Re: [Fwd: Stolen Gnome Logo.]

2009-06-24 Thread Luis Villa
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Andre Klapperak...@gmx.net wrote: Another heads-up to the legal list about unappropriate usage of the GNOME logo at http://barefootcomputer.com . Acting welcome. I'll shoot them a note. Luis Forwarded Message Von: That damn Hippie

Re: [Fwd: Stolen Gnome Logo.]

2009-06-24 Thread Luis Villa
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 unappropriate usage of the GNOME logo at http

Re: Google Adwords Application for Review (WAS Re: Google Adsense versus Adwords)

2009-05-28 Thread Luis Villa
, quicken, (some kind of alternate keyboard and mice keywords), (languages that Microsoft doesn't support), desktop, linux, finance software, desktop software, gnome merchandise, gnome tshirt, ... help? Stormy On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 11:09 AM, Luis Villa l...@tieguy.org wrote: I think

Re: Google Adsense versus Adwords

2009-05-24 Thread Luis Villa
I think last time we discussed this (2005, acc. to my archives) everyone involved seem to think it was a fine idea, though I seem to recall that without a single place to 'get gnome' like you can 'get firefox' there wasn't much clarity as to what we should tell people to do once they get to us.

Re: GNOME Marketing Strategy (Was Audiences)

2009-05-11 Thread Luis Villa
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 11:40 AM, Paul Cutler pcut...@foresightlinux.org wrote: It was an assumption on my part - I was personally focusing on building a plan around GNOME 3.0 launch - rather than an overall GNOME marketing plan. A launch plan is different than a marketing strategy, but they

Re: GNOME 3.0 Marketing Brainstorming #1 - Audiences

2009-05-08 Thread Luis Villa
to mind? Paul On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 6:59 PM, Paul Cutler pcut...@foresightlinux.org wrote: Luis, this is perfect, thanks for kicking it off! Paul On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 6:47 PM, Luis Villa l...@tieguy.org wrote: On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Paul Cutler pcut...@foresightlinux.org wrote

Re: GNOME 3.0 Marketing Brainstorming #1 - Audiences

2009-05-07 Thread Luis Villa
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Paul Cutler pcut...@foresightlinux.org wrote: Hello marketing team! As we think about GNOME 3.0, who are our target audiences?  (Who should the marketing team be bulding messages for?) I know I've written on this before, but I can't find it. :( Because I'm

Re: www.gnome.org redesign status

2009-04-21 Thread Luis Villa
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 10:42 AM, Paul Cutler pcut...@foresightlinux.org wrote: I'd like to propose that we follow up on Vincent's comments and form a small team to investigate if any other solutions might be a better fit.  It's possible in the last 2 1/2 years the technology and the members

Re: www.gnome.org redesign status

2009-04-21 Thread Luis Villa
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Murray Cumming murr...@murrayc.com wrote: On Tue, 2009-04-21 at 10:56 -0400, Luis Villa wrote: On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 10:42 AM, Paul Cutler pcut...@foresightlinux.org wrote: I'd like to propose that we follow up on Vincent's comments and form a small team

Re: Some musings on marketing and GNOME 3.0.

2009-04-12 Thread Luis Villa
On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Diego Escalante Urrelo die...@gnome.org wrote: On 4/11/09, Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.me wrote: When people buy a Mac, they aren't just buying a machine they are buying into a lifestyle (or so they want you to believe. :-) and into an exciting ecosystem

Re: new foundation website layout

2009-03-24 Thread Luis Villa
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 3:51 PM, Andreas Nilsson nisses.m...@home.se wrote: Hi! As people seems to like the Foundation folder look and feel, I felt it was time to update the website as well. Here are some sketches:

Re: New Project: GNOME YouTube Video Contest

2009-02-18 Thread Luis Villa
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 5:51 PM, Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org 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

