Re: Mass Deployment of GNOME in schools in Macedonia

2005-10-17 Thread David Neary
Hi Arangel, Claus Schwarm's editing the GNOME Journal at the moment, and he's on the list, so hopefully you're done ;) Cheers, Dave. Арангел Ангов wrote: I have what I believe is a final version of the text about the mass deployment of GNOME in Macedonian schools. I would like to thank

Re: Mass Deployment of GNOME in schools in Macedonia

2005-10-16 Thread Арангел Ангов
I have what I believe is a final version of the text about the mass deployment of GNOME in Macedonian schools. I would like to thank all of you especially Rajiv for all the suggestions and help. I'm still open for suggestions if any.. Who do I send it to now, who's responsible for texts at

Re: Mass Deployment of GNOME in schools in Macedonia

2005-10-12 Thread Murray Cumming
Well done. I have made some minor changes to the English in the attached .sxw file, and I've added some TODOs in the text. Mass Deployment of GNOME in Macedonian Schools In addition, I think the article should mention: 1.When the project was started. 2.When it will be finished. 3.How much

Re: Mass Deployment of GNOME in schools in Macedonia

2005-10-12 Thread Murray Cumming
And here's the attachment. Well done. I have made some minor changes to the English in the attached .sxw file, and I've added some TODOs in the text. Mass Deployment of GNOME in Macedonian Schools In addition, I think the article should mention: 1.When the project was started. 2.When it

Re: Mass Deployment of GNOME in schools in Macedonia

2005-10-12 Thread Luis Villa
Just FWIW, Arangel, I mentioned this at the marketing BOF at the summit this weekend as an absolutely *perfect* example of the type of testimony we'd like to get and highlight from big deployments. Thanks so much for pursuing this and writing it up- I think it'll be very useful for some time to

Re: Mass Deployment of GNOME in schools in Macedonia

2005-10-12 Thread Luis Villa
On 10/12/05, Арангел Ангов [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Luis Villa wrote: Just FWIW, Arangel, I mentioned this at the marketing BOF at the summit this weekend as an absolutely *perfect* example of the type of testimony we'd like to get and highlight from big deployments. I'm glad to hear that.

Re: Mass Deployment of GNOME in schools in Macedonia

2005-10-11 Thread Арангел Ангов
I have finished the alpha version of the short text+interview about the deployment of GNOME and Ubuntu in Macedonian schools. You can download the html and sxw versions from here: http://ufo.softver.org.mk/GNOME_deployment_Macedonia.html http://ufo.softver.org.mk/GNOME_deployment_Macedonia.sxw

Re: Mass Deployment of GNOME in schools in Macedonia

2005-10-08 Thread Арангел Ангов
rajiv vyas wrote: Rajiv, Couple of other suggestions. You need some flavor and answer couple of questions in the text before your QA. The flavor: Where is Macedonia, how big it is in terms of populations, per capita GDP, and why do we say that nothing happens there. A good way to say it would

Re: Mass Deployment of GNOME in schools in Macedonia

2005-10-08 Thread Claus Schwarm
Hi! This is a very good first text. Very cool! Before you think about submitting it to the GNOME Journal, it might be helpful to read throught the text once more, and clean up a few loose ends here and there. For example, you should * try to sort information in the non-interview part

Re: Mass Deployment of GNOME in schools in Macedonia

2005-10-08 Thread rajiv vyas
Arangel: This one reads nicely. A very important question that I would like to know in the story would be, how big is the public school system in Macedonia. You have said that they have installed this on 5,000 PCs. Is that all for a country with 2 million people? Assume that 15% of the

Re: Mass Deployment of GNOME in schools in Macedonia

2005-10-08 Thread Арангел Ангов
Claus, Rajiv, I ll e-mail Darko again with some more questions and I hope to have the text ready within a few days. Once again, thank you both for the comments and suggestions. Cheers, -Arangel -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org

Re: Mass Deployment of GNOME in schools in Macedonia

2005-09-19 Thread Арангел Ангов
I have an interview scheduled with the director of EDC (the head organization for this project) on Tuesday. It would sure be helpfull if you could suggest some questions. I already have a small list but I wouldn't mind a few more. For those who didn't got the whole picture, the story is at

Re: Mass Deployment of GNOME in schools in Macedonia

2005-09-15 Thread Арангел Ангов
Murray Cumming wrote: Excellent news. Could someone get in touch with the people involved, and maybe do a small GNOME Journal story, or maybe a press release? I already tried contacting the project managers but didn't got any reply from them so far. I ll try to gather as much more info as I

Re: Mass Deployment of GNOME in schools in Macedonia

2005-09-15 Thread Claus Schwarm
On Thu, 15 Sep 2005 23:39:12 +0200 __ __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How long till the next edition of GNOME Journal? :) The next submission deadline is November, the 1st! Cheers, Claus -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org

Re: Mass Deployment of GNOME in schools in Macedonia

2005-09-14 Thread Murray Cumming
Excellent news. Could someone get in touch with the people involved, and maybe do a small GNOME Journal story, or maybe a press release? Do we know how many PCs there are per school, and/or the total number of PCs, users, etc? I've just added this info to the wiki pages for GnomeDeployment: