Syndicating gnome.org/news to news.gnome.org

2011-06-22 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Could we get gnome.org/news syndicated to news.gnome.org straight away, please? Regardless of other changes we might make, I think this is a good idea. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member dne...@gnome.org -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http

Re: Syndicating gnome.org/news to news.gnome.org

2011-06-22 Thread Olav Vitters
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 10:46:32AM +0200, Dave Neary wrote: Could we get gnome.org/news syndicated to news.gnome.org straight away, please? Regardless of other changes we might make, I think this is a good idea. Just add the feed to planet-web module. -- Regards, Olav -- marketing-list

Re: Syndicating gnome.org/news to news.gnome.org

2011-06-22 Thread Alberto Ruiz
The feed seems to be broken, no news on it: http://www.gnome.org/news/feed/ 2011/6/22 Olav Vitters o...@vitters.nl: On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 10:46:32AM +0200, Dave Neary wrote: Could we get gnome.org/news syndicated to news.gnome.org straight away, please? Regardless of other changes we might

Re: Syndicating gnome.org/news to news.gnome.org

2011-06-22 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Olav Vitters wrote: On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 11:38:31AM +0200, Dave Neary wrote: Weird. The feed title is Comments on: News in Google Reader. http://www.gnome.org/feed/ ? I guess that works too. Only contains 5 items (compared to 10 on /category/news) Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME

Re: promoting good gnome apps via news.gnome.org

2009-06-19 Thread Stormy Peters
I think this is a problem that will have to be solved with all the distros in a room. Unless we come up with a solution that is so elegant end-users just use it. Saying we shouldn't do an installer because each distro is different, is ignoring a user problem. apt-get and yum are beyond the

Re: promoting good gnome apps via news.gnome.org

2009-06-19 Thread Alberto Ruiz
2009/6/19 Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org: I think this is a problem that will have to be solved with all the distros in a room. Unless we come up with a solution that is so elegant end-users just use it. Saying we shouldn't do an installer because each distro is different, is ignoring a user

Re: promoting good gnome apps via news.gnome.org

2009-06-19 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Not to promote, but Linux Plumbers Conference is exactly about solving this kind of stuff. If someone was willing to write a paper about PackageKit or something like that would be really good so that we can highlight this problem. Then we can work on it together to move Linux forward. Does that

Re: promoting good gnome apps via news.gnome.org

2009-06-17 Thread Andre Klapper
Am Dienstag, den 16.06.2009, 12:15 -0500 schrieb Brian Cameron: We work hard to get our patches upstream, but there is usually a lag time and some modules are not well maintained (we have patches in bugzilla for modules like libgnome and gnome-vfs that have sat idle for years). Probably

Re: promoting good gnome apps via news.gnome.org

2009-06-16 Thread Andreas Nilsson
On 06/16/2009 11:46 AM, Dave Neary wrote: Hi, Stormy Peters wrote: I think we need an installer - for Linux and for Windows. And I think there's interest from several distributions to have an application install solution so if we were willing to create one (or a plan for one), I think we

Re: promoting good gnome apps via news.gnome.org

2009-06-16 Thread Claus Schwarm
On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 21:54 -0600, Stormy Peters wrote: I think we need an installer - for Linux and for Windows. And I think there's interest from several distributions to have an application install solution so if we were willing to create one (or a plan for one), I think we might be able

Re: promoting good gnome apps via news.gnome.org

2009-06-16 Thread Claus Schwarm
On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 12:26 +0200, Andreas Nilsson wrote: In some cases, you can even include just a link that people can click. You can install, say, Transmission in Ubuntu from the browser using a link pointing to apt:transmission, and in OpenSUSE you can use the one click installer-thing

Re: promoting good gnome apps via news.gnome.org

2009-06-16 Thread Brian Cameron
Dave: I am against any Linux ISD (including ourselves) trying to provide a one-size-fits-all installer, until a packaging system that allows that comes along. I have high hopes for PackageKit, but in the meantime, your goal should not be to give people installers, but to document installing

Re: promoting good gnome apps via news.gnome.org

2009-06-16 Thread Calum Benson
On 16 Jun 2009, at 11:26, Andreas Nilsson wrote: In some cases, you can even include just a link that people can click. You can install, say, Transmission in Ubuntu from the browser using a link pointing to apt:transmission, and in OpenSUSE you can use the one click installer-thing

