Re: Software Freedom Day

2010-09-23 Thread John Sullivan
Bradley M. Kuhn bk...@ebb.org writes: On 08/30/2010 09:57 PM, Paul Cutler wrote: GNOME did a press release for Software Freedom Day (http://softwarefreedomday.org/) last year. This year it's Sept. 18th - do we have any plans to celebrate SFD

Re: Software Freedom Day

2010-09-23 Thread Lefty
for Software Freedom Day (http://softwarefreedomday.org/) last year. This year it's Sept. 18th - do we have any plans to celebrate SFD? Anyone want to volunteer to organize the press release and participation? Stormy wrote: We could also put

Re: Software Freedom Day

2010-09-13 Thread Stormy Peters
Zonker, ping? Is it enough? Software Freedom Day is this Saturday. Thanks, Stormy On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org wrote: Hi Zonker, Is it enough to say that GNOME developers around the world are participating in Software Freedom Day and list the activities

Re: Software Freedom Day

2010-09-13 Thread Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier
, Sep 13, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org wrote: Zonker, ping? Is it enough? Software Freedom Day is this Saturday. Thanks, Stormy On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org wrote: Hi Zonker, Is it enough to say that GNOME developers around the world

Re: Software Freedom Day

2010-09-13 Thread Stormy Peters
of services for software freedom, and then mention the other. Sounds good to me. What do you need from me or the Tomboy Online team? Stormy Best, Zonker On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org wrote: Zonker, ping? Is it enough? Software Freedom Day

Re: Software Freedom Day

2010-09-13 Thread Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org wrote: On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 1:26 PM, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier j...@zonker.net wrote: Hey Stormy, I think the online alpha is way more newsworthy than saying some GNOME developers are taking part in this larger thing. We

Re: Software Freedom Day

2010-09-13 Thread Brian Cameron
How does this tie in to the Franklin Street Statement? It might be worthwhile to make some mention how we are supportive of the Franklin Street Statement as we launch a web service. It would tie in well with Software Freedom Day also if we could give some indication that we thought about

Re: Fwd: Software Freedom Day

2010-09-13 Thread Paul Cutler
' Brockmeier j...@zonker.net Date: Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 1:34 PM Subject: Re: Software Freedom Day To: Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org Cc: Paul Cutler pcut...@gnome.org, marketing-list marketing-list@gnome.org On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org wrote: On Mon

Re: Fwd: Software Freedom Day

2010-09-13 Thread Stormy Peters
. Let me know if you need any more information. Paul From: Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier j...@zonker.net Date: Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 1:34 PM Subject: Re: Software Freedom Day To: Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org Cc: Paul Cutler pcut...@gnome.org, marketing-list marketing-list@gnome.org

Re: Fwd: Software Freedom Day

2010-09-13 Thread Paul Cutler
Subject: Re: Software Freedom Day To: Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org Cc: Paul Cutler pcut...@gnome.org, marketing-list marketing-list@gnome.org On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org wrote

Re: Fwd: Software Freedom Day

2010-09-13 Thread Sandy Armstrong
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 2:35 PM, Paul Cutler pcut...@gnome.org wrote: I think we adhere to the Franklin Street statement.  Adding Sandy Armstrong, one of Snowy's lead developers to the CC. Comments below: Agree. On Mon, 2010-09-13 at 14:48 -0600, Stormy Peters wrote:       * Develop software

Re: Fwd: Software Freedom Day

2010-09-13 Thread Paul Cutler
On Mon, 2010-09-13 at 14:44 -0700, Sandy Armstrong wrote: * Make data and works of authorship available to their service’s users under legal terms and in formats that enable the users to move and use their data outside of the service. This means: *

Re: Fwd: Software Freedom Day

2010-09-13 Thread Brian Cameron
On Mon, 2010-09-13 at 14:48 -0600, Stormy Peters wrote: * Develop software that can replace centralized services and data storage with distributed software and data deployment, giving control back to users. Check. Users can install their own Snowy instance if they

Re: Fwd: Software Freedom Day

2010-09-13 Thread Sandy Armstrong
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 3:32 PM, Brian Cameron brian.came...@oracle.com wrote: On Mon, 2010-09-13 at 14:48 -0600, Stormy Peters wrote:       * Develop software that can replace centralized services and         data storage with distributed software and data deployment,         giving control

