Re: GNOME weekly roundup (was Re: community managers)

2012-11-14 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
, arrogant or dismissive remarks should be controlled and positive communication efforts have to promoted and praised. Just my 2 cents Cheers Seif On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 12:38 PM, Dave Neary dne...@gnome.org wrote: Hi, On 11/13/2012 06:53 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote

Re: community managers

2012-11-15 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 12:36 PM, Emily Gonyer emilyyr...@gmail.com wrote: I think Dave's point was that we missed an opportunity to keep Cinnamon as GNOME 3 - because at one point it was GNOME 3.x with extensions piled on. They have since forked and are truly a separate Well, the thing is

Re: GNOME Community Calendar

2012-11-18 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Seems like you can start here: https://live.gnome.org/Hackfests sri On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 5:54 PM, meg ford megf...@gnome.org wrote: Hi, We are doing a monthly GNOME hackfest series here in Chicago and I am wondering how we can add the events to the GNOME community calendar? Thanks!

Marketing meeting..

2012-11-21 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
We should try to target a marketing call next week after the U.S. holidays. What's that scheduler thing that lets us figure out each other's free time? -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Re: Marketing meeting..

2012-11-22 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Anybody else interested in joining? Please let me know by Sunday. Currently, the best time seems to be Tuesday, Nov 28th. It says 21:00, but I don't know which time zone that is. On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 7:28 PM, Karen Sandler ka...@gnome.org wrote: On Wed, November 21, 2012 9:48 pm, Sriram

Re: Marketing meeting..

2012-11-22 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
-1 for reading comprehension on my part. :*( On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 10:41 AM, Tobias Mueller mue...@cryptobitch.dewrote: On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 10:39:48AM -0800, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: I don't know which time zone that is. On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 7:28 PM, Karen Sandler ka

Re: Marketing meeting..

2012-11-23 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
. It says 21:00, but I don't know which time zone that is. On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 7:28 PM, Karen Sandler ka...@gnome.org wrote: On Wed, November 21, 2012 9:48 pm, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: We should try to target a marketing call next week after the U.S. holidays. What's that scheduler

Re: Marketing meeting..

2012-11-26 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
to :) Cheers Flavia Il 22/11/2012 19:39, Sriram Ramkrishna ha scritto: Anybody else interested in joining? Please let me know by Sunday. Currently, the best time seems to be Tuesday, Nov 28th. It says 21:00, but I don't know which time zone that is. On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 7:28 PM, Karen

Re: Marketing meeting..

2012-11-26 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
and meeting minutes. Apologies to everyone who can't make it. It was difficult not being able to fit to everyone's schedule. sri On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 12:30 AM, Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.mewrote: I would like any of the other volunteers for community organizer (or enthusiasts

Re: Tuesday 18:00 UTC meeting (was Re: Marketing meeting..)

2012-11-26 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
to talking to you all tomorrow. sri On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 5:22 PM, Karen Sandler ka...@gnome.org wrote: On Mon, November 26, 2012 7:58 pm, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: OK, it seems my last meeting time frame, Allan can't make it and well it's not much of a meeting without him. :-) So, I'm

Re: Marketing meeting..

2012-11-27 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 6:07 AM, Karen Sandler ka...@gnome.org wrote: On Tue, November 27, 2012 7:15 am, Oliver Propst wrote: On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Andreas Nilsson li...@andreasn.se wrote: On 11/27/2012 01:58 AM, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: OK, it seems my last meeting time

Marketing Meeting - Wednesday November 28, 2012 at 20:00 UTC

2012-11-27 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Agenda: 1) introductions (5 minutes) 1) FoG (30 minutes) 2) Community outreach (25 minutes) Phone meeting details will be attached prior to the meeting. Since they will be based in the U.S. Please let me know soonest if you have issues with dialing in. -- marketing-list mailing list

Next marketing meeting proposal - 12/12/2012 20:00 UTC

2012-11-28 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
I'm proposing the same time in two weeks. If that is not acceptable, we can organize a different time. We had a pretty successful meeting, and so we are proposing that we meet bi-weekly by phone with a possible IRC supplementary conversation. We will probably want to find a place to store

world of gnome feedback

2012-11-29 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Hi Alex, You've been doing a tremendous job with WoG! We were recently talking about WoG and one thing that we felt that would improve the site tremendously is having some editors to help edit your articles. It might slow down your publishing a bit, but would you mind if some of us help edit

Re: GNOME Presence at SCALE 11x

2012-12-05 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
I think we would love to be there, but I don't know of any GNOME folks that reside in SoCal. I could write a call for volunteers on planet and ask? On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Gareth J. Greenaway gar...@socallinuxexpo.org wrote: Greetings all, A quick introduction, I'm Gareth

marketing meeting next week!