Re: promoting good gnome apps via news.gnome.org

2009-06-15 Thread Stormy Peters
I think we need an installer - for Linux and for Windows. And I think there's interest from several distributions to have an application install solution so if we were willing to create one (or a plan for one), I think we might be able to find resources to put behind it. Stormy On Sun, Jun 14,

Re: promoting good gnome apps via news.gnome.org

2009-06-14 Thread Claus Schwarm
On Sat, 2009-06-13 at 11:01 -0700, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: Actually, the original idea I had about this is to do away with our platform (eg the apps that make gnome.. after all the whole thing is a distro decision these days anyways) Instead we would promote them via adsense and drive

Re: promoting good gnome apps via news.gnome.org

2009-06-14 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 5:34 AM, Claus Schwarm clschw...@googlemail.comwrote: Sorry if that sounds harsh, but that's just the way it is. I can always depend on you to get to the heart of the matter, Claus. :-) I don't think your comments are harsh, but does reflect a reality behind my

Re: promoting good gnome apps via news.gnome.org

2009-06-14 Thread Claus Schwarm
On Sun, 2009-06-14 at 08:02 -0700, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: So maybe a modification is to create our own product page for each promoted app with a link to the original page? I still think the foundation of the ideas is sound which is to drive interest in products that compete with others

Re: promoting good gnome apps via news.gnome.org

2009-06-14 Thread Andre Klapper
Am Sonntag, den 14.06.2009, 20:11 +0200 schrieb Claus Schwarm: Thus I also argued to have a separate projects.gnome.org to manage project homepages more easily. This has happened in the meantime. andre -- mailto:ak...@gmx.net | failed http://www.iomc.de/ | http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper

promoting good gnome apps via news.gnome.org

2009-06-13 Thread Andreas Nilsson
Got a bit inspired by: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/release-team/2009-June/msg00012.html news.gnome.org got some really nice project blogs, so lets add some more! A couple of nice feeds I can think of from the top of my head: * Banshee - http://banshee-project.org/blog/ * Inkscape - http

Re: promoting good gnome apps via news.gnome.org

2009-06-13 Thread Paul Cutler
Here are some apps I personally find cool, with my personal comments below. I apologize, I don't have time to see if they have feeds while I'm at this docs conference. I did check the news.gnome.org feed, and didn't see them. Maybe they can be convinced to start one. :) * Brasero (just added

Re: promoting good gnome apps via news.gnome.org

2009-06-13 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
, this looks like a nice idea, Andreas. (and why not Rhythmbox..) sri On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 8:11 AM, Andreas Nilsson nisses.m...@home.sewrote: Got a bit inspired by: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/release-team/2009-June/msg00012.html news.gnome.org got some really nice project blogs, so lets add

Re: promoting good gnome apps via news.gnome.org

2009-06-13 Thread Andreas Nilsson
On 06/13/2009 08:01 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: Actually, the original idea I had about this is to do away with our platform (eg the apps that make gnome.. after all the whole thing is a distro decision these days anyways) Instead we would promote them via adsense and drive traffic to these

Re: news.gnome.org

2008-10-13 Thread Olav Vitters
Suggestion regarding the news.gnome.org planetplanet. It would be nice if all board announcements could be posted on some blogs.gnome.org special thingy (like e.g. metacity on news.gnome.org). This could then be aggregated on news.gnome.org. This for all the announcements that are currently done

Re: news.gnome.org

2008-10-13 Thread Vincent Untz
Le lundi 13 octobre 2008, à 18:13 +0200, Olav Vitters a écrit : Suggestion regarding the news.gnome.org planetplanet. It would be nice if all board announcements could be posted on some blogs.gnome.org special thingy (like e.g. metacity on news.gnome.org). This could then be aggregated

news.gnome.org

2008-10-05 Thread Thilo Pfennig
Hi, was it intended to title: http://news.gnome.org/ as Planet GNOME? I think that this can confuse people if that was intendended. I also would recommend to: * Link to http://www.gnome.org/press/releases/ or to streamline with that * Link to http://gnomejournal.org/ maybe both on a side bar

Re: news.gnome.org

2008-10-05 Thread Olav Vitters
On Sun, Oct 05, 2008 at 01:41:24PM +0200, Thilo Pfennig wrote: was it intended to title: http://news.gnome.org/ as Planet GNOME? I think that this can confuse people if that was intendended. I also would recommend to: No, that is what the theme for pgo/news already looked like. It should