Re: Sign up now! Updated Marketing Action Items page

2009-02-18 Thread Luis Villa
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org wrote: Hi Marketing Volunteers, I updated the GNOME Marketing Task List, http://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/Tasks. Please take a look, update what looks wrong to you and please volunteer for something! All help is

Re: New Project: GNOME YouTube Video Contest

2009-02-18 Thread Luis Villa
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna s...@spiritone.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 07:38:37AM -0500, Luis Villa wrote: Endorsing/using proprietary software (AFAIK none of the free flash players plays youtube acceptably, at least using code that is legally available in the US

Re: Mozilla Store

2008-12-05 Thread Luis Villa
On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 12:44 PM, Stormy Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mozilla opened a community store that partners with Zazzle and let's people design their own Mozilla shirts for themselves and others. I think it would be relatively simple to do something similar for GNOME.

Re: Cultural Issue with the Foot Logo

2008-11-06 Thread Luis Villa
On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 11:08 AM, Murray Cumming [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 17:37 +0700, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan wrote: On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 1:26 AM, Murray Cumming [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe you could contact the GNOME Art team. They could make some suggestions.

Re: Cultural Issue with the Foot Logo

2008-11-06 Thread Luis Villa
On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 6:54 PM, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 11:13 PM, Luis Villa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 11:08 AM, Murray Cumming [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I suggested that you ask the Art team, and that you then take

Re: news.gnome.org

2008-10-05 Thread Luis Villa
2008/10/5 Olav Vitters [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Another problem with syndicated content is that each source will have different conten licenses. Also if you link to outside sources you are actually loosing visitors. FFS. Our goal is not some magical content maximization scheme. We're just trying to

Re: news.gnome.org

2008-10-05 Thread Luis Villa
On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 12:47 PM, Olav Vitters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Oct 05, 2008 at 10:56:48AM -0400, Luis Villa wrote: 2008/10/5 Olav Vitters [EMAIL PROTECTED]: news.gnome.org in above stuff is nothing different than any of the other planets. The copyrighted by GNOME might make

Re: Writing up the Summit

2008-09-25 Thread Luis Villa
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 11:33 AM, Dave Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, It would be really good to have someone going to the Summit volunteer for a journalist type role and get interviews with some people, write up interesting news, and get an overall Summit report. Who from the

Re: Revamping Friends of GNOME: help with web page text (with updated text!)

2008-09-22 Thread Luis Villa
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 3:55 PM, Stormy Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree that a slogan that conveyed humanitarian motivations would be good. With regards to http://www.gnome.org/about/, this page doesn't say what a desktop is. If you're a windows user and maybe even a Linux user, it

Re: GNOME Tagline (WAS: Re: Revamping Friends of GNOME: help with web page text)

2008-09-08 Thread Luis Villa
On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 9:43 AM, Murray Cumming [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2008-09-08 at 06:07 -0600, Stormy Peters wrote: We need a good tagline. (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagline, and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advertising_slogan.) I debated suggesting a contest or vote ...

Re: GNOME files disabled

2008-09-04 Thread Luis Villa
On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 4:15 PM, Dave Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Luis Villa wrote: On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 3:45 PM, Stormy Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What was gnomefiles? It sounds like a list of files found in GNOME but I don't want to assume. :) closer to addons.mozilla.org

Re: Friends of GNOME update

2008-08-25 Thread Luis Villa
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 7:28 PM, Stormy Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, John asked about click through data - do we have any analytics type data for GNOME pages? You might try asking the sysadmins; we don't have any that I know of. (Making sure the privacy policy allows this is one of my

Re: Issuing a press release about GNOME 3

2008-07-16 Thread Luis Villa
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 3:20 AM, Dave Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please don't put the technical justification API ABI break front center. Users don't care, and it will be a handicap the next time we want to bump major versions, even without an API break. Along the same lines, I'd remove

Re: Issuing a press release about GNOME 3

2008-07-16 Thread Luis Villa
. Sorry again for the stop energy, but when I see things plunging off a cliff, and a huge opportunity wasted, I think it has to be said... Luis On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 8:15 AM, Luis Villa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 3:20 AM, Dave Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please don't