2012-12-05 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Howdy folks, It's that time to start thinking about when to schedule our marketing meeting next week. Is the same time frame okay or do people want to try a different time frame in order to have more people. I know that several people keen on attending. I would request the people who

Re: marketing test call tomorrow (Friday) (was Re: marketing meeting next week!)

2012-12-06 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
: On Thu, December 6, 2012 1:11 am, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: I want to do one test call Friday so that we can get everybody's software working prior to the real meeting. We spent way too much time trying to get things working and I want to not waste time getting people's software working

Re: marketing test call tomorrow (Friday) (was Re: marketing meeting next week!)

2012-12-07 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
for the real call next week, it shouldn't be a problem. Brett On Dec 7, 2012 1:57 AM, Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.me wrote: Thanks Karen for setting this up! The current bits of software that we have been trying out so far has been: * Ekiga * Twinkle * linphone More

Re: marketing meeting next week!

2012-12-07 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
at the same time next week. I'd be interested in talking about how we can generate more positive news about GNOME. Allan On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 6:11 AM, Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.me wrote: Howdy folks, It's that time to start thinking about when to schedule our marketing meeting

Re: marketing meeting next week!

2012-12-08 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Not a bad idea, Dave! I will do just that. On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 2:54 AM, Dave Neary dne...@gnome.org wrote: Hi, On 12/08/2012 03:29 AM, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: It shows that we can't seem to get a decent experience using VOIP. Gosh if we only had some telepathy people who can help

Re: marketing meeting next week!

2012-12-08 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
, Allan Day allanp...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for keeping up the momentum, Sri. I am current free at the same time next week. I'd be interested in talking about how we can generate more positive news about GNOME. Allan On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 6:11 AM, Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.me

forum posts

2012-12-08 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
I've been looking at the forum posts and in my estimation things are going fairly well. The posts are intelligent and people are answering each other's questions and helping out even without any of the core folks participating. It would be nice to have some of the design folks putting in a

marketing meeting on Thursday, Dec 13, 2012 20:00 UTC

2012-12-10 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Agenda: * Community outreach * Define the problem * Define the message * Define methods that we can resolve gaps in communication * How are forums and world of gnome working for us * reporter outreach These are sample topics. Feel free to come up with your own and we can try to

instructions for SIP calling

2012-12-11 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Can someone who was able to reliably get a call going, post some instructions on how to dial in? sri -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Re: marketing meeting next week!

2012-12-13 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
I got fedora 18 beta running on my X1 Carbon.. So sweet! It has some performance issues that is related to the driver. I have to bug Fedora QA about it, I think. On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 6:56 AM, Brett Legree brett.leg...@gmail.comwrote: That sounds great to me, a series of interviews with

Re: marketing meeting on Thursday, Dec 13, 2012 20:00 UTC

2012-12-13 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
://piratepad.net/USKCvLBtK8 I don't think we need much in the way of content to go ahead and launch... karen On Mon, December 10, 2012 1:49 pm, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: Agenda: * Community outreach * Define the problem * Define the message * Define methods that we can

Re: marketing meeting on Thursday, Dec 13, 2012 20:00 UTC

2012-12-13 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
...@sfconservancy.onsip.com PIN: 5268 Also, here are a few sentences I wrote to get things started on the Friends of GNOME campaign: http://piratepad.net/USKCvLBtK8 I don't think we need much in the way of content to go ahead and launch... karen On Mon, December 10, 2012 1:49 pm, Sriram

Re: Marketing Minutes December 13, 2012

2012-12-14 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Just to expand on the meeting frequency - we should continue to do bi-weekly 'tactical' meetings where we focus on our action items and getting them completed. In addition, any news of the day type of items. Once every two months prior to freezes we have planning meeting where we figure out

