Re: Getting some students in communication helping with copywriting web?

2010-09-29 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 3:32 AM, Dave Neary dne...@gnome.org wrote: Great, that's a couple of volunteers, and should be enough to get us started. I'll check whether it's possible to propose tutored projects through the foundation, if not, I can proxy for GNOME here. So along the same vein,

Re: Add GNOME to eBay nonprofits?

2010-09-24 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Good stuff, Stormy! +1 -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Re: Distributing distros under the GNOME Banner

2010-09-13 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 3:33 AM, Dave Neary dne...@gnome.org wrote: Hi, Bryen Yunashko wrote: Does GNOME have a particular policy about providing distros in their booths at events? None in particular. Past GNOME booths have distributed Ubuntu, Fedora, OpenSuse and Foresight liveCDs.

Re: Copy for Linux 92

2010-09-01 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 10:00 PM, Joey Ferwerda joeyferw...@gmail.comwrote: Hey All, Here is my current concept for the Linux Ad for the magazine. It is a quick draft, and I have all the time in about 7 hours to work on it if you guys like it. I like how it is so simple, and love to get

Re: GSM

2010-08-04 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 12:42 AM, Juanjo Marín juanjomari...@yahoo.eswrote: --- El *lun, 2/8/10, Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.me* escribió: On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 1:09 PM, Andre Klapper ak...@gmx.nethttp://mc/compose?to=ak...@gmx.net wrote: Am Montag, den 02.08.2010, 12:26 -0500

Re: GSM

2010-08-02 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 1:09 PM, Andre Klapper ak...@gmx.net wrote: Am Montag, den 02.08.2010, 12:26 -0500 schrieb Nathan Willis: I was wondering if someone could tell me what the latest is with the GNOME Software Map Can you please elaborate on the term Software map? The project used

Re: My Introduction :)

2010-07-30 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 6:18 AM, Joey Ferweda joeyferw...@gmail.com wrote: I would really like to contribute to the Marketing of GNOME by composing audio made custom for the marketing Video's of any kind, and with options for experimental marketing like (web)Radio jingles. My studio (where i

Re: YouTube NFP Status for GNOME official

2010-07-13 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
How do we drive traffic to blip.tv? We have our home page. What else? Browser? Extra menu? RSS feeds? Just throwing stuff out there. sri -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Re: YouTube NFP Status for GNOME official

2010-07-10 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
I hope we can create a boxxee channel too. :) sri On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 7:29 PM, Paul Cutler pcut...@gnome.org wrote: On Fri, 2010-07-09 at 21:18 -0500, Bryen M. Yunashko wrote: Is it double work to be on two sites and coordinate all that? Yup. Sorry. But, like I said, we're

Re: OSCON?

2010-07-06 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
I could volunteer.. I used to do the OSCON booth.. GNOME3 stuff might be cool. Not sure if there is enough time to setup a vendor booth though. Stormy will be there and I was going to set up an evening with local OSS folks here in Portland, that's the only thing I've planned. In general, I

Re: OSCON?

2010-07-06 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
set up a BOF.. but a booth I think is a waste of time. Thanks, sri On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 7:56 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.me wrote: I could volunteer.. I used to do the OSCON booth.. GNOME3 stuff might be cool. Not sure if there is enough time to setup a vendor booth though. Stormy

Re: OSCON?

2010-07-06 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
I just looked at the Northwest Linuxfest tracks and there can't be a conference more in aligned to talk about desktop than there for that part of the country. I'm very sorry that I missed the opportunity to present. I have mailed the organizers and have asked that they consider me as a speaker

Re: Free Agent t-shirt final mock-ups

2010-06-19 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 8:49 PM, Brian Cameron brian.came...@oracle.comwrote: GNOME Marketing: After working for a few months with Dongyun and Diki, I have some hopefully final mock-ups of the Free Agent tshirt with the updated text we agreed to on this list.[1] You can download the final

Re: Updated Ambassador Brochures

2010-06-13 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Bharat, On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 11:21 PM, Bharat Kapoor 3.kap...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Folks Sorry about the delay (but finally I managed to clean them up). Please check out the brochure text / layout (still pending Art work) @:

Re: GNOME 3.0 Roadmap - Help Needed

2010-06-02 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
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Re: GNOME at which events

2010-05-22 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
BTW score on the SIGGRAPH one. I ran into someone in the elevator at work wearing a GNOME t-shirt. I had asked where he got it and he told me it was at SIGGRAPH, as they were giving it away for free. But it's good to see that GNOME logo out there. Usually I'm the one who wears one, so seeing

Re: GNOME at events

2010-05-18 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
I've setup the GNOME booth at OSCON several times. Over there it didn't take a long time because we had a fairly minimal setup. You'll need at least 2 people especially if you have computers / laptop there. It was about 25 minute setup time wtih one poster, handouts, and setting up computer.

