Re: wooing government.

2005-02-01 Thread Luis Villa
On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 20:42:07 +0100, David Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, There are presentations of GNOME in the wiki in http://live.gnome.org/MarketingTeam/MarketingMaterial Luis is working on a powerpoint low-level presentation of GNOME (at least, that's what I understood). There are

Re: Concerning (Live) CDs

2005-02-02 Thread Luis Villa
On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 00:41:28 +0100 (MET), c. schwarm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, reading the recent discussion, I had the slight feeling that some things got mixed up concerning LiveCDs/CDs. One part of the discussion is about media files. I considered this a nice discussion but basically

Re: GNOME at Asia Source

2005-02-08 Thread Luis Villa
That's great! any pictures? Luis On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 11:32:45 +0530, Sayamindu Dasgupta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone, I am at Asia Source at Bangalore (http://www.tacticaltech.org/asiasource), an eight day hands-on workshop aimed at building the technical skills of those working with

potential talking point- maps.google.com

2005-02-08 Thread Luis Villa
With maps.google.com, gmail, etc. google is proving that the best web apps in the world are cross platform and don't need activeX. My gut feeling is that this is relevant to us and we should weave it into our talking point somehow, but I'm not sure how. Thoughts? discussion? Luis --

Fwd: GNOME 2.10 Marketing

2005-03-08 Thread Luis Villa
Wow! I just got this in the mail (well, a few days ago, but I suck ;) Good to see this kind of thing going on in India- very exciting. Luis -- Forwarded message -- From: Toufeeq Hussain [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2005 18:12:19 +0530 Subject: GNOME 2.10 Marketing To:

Re: conference to keep track of..

2005-03-15 Thread Luis Villa
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 13:06:35 -0800, Sriram Ramkrishna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We need to track this conference: Get the 2006 date and put it in the wiki then ;) Luis http://pdx.innotechconference.com/home/home.html It's in portland (last week) and I unfortunately was not aware of this

Re: Fwd: Inviting you to participate in FOSSTEC 2005

2005-03-21 Thread Luis Villa
On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 09:07:54 +1100, Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: quote who=David Neary I got this invitation to an academic type FOSS conference in Florida in September. Anyone interested in going to fly the GNOME flag? Everyone is getting them. It appears to be spam, and not

Re: Marketing Wiki content

2005-04-01 Thread Luis Villa
We should really get the wiki stuff under the CC's new wiki license, probably. Luis On Mar 26, 2005 7:27 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've translated some of the content published on the MarketingWiki in Macedonian. I was wondering if I can use it on a litlle web site dedicated to Gnome in

Re: Tuxmagazine

2005-05-02 Thread Luis Villa
I'd love to see how they measured market share. :) Someone should write and challenge them for the numbers. Luis On 5/2/05, Dave Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Glynn Foster a écrit : The fact is, however, that KDE has the largest market share, and that means the majority of our

Re: Tuxmagazine

2005-05-02 Thread Luis Villa
On 5/2/05, Claus Schwarm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 02 May 2005 10:00:12 +0200 Dave Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But it doesn't measure people using a free desktop at work, or in telecenters, or atr school, who may not know they're using linux, and certainly don't browse those

upcoming conferences and liveCDs

2005-05-02 Thread Luis Villa
Hey, Sri, Tim, others- Are there conferences we're planning on having a presence at in the near future? Should we be planning to print out a batch of liveCDs to distribute/sell at them? Luis -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org

Re: upcoming conferences and liveCDs

2005-05-03 Thread Luis Villa
-0400, Luis Villa wrote: Hey, Sri, Tim, others- Are there conferences we're planning on having a presence at in the near future? Should we be planning to print out a batch of liveCDs to distribute/sell at them? Luis -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http

Re: upcoming conferences and liveCDs

2005-05-03 Thread Luis Villa
OK, I've tried something radically different, see what you all think: http://live.gnome.org/MarketingTeam/AnnualEvents Have to run to class, bye- Luis On 5/3/05, Claus Schwarm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 3 May 2005 17:29:27 -0400 Luis Villa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, I