Re: Marketing Minutes December 13, 2012

2012-12-14 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
, Dec 14, 2012 at 9:23 AM, Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.mewrote: Just to expand on the meeting frequency - we should continue to do bi-weekly 'tactical' meetings where we focus on our action items and getting them completed. In addition, any news of the day type of items. Once every two

Re: First time contributors : WAS Re: Marketing Minutes December 13, 2012

2012-12-15 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Yes, volunteer capture was one of the issues. That's why one of the projects was toe QA our website to make sure that we have a method of doing volunteering capture. I saw a similar issue in IRC where somebody came in and wanted to hack on something and nobody answered him. (I was reading from

Re: [Fwd: Your FOSDEM stand request for GNOME]

2012-12-23 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
When is FOSDEM again? I would like to go, but I would like to write a paper or something in order for my work to pay for the trip. Otherwise, I gotta fund my own way. On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 5:22 PM, Emily Gonyer emilyyr...@gmail.com wrote: Cool! I'm still not sure if I'll make it, cross

Re: Report of the Day event at Kastoria, Greece

2012-12-24 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
That's great! Thank you for sharing this with us! On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 3:08 PM, Ευστάθιος Ιωσηφίδης - Efstathios Iosifidis diamond...@freemail.gr wrote: Hello friends, Last weekend, I was at Kastoria for the day event of Linux Team of Kastoria, Greece. I had a talk about the

Re: Report of the Day event at Kastoria, Greece

2012-12-24 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
BTW it seems that your blog has been removed and I was not able to see the pictures. :( On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 9:54 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.mewrote: That's great! Thank you for sharing this with us! On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 3:08 PM, Ευστάθιος Ιωσηφίδης - Efstathios Iosifidis

Re: GNOME legacy

2012-12-28 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Yeah, I suspect a lot of people want to see what GNOME will deliver in terms of giving back the original look and feel. Legacy mode is going to look and old and crufty as we continue making GNOME 3 better though. People will end up switching. On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 5:05 AM, Juanjo Marín

Re: GNOME legacy

2013-01-02 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
think we're going to need to get started working on marketing materials, and what conferences we want to have a presence at so that we can start writing our papers. sri On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 2:21 AM, Allan Day allanp...@gmail.com wrote: Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.me wrote: Yeah, I

PROPOSED Marketing Meeting: January 9th 20:00 UTC

2013-01-02 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Same time as usual. Topics: 1) managing classic experience expectations 2) 2.8 marketing message and materials 3) FoG 4) follow up on action items from the last meeting Please propose any other topics for discussion as well. Thanks, sri -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org

REMINDER: Marketing meeting January 9th 20:00 UTC

2013-01-08 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Reminder that we have a marketing meeting tomorrow: Topics: 1) managing classic experience expectations 2) 2.8 marketing message and materials 3) FoG 4) follow up on action items from the last meeting PSTN: +1-718-247-9666 SIP: sip:c...@sfconservancy.onsip.com PIN: 8602 Here are the action

Fwd: Community programs analysis

2013-01-09 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
-- Forwarded message -- From: Diego Escalante Urrelo die...@gnome.org Date: Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 12:21 PM Subject: Fwd: Community programs analysis To: Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.me Hope this still holds true after this months. I re-read my conclusions and I think

moving marketing meeting to Tuesdays instead of Wednesday

2013-01-10 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Does anybody have a problem with attendance if we move the marketing meeting from Wednesday to Tuesday at 20:00 UTC? sri -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Re: Community programs analysis

2013-01-10 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
any feedback on this? On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 12:19 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.mewrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: Diego Escalante Urrelo die...@gnome.org Date: Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 12:21 PM Subject: Fwd: Community programs analysis To: Sriram Ramkrishna s

Re: [Fwd: FOSDEM stands, practical information]

2013-01-10 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Make sure you give some live cds to the owncloud guys. I'm sure they would like to advertise the fact that GNOME supports owncloud in online accounts. sri On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 3:26 PM, Karen Sandler ka...@gnome.org wrote: We got the information on the FOSDEM stand - looks like a fine

