Re: GNOME Amazon stores up and running

2009-08-31 Thread Simos Xenitellis
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Andre Klapperak...@gmx.net wrote: Am Montag, den 31.08.2009, 00:10 +0100 schrieb Alberto Ruiz: 2009/8/30 Jaap A. Haitsma j...@haitsma.org: http://www.gnome.org/friends/amazon/ I wonder if it's worth publicizing so outdated books, buying those would be a

Re: GNOME Amazon stores up and running

2009-08-31 Thread Simos Xenitellis
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Stormy Peterssto...@gnome.org wrote: On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Simos Xenitellis simos.li...@googlemail.com wrote: 4. I can also see other products apart from books, laptops. If someone knows something, they might fit as well. There are other

Re: Having search engines pay for being default search engine in epiphany, deskbar applet etc

2009-05-07 Thread Simos Xenitellis
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 2:01 PM, Dave Neary dne...@gnome.org wrote: Hi, Alex Launi wrote: On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 7:40 AM, Alberto Ruiz ar...@gnome.org mailto:ar...@gnome.org wrote:     What about Yahoo!? Do you want to piss off Google? Remember, they're still a large contributor.

Re: GNOME files disabled

2008-09-06 Thread Simos Xenitellis
On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 6:34 AM, Thilo Pfennig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Claus Schwarm schrieb: It's just not as efficient as for other platforms because releases are rather boring if they cannot be installed easily and immediately. That was the central problem of gnomefiles. Not specific to

Re: GNOME files disabled

2008-09-05 Thread Simos Xenitellis
On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 8:45 PM, Stormy Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What was gnomefiles? It sounds like a list of files found in GNOME but I don't want to assume. :) You can see how the website looked like at http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.gnomefiles.org/ Also, for individual

Re: Catchy line for gnome.org

2007-08-08 Thread Simos Xenitellis
Στις 08-08-2007, ημέρα Wed, και ώρα 23:08 +0300, ο/η Quim Gil έγραψε: In fact there was already a wiki page. http://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/CoreMessage I have updated with one proposal since I do think a GNOME tagline would be useful for our identity and marketing purposes: GNOME

Re: Including Arabic translation in release notes

2007-03-02 Thread Simos Xenitellis
On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 11:16 +, Djihed Afifi wrote: hi Marketing Team, Gnome 2.18 marks one of the first DE's (the first?) ever to have a fully completed Arabic translation (of the UI of release packages)[1]. In fact we have gone to great length to ensure a really good translation with

Re: Simple Idea for Gnome Journal

2006-01-31 Thread Simos Xenitellis
O/H Lucas Rocha έγραψε: Hi, An initial basic set of questions (most of them from the KDE one): http://www.gnome.org/~lucasr/GJ.txt Comments? Suggestion? Please send them 'now' because I need to send it to our first guest, Jeff. The deadline is tomorrow. :-) I like it. I have been looking

Re: GNOME Maps Updates

2005-12-27 Thread Simos Xenitellis
Murray Cumming wrote: On Thu, 2005-12-22 at 01:29 +, Simos Xenitellis wrote: Thanks for the update at http://live.gnome.org/LogoGuidelines Therefore, can we say that a GNOME user-group, provided they accepted the user-group licensing agreement, has two options: 1. Use the official

Re: Mapping GNOME contributors from around the world!

2005-12-27 Thread Simos Xenitellis
to mark precisely your location if you wish to. Simos Cheers. On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 14:46 +, Simos Xenitellis wrote: Ross Golder wrote: On อา., 2005-12-18 at 11:28 +0700, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan wrote: On 12/17/05, Luis Villa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You mean

Re: GNOME Maps Updates

2005-12-20 Thread Simos Xenitellis
Andreas Nilsson wrote: Simos Xenitellis wrote: Dear All, This is an update on the GNOME maps setup on Frappr.com. GNOME Dev: 50 participants http://www.frappr.com/gnomedev GNOME Users: 32 participants http://www.frappr.com/gnomeusers GnomeMeeting: 17 participants http://www.frappr.com

Re: Mapping GNOME contributors from around the world!

