Re: Promotion campaign for GNOME 2.14 release?

2006-02-24 Thread Rajiv Vyas
One of the possibilites is try and do an interview with Linus and see if his view has changed on GNOME with the new 2.14 coming out. If it has, it would be a great marketing plug!! Rajiv -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Re: Promotion campaign for GNOME 2.14 release?

2006-02-24 Thread Rajiv Vyas
On 2/24/06, Santiago Roza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/24/06, Rajiv Vyas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One of the possibilites is try and do an interview with Linus and see if his view has changed on GNOME with the new 2.14 coming out. his views on gnome won't change with a minor release, he

Re: Promotion campaign for GNOME 2.14 release?

2006-02-24 Thread Alex Hudson
On Fri, 2006-02-24 at 09:07 -0500, Rajiv Vyas wrote: his views on gnome won't change with a minor release, he simply doesn't like our concept of usability. it'd be great if he did, but he doesn't and he won't. That sucks. How about using Mark Shuttleworth? He probably doesn't mind

Re: Promotion campaign for GNOME 2.14 release?

2006-02-24 Thread Santiago Roza
On 2/24/06, Alex Hudson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I seem to remember him saying he was switching to Kubuntu when Dapper comes out? no exactly, luckily. he said he was now using Kubuntu on his desktop machine: http://www.kubuntu.org/announcements/kde-commitment.php on his desktop machine

URGENT - GUADEC A4 ad

2006-02-24 Thread Quim Gil
(Sorry for crossposting, maybe we should derive this to marketing-list) We are in the process of getting the first media partner for GUADEC. Sorry, can't give detal until it's confirmed. It's a magazine. They offer us a 1 page ad from now until GUADEC comes. They go to the print next week for

Re: Promotion campaign for GNOME 2.14 release?

2006-02-24 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 07:11:24AM -0500, Rajiv Vyas wrote: One of the possibilites is try and do an interview with Linus and see if his view has changed on GNOME with the new 2.14 coming out. If it has, it would be a great marketing plug!! I would much prefer Alan Cox who has been involved in

Re: Promotion campaign for GNOME 2.14 release?

2006-02-24 Thread Rajiv Vyas
On 2/24/06, Sriram Ramkrishna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 07:11:24AM -0500, Rajiv Vyas wrote: One of the possibilites is try and do an interview with Linus and see if his view has changed on GNOME with the new 2.14 coming out. If it has, it would be a great marketing

Gnome Idea Pool maybe??

2006-02-24 Thread Javier Aravena C.
There's been a lot of talk about what a marketing team should be like but we really haven't done a lot. The list have done some stuff, but that clearly doesn't clarify as a lot. there was people saying that marketing was about knowing what the people wants, so I was thinking we could have a wiki

Re: Gnome Idea Pool maybe??

2006-02-24 Thread Rajiv Vyas
Look for instance at http://www.gnome-look.org/content/preview.php?preview=1id=31128file1=31128-1.jpgfile2=31128-2.jpgfile3=31128-3.jpgname=Gentle+Gnome+mockup , this guy has a pretty good sense of aesthetics. Very nice look and feel. Rajiv -- marketing-list mailing list