Re: Issuing a press release about GNOME 3

2008-07-16 Thread Luis Villa
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 8:33 AM, Luis Villa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Or to put this in a tighter nutshell: firefox_developer we're going to rule (again) on mobile with a firefox product To be clear, 'rule' here was meant as 'kick ass', not 'have power'. Luis -- marketing-list mailing list

Re: Issuing a press release about GNOME 3

2008-07-16 Thread Luis Villa
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 9:55 AM, Dave Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, Luis, I think you were being a little harsh - GNOME's been lethargic for so long, you're expecting to see us sprinting, when we're still at the stage of learning to walk again. I'm expecting us to walk and *then* talk

Re: GNOME Weekly News

2008-06-24 Thread Luis Villa
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 9:12 PM, Behdad Esfahbod [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 09:39 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Behdad Esfahbod wrote: Hi, The idea was dropped by Jason on another list. How to get started with a GNOME Weekly News ala Fedora Weekly News [1] and Kernel

Fwd: [Foundations] OSMPA.org

2008-04-11 Thread Luis Villa
FYI. -- Forwarded message -- From: Daniel Hinderink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 5:49 AM Subject: [Foundations] OSMPA.org To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] hi, Helge Brzoska launched OSMPA.org standing for Open Source Marketing Professionals Association just recently:

Re: GNOME Mug Update

2008-03-14 Thread Luis Villa
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 5:56 PM, Shaun McCance [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would avoid hacking-oriented mugs (for FOG, at least. They could be great for sale.) Our Friends might not be hackers. They might just be grateful and satisfied users. We certainly don't want the Gnome image to be

Re: t-shirt on hackerheads

2008-01-31 Thread Luis Villa
On Jan 31, 2008 3:15 AM, Lucas Rocha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm in contact with the Hackerthreads designer and he just need a confirmation from us to go ahead and update the t-shirt design. The original proposal from Andreas is this one:

Re: t-shirt on hackerheads

2008-01-31 Thread Luis Villa
On Jan 31, 2008 9:26 AM, Murray Cumming [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd recommend dropping the TM. :) It is not legally necessary and I think it is ugly :) Alternately, it could be (R) instead of TM (since the mark is registered, and/or smaller. Even if it's not legally necessary, TM or (R)

Re: GNOME at SCALE 7x?

2007-12-02 Thread Luis Villa
On Dec 2, 2007 11:51 AM, Ken VanDine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On a related note, I might be doing a GNOME talk at SCALE. An updated version of the Ten years of freedom talk Jorge and I did in Ohio. Are those slides up somewhere? Would be great to have them in the wiki, if they aren't already.

Re: On distro users feedback

2007-09-27 Thread Luis Villa
On 9/27/07, Calum Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 23:14 +0300, Lucas Rocha wrote: I have some ideas about how to make this happen but I'd like to know the opinion of you, marketing fellows, first. My first-step-plan is to (maybe) schedule an IRC meeting with members

Re: LWE stand organisation

2007-04-19 Thread Luis Villa
On 4/19/07, Ken VanDine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why sell the CDs, just to recoup the costs? And to provide seed money for the next batch. People saw it as a simple way to donate to the project, I think. It was less sales and more like a New York museum, anyway- 'a requested donation' for the

Re: LWE stand organisation

2007-04-14 Thread Luis Villa
[cc'ing marketing-list instead of board.] On 4/14/07, Ken VanDine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am very pleased to do it, I will email the marketing list to look for volunteers to help. But if anyone here would be interested in helping or can help find volunteers, that would be great. Does

Re: LWE stand organisation

2007-04-14 Thread Luis Villa
sold 123 of the liveCDs at $5/pop. There was a very slight profit (about $200), which I think ended up getting used to buy a round of beer at Summit. Luis On 4/14/07, Luis Villa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [cc'ing marketing-list instead of board.] On 4/14/07, Ken VanDine [EMAIL PROTECTED

Fwd: .org Pavilion Call for Papers Now Open

2007-04-10 Thread Luis Villa
I appear to still be the LWE contact for GNOME. If someone could contact LWE and take over this role, I'd appreciate it. Thanks- Luis -- Forwarded message -- From: LinuxWorld [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Apr 10, 2007 10:41 AM Subject: .org Pavilion Call for Papers Now Open To: Luis

Re: request for a gnome bugday banner.

