Re: release notes: first draft

2006-03-10 Thread Shaun McCance
On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 23:57 +0800, Davyd Madeley wrote: Ok guys and gals. I am announcing a preliminary draft of the release notes for 2.14. We now require proof readers for spelling, grammar and technical correctness. The latest committed version is online at:

Re: release notes: first draft

2006-03-10 Thread Shaun McCance
On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 12:32 -0800, Bob Kashani wrote: On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 14:05 -0600, Shaun McCance wrote: On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 23:57 +0800, Davyd Madeley wrote: Ok guys and gals. I am announcing a preliminary draft of the release notes for 2.14. We now require proof readers

Re: Writing the 2.16 release notes (and press release)

2006-08-08 Thread Shaun McCance
On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 01:29 +0800, Davyd Madeley wrote: On Mon, 2006-08-07 at 13:35 +0200, Vincent Untz wrote: Could we do a meeting this week? Yes. We need to get on it. What day and time is good for people? I'm at UTC+8, so UTC 18:00-23:00 is a little bit crap for me, but I can

Re: Working Draft

2007-03-09 Thread Shaun McCance
On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 21:47 +0200, Quim Gil wrote: (((BTW, is it possible that we have no banner yet?))) On 3/9/07, Shaun McCance [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this the final text from the marketing team? http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointSeventeen/ReleaseNotes/Draft Friday evening so yes

Re: Starting Chicago Gnome User Group

2007-04-23 Thread Shaun McCance
On Mon, 2007-04-23 at 17:04 +0200, Dave Neary wrote: In that area, you have (correct me if I'm wrong) the following major cities: Chicago Columbus Cleveland Milwaukee Indianapolis Des Moines That's 6 major urban areas - I imagine that each of those has their own LUG, and that from each

Re: Re-inventing the GNOME Marketing team

2007-04-24 Thread Shaun McCance
On Mon, 2007-04-23 at 22:37 -0400, Ken VanDine wrote: Based on the feedback the GMAE thread, let me suggest we re-invent ourselves. I think it is obvious we are needed, but right now we really don't have a direction. Let's fix this! We have the power to do it... we just need to do it.

Re: GNOME 2.20 release notes

2007-08-17 Thread Shaun McCance
On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 11:32 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote: On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 16:48 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote: Here is my first attempt at putting everything on one page (with the content from 2.14): http://www.gnome.org/start/2.20/notes/en/ The good: This replaces notes/index.html,

Re: GNOME 2.20 release notes

2007-08-17 Thread Shaun McCance
On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 18:56 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote: On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 10:46 -0500, Shaun McCance wrote: On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 11:32 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote: On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 16:48 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote: Here is my first attempt at putting everything on one page

Re: GNOME 2.20 release notes

2007-08-17 Thread Shaun McCance
On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 18:56 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote: On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 10:46 -0500, Shaun McCance wrote: On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 11:32 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote: On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 16:48 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote: Here is my first attempt at putting everything on one page

Re: GNOME 2.20 release notes

2007-08-17 Thread Shaun McCance
On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 22:03 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote: On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 13:01 -0500, Shaun McCance wrote: Like last year, I'll go ahead and plug gnome-doc-utils. This is the output of 'gnome-doc-tool html -d2 release-notes.xml': http://www.gnome.org/~shaunm/notes2-20

Re: GNOME 2.20 release notes

2007-08-17 Thread Shaun McCance
On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 15:36 -0500, Shaun McCance wrote: On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 22:03 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote: On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 13:01 -0500, Shaun McCance wrote: Like last year, I'll go ahead and plug gnome-doc-utils. This is the output of 'gnome-doc-tool html -d2 release

Re: GNOME 2.20 release notes

2007-08-18 Thread Shaun McCance
On Sat, 2007-08-18 at 12:11 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote: On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 15:36 -0500, Shaun McCance wrote: We can do basically any style or content tweaks that are necessary. This is using the latest g-d-u, which is code that I'm intimately familiar with. (Caveat: the build

Re: old gnome screenshots

2007-10-02 Thread Shaun McCance
On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 00:14 +0200, Erik Snoeijs wrote: Hi, I'm making a presentation for softwarefreedomday, but what i would really need are a few old gnome screenshots. pre-1.0 and 1.4-ish. Theme of the presentation is 10 years of gnome, so i need some old stuff, but the web isn't really

Re: GNOME Mug Update

2008-03-12 Thread Shaun McCance
On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 16:21 +0100, Dave Neary wrote: Hi, Lucas Rocha wrote: Some initial ideas: - GNOME Milk (With a white cow full of black GNOME foot marks) - GNOME: the official desktop of happy people (with the usual smiley) - Fuel for GNOME Hacking (Coffee Bean with a

Friends of GNOME

2009-01-14 Thread Shaun McCance
A big thanks to everybody who worked on revamping our Friends of GNOME pages. I did some proofreading and made some improvements. Patch attached. I also want to bring a few things to the attention of the list: 1) The thank-you page suggests subscribing to foundation-list to get updates. I

Re: New Project: GNOME YouTube Video Contest

2009-02-18 Thread Shaun McCance
On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 15:51 -0700, Stormy Peters wrote: How about a video contest for GNOME desktop tips and howtos? (Sriram Ramkrisha had this great idea on IRC and I thought I'd bring it over to the marketing list.) Users upload them to YouTube and we put them all in one channel.

