Hi Sri,
Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:
Unfortunately I don't. I do have the business card of one of
the British linux magazines (Linux Format I think). I have tried
Wired before using their web form when I was doing GUADEC press
releases. But I did not get any response from them. I can try
Hi,
Something I've found very useful in the past when defining project scope
is to define ungoals - things which might conceivably have been goals,
but which we are specifically not going to do.
Ungoals can be very useful in preventing feature creep, but also in
keeping people's minds on what
Hi all,
Mikael Olenfalk put his templates up again, perhaps it'd be an idea to
attach them to the wiki this time.
Many thanks to Mikael for his efforts.
Cheers,
Dave.
Mikael Olenfalk wrote:
Sorry, I have moved to a new apartment some time ago so I have been
busy; should have gotten back to
Hi,
Eugenia Loli-Queru wrote:
GnomeFiles.org is a GTK software repository. It might have the word
gnome in it, but the goal was always to list all GTK-dependant
applications. And that includes wxWidgets, Java SWT and other binded
apps that depend on GTK. As GTK is LGPL, the goal was from the
Hi,
Jeff Waugh wrote:
quote who=David Neary
Look at RecentChanges regularly.
It used to be available as an RSS feed, but that seems to have dropped off
with the recent upgrade.
The RSS feed is definitely still there, and you can turn on diffs as well,
which is very handy. You can put
Hi,
Gezim Hoxha wrote:
This was a genius idea, Dave. Keep it up :)
Thanks Gezim, I worked long hard to come up with the idea of personas.
I guess I must be a genius to be the first person to have thought of it :)
Cheers,
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Hi Murray,
Murray Cumming wrote:
On Fri, 2006-07-14 at 17:46 -0700, Eugenia Loli-Queru wrote:
[snip]
So no, I am not
willing to remove non-Free apps from the listing.
[snip]
Nobody is asking you to do this, and I don't think anybody (well, maybe
RMS) ever asked you to.
That's not
Hi,
Eugenia Loli-Queru wrote:
A few things that _I can not_ do:
snip
3. Remove non-gnome, non-OSS apps. Gnomefiles is a software repository for
all Gtk-dependant software, open or closed, black or white, thin or fat,
short or tall.
This is the point which cause us to distance ourselves a
Hi,
Santiago Roza wrote:
On 7/14/06, David Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Geraldine always does her shopping on Friday, since she finishes work
an hour earlier. She buys lots of fresh fruit and vegetables, but ends
up throwing half of them away two weeks later because they've gone
rotten
Hi guys,
I just heard about something that has been set up for siggraph, but
there's a pressing need:
One of the Blender folks can print us banners, connected to a banner
stand like this:
http://www.nomadicdisplay.com/displays/banner-stands/signline-swift/
We won't put them on the
Hi,
Paul Cooper wrote:
Another thing we could do is hold a BOF / impromptu event. Haven't
been to OSCON at it's new venue but they alway used to provide rooms
for BOFS. With at least Glynn, JDub and me there we should have
enough people to do something (if nothing else talk about Guadec
Hi,
Murray Cumming wrote:
quote who=Murray Cumming
I guess that sooner or later we're going to do some Happy Gnome People
advertising campaign. When we do that we'll want some high quality
photos
of some attractive people, in some consistent style (though that could
be
a post-processing
Hi,
Behnam Esfahbod wrote:
IMO, a 4-page A5 program is the best. Printed on both sides of and A4.
Are we still talking about paper size? I thought we'd moved on to
content, and everyone was more or less agreed on A5. It's certainly a
standard size for programs (not for newspapers, though...)
Hi all,
I just contacted Kevin Carmony about the possibility of having a GNOME
presence in San Diego for the Desktop Linux Summit.
Who do we have near San Diego who could do a stand?
We really need some stand kit we can send around...
Cheers,
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Hi,
As some of you know, the board has talked about how the website should
be handled, and the best answer we have is someone should do it. So
we're officially looking for a someone - and all offers are on the
table. If you want to install a custom CMS, you'll have to debate it
with the
Hi Marcus,
It's a great idea, and I like it in an alter-mondialist kind of way, but
you'll probably be infringing on contracts that the IT store has with
providers, and might get in trouble; I did want to point out one thing
you said:
Marcus Bauer wrote:
Keep in mind the stores want to
Hi,
I updated the GNOME business card template to change a couple of major
niggles that I had with it - I set the font size for Foundation to be
the same as GNOME and Member in the top left, mainly, and changed some
alignment stuff.