2007-03-07 Thread Luis Villa
On 3/7/07, Andre Klapper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Mittwoch, den 07.03.2007, 19:43 +0200 schrieb Panos Laganakos: Made a smaller version of the 02 mockup, codename: Shot on the big toe :) http://www.flickr.com/photos/panosl/413797492/ i also like that one, but i still wonder where we

Re: Marketing promotion - Cheat sheets, LiveCDs, community calendar

2007-03-02 Thread Luis Villa
On 3/2/07, Ken VanDine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a vmware image demoing GNOME 2.17.92 and would love to get some feedback. The LiveCD will be ready to show soon too. http://www.rpath.org/rbuilder/project/foresight/release?id=5402 Please let me know what you think and lets start

Re: Marketing promotion - Cheat sheets, LiveCDs, community calendar

2007-03-02 Thread Luis Villa
On 3/2/07, Ken VanDine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By only shipping what is needed. Conary has such strong dep checking and fine grained components. Basically, if a package only needs a shared lib, conary will just include the libs not the runtime stuff. So we end up with conary packages that

Re: Marketing promotion - Cheat sheets, LiveCDs, community calendar

2007-02-23 Thread Luis Villa
. Luis On 2/22/07, Luis Villa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/19/07, Paul Cutler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: LiveCD: According to this wiki page ( http://live.gnome.org/GnomeLiveMedia) it says: It is not a target to do an official version for GNOME 2.18. If we do: LiveCD: I think that's

Re: Marketing promotion - Cheat sheets, LiveCDs, community calendar

2007-02-22 Thread Luis Villa
already has 2.17.91 and should have 2.17.2 soon. I was also looking at Reconstructor ( http://reconstructor.aperantis.com/). I believe looking through the Wiki, that Luis Villa led the last LiveCD created for 2.12 - Luis, if you have any pointers or advice to share on how that process, I'd

Re: GNOME Project Organogram

2007-02-12 Thread Luis Villa
On 2/11/07, Quim Gil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry for missing this email with this interesting organigram. Your proposal is totally code-centric, considering GNOME only code and circunven ti it to the Release Team. It's a perspective and probably nobody can tell you it's wrong. The

Re: GNOME Project Organogram

2007-02-12 Thread Luis Villa
On 2/12/07, Quim Gil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mmm but wait, at least my GNOME experience as contributor is not dependant to the code in the repositories and the release team, as the diagram shows. At least board, marketing team, web team and GUADEC (or GNOME events in general) will also run

Re: GNOME Logo Branding Guidelines Concerns

2006-10-29 Thread Luis Villa
I would leave this up to the brand experts, but I have to disagree with you here, Quim- as long as it is identifiably GNOME, people should be encouraged to 'own' the brand and make it their own. If that means customizing it for their country/team/whatever, great. The universal, tightly controlled

Re: GNOME Logo Branding Guidelines Concerns

2006-10-25 Thread Luis Villa
On 10/25/06, Luis Villa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/25/06, Murray Cumming [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 18:04 +0200, Dave Neary wrote: [snip] I disagree with you that we need to have plain black to protect the brand - I think there's more value in allowing good

Re: User oriented release notes

2006-09-09 Thread Luis Villa
-computer-magazines. - Andreas Luis Villa wrote: Compare and contrast our notes with: http://www.apple.com/getamac/ (ignore the videos, look at the text, what they are bragging about, etc.) Luis On 9/8/06, karderio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi :o) I just took a second look

Re: Epiphany Homepage

2006-09-09 Thread Luis Villa
On 9/9/06, Joachim Noreiko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Luca Cavalli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2006-09-09 at 17:33 +0100, Joachim Noreiko wrote: Another option could be to create a Gnome start page just for the purpose of using it as home page in Epiphany.