Re: upcoming conferences and liveCDs

2005-05-03 Thread Luis Villa
On 5/3/05, Luis Villa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, I've tried something radically different, see what you all think: http://live.gnome.org/MarketingTeam/AnnualEvents Have to run to class, bye- Make sure to have a poke at the pages linked to in the table. Luis On 5/3/05, Claus Schwarm

Re: upcoming conferences and liveCDs

2005-05-03 Thread Luis Villa
whoohoo. so who is volunteering to get that into the wiki? :) Luis On 5/3/05, Sriram Ramkrishna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh man, thats just capital. Thanks! sri On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 09:41:24AM -1200, Glynn Foster wrote: Heya, There was some discussion of this last year :)

liveCD craaaaaaaaaaaaack (and call for volunteers)

2005-05-03 Thread Luis Villa
So... does anyone think it would be insane to put servers (hula, asterisk, jabber) on the liveCD and have the gnome tools point at them? Would anyone volunteer to look into this? :) Luis -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

survey note

2005-05-13 Thread Luis Villa
http://www.zoomerang.com/login/index.zgi Free survey site. Might be useful if/when we are ready to do survey-style stuff. Putting it into the archives for future reference. Luis -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Re: survey note

2005-05-13 Thread Luis Villa
oh, and drupal used it for a docs survey: http://www.zoomerang.com/reports/public_report.zgi?ID=L22BAXDMCNN6 On 5/13/05, Luis Villa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.zoomerang.com/login/index.zgi Free survey site. Might be useful if/when we are ready to do survey-style stuff. Putting

Re: Gnome live cd: french version

2005-05-15 Thread Luis Villa
On 5/15/05, Enver ALTIN [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 20:06 +0200, Marcus Bauer wrote: However the question is where the images can be hosted (even unofficial testing versions) as it only makes sense to produce them if somebody else can download and use them :o)

Re: Four (open-source) Greek fonts are now available, and why it's relevant

2005-05-15 Thread Luis Villa
On 5/15/05, Simos Xenitellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Just to announce the availability of four Greek fonts, at http://www.ellak.gr/fonts/mgopen/ Why it matters to the marketing list? There are limited non-latin fonts which are distributed as open-source. It's important to populate the

Re: [Fwd: Slides from GNOME on BSD presentation]

2005-05-17 Thread Luis Villa
On 5/17/05, Dave Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Another GNOME presentation that we can include in the pool of stuff for GNOME marketing. I'll attach this to live.gnome.org - anyone know of other presentations that we should collect, or even other places where presentations are

Re: GNOME tour?

2005-05-17 Thread Luis Villa
On 5/17/05, Dave Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Murray, Luis has been talking about something like this using vnc2swf or vino+GStreamer to generate Theora. Which is nice, and sounds like a step towards having these demos. For the liveCD, I'd like to use Theora, but probably flash or

Re: [Fwd: Slides from GNOME on BSD presentation]

2005-05-17 Thread Luis Villa
On 5/17/05, Dave Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Luis Villa a écrit : there are a bunch in ftp- I believe l.g.o points at them somewhere. That would be better. What do I have to do to get an account which can upload onto ftp.gnome.org? Not the faintest :) Luis -- marketing-list

Re: GNOME tour?

2005-05-17 Thread Luis Villa
On 5/17/05, Dave Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Luis, Luis Villa a écrit : On 5/17/05, Dave Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Murray Cumming a écrit : lots of stuff Note that I won't be doing anything that covers even 50% of this, particularly given that scripts need

Re: GNOME tour?

2005-05-17 Thread Luis Villa
On 5/17/05, Claus Schwarm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 17 May 2005 08:04:21 -0400 Luis Villa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For the liveCD, I'd like to use Theora, but probably flash or even still/simple screenshots makes sense for the web. A screenshot tour (8 - 10 shots, maybe

more random brainstorming

2005-05-18 Thread Luis Villa
More slogan braindumping: GNOME: The Heart Of the Linux Desktop * puts us in the center of the greater desktop space (firefox, ooo, vmware, adobe, etc.) * identifies as clearly as one can in a few words where we are (linux desktop) Anyway, thinking aloud- Luis -- marketing-list mailing list