Re: moving marketing meeting to Tuesdays instead of Wednesday

2013-01-14 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
For me 20:00 UTC works great since it is my lunch hour. :-) But I can possibly go to 19:00 UTC. I am usually open during that time. sri On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 4:04 AM, Fabiana Simões fabianapsim...@gmail.comwrote: 18h30 would be a bit too early for me, since I'd still be at work. 19h may

confirmation of marketing meeting on Tuesday 1/22/2013

2013-01-18 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
We have a marketing meeting.. list of topics? -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

reminder marketing meeting 01/22/2012 20:00 UTC

2013-01-21 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Agenda * FOSDEM * Friends of GNOME * Annual Report 2012 Sorry for the late notice.. been really busy today. -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Jan 22 Marketing Meeting Minutes

2013-01-22 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Attendees: Sri, Allan, Karen, Emily, Fabiana, Joseph, Andreas, Flavia Topics: * Fosdem Booth staffing: * +1 to Emily, who committed to spending time at the booth. https://live.gnome.org/GnomeEvents/FOSDEM/2013/Standhttps://live.gnome.org/GnomeEvents/FOSDEM/2013/Stand#attendees #attendees

Annual report

2013-01-24 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
I have a number of volunteers now who have volunteered to help out. A total of 3 new people. We should probably start talking about how we want to do this. How do you people want to proceed? sri -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org

Re: Annual report

2013-01-24 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
of this outline to write about, than to propose a topic out of the blue. Perhaps people who have worked on previous reports could kick off this? Best, Fabiana On 01/24/2013 08:14 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: I have a number of volunteers now who have volunteered to help out. A total of 3 new

Re: Let's write the 2012 Annual report!

2013-01-24 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
participants at GUADEC interview GNOME old timers too, which could have some good stuff as well for this. karen On Thu, January 24, 2013 11:58 pm, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: Awesome, thanks Karen! I have signed up for GNOME 15 year birthday. 15 years already? Good grief, it just seems like

marketing meeting next week

2013-01-27 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
So we have a marketing meeting call next week. But a lot of you will be in FOSDEM. I know we decided we would still have it, so how do you want to proceed? Can you setup a conference room? What would be the timing? sri -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org

distro that is focused on accessibilty

2013-02-01 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Hi All, I was reading on /r/Linux on reddit about a distro that is looking for donations to work on a completely accessible operating system. I posted a note talking about our own efforts at accessibility. More importantly, we are doing our own fund drive and perhaps it might be worth doing

Re: distro that is focused on accessibilty

2013-02-03 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
11:12 Asunto: Re: distro that is focused on accessibilty Il 02/02/2013 07:13, Sriram Ramkrishna ha scritto: Hi All, I was reading on /r/Linux on reddit about a distro that is looking for donations to work on a completely accessible operating system. I posted a note

Marketing meeting Tuesday Feb 12th 20:00 UTC

2013-02-07 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Agenda: * FOSDEM report * Friends of GNOME * Annual Report Standard agenda items: (we don't have to cover, just need to keep it in mind) * Check up on FoG contributions and status - contractors doing a good job of alleviating issues in regards to handling donations. * Community outreach - (news

Re: Marketing meeting Tuesday Feb 12th 20:00 UTC

2013-02-12 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Let's add Flavia's post as another agenda item. sri On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 7:15 AM, Karen Sandler ka...@gnome.org wrote: And here's dial-in information: PSTN: +1-718-247-9666 SIP: sip:c...@sfconservancy.onsip.com PIN: 9090 On Thu, February 7, 2013 7:57 pm, Sriram Ramkrishna

Meeting Minutes - Feb 12, 2013

2013-02-12 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
This is the link to the meeting minutes. https://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/MarketingTeamMeetings/12FEV2013 In the interest of better communications, I am CC'ing the foundation-list. Foundation-list: Marketing team have a bi-weekly phone call to discuss community outreach, quarterly reports

Re: 2012 Annual Report

2013-02-14 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
I think in the meeting we were talking about doing a report after a conference. In general, we should roll all this into a quarterly report, and then the annual report would be a summary of the quarterly ones, no? sri On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 8:45 AM, Karen Sandler ka...@gnome.org wrote: On

Re: 2012 Annual Report

2013-02-16 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Seems good. I would probably have re-written it to have a little oomph to it. We're trying to present an interesting picture of each hackfest. Think the language used in those gourmet magazines where they start with It was a cold day in December, in contrast to the warm bubble enthusiasm at the

Re: 2012 Annual Report

2013-02-17 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
, Fabiana Simões wrote: Thanks for the feedback, Sri! I'll try to review the articles and put some wow on them ASAP :) ~Fabiana On 02/16/2013 11:28 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: Seems good. I would probably have re-written it to have a little oomph to it. We're trying to present an interesting

2012 report working session 20:00 UTC Today?