Re: User oriented release notes

2006-09-08 Thread Luis Villa
Compare and contrast our notes with: http://www.apple.com/getamac/ (ignore the videos, look at the text, what they are bragging about, etc.) Luis On 9/8/06, karderio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi :o) I just took a second look at the 2.16 release notes[1]. Although they were a very interesting

Re: Photo Library for Marketing

2006-06-28 Thread Luis Villa
FWIW, I'll upload about 150 head shots (mixed backgrounds, mixed quality) some time next week. Luis On 6/21/06, Murray Cumming [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

slide templates missing?

2006-06-19 Thread Luis Villa
http://live.gnome.org/MarketingTeam/MarketingMaterial#head-f72c708eaa7de9260bbc0fca4c963701be5909c7 All those links are 404 :/ Anyone know where they went to, or have copies we could upload to the wiki? It would be great to get them back up and announce them to guadec attendees so that slide

Re: Internet Marketing

2006-04-17 Thread Luis Villa
On 4/17/06, Santiago Roza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/17/06, Claus Schwarm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Additionally, the marketing mailing list has no authority on people. If some of them consider to change their habits of linking to the GNOME web page, this is absolutely spontaneous. It

Re: live CDs for conference booths

2006-04-16 Thread Luis Villa
On 4/15/06, Ben Konrath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I whipped up 50 GNOME 2.14 live CDs last night for distribution at conferences. I printed a simple image on the CD so they look semi-slick. I ended up using the same image we used for EclispeCon which can be seen here:

Re: Report from the GNOME booth at Eclispe Con

2006-04-15 Thread Luis Villa
On 4/14/06, Luis Villa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ben, what have you done with the actual hard-copy posters? They'd be nice to throw in the gear bag with some of the other stuff, so we could ship it around to other folks. Never mind; found the other thread about this. Luis On 4/5/06, Ben

spreadshirt

2006-04-05 Thread Luis Villa
http://www.spreadshirt.com/ Looks like cafe press that doesn't suck. Luis (thinking out loud) -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Re: Dark background foot

2006-04-03 Thread Luis Villa
Doh! My planet (which includes that page) is slightly busted right now; my bad. Luis On 4/3/06, Dave Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Check the changelog before you hit send! http://live.gnome.org/RecentChanges Cheers, Dave. Luis Villa wrote: Wiki! :) Luis On 4/3/06, Dave Neary

notes from old bofs

2006-04-02 Thread Luis Villa
In a quest to clear out my harddrive, I've put notes from the 2004 LCA marketing bof and 2005 GNOME summit marketing bof on l.g.o: http://live.gnome.org/MarketingTeam/PastBofs Hope these are of use :) -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org

Re: Historical Content

2006-03-31 Thread Luis Villa
(1) it would be great to have our own 'history' page as well. Maybe you could spearhead that when you've collected this material? (2) You might write glynn foster directly; he found lots of great stuff for his 101 things you should know about gnome talk at GUADEC. (3) gnome.org/start/(release

updating relationships page

2006-03-22 Thread Luis Villa
Hey, all- At one point (I believe) the Foundation had a page detailing our relationships with other groups, but it appears to be gone now (or I can't find it, at least). Anyone think it would be a good idea to resurrect it? Anyone remember why it went away? (This came up in the context of our

LWE volunteers?