Re: more random brainstorming

2005-05-19 Thread Luis Villa
On 5/19/05, Dave Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Luis Villa a écrit : More slogan braindumping: GNOME: The Heart Of the Linux Desktop Hm... basing our identity on a slogan which one of our ad board members (FSF) is clearly not going to like is probably not a good idea... The FSF

Re: more random brainstorming

2005-05-19 Thread Luis Villa
On 5/19/05, Marcus Bauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My suggestion is: Gnome - easy and efficent because that is exactly Gnome's selling point and one needs to repeat it over and over again :-) We definitely want to pimp easy and efficient as much as possible; I've added 'usable' to every

Re: more random brainstorming

2005-05-19 Thread Luis Villa
On 5/19/05, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marcus Bauer wrote: Gnome - easy and efficent Gnome - its your desktop We discussed earlier 'your desktop of choice'; while I'm in general in favor of making this personal, I argued that we should use 'the' instead of 'your'

evangelist users- the other key note from LCA marketing BOF

2005-05-19 Thread Luis Villa
A dump of my notes (slightly expanded) from the discussion on 'Evangelist Users' at the LCA marketing BOF. In a nutshell, the discussion was about users who go out and evangelize GNOME- how have firefox/KDE been so succesful at this, why are we not doing so hot, how can we (should we?) etc. My

Re: GNOME tour?

2005-05-19 Thread Luis Villa
BTW, has anyone looked at: http://www.apple.com/macosx/overview/ and/or poked around kde.org (I can't find anything competitive offhand) to harvest ideas here? Luis On 5/17/05, Murray Cumming [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think we have any online tour of GNOME yet. I'm thinking of

Re: Actions (was: Surveys at conferences..)

2005-05-19 Thread Luis Villa
On 5/9/05, Claus Schwarm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 09 May 2005 09:49:51 +0200 Dave Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's a short list of the stuff that's ongoing: GNOME Journal (Jim, Sri) Upcoming conferences (Claus) LiveCD (Luis) Press contacts (?) Deployments list

Re: more random brainstorming

2005-05-19 Thread Luis Villa
On 5/19/05, Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: quote who=Luis Villa 'The Desktop of Choice' 'The Choice Desktop' 'Desktop Linux Defined' Worth noting that this one is Jeff's fav. :) Though it was 'Linux Desktop Defined'. :-) Either way I'm admittedly not a huge fan, though I

Re: more random brainstorming

2005-05-19 Thread Luis Villa
On 5/20/05, Glynn Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Worth noting that this one is Jeff's fav. :) Though it was 'Linux Desktop Defined'. :-) Either way I'm admittedly not a huge fan, though I can't quite put my finger on why- mostly probably because at this point it seems both

Re: more random brainstorming

2005-05-19 Thread Luis Villa
On 5/20/05, Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: quote who=The Face of Sun Microsystems It's also Linux specific. Again, it's going to be one of a number of catchphrases for particular audiences. There does need to be one pre-eminent catchphrase, though. Linux Desktop is a cruical

something to consider when doing the next web revamping

2005-05-19 Thread Luis Villa
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/columns/stopthepresses_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000893246 [Talks about news sites, but probably relevant to us too- we should analyze the logs :) Has it really come to the point where significant numbers of people who visit news sites bypass the home

Re: Surveys at conferences..

2005-05-20 Thread Luis Villa
On 5/20/05, Sriram Ramkrishna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 06:49:04PM -0400, Luis Villa wrote: On 5/8/05, Sri Ramkrishna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It might give us a better random sample I think than a web one. Heh. Despite my last comment in the thread

Re: GNOME tour?

2005-05-21 Thread Luis Villa
On 5/21/05, Chris Deigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: quote(Luis Villa); For the liveCD, I'd like to use Theora, but probably flash or even still/simple screenshots makes sense for the web. Flash is arse. It's non-free, doesn't run on various architectures (well, the macromedia player

Re: GNOME tour?