Re: GNOME at events

2010-04-28 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
I think there is a northwest linuxfest as well right? sri On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 10:33 AM, Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org wrote: There's a few events where I'm sure GNOME could have a booth. Is anybody interested in representing GNOME at: Southeast Linux Fest Ohio Linux Fest ... It's

Re: GNOME - Gnome

2010-04-06 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Something completely different might be better again... we don't have a huge amount of brand equity worldwide for GNOME, perhaps it's time to consider a rename? Although I can live with GNOME... Our brand recognition seems to be mostly within the FOSS group. People really don't know GNOME

Re: GNOME 3 Marketing - GNOME Shell

2010-03-30 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 7:37 PM, Diego Escalante Urrelo die...@gnome.orgwrote: El mar, 30-03-2010 a las 11:52 -0400, Owen Taylor escribió: We can also point to various alternative desktops built on GNOME technology - whether that's the continuing ability to run the GNOME 2 panel and

Re: Emergency marketing team meeting

2010-03-10 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
I don't know about you guys, but I'm still not clear what came out of the UX hackfest. Which would automatically make me agree with the below. Furthermore, I don't understand how within the 6 month time period that you will have all the user testing, addressing regression (gnome shell for

Re: Campaign Proposal

2010-02-17 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 1:27 PM, Nelson Marques 07...@ipam.pt wrote: Please flame at will... I would hope that nobody would do such a thing for putting effort and time into an idea. We have serious community issues if one expects to be flamed when proposing an idea. This isn't LKML. :)

Re: Introductions

2010-02-17 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Well sure it's just my opinion that I have good idea.. I have to have some ego in this group! sri On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 6:48 PM, Behdad Esfahbod beh...@behdad.org wrote: Do you? ;) I'm behdad by the way. Just listening and occasionally teasing. behdad On 02/16/2010 07:16 PM, Sriram

Re: Introductions

2010-02-16 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
I am.. er sri. I don't seem to have a role other than to participate and snark. I do occasionally come up with good ideas that I have no time to implement. sri On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 4:04 AM, Dave Neary dne...@gnome.org wrote: Hi, Nelson Marques wrote: I would like to ask one thing to

Re: Reviving FootNotes?

2010-02-08 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Good on you! It's a good time to do it since we want to get GNOME 3 out there. However, it would be nice to do those GNOME summaries that I used to do before going on to GNOME Journal. It's a very hard job unfortunately and requires someone dedicated to reading a lot of mailing lists. sri On

Re: Communicating to users what GNOME 3.0 is

2010-01-15 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 7:48 AM, Dave Neary dne...@gnome.org wrote: All change forces users to do something (or to stick with what they already have - no rule says you have to upgrade to the latest greatest version of GNOME). Fighting against this is a losing battle. Better in my opinion to

Re: GNOME documentation..

2009-12-06 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
That sounds like a neat idea. Let me see if I can put that in the GNOME wiki. sri On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 5:18 AM, Kevin Krammer kevin.kram...@gmx.at wrote: On Saturday, 2009-12-05, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: For GNOME 3 are we going to try to set up something to make programming GNOME

GNOME documentation..