Re: Software Freedom Day

2010-09-09 Thread Stormy Peters
We could also put a banner up on gnome.org and Planet GNOME just on Sept 18th. If anyone has time/inclination we could do a GNOME Software Freedom Day banner, if not Software Freedom Day has several we could choose from: http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/Artwork http

Re: Software Freedom Day

2010-09-09 Thread Stormy Peters
Hi Zonker, Is it enough to say that GNOME developers around the world are participating in Software Freedom Day and list the activities we know about? I think Tomboy Online Alpha is launching right about then ... we could use that to explain we are expanding software freedom to hosted services

Re: Software Freedom Day

2010-09-08 Thread Andreas Nilsson
On 08/30/2010 09:57 PM, Paul Cutler wrote: GNOME did a press release for Software Freedom Day (http://softwarefreedomday.org/) last year. This year it's Sept. 18th - do we have any plans to celebrate SFD? Anyone want to volunteer to organize the press release and participation? I'm doing

Re: Software Freedom Day

2010-08-31 Thread Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 2:57 PM, Paul Cutler pcut...@gnome.org wrote: Anyone want to volunteer to organize the press release and participation? I'll happily write the release if we're doing anything. Best, Zonker -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier j...@zonker.net About:

Re: Software Freedom Day

2010-08-31 Thread Jonh Wendell
Em Seg, 2010-08-30 às 14:57 -0500, Paul Cutler escreveu: GNOME did a press release for Software Freedom Day (http://softwarefreedomday.org/) last year. This year it's Sept. 18th - do we have any plans to celebrate SFD? Anyone want to volunteer to organize the press release

Re: Software Freedom Day

2010-08-31 Thread Emily Chen
Users Group -Emily 2010/8/31 Jonh Wendell jwend...@gnome.org Em Seg, 2010-08-30 às 14:57 -0500, Paul Cutler escreveu: GNOME did a press release for Software Freedom Day (http://softwarefreedomday.org/) last year. This year it's Sept. 18th - do we have any plans to celebrate SFD

Software Freedom Day

2010-08-30 Thread Paul Cutler
GNOME did a press release for Software Freedom Day (http://softwarefreedomday.org/) last year. This year it's Sept. 18th - do we have any plans to celebrate SFD? Anyone want to volunteer to organize the press release and participation? Paul -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list

Re: Software Freedom Day Press Release

2009-09-19 Thread Stormy Peters
Here's the final copy. Can someone post in on the website under Latest News? You can use the first paragraph on the front page. Thanks, Stormy GNOME promotes Software Freedom Day September 19, 2009 The GNOME Community is a excited to promote and participate in Software Freedom Day. Around

Re: Software Freedom Day Press Release

2009-09-19 Thread Andreas Nilsson
On 09/19/2009 11:44 AM, Stormy Peters wrote: Here's the final copy. Can someone post in on the website under Latest News? You can use the first paragraph on the front page. Thanks, Done. - Andreas -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org

Re: Software Freedom Day Press Release

2009-09-18 Thread Stormy Peters
release to support Software Freedom Day. Once we get feedback and do some more edits, can someone on this list post this to the website tomorrow? Thanks, Stormy GNOME promotes Software Freedom Day September 19, 2009 The GNOME Community is a excited to promote and participate in Software Freedom Day

Re: Software Freedom Day Press Release

2009-09-18 Thread Lucas Rocha
are looking for input and feedback on a GNOME press release to support Software Freedom Day. Once we get feedback and do some more edits, can someone on this list post this to the website tomorrow? Thanks, Stormy Supported Beyond the worldwide GNOME Community, GNOME is supported

Re: Software Freedom Day Press Release

2009-09-18 Thread Alex Hudson
On 18/09/09 17:22, Lucas Rocha wrote: Can we say it is the default desktop environment in openSUSE? Not sure. AIUI, Enterprise editions of SUSE default to it (at the moment). OpenSUSE itself actually defaults to KDE, albeit only by pre-selecting an option for the user to choose between.

Re: Software Freedom Day Press Release

2009-09-18 Thread Stormy Peters
Let's just drop the openSUSE part. That'll give us a nice round 3. Fedora, Ubuntu and OpenSolaris. Stormy On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Alex Hudson h...@alexhudson.com wrote: On 18/09/09 17:22, Lucas Rocha wrote: Can we say it is the default desktop environment in openSUSE? Not sure.