2005-05-21 Thread Luis Villa
On 5/21/05, Luis Villa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/21/05, Chris Deigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: quote(Luis Villa); For the liveCD, I'd like to use Theora, but probably flash or even still/simple screenshots makes sense for the web. Flash is arse. It's non-free, doesn't run on various

Re: GNOME tour?

2005-05-21 Thread Luis Villa
On 5/21/05, Chris Deigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: quote(Luis Villa); On the website, thought, we're not talking about marketing to people who are free software purists or who are on obscure platforms- we're talking about marketing to people who are fairly mainstream* and looking

still small, but...

2005-05-21 Thread Luis Villa
http://torrent.gnome.org/ Thanks, Marcus! Luis -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Re: still small, but...

2005-05-22 Thread Luis Villa
On 5/22/05, Claus Schwarm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 22 May 2005 00:43:51 -0400 Luis Villa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://torrent.gnome.org/ Great stuff! Note there's a small error in the link to the german CD: It's called fr. And the links were broken other ways too. Now fixed

release screenshots from FOG or gnomesupport? (yet another brainstorm)

2005-05-22 Thread Luis Villa
We traditionally do a page of screenshots from users for releases; what if we got them from FOG (or gnomesupport.org?) this time instead of the normal p.g.o call for screenshots? Would make them feel more involved/special. just a thought- Luis -- marketing-list mailing list

Re: still small, but...

2005-05-22 Thread Luis Villa
On 5/22/05, Luis Villa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://torrent.gnome.org/ Have radically updated it. Please read/review/send more constructive criticisms. thanks- Luis (grabbing the greek CD as we speak, have not yet had time to test the spanish liveCD and put it up) -- marketing-list mailing

Re: release screenshots from FOG or gnomesupport? (yet another brainstorm)

2005-05-22 Thread Luis Villa
are already somewhat involved and turning them into the 'evangelist users' we were discussing earlier; reaching out like this and making people feel involved and like they are having fun is a key way to do that. Luis Cheers, Claus On Sun, 22 May 2005 13:36:20 -0400 Luis Villa [EMAIL PROTECTED

VITAMIN GTK

2005-05-25 Thread Luis Villa
jdub TOOLKITS ARE GOOD FOR YOU jdub MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH luis I LOVE THE TASTE OF VITAMIN GTK jdub luis: post 'vitamin gtk' to marketing-list immediately. This came up in the context of: http://www.maemo.org/platform/docs/maemo_exec_whitepaper.html which says, in part: Maemo platform is composed of

Re: [Fwd: Re: New supporter]

2005-07-05 Thread Luis Villa
On 7/5/05, John Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 15:44 -0400, Luis Villa wrote: Now, I think what John is pushing for in terms of research (and what at least one other party is quietly working on) Oooh! Oooh! Who? I'm not sure he wants it particularly public yet, so

Re: [Fwd: Re: New supporter]

2005-07-05 Thread Luis Villa
On 7/5/05, Claus Schwarm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, althought our own efforts have no direct result for us, did I understand you correcty: You dare to say we're not really peers? Don't you think, this is a little bit demotivating? It might be demotivating for some folks, I guess, but I don't

Re: What are our goals? (was: Re: [Fwd: Re: New supporter] )

2005-07-06 Thread Luis Villa
On 7/6/05, Murray Cumming [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 14:06 +0200, Dave Neary wrote: Selon Thilo Pfennig [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [snip] I really did not understand why the GNOME default browser was not default on the GNOME Live-CD. Because we started on Ubuntu.

Re: Modifying GNOME-About to count users

2005-07-06 Thread Luis Villa
On 7/6/05, Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: quote who=Luis Villa If we seek to create a lower bound, perhaps we could focus on getting lower-bound type numbers from our distributors, or (perhaps more fruitfully) from mirrors? I'm guessing the Fedora torrent stats and ubuntu turrent

Re: Modifying GNOME-About to count users

2005-07-06 Thread Luis Villa
On 7/6/05, Luis Villa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IMHO (long term, not all are 'required' but all would be desirable): * basic member database- contact information, joining dates, etc. * contact management- when did we last email this person? what are their preferences with regards to contact

Re: Friends-of-GNOME database [Re: Modifying GNOME-About to count users]