2009-12-05 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
For GNOME 3 are we going to try to set up something to make programming GNOME easier (whatever that means), and also I'd really like to see online help so that it is more easier to use for beginners. It would be interesting to have some kind of feedback from app developers to see how well the

Re: Gnome Foundation Ad On FSF Endorsed Network

2009-12-03 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
wrote: I definitely think we should try it. Stormy On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 12:49 AM, Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.me mailto:s...@ramkrishna.me wrote: Jeremy, Has anybody contacted you regarding this? I didn't see any responses here so I wasn't sure if there was interest at all

Re: Gnome Foundation Ad On FSF Endorsed Network

2009-12-02 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Jeremy, Has anybody contacted you regarding this? I didn't see any responses here so I wasn't sure if there was interest at all. Is there interest in creating an ad for use here? sri On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 12:36 PM, Jeremy Andrews jer...@tag1consulting.comwrote: Hello, I hope this

Re: Marketing Team IRC Meetings

2009-11-13 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
I created a doodle account... btw what do we use for collab? gobby? I'd like to try out the new abiword thing.. (we should be talking this stuff up!) sri On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 7:51 AM, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier j...@zonker.netwrote: On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 5:53 PM, Paul Cutler

Re: Marketing Team IRC Meetings

2009-11-13 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
I doubt it, as collab is done using a centralized server for abiword. sri On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier j...@zonker.netwrote: On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 1:21 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.me wrote: I created a doodle account... btw what do we use

Re: Marketing Team IRC Meetings

2009-11-11 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
I think we should try it once. I'd be interested in it. sri On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 2:53 PM, Paul Cutler pcut...@gnome.org wrote: Hello Marketing team! We are just wrapping up our 2 day hackfest and we have lots of stuff to share. But first, one hot topic here has been around community

Re: Marketing Hackfest Details

2009-10-26 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
I wonder if we could use flumotion to do it? sri On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 8:52 PM, John Williams john.williams.li...@gmail.com wrote: Is there any possibility of either web-casting or video-conferencing this event? Or at the very least recording it for later consumption? I (and I presume

Re: GNOME at Gov 2.0 Expo

2009-10-26 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
This sounds like fun, I'd like to go but I can't make a decision now. Are you looking to do presentations or is this schmoozing? I can probably do both given some canned presentations to base my talks on. BTW it seems to me that Dave Richards would do an excellent job representing us as he uses

Re: Marketing Hackfest

2009-10-13 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
There are marketing people in Chicago? :-) I'd love to attend, but I'm stuck in the northwest and I'm busy with school anyways. Please post the agenda and what not though, I would be interested to know what is going on. sri On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 7:45 AM, Paul Cutler pcut...@gnome.org wrote:

Re: Spreading the word about 2.28

2009-09-21 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
GNOME 2.28 - more cheesy than before! See Cheese 2.28 on GNOME! GNOME 2.28 - Forget about that sweet tooth and check out our bluetooth! sri On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 9:15 AM, Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org wrote: I like both ideas. Snappy, funny phrases are not necessarily my strength, but

Re: Suggestion about providing more value to Foundation members

2009-09-16 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Brian Cameron brian.came...@sun.comwrote: For example, we get three people writing in to say the new bugzilla is awesome and it saves them 30 minutes a day finding bugs to work on, so the board writes a recommendation on Max/Olav/sys admin team member page

Re: GNOME Amazon stores up and running

2009-08-31 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Great work, Jaap! The plugin is a good start! sri On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Jaap A. Haitsma j...@haitsma.org wrote: Hi, I think I now have the GNOME Amazon stores is such a shape that we can start advertising them. Please go to: http://www.gnome.org/friends/amazon/ and take a

Re: Marketing Tasks

2009-06-24 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 8:12 PM, Paul Cutler pcut...@gnome.org wrote: Hi Marketing Team, I don't know if anyone has had an opportunity lately to review the list of Tasks on the Marketing page on live.gnome.org at http://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/Tasks. There are a lot of great ideas,

Re: Open Video Guidelines (WAS: Re: [Foundations] Open Video Conference, NYU, June 19-20)

2009-06-23 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
That's great to hear! Looks like we should write up something on video editing as these are things that a lot of people might be interested in doing in this day and age. I will check out pritvi for myself and see how it compares. sri On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 3:01 AM, Jay dedman

Re: Re: GNOME Marketing kick-off brainstorming event at Collaboration Summit?

2009-06-22 Thread sriram . ramkrishna
Gnome community calendar actually. If there is no GNOME community presence, I'm GNOMEy enough for everyone. We had a lot last time although nobody was there as a GNOME person exactly. sri On Feb 2, 2009 7:43am, Dave Neary dne...@gnome.org wrote: Hi Sri, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: I

Re: Re: GNOME Marketing kick-off brainstorming event at Collaboration Summit?