2013-02-19 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Hey folks, We had talked about having a working session on alternate works on the tasks we have. It's sort of last minute, but are people interested in doing this? sri -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Marketing Meeting Reminder next week Tuesday 20:00 UTC Feb 26, 2013

2013-02-22 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Greetings folks, It's time for another marketing meeting scheduled for Tuesday. Can someone provide some agenda items? Some off hand.. * GNOME 3.8 release preparation * making ourselves open to the media (interviews, blogposts, etc) * images prior to freeze for community feedback *

Re: Expectations of 'Classic' mode

2013-02-25 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Eww.. let's not call it Lite anything because it sounds like it is inferior to GNOME 3 and I don't want to give that impression. GNOME Classic experience session is a good enough I think. Hell it worked for Cocoa Cola, right? :-) sri On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 6:54 AM, Calum Benson

Re: Expectations of 'Classic' mode

2013-02-25 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
liked) Funny, wobbly windows started at GNOME as a demonstration of the new X capabilities. :-) sri sri On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 9:49 AM, Calum Benson calum.ben...@oracle.comwrote: On 25 Feb 2013, at 17:40, Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.me wrote: Eww.. let's not call it Lite anything

Re: Expectations of 'Classic' mode

2013-02-25 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
, at 17:40, Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.me wrote: Eww.. let's not call it Lite anything because it sounds like it is inferior to GNOME 3 and I don't want to give that impression. Don't worry, I hate the term myself so I was mostly joking :) (But on the other hand, if we didn't believe GNOME

Fwd: Marketing Meeting Reminder next week Tuesday 20:00 UTC Feb 26, 2013

2013-02-26 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Here is the agenda! sri -- Forwarded message -- From: Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.me Date: Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 4:54 PM Subject: Marketing Meeting Reminder next week Tuesday 20:00 UTC Feb 26, 2013 To: GNOME Marketing List marketing-list@gnome.org Greetings folks, It's

Re: 3.8 Release Planning

2013-02-28 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
I can do the press release, I did part of it last time. I'll figure out how to get the quotations. We need some press contacts. I know that Vincent has volunteered to be our media guy. Vincent, can you handle media questions? We have one volunteer for videos by the way, just need to get a

Re: 3.8 Release Planning

2013-02-28 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 11:59 AM, Vincent Untz vu...@gnome.org wrote: Le jeudi 28 février 2013, à 13:23 -0500, Karen Sandler a écrit : On Thu, February 28, 2013 1:17 pm, Allan Day wrote: Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.me wrote: We need some press contacts. I know that Vincent has

Re: 3.8 Release Planning

2013-02-28 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
: On Thu, February 28, 2013 1:17 pm, Allan Day wrote: Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.me wrote: We need some press contacts. I know that Vincent has volunteered to be our media guy. Vincent, can you handle media questions? We have a list of contacts already. We just needs

Re: 3.8 Release Planning

2013-02-28 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Andreas it is! I'm have never talked with the press. I should probably like take a course or something. They have that at work. On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 12:53 PM, Andreas Nilsson li...@andreasn.se wrote: On 02/28/2013 09:03 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 11:59 AM

Re: 3.8 Release Planning

2013-02-28 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
:) Flavia Il 28/02/2013 19:23, Karen Sandler ha scritto: On Thu, February 28, 2013 1:17 pm, Allan Day wrote: Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.me wrote: I can do the press release, I did part of it last time. I'll figure out how to get the quotations. That would be great, Sri! First

Re: 3.8 Release Planning

2013-03-01 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
, 2013 10:29 pm, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: So tuesday is our work session day, still interested in doing an hour of marketing work at the same time? Karen and I could work on the press release and others could get together and work on the other release notes? What do people think

Reminder: Marketing collab meeting tomorrow on IRC at 20:00 UTC

2013-03-04 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Hello folks! Just want to remind everyone that tomorrow is the collab meeting on IRC at 20:00 UTC. This will be a working meeting working on the release notes and annual report. Tomorrow is the deadline for the annual report, so if you're still working on it we need to start finishing up and

Re: Want to review a book about GNOME 3?