2006-03-22 Thread Luis Villa
Hey, all- Anyone interested in being an LWE booth babe^Wjock? It's a lot of fun to take a morning or afternoon off and swing by the booth, explaining GNOME to the folks who come by. The dates are the 4rd-6th; floor hours are 10-5. Please email me and let me know your interest and times you can

Re: release notes: first draft

2006-03-07 Thread Luis Villa
On 3/7/06, James Henstridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Edward Hervey wrote: revised version 0.3.a-beta-pre25-coma-7: Gstreamer 0.10 will also give users the possibility to use, where patents apply, multimedia plugins distributed by 3rd party vendors to offer support for licensed codecs

Re: making live CDs for EclipseCon

2006-03-06 Thread Luis Villa
On 3/6/06, Ben Konrath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 01 Mar 2006 20:55:03 -0500, Luis Villa wrote: [I'd definitely suggest adding java-gnome: http://java-gnome.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/bin/view/Main/GetJavaGnome as well.] Yeah, that was my plan. I'm going to add the java-gnome

Re: Release Notes Going into CVS

2006-03-02 Thread Luis Villa
On 3/2/06, Marcus Bauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 00:23 +0800, Davyd Madeley wrote: Only somewhat related, does anyone know the status of the live CD? I did the last one and the a11y one plus a couple of the international ones and could do the 2.14 too. I just ordered

Re: making live CDs for EclipseCon

2006-03-01 Thread Luis Villa
On 3/1/06, Ben Konrath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm going to be running a GNOME booth at EclipseCon this year (March 20 - 23) and I want to make a live CD with GNOME 2.14 and Eclipse. Looking at the release date for 2.14, I might have to change that to GNOME 2.12. You can ship a

Re: Release Notes Going into CVS

2006-03-01 Thread Luis Villa
On 3/1/06, Davyd Madeley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Interactive release notes related chat is happening on #release-notes on irc.gnome.org and will be happening for the next couple of weeks I guess. Only somewhat related, does anyone know the status of the live CD? I don't have time this

Re: Buzz measurement with Blogs

2006-02-22 Thread Luis Villa
I've enjoyed blogpulse: http://www.blogpulse.com/trend?query1=kde+desktoplabel1=kdequery2=gnome+desktoplabel2=gnomequery3=label3=days=90 I use 'gnome desktop' and 'kde desktop', which seems to work well across a variety of blog search tools. It would be interesting for someone to correlate those

Re: Buzz measurement with Blogs

2006-02-22 Thread Luis Villa
On 2/22/06, Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: quote who=Luis Villa It would be interesting for someone to correlate those spikes with particular bits of news. Presumably the december spike on both camps was Linus; I have no idea what happened in late January to spike us. GNOME.conf.au

Re: Announcing UseFree.org

2006-01-30 Thread Luis Villa
Looks great, but I'm curious, who are 'we'? Luis On 1/29/06, UseFree.org webmaster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear GNOME developers, We are pleased to announce UseFree.org, a website dedicated to making household words out of GNU/Linux, Digital Restrictions Management (DRM), and Free Open

Re: Upcoming Events: GNOME.conf.au, FOSDEM, LWE SFO

2006-01-19 Thread Luis Villa
We'll of course be present at LWE Boston, even if Jeff will not grace us with his presence. ;) More details forthcoming... Luis On 1/19/06, Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Upcoming Events === GNOME.conf.au is being held in Dunedin, New Zealand, in association with Australia's

Re: Mapping GNOME contributors from around the world!

2005-12-17 Thread Luis Villa
You mean, like: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeWorldWide ? (linked to from planet.gnome.org) Luis On 12/16/05, Simos Xenitellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All, I started a community map at http://www.frappr.com/gnomedev for the people that contribute to the GNOME platform! Therefore, if

Re: response to linus...?

2005-12-15 Thread Luis Villa
You're certainly welcome to send whatever response you want, but I'd suggest that there are many better things to do than respond directly to Linus. Offhand: * clarify our statements on usability on the website. It is clear we do not communicate well why we do what we do, and we have no clear

Re: response to linus...?