Re: Brochure for potential sponsors: need help!

2009-02-21 Thread Shaun McCance
On Sat, 2009-02-21 at 12:35 +0100, Andreas Nilsson wrote: Stormy Peters wrote: Let me know what you need from me. I think I have all the text below unless someone has feedback or suggestions on it. Kalle Persson and myself spent some time on this last night and here is a sketch. Front

Re: Brochure for potential sponsors: need help!

2009-02-24 Thread Shaun McCance
On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 15:53 -0600, Brian Cameron wrote: - The text says The Foundation has over 400 members, all contributors to GNOME, who vote once a year. Actually we now vote every 18 months We had a single 18-month period to put the new board elections closer to GUADEC so that the

Re: good blog post on doing a product release

2009-04-19 Thread Shaun McCance
On Sat, 2009-04-18 at 17:51 -0600, Stormy Peters wrote: I thought this was a good blog post on how to do a product announcement or press release in today's world of social media. http://socialmediasurfer.blogspot.com/2009/04/using-social-media-with-product-launch.html Stormy I really

Re: Marketing, GNOME 3.0 and subteams

2009-04-28 Thread Shaun McCance
On Mon, 2009-04-27 at 16:37 +0100, Alex Hudson wrote: Stormy Peters wrote: + Identify our target audience(s). Do we want to communicate with existing GNOME users, all free desktop users, or try to reach out to non-free-desktop users? (I think we can safely leave communicating with

Re: Marketing, GNOME 3.0 and subteams

2009-04-29 Thread Shaun McCance
On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 22:34 +0200, Andreas Nilsson wrote: Stormy Peters wrote: Speaking of which, we do very little (if anything?) to advertise GNOME apps. I think users pick operating systems based on apps. They have a task, they pick an app. They don't decide to use Windows or Linux or

Re: Putting ads on GNOME websites

2009-05-05 Thread Shaun McCance
On Tue, 2009-05-05 at 17:07 -0400, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: On 05/05/2009 05:05 PM, Stormy Peters wrote: I agree that if it's even a percentage of that, it might be worth it. What would people think of trying it out for a couple of months? We could start with Google ads to see how well ads

Re: Add Support GNOME Badge to Planet GNOME?

2009-11-13 Thread Shaun McCance
On Fri, 2009-11-13 at 15:14 -0600, Paul Cutler wrote: My understanding is the donation ruler is planned for a specific page on the Friend of GNOME site / pages. (And the ruler is done thanks to Shaun and Vinicius at the hackfest! More to come next week, just need to finalize the number to

Re: Blog posted, memory refresh.

2009-11-17 Thread Shaun McCance
On Tue, 2009-11-17 at 00:04 -0600, Jason D. Clinton wrote: Several days of traveling later, I posted Day 2's summary: http://jasondclinton.livejournal.com/78061.html In the process of remembering everything. I remember having an idea about how we could move from GNOME to Gnome but maintain

Re: [Fwd: Stolen Gnome Logo.]

2009-11-20 Thread Shaun McCance
On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 18:52 -0400, Luis Villa wrote: On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Roberto Galoppiniroberto.galopp...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/6/24 Luis Villa l...@tieguy.org: On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Andre Klapperak...@gmx.net wrote: Another heads-up to the legal list about

Re: Website - Pending Content Tasks

2010-02-22 Thread Shaun McCance
On Mon, 2010-02-22 at 19:40 +, Lucas Rocha wrote: 2. Are there specific GNOME products we want to highlight or is this page meant to be a complete list, or both? Desktop and Platform. For the Platform, we could provide a good summarized overview of:

Re: Campaign Proposal

2010-02-23 Thread Shaun McCance
On Tue, 2010-02-23 at 10:43 -0600, Brian Cameron wrote: Nelson: Coming up with a good campaign requires a lot of discussion, and takes time to develop properly. It is tricky to get the associations right on. I do think that there is general agreement that associating GNOME with a