I'm happy for people to reuse this, and hopefully
Hi,
John Williams wrote:
On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 11:37 +0100, Dave Neary wrote:
We have lots of data. Every GNOME release, we get data. So far, we've
simply had no way to analyse, synthesis and transmit that data to the
people who need to get it.
Can you be more specific please Dave? What
Hi,
Santiago Roza wrote:
not particularly. It's beautiful to a very strange niche.
a very strange niche... that seems to be a bigger userbase than ours :(
anyway, i wasn't saying kde looks good (cause it doesn't imho), but it
does focus on pretty with no other purpose, while we don't. so
Hi,
Jeff Waugh wrote:
Who's in SoCal, and why isn't GNOME already on this list?
http://www.newsforge.com/newsvac/05/11/09/0449226.shtml
(I might be going to the event, but couldn't commit to 100% booth time, and
can't 100% confirm attendance anyway, just yet.)
We heard about this a
Daniel Veillard wrote:
oui c'est une presentation proposee par Red Hat dans le cadre des confs
associees a l'expo. Le deadline etait en Septembre.
Ah, OK. Il paraît qu'Anne pense plutôt à des conférences côté
associative. Je me renseigne.
A+,
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Lyon,
Hi Arangel,
Claus Schwarm's editing the GNOME Journal at the moment, and he's on the
list, so hopefully you're done ;)
Cheers,
Dave.
Арангел Ангов wrote:
I have what I believe is a final version of the text about the mass
deployment of GNOME in Macedonian schools.
I would like to thank
Hi,
Andreas Nilsson wrote:
I am currently playing around with a paper about the GNOME foundation,
but I don't seem to find any high quality logos (in svg or ps-format)
for the companies who are members of the foundation anywhere.
Can anyone point me in the right directions?
I have a few of
Can we try an experiment?
Rather than the standard (rather sterile) press wire release, can we
make something a lottle less formal, and use word-of-mouth? Have it on
the website as an announcement, and send it around as an e-mail (which
means it'll have to be a bit lighter than usual, and
Hi,
rajiv vyas wrote:
So, do you mean something similar to how Google announces new products
on its Blog?
Yeah, that kind of thing.
I am personally not for putting it out on the wire as it
would could $300 to $400. Not sure if they have a lower rate for
non-profits.
That's what I was
always good to hear about new conferences.
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Andreas Nilsson wrote:
Nice review on GNOME 2.12 by Eugenia Loli-Queru on osnews.
http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=11800
Reminds me - I collected a bunch of links to 2.12 stories in GNOME in
the News page in the wiki:
http://live.gnome.org/MarketingTeam_2fGnomeInTheNews - they
Hi,
I haven't been doing any filtering. I think we can probably rely on
tuxmag to come through for us in a few weeks :)
Cheers,
Dave.
Luis Villa wrote:
It would be a good idea for someone to find and categorize all the
negative reviews too, so that we can address those issues (either by
Hi,
The French magazine Linux Pratique has done a nice feature around the
GNOME 2.12 release. The magazine went to the presses a couple of weeks
ago, so unfortunately, shipping the 2.12 release wasn't possible.
However, they decided to ship a 2.11.91 LiveCD (thanks to Marcus and
Luis for
Hi,
Are these quotes representative of what we stand for, though?
I'd like someone to say we're proud of the work that this community has
done, and proud of this release, which is the result of that work.
Frankly, I don't think the community is too bothered about the fact that
we added new
Hi,
Luis Villa wrote:
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
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:
http://dneary.free.fr/stuff/gnome_livecd.png
http://dneary.free.fr/stuff/gnome_livecd_plain.png
Cheers,
Dave.
Luis
Hi,
Quim Gil wrote:
Sorry for the wide topic, but considering thet GNOME has got a Google's
Summer of Code fund I think this is an appropriate list to ask.
It would perhaps have been better to ask Google... ;)
Why Google is funding open source development? Why Google is funding
GNOME? Just
Hi all,
Here's an e-mail I got from the editor of tuxmag, which details some
criticisms of the desktop. It raises some points that are interesting,
and to which we should probably have an answer.
Cheers,
Dave.
Tux Editor wrote:
David,
The numbers come from Evans Data Corp. And it's a
Hi,
So, following my own advice:
Andreas Nilsson wrote:
Do you, like many others fight an endless battle against spyware, worms
and viruses?