2013-03-07 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Looks like they are plenty of people to review this. :) I'll review if there are copies left. Otherwise, I'll happily let others do it. sri On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 8:12 AM, Sindhu S sind...@live.in wrote: Hi all! Am I too late? I'd love to read the book and review it :) I have no coding

Marketing meeting reminder 20:00 UTC Tuesday March 12, 2013

2013-03-11 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Greeting folks, Want to remind people that we have a marketing meeting tomorrow. I might not be able to make it as I have a meeting at that time. Agenda items: * Release notes * Annual report There are probably others, and some stuff from previous meetings. sri -- marketing-list mailing

revised the press release

2013-03-21 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Here is the revised press release. I'd like more eyeballs on it if possible. Karen and I spent a little time on it tonight as we said we would. http://piratepad.net/j4B5vOQBep Thanks, sri -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org

OSCON

2013-03-21 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
I am thinking about getting a booth this time. I've always resisted because we don't really have a good reason to be there. Butt his time, with our push to javascript I would like to be able to market to javascript writers at OSCON. Unfortunately, I'm one guy, and I'm not even sure I can even

Re: revised the press release

2013-03-22 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Windows XP since the dawn of time it seems - a bit 'stale' these days.) -Brett On Mar 22, 2013 1:40 AM, Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.me wrote: Here is the revised press release. I'd like more eyeballs on it if possible. Karen and I spent a little time on it tonight as we said we would

Re: OSCON

2013-03-22 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Actually, I don't expect you to be at the booth much at all I mostly thinking you would be out there networking. Much more important role. On Mar 21, 2013 11:40 PM, Karen Sandler ka...@gnome.org wrote: On Fri, March 22, 2013 1:42 am, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: I am thinking about getting

Re: OSCON

2013-03-22 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
in that camp, at least in FreeBSD which is my primary BSD area of interest (correct me if I'm wrong, someone!) -Brett On Mar 22, 2013 2:40 AM, Karen Sandler ka...@gnome.org wrote: On Fri, March 22, 2013 1:42 am, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: I am thinking about getting a booth this time

Re: OSCON

2013-03-23 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
list? It's still pretty early for people to know if they're going. karen On Fri, March 22, 2013 11:52 am, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: Actually, I don't expect you to be at the booth much at all I mostly thinking you would be out there networking. Much more important role. On Mar 21, 2013 11

press release

2013-03-26 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
We have updated the press release today. I think it is in it's final form. Thanks to Brett and Emily for doing further edits and making it read so good! http://piratepad.net/j4B5vOQBep Thanks, sri -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org

marketing meeting Tuesday 20:00 UTC

2013-03-26 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Sorry, this is really last minute. I completely forgot to send out a reminder. This is our last marketing meeting before the release. So I think we should try to meet. If we can't meet by phone then let's at least do one over IRC. Thanks, sri -- marketing-list mailing list

Re: marketing meeting Tuesday 20:00 UTC

2013-03-26 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
That's great, it would be great to see you there! sri On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 1:05 AM, Brett Legree brett.leg...@gmail.comwrote: I may be available via IRC, I'll do my best to join in - Brett On Mar 26, 2013 2:22 AM, Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.me wrote: Sorry, this is really last

today's marketing meeting

2013-03-26 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
hey folks, we are doing it by phone call, so here is hte contact details: 12:54 karenesq PSTN: +1-718-247-9666 12:54 karenesq SIP: sip:c...@sfconservancy.onsip.com 12:54 karenesq PIN: 9090 sri -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org

collab time - 20:00 UTC Tuesday April 2nd

2013-04-01 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Reminder that we are working on Annual report and getting it in shape. So freel free to block an hour tomorrow and help work on it. Thanks! -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Re: marketing hackfest?

2013-04-03 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Let me see off the top of my head: * updated marketing materials for conferences - * talking points when discussing GNOME with others, formulating a FAQ * outreach discussion - we do this, but we need to really need to come up with an action plan * re-do the marketing wiki page * conference bling

Re: OPW ideas?