Re: gnome.org (WAS: Re: Software Freedom Day)

2008-09-26 Thread Stormy Peters
Hylke Bons just offered to help with this over on the gnome-web-list. I think it makes sense for this conversation to happen over there with review on the marketing list. http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-web-list/2008-September/msg00025.html Stormy On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 10:15 AM, Stormy

Re: Software Freedom Day

2008-09-26 Thread Brian Cameron
. What can GNOME do? I would recommend issuing a news item talking about the software freedom day and maybe also collecting what will be going on. If GNOME related stuff goes on there could also be the chance to add some photos and links. Also GNOME could do something on this day, too like addressing

Re: gnome.org (WAS: Re: Software Freedom Day)

2008-09-26 Thread Diego Escalante Urrelo
On 9/26/08, Stormy Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hylke Bons just offered to help with this over on the gnome-web-list. I think it makes sense for this conversation to happen over there with review on the marketing list.

Re: Software Freedom Day

2008-09-25 Thread Brian Cameron
Thilo: Couldn't we just set up the website so that on particular calendar days, it automatically has some nice default information to display? Then we wouldn't have to worry about forgetting such important days like Software Freedom Day. It would be best if we could replace or augment

Re: Software Freedom Day

2008-09-25 Thread Thilo Pfennig
. What can GNOME do? I would recommend issuing a news item talking about the software freedom day and maybe also collecting what will be going on. If GNOME related stuff goes on there could also be the chance to add some photos and links. Also GNOME could do something on this day, too like addressing

Re: Software Freedom Day

2008-09-24 Thread Thilo Pfennig
supports wholeheartedly and likes its users to know about or maybe use as a local action. This would/could be: * Software Freedom Day * Stop Software Patents world Day (which is today) * Document Freedom Day (promotes open document standards, which is what GNOME also supports I guess) * Anniversaries

Community calendar (was: Re: Software Freedom Day)

2008-09-24 Thread Dave Neary
that GNOME supports wholeheartedly and likes its users to know about or maybe use as a local action. This would/could be: * Software Freedom Day * Stop Software Patents world Day (which is today) * Document Freedom Day (promotes open document standards, which is what GNOME also supports I guess

gnome.org (WAS: Re: Software Freedom Day)

2008-09-24 Thread Stormy Peters
. This list should contain worldwide events that GNOME supports wholeheartedly and likes its users to know about or maybe use as a local action. This would/could be: * Software Freedom Day * Stop Software Patents world Day (which is today) * Document Freedom Day (promotes open document

Re: Software Freedom Day

2008-09-23 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Thilo Pfennig wrote: just like to say that i think that its sad that THE free Linux desktop (GNOME) did not participate on the SFD nor did it mention it on www.gnome.org, neither the 25 years of GNU software. I think GNOME cant just ignore the biggest free software event in the world and

Re: Software Freedom Day

2008-09-21 Thread Thilo Pfennig
Andreas Nilsson schrieb: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/marketing-list/2008-August/msg00025.html Crap, I totally missed that. I'm terribly, terribly sorry. I guess it's a bit late to put something up now. Should we try again next year? (and be better prepared hopefully.) Again, sorry that I

Re: Software Freedom Day

2008-09-20 Thread Thilo Pfennig
Andreas Nilsson schrieb: I can put a banner or something up on the website pretty much right away if you want to. I dont have a say. Too bad you didn't mention it on the mailing list a bit earlier though. I actually did: Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/29/98 Regards, Thilo --

Re: Software Freedom Day

2008-09-20 Thread Andreas Nilsson
Thilo Pfennig wrote: Andreas Nilsson schrieb: I can put a banner or something up on the website pretty much right away if you want to. I dont have a say. I'm not sure who does have a say actually. I just put things there, and noone have beaten me up yet. :) Too bad you didn't

Re: Software Freedom Day

2008-09-20 Thread Baris Cicek
Hi; Why don't we have a marketing agenda somewhere on the wiki? I know we have some cluttered places on live.gnome.org where mentions upcoming organizations etc. but they are mostly community centric and not updated regularly. An official list of events that marketing people should focus on

Software Freedom Day is Sept. 20th 2008

2008-08-29 Thread Thilo Pfennig
Hi, just want to mention this and also suggest that GNOME will support this in some way. Maybe just a news posting and a link to http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/ - or maybe more. This is a bit late for larger planning but this is a yearly opportunity. And if not GNOME think about doing

