Re: Marketing Minutes December 13, 2012

2012-12-15 Thread Allan Day
Karen Sandler ka...@gnome.org wrote: ... I don't think it's actually that hard to figure out what we need to do to improve the perception of GNOME and GNOME 3. There are lots of examples that run contrary to the negative discourse that has been circulating - you don't have to look far to find

First time contributors : WAS Re: Marketing Minutes December 13, 2012

2012-12-15 Thread Andreas Nilsson
On 12/14/2012 07:21 PM, Dave Neary wrote: Hi, Sorry I couldn't attend - a sick son bedtime meant that 8pm yesterday was rush hour in the Neary household. On 12/14/2012 03:24 PM, Emily Gonyer wrote: Sri: Theres a common wisdom that GNOME will throw out features and are unfriendly. We've let

Re: First time contributors : WAS Re: Marketing Minutes December 13, 2012

2012-12-15 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Yes, volunteer capture was one of the issues. That's why one of the projects was toe QA our website to make sure that we have a method of doing volunteering capture. I saw a similar issue in IRC where somebody came in and wanted to hack on something and nobody answered him. (I was reading from

Marketing Minutes December 13, 2012

2012-12-14 Thread Emily Gonyer
Minutes from Marketing Tele-Conference, December 13, 2013 Participants: Sririm Ramkrishna, Karen Sandler, Andreas Nilsson, Emily Gonyer, Alan Day, Olav Vitters, Flavia Weisghizzi Topic: Community Outreach/Development Sri: Theres a common wisdom that GNOME will throw out features and are

Re: Marketing Minutes December 13, 2012

2012-12-14 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Just to expand on the meeting frequency - we should continue to do bi-weekly 'tactical' meetings where we focus on our action items and getting them completed. In addition, any news of the day type of items. Once every two months prior to freezes we have planning meeting where we figure out

Re: Marketing Minutes December 13, 2012

2012-12-14 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Sorry I couldn't attend - a sick son bedtime meant that 8pm yesterday was rush hour in the Neary household. On 12/14/2012 03:24 PM, Emily Gonyer wrote: Sri: Theres a common wisdom that GNOME will throw out features and are unfriendly. We've let others tell our story for us. As a result,

Re: Marketing Minutes December 13, 2012

2012-12-14 Thread Seif Lotfy
I would like to correct something here. Zeitgeist is not a file browser and has no UI anymore. It is just a History storage for the user. What you are talking about is the Activity Journal, which is now not needed and thus dead. On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 7:21 PM, Dave Neary dne...@gnome.org wrote:

Re: Marketing Minutes December 13, 2012

2012-12-14 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, On 12/14/2012 07:29 PM, Seif Lotfy wrote: I would like to correct something here. Zeitgeist is not a file browser and has no UI anymore. It is just a History storage for the user. What you are talking about is the Activity Journal, which is now not needed and thus dead. Indeed. I was, more

Re: Marketing Minutes December 13, 2012

2012-12-14 Thread Allan Day
Thanks again for the minutes, Emily. I was unable to attend the meeting, due to not being able to dial in again (this time I kept being told that the PIN was wrong). Emily Gonyer emilyyr...@gmail.com wrote: Minutes from Marketing Tele-Conference, December 13, 2013 Participants: Sririm

Re: Marketing Minutes December 13, 2012

2012-12-14 Thread Karen Sandler
On Fri, December 14, 2012 1:57 pm, Allan Day wrote: Thanks again for the minutes, Emily. yes! :) I was unable to attend the meeting, due to not being able to dial in again (this time I kept being told that the PIN was wrong). Very strange, but let me know if you want me to set up another

Re: Marketing Minutes December 13, 2012

2012-12-14 Thread Brett Legree
Karen - perhaps Jakub Steiner would be a good person to interview (since you had suggested having a designer in there, he's a great place to start I think!) -Brett On Dec 14, 2012 4:22 PM, Karen Sandler ka...@gnome.org wrote: On Fri, December 14, 2012 1:57 pm, Allan Day wrote: Thanks again

Re: Marketing Minutes December 13, 2012

2012-12-14 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Doh, forgot one other thing - we could have google hangouts on GNOME and talk with people about the design. So for instance, Andreas and Allan could hold an open chat with people. It might be interesting to try. This is especially true if we start doing them as we get close to release. On