2005-12-18 Thread Simos Xenitellis
Ross Golder wrote: On อา., 2005-12-18 at 11:28 +0700, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan wrote: On 12/17/05, Luis Villa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You mean, like: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeWorldWide ? (linked to from planet.gnome.org) Isn't that for people who feed Planet GNOME? Sorry

Mapping GNOME developers and contributors

2005-12-16 Thread Simos Xenitellis
by Eike Rathke (http://jroller.com/page/erAck?entry=mapping_openoffice_org_developers_and) I'll publish at the gnome-i18n list. Feel free to post to other lists you are registered. Therefore, visit and register yourself at http://www.frappr.com/gnomedev Cheers, Simos Xenitellis http://simos.info

Re: slashdot: linus says use kde

2005-12-14 Thread Simos Xenitellis
John Williams wrote: On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 21:43 -0300, Santiago Roza wrote: btw, i'll try to summarize all online comments about this linus/kde thing. from what i've read so far, they seem to have a couple valid points we shouldn't be ignoring. I think that would be very helpful,

GNOME Localisation page (+award)

2005-11-11 Thread Simos Xenitellis
Hi All, As soon as I scribbled the page at http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/GNOME_Localisation we got an award. I suppose marketing should work on localisation as well :) Simos p.s. Uncyclopedia, http://uncyclopedia.org/, is supposed to provide information in a funny way, as in parody. GNOME

Re: collecting negative reviews

2005-09-10 Thread Simos Xenitellis
Luis Villa wrote: It would be a good idea for someone to find and categorize all the negative reviews too, so that we can address those issues (either by fixing problems or educating reviewers) during the next release cycle. Any volunteers? :) Luis Some more. A. Slashdot article GNOME

Re: GNOME liveCD 2.12 help needed

2005-09-07 Thread Simos Xenitellis
Rahul Sundaram wrote: Andreas Mueller wrote: On Wednesday 07 September 2005 10:57, Andreas Mueller wrote: the other langs are ready for downloading http://www.gnoppix.org/download/ gnome-livecd-2.12-i386-de-4.iso 06-Sep-2005 19:41 569M German gnome-livecd-2.12-i386-en-5.iso

Re: Yet Another Poster

2005-08-15 Thread Simos Xenitellis
Luis Villa wrote: On 8/10/05, Andreas Nilsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did another poster to match the Official Desktop of Happy People one. It seems like I didn't have support for thaiwanese, so that's currently three squares in the png. Will fix it later. Hope to do them as pdf soon, not

Re: Some criticisms of GNOME

2005-08-15 Thread Simos Xenitellis
Hi, That was quite an interesting e-mail. Thanks for forwarding. How do we deal with it? Well, imagine the new version of OpenOffice.org which does not have the toolbars with those bold/italics/underline buttons, the left-right-center-justify buttons for paragraphs, allowing you to change

Re: Pronouncing GNOME

2005-08-14 Thread Simos Xenitellis
Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Travis Reitter Would it make sense to change the official pronunciation of GNOME to gnome to smooth out this blip? Nah, I don't think so. It's a funny little cultural thing that some people enjoy, almost like a club. :-) I don't think it has a negative

Re: Yet Another Poster

2005-08-10 Thread Simos Xenitellis
Andreas Nilsson wrote: Did another poster to match the Official Desktop of Happy People one. It seems like I didn't have support for thaiwanese, so that's currently three squares in the png. Will fix it later. Hope to do them as pdf soon, not sure how though. Scribus svg support is not

Re: OpenCD GNOME

2005-08-04 Thread Simos Xenitellis
other program) to promote better itself, feel free to write similar tutorials that end-users can find under Help and use on the spot. ...snip... Simos Xenitellis http://simos.info/blog/ -- 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 Simos Xenitellis
Claus Schwarm wrote: On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 09:14:47 -0400 Luis Villa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: things I think in the end I disagree with gnoppix about: * naming; I want it called simply the GNOME LiveCD. No one outside a core group of geeks knows what knoppix is, and so calling it gnoppix is

Re: Create your own customised GNOME liveCD

2005-07-25 Thread Simos Xenitellis
Στις 25/Ιούλ/2005, ημέρα Δευτέρα και ώρα 17:26, ο/η Marcus Bauer έγραψε: 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

Re: Create your own customised GNOME liveCD

2005-07-25 Thread Simos Xenitellis
Στις 25/Ιούλ/2005, ημέρα Δευτέρα και ώρα 16:54, ο/η Claus Schwarm έγραψε: On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 15:45:37 +0100 Simos Xenitellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I cannot understand your point. I'll try to explain. If we from the marketing group continue to use expressions as 'geek

