Re: Press releases

2006-03-13 Thread Steve George
Hi,Reads well to me and it's got nice clear explanations of the important changes.Suggestions:- Even easier configuration+ Easier configuration, so that it's straightforward to set-up the desktop's behaviour to match a users preferences. - a new so-called Deskbar will integrate into the desktop

Re: Simple Idea for Gnome Journal

2006-02-22 Thread Steve George
Hi, I did a couple of these back in the day when I doing the GNOME Weekly summaries. One of the ideas was to extend interviews and put up a gallery on the website so everyone would know the contributors. Two things: a. They aren't that well-read other than if the person says something really

Buzz measurement with Blogs

2006-02-22 Thread Steve George
Hi, A long time back Sri asked about using blogs to measure buzz: bearing mind that blogs are a small microcosm. I do this a fair amount and find the icerocket trends graphic really useful. Here's one to measure GNOME, KDE and linux desktop over 3 months:

Promotion campaign for GNOME 2.14 release?

2006-02-22 Thread Steve George
All, According to the timeline (http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointThirteen) we're about a month away from GNOME 2.14 product release. Aside from release notes what about doing a promotional campaign for the products launch? This would be an ideal way to generate some buzz and interest in our

Re: Another online survey

2005-05-09 Thread Steve George
Hi Dave, I know you have distributions as one of your target customers and I can see your thinking. However, for those distributions that already have a default desktop I think you have a difficult task. From their perspective if they add another desktop all they are looking at is a more

Re: Tuxmagazine

2005-05-03 Thread Steve George
Hi, This is such a key question, and the answer I think GNOME is giving doesn't make sense to me. The lack of consensus on this issue is what leads to the questions of why GNOME is no fun to hack on anymore and what language people want to use. The mistake of targeting the user group I think