Re: Reboot: Strategic goals for GNOME

2010-03-03 Thread Shaun McCance
: extensive documentation and an SDK. Shaun McCance and I were talking about this a couple of weeks ago. I'm not trying to steal his thunder (and I hope he replies on list) but he has spent a significant amount of time in the last couple of weeks and has put together some thoughts around planning

Re: Branding of GNOME-hosted Tomboy Online

2010-03-12 Thread Shaun McCance
On Fri, 2010-03-12 at 07:06 -0800, Sandy Armstrong wrote: With the understanding that we could always rebrand before this deployment is open to the public, does anyone take issue with using the Tomboy Online brand as we begin alpha testing? I would really like to see this be the starting point

Re: Branding of GNOME-hosted Tomboy Online

2010-03-12 Thread Shaun McCance
On Fri, 2010-03-12 at 07:29 -0800, Sandy Armstrong wrote: On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 7:17 AM, Dave Neary dne...@gnome.org wrote: I'd have no objection to Tomboy Online personally. GNOME Notes would also float my boat. And I have no objection to that, either. online.gnome.org/notes would

Re: GNOME 3 Marketing - GNOME Shell

2010-04-01 Thread Shaun McCance
On Tue, 2010-03-30 at 21:37 -0500, Diego Escalante Urrelo wrote: El mar, 30-03-2010 a las 11:52 -0400, Owen Taylor escribió: We can also point to various alternative desktops built on GNOME technology - whether that's the continuing ability to run the GNOME 2 panel and window manager, or

Re: GNOME at events

2010-04-28 Thread Shaun McCance
On Wed, 2010-04-28 at 11:33 -0600, Stormy Peters wrote: There's a few events where I'm sure GNOME could have a booth. Is anybody interested in representing GNOME at: Southeast Linux Fest Ohio Linux Fest ... It's really time to start getting the word about GNOME 3 out there! I'm

Re: Official announcement and invitation to GNOME 3.0 Hackfest and GNOME.Asia Summit 2011

2011-01-24 Thread Shaun McCance
On Sat, 2011-01-22 at 19:45 +0100, Andre Klapper wrote: On Sat, 2011-01-22 at 19:04 +0100, Vincent Untz wrote: Le vendredi 21 janvier 2011, à 23:41 +0800, Frederic Muller a écrit : So Hackfest registration is happening here: http://live.gnome.org/Hackfests/GNOME.Asia2011 , call for papers

Re: [gnome-shell] Request for UI freeze break

2011-03-02 Thread Shaun McCance
On Wed, 2011-03-02 at 18:39 +0100, Florian Müllner wrote: Hi everybody, the designers have pushed an updated version of their mockup for GNOME Shell's search results[0], mainly to bring them in line with the window/application picker[1]. Those mockups have been implemented[2] and

Re: [gnome-shell] Request for UI freeze break

2011-03-02 Thread Shaun McCance
On Wed, 2011-03-02 at 21:08 +0100, Florian Müllner wrote: On Wed, 2011-03-02 at 14:20 -0500, Shaun McCance wrote: Is there a functional change in the user experience that would affect text descriptions? Or it just pixel shifting? It's mostly pixel shifting. The section header (e.g

Re: Fallback / Classic Mode

2011-03-28 Thread Shaun McCance
On Tue, 2011-03-22 at 12:27 +0100, Dave Neary wrote: In the minds of a lot of people (press and GNOME hackers, and by proxy, future users), GNOME 3 is very much the user experience defined by GNOME Shell. And, while I don't have any data to back this up, I'd bet that people are expecting GNOME

Re: 3.4 Release Notes

2012-03-07 Thread Shaun McCance
On Wed, 2012-03-07 at 09:28 +, Allan Day wrote: One other thing that we've spoken about is moving away from the library/documentation format for the release notes. Hosting them directly on gnome.org would give us a lot more freedom in terms of how we present the notes (so they would look

Release Notes Edits

2012-03-21 Thread Shaun McCance
I've just read over the release notes in git. Sorry for not doing this sooner. I realize the notes are already supposed to be frozen, so I've listed only things that I think are critical language problems. == What's New for Users, p2-3 This includes smooth scrolling... Other highlights for this

Re: Release Notes Edits

2012-03-21 Thread Shaun McCance
On Wed, 2012-03-21 at 11:30 -0400, Shaun McCance wrote: I've just read over the release notes in git. Sorry for not doing this sooner. I realize the notes are already supposed to be frozen, so I've listed only things that I think are critical language problems. I just did a quick link check

Re: Interviews and Gnomers

2012-07-08 Thread Shaun McCance
On Fri, 2012-07-06 at 17:34 +0300, alex diavatis wrote: Further more, can I somehow get faces thumbs of all regular contributor of Gnome in last year (excluding the guys they do docs coz that would be impossible) What's wrong with getting images for documentation contributors? There aren't