2009-06-22 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
community calendar actually. If there is no GNOME community presence, I'm GNOMEy enough for everyone. We had a lot last time although nobody was there as a GNOME person exactly. sri On Feb 2, 2009 7:43am, Dave Neary dne...@gnome.org wrote: Hi Sri, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: I

Re: New Project: GNOME YouTube Video Contest

2009-06-22 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Yeah, I don't think we are going to use it. I personally should since we're trying to grow market share and restricting ourselves to a portion of the web that is already drinking the koolaid so to speak seems silly. However, that said, we can use this site: http://en.theorasea.org/ The site

Re: New Project: GNOME YouTube Video Contest

2009-06-22 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 07:38:37AM -0500, Luis Villa wrote: Endorsing/using proprietary software (AFAIK none of the free flash players plays youtube acceptably, at least using code that is legally available in the US.) -- Yes, there is that. I'm not sure though how to get around this.

Re: Open Video Guidelines (WAS: Re: [Foundations] Open Video Conference, NYU, June 19-20)

2009-06-22 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Jay, How did it go? I talked with J5 (John Palmieri) and he said he was going to represent GNOME there. I am of course very interested in setting up something in this regard. John had a pretty nice post on this and I'm eager to set up something where we can dogfood our video apps and be able

Re: promoting good gnome apps via news.gnome.org

2009-06-19 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Not to promote, but Linux Plumbers Conference is exactly about solving this kind of stuff. If someone was willing to write a paper about PackageKit or something like that would be really good so that we can highlight this problem. Then we can work on it together to move Linux forward. Does that

Re: promoting good gnome apps via news.gnome.org

2009-06-14 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 5:34 AM, Claus Schwarm clschw...@googlemail.comwrote: Sorry if that sounds harsh, but that's just the way it is. I can always depend on you to get to the heart of the matter, Claus. :-) I don't think your comments are harsh, but does reflect a reality behind my

Re: promoting good gnome apps via news.gnome.org

2009-06-13 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Actually, the original idea I had about this is to do away with our platform (eg the apps that make gnome.. after all the whole thing is a distro decision these days anyways) Instead we would promote them via adsense and drive traffic to these apps thus using them as marketing tools. That might

Re: Google Adwords Application for Review (WAS Re: Google Adsense versus Adwords)

2009-05-28 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
I concur as well. We want to get at Microsoft's market share... sri On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Jaap A. Haitsma j...@haitsma.org wrote: Your proposal sounds fine for me. Maybe instead of specific names like gimp use the general program name like photo editing Jaap On Thu, May 28,

Re: Open Video Guidelines (WAS: Re: [Foundations] Open Video Conference, NYU, June 19-20)

2009-05-19 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
I can see the ogg/theora being interesting from a default setting point of view for say desktop recorders or even something like cheese. What can we do with the canvas tag? :) sri On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org wrote: On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 5:15 PM, Stormy

Re: GNOME Video Contest (WAS: Re: New Project: GNOME YouTube Video Contest)

2009-05-11 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
to capture, collect and host open video. Or to find the right people to get a good project started ... http://openvideoconference.org/ Stormy On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 9:25 AM, Sriram Ramkrishna s...@spiritone.comwrote: Yeah, I don't think we are going to use it. I personally should since

Re: Marketing, GNOME 3.0 and subteams

2009-04-29 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
I must agree here. QT looks a lot more attractive to developers thanks to the excellent documentation they have. sri On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 8:48 PM, Shaun McCance sha...@gnome.org wrote: On Mon, 2009-04-27 at 16:37 +0100, Alex Hudson wrote: Stormy Peters wrote: + Identify our target

Re: Marketing, GNOME 3.0 and subteams

2009-04-27 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Brian Cameron brian.came...@sun.comwrote: - Many public television, radio stations, etc. will play free ads for non-profits. Wouldn't it be interesting to put together some advertisements that we could use to get the message out there? While it would

Re: Opinion: Stop developing for the desktop?

2009-04-13 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Release team I suppose but there are probably others. Who is doing the javascript introspection. I know that there was some movement in doing desktop webapps but I'm not sure who is working on that. sri On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 2:26 PM, Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org wrote: Marketing folks,

Some musings on marketing and GNOME 3.0.

