Gnome Live CD - Constructive suggestion from a newbie on Linux

2009-06-22 Thread Ph. d'Oreye
Constructive suggestion from a newbie on Linux Some time ago I tried Kaella live CD (version may 2007), I found the KDE 3.5 interface rather premitive. So I wanted to try a Gnome live CD. One speaks much about Ubuntu, but it appears not to have a live CD with the latest Gnome 2.22. So Google

Re: GNOME Weekly News

2009-06-22 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Behdad Esfahbod wrote: Hi, The idea was dropped by Jason on another list. How to get started with a GNOME Weekly News ala Fedora Weekly News [1] and Kernel Traffic [2]? The Fedora weekly news just like the release notes and other areas of Fedora works by dividing the otherwise considerably

Re: GNOME Weekly News

2009-06-22 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Behdad Esfahbod wrote: On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 09:39 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Behdad Esfahbod wrote: Hi, The idea was dropped by Jason on another list. How to get started with a GNOME Weekly News ala Fedora Weekly News [1] and Kernel Traffic [2]? The Fedora weekly news just like the

Call for invitations to be the host of GNOME.Asia Summit 2009

2009-06-22 Thread chen Emily
Hi, We are soliciting proposals for hosting GNOME.Asia 2009. The GNOME.Asia Summit is planned to be an annual GNOME event hosted in Asia. We started the GNOME.Asia Summit in 2008 and we want to continue this tradition and spread GNOME throughout the Asian region. The GNOME.Asia Summit will focus

Re: Next milestone - June 15 (Content structure, final design, contenttypes)

2009-06-22 Thread Carsten Senger
Hi Lucas, thanks for managing the milestones. --On Donnerstag, Mai 28, 2009 14:51:01 +0100 Lucas Rocha luc...@gnome.org wrote: [...] - Design team: send a message to marketing-list, blog, twitter, etc to get feedback Where can I follow the progress and discussion for the design to see if I

Re: Issuing a press release about GNOME 3

2009-06-22 Thread Stormy Peters
I'd be happy to help but I need to be added. Thanks, Stormy On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 8:20 AM, Vincent Untz vu...@gnome.org wrote: Le lundi 14 juillet 2008, à 13:00 +0200, Olav Vitters a écrit : On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 10:37:06PM +0200, Vincent Untz wrote: Yeah, we discussed this with

Fwd: gnome si locale within next two months

2009-06-22 Thread Danishka Navin
-- Forwarded message -- From: Danishka Navin danis...@gmail.com Date: Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 5:04 PM Subject: gnome si locale within next two months To: gnome-market...@gnome.org Hello, Is it possible to order few merchants for the following event? Danishka --

Slogans and Keywords for GNOME

2009-06-22 Thread GNOME e. V. - Thomas Keup
Hello from Berlin: Here is the voting from the germany jury ;-) GNOME - big foot, smart desktop GNOME - just use it. GNOME - part of my life GNOME - around the world, around your desktop Greetings, Thomas -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org

PayPal buttons for the Friends of GNOME page

2009-06-22 Thread Rosanna Yuen
Hi, Attached are the snippets of code to create the buttons for the various donation options on the Friends of GNOME page. If other donation options are desired, please let me know. Thanks, Rosanna Friend: form action=https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr; method=post input type=hidden

Collecting reviews of 2.24 release

2009-06-22 Thread Dave Neary
Hi all, As with previous GNOME releases, I've been tagging articles mentioning the 2.24 release with the tag gnome224 (that is, I have been tagging releases since 2.16 - this is the first time I've used the gnome224 tag - just to avoid any pedantry ;) ) You can catch reviews of GNOME 2.24 at

Re: [g-a-devel] GNOME Accessibility presentation - contribution to stock GNOME presentations

2009-06-22 Thread David Bolter
Dave Neary wrote: Hi, David Bolter wrote: Will, Peter Korn has put on decent live demos in the past with GOK... showing desktop integration... might be worth pinging him for ideas. Please make sure you show off single switch scanning... and UI Grab... word completion... we can talk

Re: Distro releases, responsibilities and Plone

2009-06-22 Thread Christopher Warner
I mailed you some personal thoughts about what I think. And for everyone else - as Murray has pointed out there is still some work being done in the background. Personally I dont think one should force those who do this to make a premature release. I am willing to contribute on many levels

Re: [Fwd: SCALE Calls For Non-Profit Exhibitors]

