Re: marketing meeting next week!

2012-12-13 Thread Brett Legree
That sounds great to me, a series of interviews with different types of users would be very interesting - let me know when you're ready for the interview and I'll be happy to help out! With some luck (crossing fingers) I will have a nice new Fedora 18 Beta on one of my machines (an HP Mini-Note

Re: marketing meeting next week!

2012-12-13 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
I got fedora 18 beta running on my X1 Carbon.. So sweet! It has some performance issues that is related to the driver. I have to bug Fedora QA about it, I think. On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 6:56 AM, Brett Legree brett.leg...@gmail.comwrote: That sounds great to me, a series of interviews with

Re: marketing meeting next week!

2012-12-13 Thread Brett Legree
Nice! The X1 Carbon is quite the machine indeed, the HP that I mentioned would cower in fear next to your computer :) (It has a blazing fast VIA C7 processor...) -Brett On Dec 13, 2012 12:35 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.me wrote: I got fedora 18 beta running on my X1 Carbon.. So

Re: marketing meeting next week!

2012-12-12 Thread Karen Sandler
On Fri, December 7, 2012 10:18 am, Brett Legree wrote: Okay, I will write something up (hopefully over the weekend) and I'll include a few photos/screenshots - people like that sometimes! Yes, Greg was interviewed recently on The Setup http://greg.kh.usesthis.comand there he talks about using

Re: marketing meeting next week!

2012-12-08 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, On 12/08/2012 03:29 AM, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: It shows that we can't seem to get a decent experience using VOIP. Gosh if we only had some telepathy people who can help out in this. :-) You know, I bet there are a bunch of them hanging out on a different mailing list :-) Maybe

Re: marketing meeting next week!

2012-12-08 Thread Juanjo Marín
We still had some trouble with people joining the call using SIP.  If you had problems  in the past, please let me know and we can try to figure out how to get it working.   I know Allan has had some issues. I was able to connect with the following configurations: a) Nokia N9 +

Re: marketing meeting next week!

2012-12-08 Thread Olav Vitters
On Sat, Dec 08, 2012 at 01:49:10PM +, Juanjo Marín wrote: b) Fedora 18 + Ekiga 4 + ekiga.net free account (https://www.ekiga.net/?page=register) Use the Configuration Assistant You only need to add your user and password you don't need to sign up a call out account use default options

Re: marketing meeting next week!

2012-12-08 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Not a bad idea, Dave! I will do just that. On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 2:54 AM, Dave Neary dne...@gnome.org wrote: Hi, On 12/08/2012 03:29 AM, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: It shows that we can't seem to get a decent experience using VOIP. Gosh if we only had some telepathy people who can help

Re: marketing meeting next week!

2012-12-08 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
So I have a conflict. I have some training that I have to take that is pretty much all day on Wednesday so I won't be able to make the call. Or if I do I cannot stay over. So we can either move it to Tuesday or Thursday. Would Tuesday be okay for everyone? sri On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 1:52

Re: marketing meeting next week!

2012-12-08 Thread Olav Vitters
On Sat, Dec 08, 2012 at 06:10:44PM +0100, Olav Vitters wrote: On Sat, Dec 08, 2012 at 01:49:10PM +, Juanjo Marín wrote: b) Fedora 18 + Ekiga 4 + ekiga.net free account (https://www.ekiga.net/?page=register) Use the Configuration Assistant You only need to add your user and password

Re: marketing meeting next week!

2012-12-08 Thread Emily Gonyer
Awesome Olav! Sri: Tuesday or Thursday work fine for me too :) On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 3:21 PM, Olav Vitters o...@vitters.nl wrote: On Sat, Dec 08, 2012 at 06:10:44PM +0100, Olav Vitters wrote: On Sat, Dec 08, 2012 at 01:49:10PM +, Juanjo Marín wrote: b) Fedora 18 + Ekiga 4 + ekiga.net

Re: marketing meeting next week!