2009-04-11 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
I was reading slashdot regarding the whole problem with netbooks with Linux having a higher return rate than with windows. This seems to be an area where we had equal footing and we lost our market share quite fast due to not producing a product that didn't draw consumers to continue stick with

Re: GNOME development article - Programmez! magazine in France

2009-04-10 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
GNOME Foundation member dne...@gnome.org -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list -- -- Sriram Ramkrishna (s...@*(()aracnet.com) -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: GNOME Marketing kick-off brainstorming event at Collaboration Summit?

2009-02-01 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Dave, I hope you will also add Linuxconf, and Linux Plumbers Conference to your list. Both linuxconf and plumbers will be held at the same time in Portland in September both are Linux Foundation initiative. If you have any questions let me know, I'm on the organizing committee. In addition, we

Re: [Fwd: Gtk/Cairo in real life: Ultrasound System from South of France]

2008-12-15 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Definitely, we should come out with a nice article on this. I'll see about getting someone to write about it. sri On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 17:32 +0100, Dave Neary wrote: Hi, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: This is kind of cool. Although I find it strange that nobody responded to this. I've

Re: GNOME files disabled

2008-09-09 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Can we not just port the existing gnomefiles website over? It is better than nothing. We haev http://www.gtk-apps.org. But I'm not very enthuisastica bout this site and it's application list is not complete. sri On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 05:18:16PM +0200, Claus Schwarm wrote: Hi,

Re: GNOME Weekly News

2008-06-25 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 11:45:00AM -0400, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: Brian already said the rest of what I wanted to say. If you check Fedora Weekly News, each item is a summary plus links to original discussion on mailing list or blogposts. That's quite a different (and less time demanding)

Re: GNOME Weekly News

2008-06-24 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list -- Sriram Ramkrishna [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Re: The Final Logo for GNOME Asia Summit

2007-12-29 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list -- Sriram Ramkrishna [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Re: A Meeting with a Mission

2007-08-05 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list -- Ken VanDine http://ken.vandine.org -- Sriram Ramkrishna [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list

Re: A Meeting with a Mission

2007-08-05 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
tried to pick a day and time that suits all the people I know about, but I suspect more people may want to attend. The (tentative) date and time is 05:00 (UTC) on Saturday August 11. Cherio, John -- Sriram Ramkrishna [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list

Re: Formalizing the marketing team

2007-07-31 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 09:45:59AM -0400, Patrick Wagstrom wrote: I'm willing to help out although I've always been very skeptical about the effectiveness of IRC brainstorming and meeting sessions (I suppose they're better than mailing lists). Anyway, I've been working on Same here. What

Re: Linux World Expo SF Booth, help needed

2007-07-06 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
plan to reach out and individually contact the GNOME folks I can find in the bar area, but we need more than that. We have 8 passes for the booth, 2 of which are spoken for. So lets use up those other 6 :) Thanks, -- Ken VanDine http://ken.vandine.org -- Sriram Ramkrishna [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Re-inventing the GNOME Marketing team

2007-04-24 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
My suggestion is that we really try to keep it to small, easily accomplishable objectives. I think what we have is a very small active number of contributors and a lot of people who contribute to discussion. Once we get the small steps done we can work on larger ones. I'll participate in an

Re: Starting Chicago Gnome User Group

2007-04-23 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 09:41:56AM +0200, Dave Neary wrote: Hi, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: I don't think so. Nobody has really ever started a user group. Us Europeans, South Americans and Asians have a bunch of them: http://live.gnome.org/UserGroups Coolness! Then I start

Re: Starting Chicago Gnome User Group

2007-04-22 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list -- Sriram Ramkrishna [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Re: About The GNOME Mobile Embedded Initative

2007-04-22 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Sun, 2007-04-22 at 12:27 +0200, Thilo Pfennig wrote: On 4/21/07, Sriram Ramkrishna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Apr 21, 2007 at 03:19:48PM +0200, Thilo Pfennig wrote: c) In relation to that i fear that this binds ressources that otherwise would have been there for the core

Re: About The GNOME Mobile Embedded Initative

2007-04-21 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Sat, Apr 21, 2007 at 03:19:48PM +0200, Thilo Pfennig wrote: I have thought long about this initiative. I would not generally consider this a bad thing, but: a) I do not like that this was not discussed at all in the marketing list. Such major things and announcement have to be discussed