Are you worried whenever your budget can stand the cost of the next
software upgrade?
Do you have a creeping feeling that your software vendor actually
Hi,
In Preview (I know, I suck) I only see the smiley face, no text - is
that supposed to be that way?
Cheers,
Dave.
Andreas Nilsson wrote:
David Neary wrote:
So, finally:
Do you, like many others, fight an endless battle against spyware,
worms and viruses?
Are you worried about
Hi,
Andreas Nilsson wrote:
Well Dave, it seems I suck aswell, because I uploaded the wrong file.
Try again now, it should work this time.
Better :) I know I'm being finnicky, but do you think you could change
its developers don't want anything back to its developers don't want
anything in
Hi,
I've been talking to the guys over at the OpenCD recently, trying to
figure out how we can work together in terms of co-operation and
co-branding. For thse who don't know, the OpenCD ships a bunch of free
software apps (mostly GTK+ based) and also has a cut-down Ubuntu LiveCD
in their
Hi,
Claus Schwarm wrote:
I don't think this is a very professional solution. If June changes for
reasons we can't influence, we'd need to correct it in another press
release. Otherwise we'd risk much confusion. No need to say how
unfortunate this would be.
I disagree. We should announce this
Hi,
Leslie Proctor wrote:
It took me a couple of days, but I researched the
exact costs of doing a release in Europe. The amounts
are in US dollars and would need to be adjusted
(upwards) to Euros.
Thanks for the info.
Mind me asking where you got it from (for future reference)?
Cheers,
Hi,
Leslie Proctor wrote:
Literally - thousands of dollars for each release.
I suspect it's cheaper in France. Plus, Mandrake have offered us a
helping hand in the past, perhaps they would be prepared to push a
couple of locally relevant releases a year for us.
The best strategy is to
Hi,
Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:
So OSCON is offering me a free both for GNOME Foundation and since my boss
as approved me attending I am going to try for it. But I don't know if I
will be able to get volunteers. :/
Jeff's going to be there. He likes GNOME.
Tim will probably also be there.
Hi,
Tim Ney, GNOME Foundation wrote:
BTW, the banners produced for LWE in Boston last January and used on the
GUADEC stage in Stuttgart are now on loan to gnome.fr for their next
event.
gnome.de has one too. And given Murray's ambitious plans, we may soon
have a trunk to lug around too.
Luis Villa wrote:
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.
Should definitely use gnomesupport for this type of
Hi,
Luis Villa wrote:
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)
Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:
OK to post here then initially?
That's grand.
Cheers,
Dave.
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, 2005-05-02 at 13:43, David Neary wrote:
Hi Michael,
Howdy.
I found out today that you're a regular author with tuxmag. Us over
here at the GNOME Foundation noticed that it was pretty KDE-oriented.
Do you think there'd be any chance of having a couple of gnome journal
articles syndicated there?
Tux
Hi,
Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:
I'm going to try to come up with my survey stuff for developers hopefully
by Sunday. If not, I will just post what I have as I go and others can add.
That way it evolve as it gets posted.
Make sure you keep John Williams in the loop. He volunteered to research
the
Hi,
John Williams wrote:
On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 11:10 +0200, Dave Neary wrote:
Perhaps someone else - I seem to recall a few months ago someone who was
interested in market research. A hunt in the archives shows I was
thinking of John Williams. John - you still about? Interested in taking
this
Summit
GUADEC
General desktop ones
aKademy
DesktopCon (new this year)
European general:
LinuxTag
FOSDEM
Solutions Linux
RMLL
EuroOSCon (new this year)
North American general:
OSCon
OLS
Australian:
linuxconf.au (and its GNOME minicon)
I've probably missed dozens of obvious ones.
Cheers,
Dave.
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The actual submission page is, IIRC, in programatic/contest/
They're scripts intended to be CGI scripts.
Cheers,
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Hi,
Thomas Wood wrote:
On 9 Feb 2005, at 11:03 am, Toady wrote:
If not, well, let's start ! who can retrieve the script written to
manage the Gimp contest ? who handle it ?
David Neary handled the GIMP Splash Screen Contest. It was originally
on live.gnome.org, but I think there where
Hi,
Jeff Waugh wrote:
quote who=Ian McIntosh
(1) Do we include software that plays mp3s? If legal, I think we
certainly should.
It's not safe or legal.
Is gstreamer removing the mp3 source plug-in for GNOME 2.10?
Cheers,
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