2009-06-22 Thread Gareth J. Greenaway
Dave, Thats a really good idea! We're exploring that option with a few other related projects as well. I could see us having a 2-3 booth setup as a GNOME Zone with some other GNOME related projects. At this point we've contacted Foresight, Inkscape and GIMP, Inkscape will mostly likely be

Re: [Fwd: SCALE Calls For Non-Profit Exhibitors]

2009-06-22 Thread Gareth J. Greenaway
Hi Dave, Dave Neary wrote: The people I talked to over at Inkscape suggested that a Graphics Zone with them, the GIMP, CinePaint, maybe Blender might be more appropriate, and that a GNOME Zone would probably be most appropriate for GNOME, Ubuntu, Foresight, and maybe other GNOME affiliated

Re: [Fwd: SCALE Calls For Non-Profit Exhibitors]

2009-06-22 Thread Jeff Schroeder
(top posting to keep some sanity) Yeah I'm interested in taking point on the gnome booth again this year. Hopefully this time we can track down the official gnome event box and not have to ninja-launch our own. Chris was a lifesaver with his sweet computer setup and kinkos saved the day:

Re: www.gnome.org

2009-06-22 Thread john palmieri
There has been work on the new site though I'm not sure what the status is, I'm guessing it is in GNOME SVN. I think the people involved just got overwhelmed with other things. If you wanted to volunteer I bet the web team would welcome your help. -- John (J5) Palmieri On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at

Re: Cultural Issue with the Foot Logo

2009-06-22 Thread Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan
Hi Karoonboonyanan, I come from Malaysia. I do understand about the cultural issue regarding foot in people especially in the South East Asia area. Currently, from my observation, there is no setback from people in Malaysia with the usage of foot as GNOME logo. Most of the people that are

Re: Cultural Issue with the Foot Logo

2009-06-22 Thread Claudio Saavedra
El jue, 30-10-2008 a las 18:50 +, Calum Benson escribió: Even an open palm, like the GPE logo, is potentially offensive in some places. Talk to the hand? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk_to_the_hand_(expression) Claudio -- Claudio Saavedra csaave...@igalia.com Igalia --

Re: Cultural Issue with the Foot Logo

2009-06-22 Thread Sergey Panov
Hello Theppitak, you raised an interesting question. There a few precedents, but I doubt those cases validate the solution you propose: The first precedent that comes to mind is the reason the cheap sedan from USSR was named Lada(archaic Slavic for beautiful girl) instead of the original

Re: Cultural Issue with the Foot Logo

2009-06-22 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 9:51 PM, Petr Kovar pmko...@gnome.org wrote: Theppitak Karoonboonyanan t...@linux.thai.net, Sun, 2 Nov 2008 02:10:32 +0700: On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 1:34 AM, Petr Kovar pmko...@gnome.org wrote: Theppitak Karoonboonyanan t...@linux.thai.net, Sat, 1 Nov 2008 14:00:06

Re: [gugmasters] GNOME Events in 2009

2009-06-22 Thread Jeff Schroeder
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 7:52 AM, Dave Neary dne...@gnome.org wrote: Hi, Adding gugmasters on CC - not sure if there are people there who aren't here, but the idea of that list was to gather at least one person per active GNOME user group, to allow the centralisation of information and the

GNOME Southern California Linux Expo 7x

2009-06-22 Thread Gareth J. Greenaway
Greetings everyone, Just wanted to give a quick update on where things stood with GNOME being at SCALE 7x. Jeff Schroeder has once agreed to head up the GNOME presence at the show. Jeff and some local GNOME enthusiasts did an amazing job showcasing GNOME at the show last year. We are still

Re: GNOME Southern California Linux Expo 7x

2009-06-22 Thread Jeff Schroeder
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 2:30 PM, Gareth J. Greenaway gar...@socallinuxexpo.org wrote: Greetings everyone, Just wanted to give a quick update on where things stood with GNOME being at SCALE 7x. Jeff Schroeder has once agreed to head up the GNOME presence at the show. Jeff and some local

Re: GNOME Marketing kick-off brainstorming event at Collaboration Summit?

2009-06-22 Thread David Lefty Schlesinger
I am indeed planning on being at the Collab Summit, and yes, I¹d be interested in participating On 1/27/09 1:10 PM, Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org wrote: Will you (or could you be) at the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit? I'd like to have a brainstorming/kickoff event for GNOME

Re: Re: GNOME Marketing kick-off brainstorming event at Collaboration Summit?