2005-07-12 Thread Luis Villa
On 7/12/05, Owen Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 21:47 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Tim Ney, GNOME Foundation Following up on the discussion about counting GNOME users and running a db of Friends of GNOME (FOG) - [gnome-infrastructure added here.] Any system

Re: Friends-of-GNOME database [Re: Modifying GNOME-About to count users]

2005-07-13 Thread Luis Villa
On 7/13/05, Owen Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not really sure how it would handle event attendance .. maybe that somehow fits into the activity log. It is in their feature list, but I admit I haven't looked into that aspect at all. Then there is the question of whether the foundation

Re: Friends-of-GNOME database [Re: Modifying GNOME-About to count users]

2005-07-13 Thread Luis Villa
On 7/13/05, Owen Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 07:03 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Owen Taylor [ It doesn't look like the CivicCRM relationship to the rest of Drupal is strong ... basically Drupal seems to just be used as the user database. It's

Fwd: GNOME at LinuxWorld, 9-11 August: Call for volunteers

2005-07-15 Thread Luis Villa
Probably appropriate for here as well. Working the show floor can be a lot of fun for someone who is outgoing and interested in promoting the work we do- I strongly encourage doing it if you're in that neck of the woods. Luis (who wishes he could fly out for it) -- Forwarded message

Re: GNOME's Target Markets

2005-07-17 Thread Luis Villa
On 7/16/05, Claus Schwarm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To clarify the stuff I wrote, an example might help: Let's say we'd target semiprofessional and professional musicians and composers. Then, we'd have something to work on: 1.) We can do a list of FOSS ISV's with the same target market,

Re: proposing a meeting [was Re: GNOME's Target Markets]

2005-07-17 Thread Luis Villa
On 7/15/05, John Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How does Tuesday, 19:00 GMT sound for everyone? That is 7am for me. That is a slight PITA [1] but bearable. I would, however, prefer an hour to two later if that won't cause too many problems for others. Do we have many takers Luis?

Re: proposing a meeting [was Re: GNOME's Target Markets]

2005-07-17 Thread Luis Villa
On 7/17/05, Luis Villa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: P.S. I'd suggest people RSVP at: http://yarrr.gnome.org/wiki/index.php/MarketingTeam/TargetMarketsMeeting but y.g.o seems to have broken editing ATM :/ It is up now. See specifically: http://yarrr.gnome.org/wiki/index.php/MarketingTeam

Re: Commercial support

2005-07-18 Thread Luis Villa
[Accidentally went off list.] On 7/18/05, Claus Schwarm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 17 Jul 2005 21:43:36 -0400 Luis Villa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/14/05, Claus Schwarm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * End users, especially in the public sector or companies, may like

Re: Commercial support

2005-07-18 Thread Luis Villa
On 7/18/05, Claus Schwarm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 10:56:02 -0400 Luis Villa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ah. i was thinking that was more for consultants (folks like http://www.openadvantage.org/) than for distros. Lets see how long each list gets, I guess :) I

new nautilus web page

2005-07-20 Thread Luis Villa
Hey, all- Thanks to Andreas Nilsson, there is a vastly new and improved nautilus web page up: http://www.gnome.org/projects/nautilus/ Just thought I'd spread the love around. Thanks a bunch to Andreas to putting it together, and for being patient with me for the month it took to get it checked

Re: upcoming conferences and liveCDs

2005-07-20 Thread Luis Villa
On 7/20/05, Sri Ramkrishna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, behind on my mail. I'd like some help. But I can probably try to find someone here so that we can save money on shipping. We can always go back to the guy who did them for LWE if need be; he can work on pretty short notice. But yeah,

Re: hi

2005-07-22 Thread Luis Villa
[Hi, Javier :) Andreas, Javier, others- is it time to start up a proper gnome-art list for you guys to hang out on, and for developers, marketers, etc., to come to with requests? This is not to say that you should leave this list, but it does feel like there is enough to talk about amongst the

Re: Create your own customised GNOME liveCD

2005-07-24 Thread Luis Villa
Great to see you surface again, dude! Hope everything is well. On 7/24/05, Marcus Bauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, creating a customized GNOME liveCD yourself is easy and takes just a few minutes of time: It involves three simple steps: 1. download and unpack