Re: Software freedom day

2005-08-21 Thread Reinout van Schouwen
Hi, We're a little late on the get-go, but I think we should do something for Software Freedom Day - http://softwarefreedomday.org/ - September 10th this year. FWIW, some Dutch and Belgian GNOME volunteers will be present at a local SFD event in Tilburg, The Netherlands. As a side note, we

Software freedom day

2005-08-19 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, We're a little late on the get-go, but I think we should do something for Software Freedom Day - http://softwarefreedomday.org/ - September 10th this year. Perhaps GNOME user groups could hold an event for the day? Even if it's only a small demo in a local university? The OpenCD

Re: Software freedom day

2005-08-19 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Dave Neary We're a little late on the get-go, but I think we should do something for Software Freedom Day - http://softwarefreedomday.org/ - September 10th this year. Don't know why it didn't occur to me to pimp this to GNOME, we've been doing lots of stuff about it in Australia

Re: Software freedom day

2005-08-19 Thread Jerome Gotangco
In Manila (Philippines), the local Ubuntu Local Community team will be part of the celebration. I will be with the Ubuntu team, but instead will be pimping GNOME and give out some GNOME Live CDs. Don't know why it didn't occur to me to pimp this to GNOME, we've been doing lots of stuff about it

Re: Software freedom day

2005-08-19 Thread Andreas Nilsson
Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Dave Neary We're a little late on the get-go, but I think we should do something for Software Freedom Day - http://softwarefreedomday.org/ - September 10th this year. Don't know why it didn't occur to me to pimp this to GNOME, we've been doing lots

Re: Software freedom day

2005-08-19 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Jeff Waugh a écrit : Don't know why it didn't occur to me to pimp this to GNOME, we've been doing lots of stuff about it in Australia and Ubuntu-land. I just noticed :) Andreas, got any thoughts on an SFD-inspired image for gnome.org? (I just got a sudden flash of New GNOME. New World

Re: Software freedom day

2005-08-19 Thread Jerome Gotangco
We've been planning on it for weeks and we made some wiki notes: http://maitri.ubuntu.com/softwarefreedomday/wiki/index.php/SFD_Philippines We have a draft press release to be given to major IT publications: http://maitri.ubuntu.com/softwarefreedomday/wiki/index.php/August_17 We will be

Re: Software Freedom Day

2005-06-10 Thread Dave Neary
Hi Sri, Sriram Ramkrishna a écrit : So here is my mock up. I changed it to Get the Brand!. I suck at this stuff so hopefully someone can improve it. Thanks for the effort. Could you please use the simple GNOME foot in future for GNOME branding stuff? It's that one which is trademarked

Re: Software Freedom Day

2005-06-10 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 09:24:12AM +0200, Dave Neary wrote: Hi Sri, Sriram Ramkrishna a écrit : So here is my mock up. I changed it to Get the Brand!. I suck at this stuff so hopefully someone can improve it. Thanks for the effort. Could you please use the simple GNOME foot in

Re: Software Freedom Day

2005-06-10 Thread Dave Neary
Sriram Ramkrishna a écrit : Yeah, I took mine from your effort that I found on the marketing wiki. You probably want to remove that one or put something to highlight which one to use. Done. Dave. -- David Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org

Software Freedom Day

2005-06-09 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, We should probably do something for Software Freedom Day (even if it's only letting more people know about it) http://softwarefreedomday.org/ - it's the second year it's been help, and I think it's a really good idea which deserves traction and attention. I don't know what we can do

Re: Software Freedom Day

2005-06-09 Thread Leslie Proctor
Simos wrote: A task would be to inform the end-users that they are using software based on GNOME technologies. * Perhaps rework the About dialog menu to show prominently that the app is based on GNOME technologies. * Do application branding around the idea Based on GNOME technologies,

Re: Software Freedom Day

2005-06-09 Thread Simos Xenitellis
Leslie Proctor wrote: Simos wrote: A task would be to inform the end-users that they are using software based on GNOME technologies. * Perhaps rework the About dialog menu to show prominently that the app is based on GNOME technologies. * Do application branding around the idea Based

Re: Software Freedom Day

2005-06-09 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Simos Xenitellis a crit : In addition, the OpenCD will be available, which has cross-platform applications based on GNOME technologies. A task would be to inform the end-users that they are using software based on GNOME technologies. * Perhaps rework the About dialog menu to show