Re: KDE + Wikipedia

2005-06-24 Thread Simos Xenitellis
Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: The abiword guys would be interested as well since they have a wikipedia plug in. Strange they wanted a KDE API as opposed to Linux Desktop API integration. Maybe it's the same thing if the library is used by everyone and doesn't involve qt. Better have a look at

Re: KDE + Wikipedia

2005-06-24 Thread Simos Xenitellis
Simos Xenitellis wrote: Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: The abiword guys would be interested as well since they have a wikipedia plug in. Strange they wanted a KDE API as opposed to Linux Desktop API integration. Maybe it's the same thing if the library is used by everyone and doesn't involve qt

Re: HOWTO create a localized live CD

2005-06-15 Thread Simos Xenitellis
Terance Edward Sola wrote: Under follows a HOWTO for the Live CD provided by Marcus Bauer. I mailed him with some questions which you can find at the bottom but he hasn't replied so I thought I'd send it here in a Feel Lucky? manner :-) man, 23,.05.2005 kl. 14.05 +0200, skrev Marcus Bauer:

Re: Using GNOME and the foot logo on t-shirts/etc.

2005-06-14 Thread Simos Xenitellis
Murray Cumming wrote: On Mon, 2005-06-13 at 18:31 -0400, Fernando San Martn Woerner wrote: El mar, 14-06-2005 a las 00:24 +0200, Erik Snoeijs escribi: ... I don't know how far you are with business cards, but i could give you our design. However at the moment i can only offer a low

Re: Using GNOME and the foot logo on t-shirts/etc.

2005-06-14 Thread Simos Xenitellis
Murray Cumming wrote: On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 13:50 -0400, Daniel Veillard wrote: On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 07:38:43PM +0200, Murray Cumming wrote: On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 13:33 -0400, Daniel Veillard wrote: On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 06:12:03PM +0100, Simos Xenitellis wrote

Re: Cool Unicode and GNOME

2005-06-13 Thread Simos Xenitellis
12//2005, 23:51, / Andreas Nilsson : Simos Xenitellis wrote: What to do then? * Start using these and tell the world that, Oh, I use GNOME and this is how I get them. * Make sure the freefont package is included in your distro, as it covers quite a few of those interesting

Using GNOME and the foot logo on t-shirts/etc.

2005-06-13 Thread Simos Xenitellis
Hi All, We (Greek team) are planning to print some t-shirts for local use and would like to use GNOME and the foot. We would like to do it right, and in the process help others in a similar situation. GNOME and the foot logo are (c) by the GNOME Foundation. 1. Does this apply to the US only? Is

Re: Software Freedom Day

2005-06-09 Thread Simos Xenitellis
Leslie Proctor wrote: Simos wrote: A task would be to inform the end-users that they are using software based on GNOME technologies. * Perhaps rework the About dialog menu to show prominently that the app is based on GNOME technologies. * Do application branding around the idea Based

Re: Drawing the pretty pictures

2005-06-03 Thread Simos Xenitellis
Welcome Andreas! It's really good to have people that have proper background in artwork. There is something already you may want to look into! Sorry in advance if I dump too much information, too soon.. When you boot with a GNOME LiveCD, the very first screen shows a Boot splash image, such as

Bounties funded by Google, for GNOME

2005-06-01 Thread Simos Xenitellis
I did not see this mentioned in the list, so I take the chance to do it. Google is funding specific bounties for open-source projects, at http://code.google.com/summerofcode.html They cover GNOME as well, at http://www.gnome.org/bounties/Google.html Thanks to the unnamed heroes who worked on

Re: Four (open-source) Greek fonts are now available, and why it's relevant

2005-05-17 Thread Simos Xenitellis
/05, Simos Xenitellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Just to announce the availability of four Greek fonts, at http://www.ellak.gr/fonts/mgopen/ Why it matters to the marketing list? There are limited non-latin fonts which are distributed as open-source. It's important to populate the list

Four (open-source) Greek fonts are now available, and why it's relevant

2005-05-15 Thread Simos Xenitellis
Naskh (http://crulp.org/nafeesWebNaskh.html). Simos Xenitellis -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Re: Another online survey

2005-05-09 Thread Simos Xenitellis
Dave, In addition, the 2004 survey does not include Ubuntu Linux which comes by default with GNOME. One can expect the link distro-graphicalinterface. The real fight to get GNOME even higher is to win more distros. In the page they also mention the 2005 survey that will start soon... Simos