Re: Create your own customised GNOME liveCD

2005-07-25 Thread Luis Villa
[FWIW, I actually put together a 2.11 liveCD at one point, but it ended up being an 800M iso, so I did not distribute ;) On 7/25/05, Luis Villa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Luis (hoping to push out a 2.11 liveCD at some point in the next few days, we'll see) gnoppix.org claims to already

Re: Create your own customised GNOME liveCD

2005-07-25 Thread Luis Villa
On 7/25/05, Marcus Bauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/25/05, Corey Burger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The idea of an installable live cd is a great one, until you realize the implications. The basically makes Gnome a distribution, which does the following bad things: 1. Gnome does

Re: Create your own customised GNOME liveCD

2005-07-25 Thread Luis Villa
On 7/25/05, Marcus Bauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, have I lately talked about KLA? :) Did I mention that they are spreading out 50.000 copies to schools in France? They are two and a half part time developers. There are no timely security updates. I'd be embarassed if I were them, if what

Re: Create your own customised GNOME liveCD

2005-07-25 Thread Luis Villa
On 7/25/05, Luis Villa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/25/05, Luis Villa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * put up gnome.org/projects/livecd so that gnoppix.org can be redirected there BTW, I've started a very sketchy site: http://gnome.org/projects/livecd/ Probably not up yet, because I

FOG handouts

2005-07-26 Thread Luis Villa
Tim- Hey... do you have the text of the FOG handout/flier anywhere? I'd love to review and update it*, and perhaps convert it into something CD-sized to distribute with liveCDs. Thanks- Luis * or better yet have someone on marketing-list do so ;) -- marketing-list mailing list

first cut at 2.11.90 livecd uploading

2005-07-26 Thread Luis Villa
The first cut at a 2.11.90 liveCD is being uploaded: http://tieguy.org/misc/gnome-livecd-2.11-i386-en-1.iso http://tieguy.org/misc/gnome-livecd-2.11-i386-en-1.iso.md5 Whenever the md5 is up, the .iso is complete; if the md5 is not up, the iso is not yet complete. Simple ;) Known issues: * more

Re: Create your own customised GNOME liveCD

2005-07-29 Thread Luis Villa
On 7/28/05, Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: quote who=Luis Villa I'd be fairly happy if we can figure out a way such that an installed liveCD 'becomes' an Ubuntu install with very slight default changes at the first update. Breezy will ship with Ubuntu Express, which is a LiveCD

Re: OpenCD GNOME

2005-08-04 Thread Luis Villa
On 8/4/05, Simos Xenitellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Claus Schwarm wrote: On Thu, 4 Aug 2005 02:46:14 -0700 Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: quote who=Murray Cumming We could try to ensure that fun applications running on Windows, such as Gimp and Inkscape, are identified as

Re: Trans.: GNOME et Java en kiosque

2005-08-08 Thread Luis Villa
For the archives, some of this is now available at: http://live.gnome.org/MarketingTeam_2fGnomeReviews and: http://live.gnome.org/MarketingTeam_2fGnomeInTheNews [Should those be combined, BTW?] Luis On 7/6/05, Dave Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list, I would love to see a list of

Re: Looking for some pointing

2005-08-08 Thread Luis Villa
Well, I'm just one guy, but I'm looking for a new splash and new background for the liveCD. The colors should go nicely with the new default theme, and the foot should be prominent, but other than that... I'm real flexible :) Luis On 7/14/05, YetZero [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone, I'm

Re: Looking for some pointing

2005-08-08 Thread Luis Villa
On 8/8/05, Andreas Nilsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Luis Villa wrote: On 8/8/05, Andreas Nilsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nothing wrong with something to choose from though, so I would love to see some stuff by YetZero. Something that I feel we need is more posters for people to put

Re: GNOME Logo Font

2005-08-13 Thread Luis Villa
On 8/13/05, Máirín Duffy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 17:07 -0400, Luis Villa wrote: Tim- If I understand correctly- please correct me if I'm wrong- the exact font should be switchable without jeopardizing our trademark status. Maybe, given the repeated problems

