Re: Wow - look at the KDE news volume

2006-09-26 Thread Tom Chance
Ahoy, On Tuesday 26 September 2006 13:21, Quim Gil wrote: During the GUADEC sprint I realized the obvious: we don't have a press team. We should. Well of course :) Three people with a whiteboard, familiar to all the contributors who are around, and with not much else to do. Write press

Re: SpreadGNOME.org

2006-08-23 Thread Tom Chance
because it offers collaboration potential. But (and I'm sure GNOME people will chip in on this) it's really nice to talk with others in the same and related projects first :) Anyway, good luck with it all, I'll be interested to see where the project goes. Kind regards Tom Chance KDE Promotion team

Re: Press releases

2006-03-10 Thread Tom Chance
Ahoy, For what it's worth... On Friday 10 March 2006 18:07, Corey Burger wrote: We currently have two press releases, from myself and Claus. I have attached both. The key difference between the two is length. Mine is fashioned on the 2.12 press release, as well as looking at a few other

Re: [kde-promo] marketing Free Desktop

2006-01-06 Thread Tom Chance
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 collaboration or if this is the right time or if people involved really want that? I definitely think this is worth discussing and I've had a few

Re: real marketing or just catchy slogans?

2005-12-10 Thread Tom Chance
On Friday 09 December 2005 22:12, Gezim Hoxha wrote: On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 12:10 -0500, Dan Winship wrote: snip Yes and no. I agree that running the Gnome Live CD will give them the feel of Gnome, but technically, what they're trying is Ubuntu (plus some hacks), not Gnome. And if they

Re: real marketing or just catchy slogans?

2005-12-06 Thread Tom Chance
Ahoy, On Tuesday 06 December 2005 11:44, Murray Cumming wrote: Should we be doing DesktopUseCases to help us along ? 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

Re: Some criticisms of GNOME

2005-08-15 Thread Tom Chance
On Monday 15 Aug 2005 23:57, Claus Schwarm wrote: However, after talking a step back from the emotional affiliation with ones own work, it may reveal that there's some insight to be gained in the critic, even in the mail from the editor you posted. The more interesting question would be: Is