Re: GNOME groups in USA

2007-04-18 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 11:46:31AM +0200, Dave Neary wrote: Eitan, do you want to take on gathering a list of interested people? Ubuntu Live is July 22-24th in Portland, OR. You could start with that. sri -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org

Re: GNOME groups in USA

2007-04-16 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 07:37:06PM +0200, Dave Neary wrote: Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 02:35:34AM -0400, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: On Sat, 2007-04-14 at 15:49 -0700, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: Oregon is somewhat weak. We have a strong free software community but very

Re: GNOME groups in USA

2007-04-14 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 04:03:25PM -0700, Eitan Isaacson wrote: Oregon is somewhat weak. We have a strong free software community but very weak in desktop. Maybe 3 of us possibly. Much as I would like to think that I'm a tour de force by myself... I think we have maybe a couple more

Re: [Fwd: OSGeo-India activity report and draft press release]

2007-03-06 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Can we have some kind of conference report? (or an article?) sri On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 12:19:35PM +0100, Dave Neary wrote: Hi all, We partnered with OSGeo some months ago to allow them to receive funding for a conference they were organising in India - the partnership was a great

Re: Showing off the N800 on the gnome.org frontpage?

2007-02-11 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
promote distros when they come out, politically polite as we are, but GNOME tech powering a small device like that is too cool to not show off. And well, I guess it would shut a osnews reporter or two that think GNOME development is stalling up. :) - Andreas -- Sriram Ramkrishna [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: The wgo CMS can't wait more

2006-10-30 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 02:00:57PM +0200, Henri Bergius wrote: Hi, Sri! On 10/26/06, Sri Ramkrishna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This sounds interesting. I know that for my vision of GNOME Journal I wanted to have translated articles so that we aren't just stuck with a single language. We

Re: Journalists contacted

2006-09-09 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Unfortunately I don't. I do have the business card of one of the British linux magazines (Linux Format I think). I have tried Wired before using their web form when I was doing GUADEC press releases. But I did not get any response from them. I can try again next cycle or perhaps try to set up

Re: cms performance

2006-07-26 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Kinda. The il8n stuff makes the journal a single language one. One I do not find optimal as the magazines [1] who have re-printed our articles have mostly been Spanish speaking. So I think there is a lot of interest in seeing these articles in other language, which is difficult currently. I'm

Re: [Fwd: Exhibitor Magazine Honors LinuxWorld San Francisco 2005 for its Attendee Traffic Density]

2006-07-07 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 12:20:17PM +0100, Paul Cooper wrote: As an aside - is anyone in Portland organising a booth for OSCON (because I can help out if needed). I'm not sure if we have time to set up a booth. I can put you in touch with the people in O'Reilly if you want to set up a

Re: [guadec-list] Press Team meeting minutes..

2006-06-25 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Let me see what I can do. I'll see if I can set up some cooperative between OSDL and GNOME Foundation for this kind of thing. OSDL uses an agent that finds people interested in interviewing and then works as a go-between. It might be a good idea to not only do this with OSDL but probably with

add Penguin Day in Seattle as a target for presence.

2006-03-30 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
We shoudl target Penguin Day as a possible place for Linux desktops. http://business.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=06/03/29/2012213from=rss It's held in Seattle.. Right under the benevolent wing of Microsoft :) sri -- -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org

Re: Website

2006-03-29 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 08:58:55PM +0200, Quim Gil wrote: I'm definitely interested being part of the wgo revamp. I keep offering myself to lead this effort if everybody is happy with this and there is an agreement on some basic concepts: You'd be pretty perfect. It requires one motivated

Re: Promotion campaign for GNOME 2.14 release?

2006-02-24 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 07:11:24AM -0500, Rajiv Vyas wrote: One of the possibilites is try and do an interview with Linus and see if his view has changed on GNOME with the new 2.14 coming out. If it has, it would be a great marketing plug!! I would much prefer Alan Cox who has been involved in

Re: Simple Idea for Gnome Journal

2006-02-23 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
I think some lesser known guys would be wonderful. These are my personal favourites. Your list may vary. Danilo Segan -- il8n stuff Fernando Herrera -- bugzilla/gnome-love/general hacking Elijah Newman-- release engineering Carlos Garncho -- gnome-vfs and others Christian Newmair --