Re: Looking for some pointing

2005-08-15 Thread Luis Villa
. Luis 2005/8/8, Luis Villa [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 8/8/05, Andreas Nilsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been working on the liveCD-artwork-stuff and will probably have a whole set done in a couple of days. Great! YetZero, I don't have a list offhand, but there is a rough list

Re: Yet Another Poster

2005-08-15 Thread Luis Villa
On 8/10/05, Andreas Nilsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did another poster to match the Official Desktop of Happy People one. It seems like I didn't have support for thaiwanese, so that's currently three squares in the png. Will fix it later. Hope to do them as pdf soon, not sure how though.

Re: In need for some text for a poster

2005-08-15 Thread Luis Villa
On 8/10/05, David Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We would like to welcome you to Linux and the GNOME dekstop. Welcome to the Official Desktop of Happy People! Can we take out Linux and? GNOME isn't just for Linux, and I'd like to see us establish our own brand presence (which might include

Re: I need for some copywriting for gnome.org

2005-08-15 Thread Luis Villa
On 8/15/05, Rob Sharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/16/05, Luis Villa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Easy to get With support from Novell, Red Hat, Sun and many others, getting GNOME on your Linux or Solaris desktop has never been easier- just [link to ~davyd/footware/]click here[/] to find

Re: Splash and background for 2.12 livecd

2005-08-24 Thread Luis Villa
These look great. I will build a liveCD with them late tomorrow night (probably morning for the europeans :) If you have time tomorrow, could you whip up a matching bootsplash as per the instructions here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com//LiveCDCustomizationHowTo (search for 'To create a custom splash

crappy first cut at 2.11.92-ish CD

2005-08-24 Thread Luis Villa
[Followups to marketing-list only, please.] I've made a first cut at a 2.11.92-ish liveCD here: http://tieguy.org/misc/gnome-livecd-2.11-i386-en-1.iso http://tieguy.org/misc/gnome-livecd-2.11-i386-en-1.iso.md5 I'll make another, more serious one with the new splash screens and hopefully some

gnome.org/projects/template and /README

2005-08-27 Thread Luis Villa
On 7/20/05, Claus Schwarm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 20 Jul 2005 16:58:06 +0200 Isn't it a nice idea to have a kind of gnome template for all the projects hosted on http://www.gnome.org/projects/*? There is one now (thanks Andreas!), though it could use fleshing out:

Re: We need some buttons and stuff.

2005-08-27 Thread Luis Villa
On 8/21/05, Andreas Nilsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We need something like this for GNOME: http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=affiliates/homepage so people can put buttons and stugg on their websites to show support of the project. I would love to have on in my blog for example. I'm

made some release notes 'splash' changes

2005-08-28 Thread Luis Villa
I made a bunch of changes last night to: http://gnome.org/start/[insert latest version here] If someone could proof/comment, I'd appreciate it. The goal was to put the most interesting stuff (release notes, getting gnome) first, and to clarify the language around each thing. The whole 'here is a

Re: made some release notes 'splash' changes

2005-08-28 Thread Luis Villa
On 8/28/05, Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: quote who=Luis Villa If someone could proof/comment, I'd appreciate it. * Release Notes link goes to notes/ instead of notes/C/ Yeah, I thought maybe Murray had done that on purpose since he hasn't fixed up the language links yet, so I left

Re: crappy first cut at 2.11.92-ish CD

2005-08-28 Thread Luis Villa
On 8/24/05, Marcus Bauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * totem can't launch the music and video files for some reason. some reason is a default video sink set to Xv. Autodetect seems to work fine. No Xv works too. So you just twiddled the gconf key then? * no language CDs yet, nor have I

Re: made some release notes 'splash' changes

2005-08-28 Thread Luis Villa
On 8/28/05, Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: quote who=Luis Villa I made a bunch of changes last night to: http://gnome.org/start/[insert latest version here] I really strongly recommend using something other than index.wml to do this, because it *always* bites. Just have an empty