2013-04-06 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 5:10 AM, Fabiana Simões fabianapsim...@gmail.comwrote: I think it would be great if someone took on Flavia's work on outreach. She gathered great information on newcomers characteristics and I think we should definitely use this knowledge :) From Flavia's last report, an

Fwd: INQUIRY

2013-04-06 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
I was going through the wiki pages for our project and I found it a lot of work to decipher what projects to go for and what not. Also some things needs to be updated. We probably need to fix the landing wiki page. Secondly, web development is currently Christy Eller and Elena Petrevska, while

Marketing Meeting Tuesday 20:00 UTC

2013-04-08 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Agenda: * Annual Report * Marketing Hackfest * User Interviews * Conference coordination * Materials? template? * Old action items -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Marketing hackfest planning page

2013-04-09 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Fabiana has created a planning page for the hackfest. Please read through it and add whatever you think we should discuss. What I think we shoudld do is get the bucket list and then start figuring out what the theme of the hackfest should be e.g. strategic vs tactical and then we can decide what

marketing meeting minutes

2013-04-09 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Here are the minutes for today's marketing meeting. Thanks to Fabiana for doing the minutes! https://live.gnome.org/Hackfests/Marketing2013 -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Re: marketing meeting minutes

2013-04-09 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On 04/09/2013 06:36 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: Here are the minutes for today's marketing meeting. Thanks to Fabiana for doing the minutes! https://live.gnome.org/Hackfests/Marketing2013 -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Fwd: Good day - re: new direction for Cinnarch

2013-04-14 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
I have an idea that I think would be great for Cinnarch. I think having a distro involved in gnome initial setup other than Fedora would be excellent. They can provide alternative approaches or help implement the design in Cinnarch. Basically go all in as a complete GNOME distro.

Re: Presentation

2013-04-15 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Welcome, Stafania - will you be doing design for Allan then or is it marketing? sri On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 1:09 PM, Stefania Guglielmi gullin...@hotmail.comwrote: Hello everyone! Just a quick message to present myself...My name is Stef and from today on I will collaborate with you and in

Re: Introducing myself

2013-04-16 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Welcome! :) If you can swing by #marketing on irc.gnome.org and introduce yourself! sri On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 5:31 AM, Likhapha Molisana gracemolisana2...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, I am Likhapha, I'm so excited to be part of marketing mailing list. i'm so passionate about

Re: marketing hackfest?

2013-04-21 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 5:45 AM, Karen Sandler ka...@gnome.org wrote: On Thu, April 4, 2013 10:20 am, Allan Day wrote: Karen Sandler ka...@gnome.org wrote: As per Tobi's email, we should consider again whether to organize a marketing hackfest! Shaun has suggested co-locating with the docs

Reminder: Marketing meeting Tuesday 23, 2013

2013-04-21 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Collecting Agenda: Please send me some Current ones: 1) Annual Report Status 2) Marketing Hackfest 3) OPW/GSOC projects - * https://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/NewsRedesign (I don't think has been complete) so this is a possible * www.gnome.org reorganization for volunteer capture

Re: marketing hackfest?

2013-04-22 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
So all of July is likely out because I have no one to cover me while I'm gone. Best to have it in June if we can help it. Otherwise, I will deal with it. :-) sri On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 8:51 AM, Allan Day allanp...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for following up, Karen. Karen Sandler

Re: marketing hackfest?

2013-04-22 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 11:16 AM, Fabiana Simões fabianapsim...@gmail.comwrote: So, since Allan does not have to be back to the UK on the 26th, perhaps June 25-26 would work? That works for me. sri -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org

Re: marketing hackfest?

2013-04-22 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 12:21 PM, Fabiana Simões fabianapsim...@gmail.comwrote: Hmm, my calendar is starting to get complicated again. Would it be a problem if we pushed it back a few days, do you think? (Just figuring out my options.) I'll be with Andreas in Denmark until the 23rd.

some mockups for volunteer capture

2013-04-23 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
So Tiffany has done some work with volunteer capture and has come up with some changes and is looking for your feedback. I have shared the files on owncloud. So please check it out. https://cloud.gnome.org/public.php?service=filest=3e66962411cd3c01445ebf8f61436fc9

Annual report workgroup April 30th - 19:00 UTC (or 20:00 UTC)

2013-04-23 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Hi folks, we want to finish off the annual report by the first week of May. I would like to get most of this done in teh following week with next Tuesday reserved for finishing it off. Thanks, let's get this out for everyone so they can see what we accomplished last year! sri -- marketing-list

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