2012-12-08 Thread Debarshi Ray
It shows that we can't seem to get a decent experience using VOIP. Gosh if we only had some telepathy people who can help out in this. :-) You know, I bet there are a bunch of them hanging out on a different mailing list :-) Maybe http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/telepathy

Re: marketing test call tomorrow (Friday) (was Re: marketing meeting next week!)

2012-12-07 Thread Brett Legree
I'll be in the middle of a lunch meeting then, however, as I'll be calling in by phone for the real call next week, it shouldn't be a problem. Brett On Dec 7, 2012 1:57 AM, Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.me wrote: Thanks Karen for setting this up! The current bits of software that we have

Re: marketing meeting next week!

2012-12-07 Thread Brett Legree
Good day all, One suggestion is to engage various journalists, tech bloggers, or other online personalities who either write about GNOME (good or bad feedback) or use/have used it. For example, Bruce Byfield just wrote a fairly positive article on how we need to engage with the community, get

Re: marketing meeting next week!

2012-12-07 Thread Allan Day
Thanks for keeping up the momentum, Sri. I am current free at the same time next week. I'd be interested in talking about how we can generate more positive news about GNOME. Allan On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 6:11 AM, Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.me wrote: Howdy folks, It's that time to start

Re: marketing meeting next week!

2012-12-07 Thread Karen Sandler
On Fri, December 7, 2012 4:28 am, Brett Legree wrote: Good day all, One suggestion is to engage various journalists, tech bloggers, or other online personalities who either write about GNOME (good or bad feedback) or use/have used it. For example, Bruce Byfield just wrote a fairly positive

Re: marketing meeting next week!

2012-12-07 Thread Brett Legree
Great! Yes, Katherine Noyes is another friendly, positive person I had in mind. That's a good plan - to figure out what we want to showcase, and then start writing and submitting. One thing I've noticed a lot of detractors say is that you can't do 'real work' with GNOME - which is a load of

Re: marketing meeting next week!

2012-12-07 Thread Karen Sandler
On Fri, December 7, 2012 10:05 am, Brett Legree wrote: Great! Yes, Katherine Noyes is another friendly, positive person I had in mind. That's a good plan - to figure out what we want to showcase, and then start writing and submitting. One thing I've noticed a lot of detractors say is that

Re: marketing meeting next week!

2012-12-07 Thread Emily Gonyer
On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 10:09 AM, Karen Sandler ka...@gnome.org wrote: On Fri, December 7, 2012 10:05 am, Brett Legree wrote: Great! Yes, Katherine Noyes is another friendly, positive person I had in mind. That's a good plan - to figure out what we want to showcase, and then start writing

Re: marketing meeting next week!

2012-12-07 Thread Brett Legree
Okay, I will write something up (hopefully over the weekend) and I'll include a few photos/screenshots - people like that sometimes! Yes, Greg was interviewed recently on The Setup http://greg.kh.usesthis.comand there he talks about using GNOME on his workstation (he is also using i3 on another

Re: marketing test call tomorrow (Friday) (was Re: marketing meeting next week!)

2012-12-07 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Yeah, that's why I wanted to do the test call so that we can actually document a working setup. Otherwise we'll just be messing around again. sri On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 2:39 AM, Allan Day allanp...@gmail.com wrote: I've spent some time trying to setup SIP on my Android phone this morning.

Re: marketing meeting next week!

2012-12-07 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
OK, since I have not heard any other objections, we will set it same bat time, same bat channel next week. We still had some trouble with people joining the call using SIP. If you had problems in the past, please let me know and we can try to figure out how to get it working. I know Allan has

marketing test call tomorrow (Friday) (was Re: marketing meeting next week!)

2012-12-06 Thread Karen Sandler
On Thu, December 6, 2012 1:11 am, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: I want to do one test call Friday so that we can get everybody's software working prior to the real meeting. We spent way too much time trying to get things working and I want to not waste time getting people's software working. Why

Re: marketing test call tomorrow (Friday) (was Re: marketing meeting next week!)

2012-12-06 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Thanks Karen for setting this up! The current bits of software that we have been trying out so far has been: * Ekiga * Twinkle * linphone More choices here: http://www.voipsupply.com/blog/free-sip-softphone-roundup sri On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 6:18 PM, Karen Sandler ka...@gnome.org wrote:

Re: Marketing Meeting next week.