Re: made some release notes 'splash' changes

2005-08-28 Thread Luis Villa
On 8/28/05, Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: quote who=Luis Villa If someone could proof/comment, I'd appreciate it. Suggestions: * remove Desktop and Platform from the heading and para 1, because we ship more than the desktop and platform, and calling the whole thing GNOME

Re: made some release notes 'splash' changes

2005-08-28 Thread Luis Villa
for the blink-y thingie On 8/28/05, Claus Schwarm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 28 Aug 2005 09:45:14 -0400 Luis Villa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If someone could proof/comment, I'd appreciate it. The goal was to put the most interesting stuff (release notes, getting gnome) first

release notes restructuring

2005-08-28 Thread Luis Villa
I'd like to completely revamp the release notes from the format they've been following for a while. The current outline is something like: I. New stuff II. Docs III. i18n IV. Standards Compliance V. Installation VI. Known Issues VII. The Future VIII. Getting Involved I'd like to reshape it a

Re: quick logo hack request

2005-08-28 Thread Luis Villa
On 8/28/05, Máirín Duffy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2005-08-28 at 10:20 +0200, David Neary wrote: Hi, I got a CDROM SVG from openclipart and put it up on http://dneary.free.fr/stuff/etiquette_cd-rom_01.svg My poor attempt at repositioning the foot and logo is there too:

Re: quick logo hack request

2005-08-28 Thread Luis Villa
On 8/28/05, Luis Villa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/28/05, Máirín Duffy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2005-08-28 at 10:20 +0200, David Neary wrote: Hi, I got a CDROM SVG from openclipart and put it up on http://dneary.free.fr/stuff/etiquette_cd-rom_01.svg My poor attempt

another mild call for volunteers [was Re: made some release notes 'splash' changes]

2005-08-28 Thread Luis Villa
On 8/28/05, Claus Schwarm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 28 Aug 2005 13:54:47 -0400 Luis Villa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It will be on gnome.org/start/, as it has been for many releases. We can certainly consider putting up other pages that are focused purely on download somewhere else

reorg'd release notes, one request for xsl stylesheet guru-ness

2005-08-28 Thread Luis Villa
I've put a cut at some reorged release notes here: http://tieguy.org/misc/212releasenotes/index.html The main rewriting was on the first page, but I reorged the other pages. I'll try to make another pass at these tomorrow, but in the meantime please feel free to read over/critique. If there is

Re: reorg'd release notes, one request for xsl stylesheet guru-ness

2005-08-28 Thread Luis Villa
On 8/29/05, Murray Cumming [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've put a cut at some reorged release notes here: http://tieguy.org/misc/212releasenotes/index.html The main rewriting was on the first page, but I reorged the other pages. I'll try to make another pass at these tomorrow, but in

Re: reorg'd release notes, one request for xsl stylesheet guru-ness

2005-08-29 Thread Luis Villa
with Andreas. Luis On Sun, 28 Aug 2005 19:28:03 -0400 Luis Villa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've put a cut at some reorged release notes here: http://tieguy.org/misc/212releasenotes/index.html The main rewriting was on the first page, but I reorged the other pages. I'll try to make

Re: reorg'd release notes, one request for xsl stylesheet guru-ness

2005-08-29 Thread Luis Villa
On 8/29/05, Murray Cumming [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * We should present the admin section before the developer section. I tend to disagree. I strongly vote (don't all vote) for Admin before Developer. User-visible stuff should always come first. Gah. No. We don't vote. Either argue by

Re: crappy first cut at 2.11.92-ish CD

2005-08-28 Thread Luis Villa
On 8/24/05, Andreas Mueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Mittwoch, den 24.08.2005, 13:26 +0200 schrieb Marcus Bauer: On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 06:42 -0400, Luis Villa wrote: Some known issues, not all of which have known solutions ATM: * Luis is a silly person and has not contacted Marcus

Re: Potential availability of new fonts, Stix fonts

2005-09-06 Thread Luis Villa
This really isn't the right place for licensing concerns. It might be best to forward this to Jim Gettys, but I don't have a current email address for him- do any of the lurkers here have that? Luis On 9/3/05, Simos Xenitellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, A project that has been running

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