2009-06-22 Thread sriram . ramkrishna
Gnome community calendar actually. If there is no GNOME community presence, I'm GNOMEy enough for everyone. We had a lot last time although nobody was there as a GNOME person exactly. sri On Feb 2, 2009 7:43am, Dave Neary dne...@gnome.org wrote: Hi Sri, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: I

Re: Re: GNOME Marketing kick-off brainstorming event at Collaboration Summit?

2009-06-22 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
More importantly, good papers would be great. Last year, we had plumbers with the kernel summit folks and we had some great output out of that including the fast boot talk, sound conference etc. This year it's going to be more user focused, so I expect freedesktop, packagekit folks, hal, dbus

Re: New Project: GNOME YouTube Video Contest

2009-06-22 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Yeah, I don't think we are going to use it. I personally should since we're trying to grow market share and restricting ourselves to a portion of the web that is already drinking the koolaid so to speak seems silly. However, that said, we can use this site: http://en.theorasea.org/ The site

Re: [summary] Gnome WGO site with Plone project

2009-06-22 Thread Carsten Senger
Hi Jens, Hi Ross, Hi all, I'm missing the initial mail, so I answer to this one. The most vital info source is http://live.gnome.org/GnomeWeb/CmsSetup and the documentation of the buildout and the wgo.* packages. Ross Patterson schrieb: Jens W. Klein j...@bluedynamics.com writes: The

Re: [summary] Gnome WGO site with Plone project

2009-06-22 Thread David Bain
Can we set a date for the Sprint? I'm thinking late July/Early August. Then we can start to look at fund raising. On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 3:40 AM, Roberto Allende ralle...@menttes.com wrote: Jens W. Klein escribió: The project to implement www.gnome.org needs reanimation. In my opinion

Re: [summary] Gnome WGO site with Plone project

2009-06-22 Thread johannes raggam
On Mon, 2009-04-27 at 08:46 -0700, Ross Patterson wrote: Jens W. Klein j...@bluedynamics.com writes: I try to summarize: Plone people who want to help (please define your role): * Jens Klein (coordination and technical work, participate at sprint) * Ross Patterson (take some technical

Re: [g-a-devel] GNOME Accessibility presentation - contribution to stock GNOME presentations

2009-06-22 Thread David Bolter
+1 for GOK ;) Will, Peter Korn has put on decent live demos in the past with GOK... showing desktop integration... might be worth pinging him for ideas. Please make sure you show off single switch scanning... and UI Grab... word completion... we can talk offline. cheers, davidb Dave Neary

Stolen Gnome Logo.

2009-06-22 Thread That damn Hippie
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Re: New Project: GNOME YouTube Video Contest

2009-06-22 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 07:38:37AM -0500, Luis Villa wrote: Endorsing/using proprietary software (AFAIK none of the free flash players plays youtube acceptably, at least using code that is legally available in the US.) -- Yes, there is that. I'm not sure though how to get around this.

Re: [summary] Gnome WGO site with Plone project

2009-06-22 Thread johannes raggam
hi, On Thu, 2009-04-30 at 19:26 +0200, Carsten Senger wrote: These tickets are good starting points: Theme: Show last author in documentByLine Templates: Home: Add the What is GNOME block Policy: The feed to gnomefiles.org is missing We also need someone to do the LinguaPlone

Re: Open Video Guidelines (WAS: Re: [Foundations] Open Video Conference, NYU, June 19-20)

2009-06-22 Thread Stormy Peters
(Actually cc'ing the GNOME marketing list.) Dean, Nicholas, Ryanne, Jay, Nice to meet you! I'm cc'ing the GNOME marketing list as that's where we've been discussing a video project. If we had an online guide to publishing practices for open video (including soliciting and sharing them), I'm

Re: Open Video Guidelines (WAS: Re: [Foundations] Open Video Conference, NYU, June 19-20)

2009-06-22 Thread Jay dedman
Nice to meet you! I'm cc'ing the GNOME marketing list as that's where we've been discussing a video project. If we had an online guide to publishing practices for open video (including soliciting and sharing them), I'm sure many projects would find it useful. In addition if we had a common

Re: Open Video Guidelines (WAS: Re: [Foundations] Open Video Conference, NYU, June 19-20)