Re: news.gnome.org

2008-10-05 Thread Olav Vitters
On Sun, Oct 05, 2008 at 02:24:35PM +0200, Thilo Pfennig wrote: Another point I like to discuss is - and that relates to the sorts of My suggestion would be to also migrate www.gnome.org/press/releases/ to a blog (but rather to news.gnome.org/pressreleases or so) ASAP as a first step. AFAIK

Re: news.gnome.org

2008-10-05 Thread Luis Villa
to get news out. (Not to mention that the whole reason news.gnome.org is now a planet-like aggregator is because we suck at creating our own news feeds.) So I think news.gnome.org should work more on content it owns and can choose the license it wishes. The current site states that the content

Re: news.gnome.org

2008-10-05 Thread Stormy Peters
GNOME News (like the http://www.gnome.org/press/releases/ ) This is not a simple question, but nonetheless an important one. My suggestion would be to also migrate www.gnome.org/press/releases/ to a blog (but rather to news.gnome.org/pressreleases or so) ASAP as a first step. AFAIK news.gnome.org

Re: news.gnome.org

2008-10-05 Thread Olav Vitters
On Sun, Oct 05, 2008 at 10:56:48AM -0400, Luis Villa wrote: 2008/10/5 Olav Vitters [EMAIL PROTECTED]: news.gnome.org in above stuff is nothing different than any of the other planets. The copyrighted by GNOME might make it confusing, but that is something for some legal person to guide

Re: news.gnome.org

2008-10-05 Thread Luis Villa
On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 12:47 PM, Olav Vitters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Oct 05, 2008 at 10:56:48AM -0400, Luis Villa wrote: 2008/10/5 Olav Vitters [EMAIL PROTECTED]: news.gnome.org in above stuff is nothing different than any of the other planets. The copyrighted by GNOME might make

Re: Linking news.gnome.org to planet.gnome.org/news?

2008-09-17 Thread Vincent Untz
Le dimanche 14 septembre 2008, à 13:10 -0600, Stormy Peters a écrit : I like the idea of pointing to a planet.gnome.org/news. Who updates the news in the left hand column of gnome.org? They are manually added when someone requests something to be added there. (that's bad -- something the new

Re: news.gnome.org

2006-09-29 Thread Quim Gil
bar will link to news.gnome.org and this subsite will be based in the current http://planet.gnome.org/news/ This is the original plan at http://live.gnome.org/GnomeWeb/NewsGateway . We need to update it considering the News related http://live.gnome.org/GnomeWeb/UseCases and go for it. We still

Re: news.gnome.org (was Re: Wow - look at the KDE news volume)

2006-09-27 Thread Luke Stroven
On Tue, 2006-09-26 at 23:11 +0200, Quim Gil wrote: Would it be debatable to solve the many issues we have around GNOME + news in a general plan with a main objective: a one and only news.gnome.org? Problem is the we need to cater to the news source. Many people like to blog their news, many

news.gnome.org (was Re: Wow - look at the KDE news volume)

2006-09-26 Thread Quim Gil
Would it be debatable to solve the many issues we have around GNOME + news in a general plan with a main objective: a one and only news.gnome.org? This is one of the items in the revamped General navigation bar. It's ok to have the Footnotes as they are now there, but we can work on something

Re: news.gnome.org (was Re: the real wgo goals)

2006-07-30 Thread Michael Maclean
Quim Gil wrote: Should we have a separate news channel? Should those news be simply the latest relevant entries at gnomedesktop.org? Should they be the latest posts to gnome-announce-list? An edited combination of all the sources? No idea, this is a discussion related with a couple of 2.16

Re: news.gnome.org (was Re: the real wgo goals)

2006-07-30 Thread Michael Maclean
Quim Gil wrote: Should we have a separate news channel? Should those news be simply the latest relevant entries at gnomedesktop.org? Should they be the latest posts to gnome-announce-list? An edited combination of all the sources? No idea, this is a discussion related with a couple of 2.16

news.gnome.org (was Re: the real wgo goals)

2006-07-26 Thread Quim Gil
Gergely Nagy: Spinning off a news.gnome.org _just_ because it may be served by a different CMS is IMHO not the way to go. It was not like that and I was just prospecting possibilities. A news.gnome.org is in the potential goals (in fact http://news.gnome.org/ already exists and is the same