2012-03-16 Thread Allan Day
On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 10:11 PM, Bryen M Yunashko a11yro...@bryen.com wrote: On Mon, 2012-03-12 at 16:00 -0700, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: I have setup a doodle for a marketing meeting using google hangouts. Please RSVP what would be the best time.  If I'm missing a convenient time zone, please

Re: Marketing Meeting next week.

2012-03-16 Thread Karen Sandler
On Fri, March 16, 2012 6:59 am, Allan Day wrote: On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 10:11 PM, Bryen M Yunashko a11yro...@bryen.com wrote: On Mon, 2012-03-12 at 16:00 -0700, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: I have setup a doodle for a marketing meeting using google hangouts. Please RSVP what would be the best

Re: Marketing Meeting next week.

2012-03-16 Thread Stormy Peters
Regardless of whether it's Google services or not, I'd like to put in a word for video calls. In the past year and a half, I've come to really appreciate video calls. In my experience, meetings held via video are universally more on track and productive. I much prefer them over phone only calls

Re: Marketing Meeting next week.

2012-03-16 Thread Allan Day
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 5:19 PM, Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org wrote: ... In the past year and a half, I've come to really appreciate video calls. In my experience, meetings held via video are universally more on track and productive. I much prefer them over phone only calls now. ... That's

Re: Marketing Meeting next week.

2012-03-16 Thread Bryen M Yunashko
On Fri, 2012-03-16 at 17:23 +, Allan Day wrote: On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 5:19 PM, Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org wrote: ... In the past year and a half, I've come to really appreciate video calls. In my experience, meetings held via video are universally more on track and productive. I

Re: Marketing Meeting next week.

2012-03-16 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, On 03/16/2012 06:26 PM, Bryen M Yunashko wrote: I've been quite happy with the inclusion of a meetbot during IRC meetings. It totally automates the minutes, action items, info points and logging in a way I can't see video conferencing achieve. Personally I think meetbot minutes can't

Re: Marketing Meeting next week.

2012-03-16 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 10:19 AM, Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org wrote: Regardless of whether it's Google services or not, I'd like to put in a word for video calls. In the past year and a half, I've come to really appreciate video calls. In my experience, meetings held via video are

Re: Marketing Meeting next week.

2012-03-16 Thread Bryen M Yunashko
On Fri, 2012-03-16 at 18:46 +0100, Dave Neary wrote: Hi, On 03/16/2012 06:26 PM, Bryen M Yunashko wrote: I've been quite happy with the inclusion of a meetbot during IRC meetings. It totally automates the minutes, action items, info points and logging in a way I can't see video

Re: Marketing Meeting next week.

2012-03-16 Thread Stormy Peters
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 12:10 PM, Bryen M Yunashko a11yro...@bryen.comwrote: The meetbot can be useful that someone can volunteer to make a human-friendly minutes without even being present at the meeting because of transcripts etc. How do you get a transcript of a video conference? That

Re: Marketing Meeting next week.

2012-03-15 Thread Allan Day
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 11:00 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.me wrote: I have setup a doodle for a marketing meeting using google hangouts.  Please RSVP what would be the best time.  If I'm missing a convenient time zone, please let me know.  All the times are London times, (GMT -7 for

Re: Marketing Meeting next week.

2012-03-15 Thread Bryen M Yunashko
On Mon, 2012-03-12 at 16:00 -0700, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: I have setup a doodle for a marketing meeting using google hangouts. Please RSVP what would be the best time. If I'm missing a convenient time zone, please let me know. All the times are London times, (GMT -7 for west coast, -6 for

Re: Marketing Meeting next week.

2012-03-15 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 3:11 PM, Bryen M Yunashko a11yro...@bryen.comwrote: On Mon, 2012-03-12 at 16:00 -0700, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: I have setup a doodle for a marketing meeting using google hangouts. Please RSVP what would be the best time. If I'm missing a convenient time zone,