2009-06-22 Thread Stormy Peters
Anybody have any feedback for Jay on whether or not the following tutorials will be useful to us? (I assume the tutorials will be viewable remotely.) On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 8:29 PM, Jay dedman jay.ded...@gmail.com wrote: Hey Stormy-- Just following up to see if you had any further ideas on

Promoting Gnome Foundation trough sponsored people

2009-06-22 Thread Germán Póo-Caamaño
Just two ideas: Besides the sponsorship given (travel airfare and/or accommodation), we could give to sponsored people a nice Gnome t-shirt with a legend such as: I'm attending to this conference thanks to Gnome Foundation (or something better). Baris told me that Linux Foundation has a similar

Fwd: [TOS] Madrid Mozilla Technologies Course - Pre-registration and scholarship application open

2009-06-22 Thread Stormy Peters
I'm not sure the marketing list is the right place for this but I thought of it because it looks like a great marketing to new developers tool ... I wonder if we could work with some of our partner companies to offer a 3 month online course on GNOME technologies. We could have different guest

Re: www.gnome.org

2009-06-22 Thread Lucas Rocha
Hi Thilo, We're working hard to have a more dynamic and appealing website as soon as possible. The plan is to have a beta version by the 2.28 release. See details here: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeWeb/TwoPointTwentyseven The idea is not just about moving the website to Plone. It's about putting

Re: Open Video Guidelines (WAS: Re: [Foundations] Open Video Conference, NYU, June 19-20)

2009-06-22 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Jay, How did it go? I talked with J5 (John Palmieri) and he said he was going to represent GNOME there. I am of course very interested in setting up something in this regard. John had a pretty nice post on this and I'm eager to set up something where we can dogfood our video apps and be able

GNOME 3.0 Marketing Campaigns

2009-06-22 Thread Paul Cutler
Hi, I'm hoping to keep the conversation going around marketing ideas for GNOME 3.0. To follow up on the brief [2] I posted a couple weeks ago, I'd like to discuss potential marketing campaigns around 3.0. Claus actually put together the first campaign idea a couple months ago [1], and I also

Re: Open Video Guidelines (WAS: Re: [Foundations] Open Video Conference, NYU, June 19-20)

2009-06-22 Thread Paul Cutler
I know this is slightly off topic, but I used the latest version of Pitivi at Writing Open Source to transcode the keynotes from my camcorder to ogg, and came away pretty impressed with PiTiVi since I last used it a year ago. (Speaking of dogfood and all). Paul On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 5:39 PM,

Re: Promoting Gnome Foundation trough sponsored people

2009-06-22 Thread Diego Escalante Urrelo
On Mon, 2009-06-01 at 16:29 -0400, Germán Póo-Caamaño wrote: Just two ideas: Besides the sponsorship given (travel airfare and/or accommodation), we could give to sponsored people a nice Gnome t-shirt with a legend such as: I'm attending to this conference thanks to Gnome Foundation (or

Re: Promoting Gnome Foundation trough sponsored people

2009-06-22 Thread Glynn Foster
On 2/06/2009, at 8:29 AM, Germán Póo-Caamaño wrote: Just two ideas: Besides the sponsorship given (travel airfare and/or accommodation), we could give to sponsored people a nice Gnome t-shirt with a legend such as: I'm attending to this conference thanks to Gnome Foundation (or something

Re: Open Video Guidelines (WAS: Re: [Foundations] Open Video Conference, NYU, June 19-20)

2009-06-22 Thread Willie Walker
Hi All: On the accessibility front, it would be highly desirable to choose an encoding format that allows for closed captioning. My accessible video knowledge is pretty limited, though, to even be able to make a suggestion for what to use. Will Paul Cutler wrote: I know this is slightly

Re: friendsofgnome

2009-06-22 Thread Jaap A. Haitsma
Hi Stormy, This does not seem to work. I can't access the site with my google account. Furthermore I think that many people in the community will be opposed to using a closed source tool, while we have a wiki that is open source. Moinmoin also has a WYSIWYG editor see

Re: friendsofgnome

2009-06-22 Thread Jaap A. Haitsma
I now notice that the original message of Stormy is almost a year old. I was already suprised having 33 new threads unread in the marketing list this morning. Did the moderator approve many old messages or is it a bug in gmail? Jaap On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 07:22, Jaap A. Haitsma j...@haitsma.org