Re: Target markets for GNOME

2006-02-17 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Sriram Ramkrishna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's not going to be done on a mailing list. Small collaborative, focused groups can do this with a wide backgrounds can do this. Lets create some leadership and lead these groups. Sri, I think you are over-reacting. ;-) My mail

Re: Simple Idea for Gnome Journal

2006-02-06 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
. Contribution goes here: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeJournal/BehindTheScenes p eace --lucasr 2006/2/6, Sriram Ramkrishna [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 09:47:17PM +1100, Hugh Buzacott wrote: Suggestion? How about 'Meet a GNOME'. I'm not very enthused by the title. I keep

Re: Simple Idea for Gnome Journal

2006-01-31 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Excellent! Go for it. sri On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 09:59:54AM -0300, Lucas Rocha wrote: Hi Thilo, Well, I think there are quite a lot interviews out there. I would suggest if we want to make something different :-) that we interview more users. A question of focus. Nonetheless we should

Re: [kde-promo] request for a free desktop markting mailing list

2006-01-18 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Thanks Daniel! :) sri On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 01:21:49AM +, Daniel Stone wrote: On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 02:14:03AM +0100, Cornelius Schumacher wrote: On Wednesday 18 January 2006 01:36, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: You can probably find Daniel Stone as well and he can help us. He usually

Re: [kde-promo] request for a free desktop markting mailing list

2006-01-17 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
I looked at the site and I couldn't find anything that talked about setting up a mailing list. You can probably find Daniel Stone as well and he can help us. He usually hangs out in #freedesktop on freenode. Alternatively, it seems like accounts are created through bugzilla,

Re: [kde-promo] marketing Free Desktop

2006-01-06 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
How about a freedesktop marketing list? (eg a marketing list hosted on fd.o) sri On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 05:37:41PM +, Tom Chance wrote: Ahoy, On Friday 06 January 2006 16:45, Thilo Pfennig wrote: I don't know if freedesktop.org would be the right place to start with this kind of

lucasr's blog comments..

2005-12-19 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Has anybody looked at the 14 comments responding to Lucas's blog regarding GNOME Love? They are quite interesting and what a lot of people have issues with are: * developer attitudes in bugzilla, for instance by Alan Horkan: I don't know about anyone else but I get really pissed off and

Re: slashdot: linus says use kde

2005-12-13 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
We need to thank him for generating so much press. That should raise our profile in many trade rags. We need to tell the press people we are open for interviews and what not so that we can give people a balanced view. ;) sri On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 01:29:49PM -0500, Rajiv Vyas wrote: Very

Re: slashdot: linus says use kde

2005-12-13 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
I think it's best we just let this pass and get back to business. :-) No need to continue to drag this through the mud. Rather, this is our opportunity to: a) go through osnews/slashdot looking for decent feedback b) get a feel of what people think about GNOME both good and bad. and other

Re: real marketing or just catchy slogans?

2005-12-06 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 09:21:17PM -0300, Santiago Roza wrote: Well said, and I concur. cool! one reply, and it wasn't an insult! :P Well, I hope our community isn't so bad as that one would expect insults and ridicule when giving critical feedback! :P :) sri -- marketing-list mailing

Re: real marketing or just catchy slogans?

2005-12-06 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 03:44:20PM -0300, Santiago Roza wrote: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2002-December/msg00482.html So - who wants to take this on? (don't be shy) this sounds interesting, but it also sounds like dozens of hours of work... and unluckily i can't

Re: real marketing or just catchy slogans?

2005-12-06 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 11:37:24AM +0100, Dave Neary wrote: Claus Schwarm wrote: * No 'exclusive' influence on developers or product decisions. Even the board is unable to do that. Ahem. The board *shouldn't* do that. Not the same thing. We are a sub-group of the GNOME project. If

Re: real marketing or just catchy slogans?

2005-12-06 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
I don't really want to start a thread on VCS here. But see this thread: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-hackers/2005-May/msg1.html My long ass post about it is in: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-hackers/2005-May/msg00036.html Hope that helps. sri -- marketing-list mailing

Re: GNOME's Target Markets

2005-12-01 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
I agree completely. We can't start a marketing campaign of any sort if our main marketing tool, our home page, continues to be stale and devoid of dynamic content. How many of you visit the gnome web page regularly? My guess is maybe once a month? Why? Because it's not the center of GNOME

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