2005-12-15 Thread Luis Villa
On 12/15/05, Santiago Roza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You're certainly welcome to send whatever response you want, but I'd suggest that there are many better things to do than respond directly to Linus. cool then; message acknowledged. i now understand that we're a marketing team that

Re: response to linus...?

2005-12-15 Thread Luis Villa
On 12/15/05, Luis Villa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/15/05, Santiago Roza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You're certainly welcome to send whatever response you want, but I'd suggest that there are many better things to do than respond directly to Linus. cool then; message acknowledged

Re: Another major Linux and possible GNOME deployment

2005-10-17 Thread Luis Villa
I've poked someone at RH (and cc'd Rajiv) to ask if they can confirm/deny the assumption that this is a GNOME deployment... Luis On 10/17/05, Rajiv Vyas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The media didn't pick much on this and maybe it was announced before, but Canara BAnk in India is deploying RHEL and

Re: Mass Deployment of GNOME in schools in Macedonia

2005-10-12 Thread Luis Villa
Just FWIW, Arangel, I mentioned this at the marketing BOF at the summit this weekend as an absolutely *perfect* example of the type of testimony we'd like to get and highlight from big deployments. Thanks so much for pursuing this and writing it up- I think it'll be very useful for some time to

Re: Mass Deployment of GNOME in schools in Macedonia

2005-10-12 Thread Luis Villa
On 10/12/05, Арангел Ангов [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Luis Villa wrote: Just FWIW, Arangel, I mentioned this at the marketing BOF at the summit this weekend as an absolutely *perfect* example of the type of testimony we'd like to get and highlight from big deployments. I'm glad to hear

Re: Revamped Gnome.org

2005-09-17 Thread Luis Villa
On 9/13/05, Andreas Nilsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hugh Buzacott wrote: I am still pushing for a new GNOME.org so I created a mock-up. The mock-up is at http://www.geocities.com/bzctt/ and is only a front page but has links to the rest of normal GNOME.org through the header. It is

Re: translated material

2005-09-13 Thread Luis Villa
On 9/13/05, Mohammad DAMT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Is there any (sub)project has been started to provide localized version of GNOME marketing material[0]? I'd really like to have the localized marketing stuff also supplied in the LiveCD. I moved some of the stuff to docbook already

Re: Listing the LiveCD at DistroWatch.com

2005-09-11 Thread Luis Villa
On 9/11/05, Jaap Haitsma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I think listing the LiveCD at Distrowatch.com and sending in a small news update every time a new release is made can boost the number of downloads and therefore amongst others also the testing of GNOME. hrm. I'm a little hesitant to do

Re: collecting negative reviews

2005-09-10 Thread Luis Villa
. This is the chance for lurkers to jump in and get involved :) Luis 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 fixing problems or educating reviewers) during the next release cycle. Any

Re: 2.12 release featured in Linux Pratique September

2005-09-10 Thread Luis Villa
On 9/10/05, David Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: GNOME liveCD 2.12 help needed

2005-09-09 Thread Luis Villa
On 9/9/05, Арангел Ангов [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've build a macedonian version of the GNOME Live CD? Where to now? Do you rebuild it yourself and put it on the official web site or I have to upload or what? Email marcus bauer and myself with the location and such, and we'll get it onto

Re: GNOME booth for Linux Expo Montreal

2005-09-08 Thread Luis Villa
On 9/8/05, Hubert Figuiere [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Luis Villa wrote: Hub, is there any specific help you need? I know the gnome-fr folks have some francophone marketing materials they could maybe point you at. Marketing material in English would also be appreciated, despite being

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

Re: GNOME booth for Linux Expo Montreal

2005-09-06 Thread Luis Villa
On 9/2/05, Hubert Figuiere [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi There will be a Linux Expo Montreal Oct 26-27. http://linux-expo.ca/ FACIL http://facil.ac.ca/, a local .org here is getting space for Free Software projects. So I asked to get a booth for GNOME, and would like to have permission de

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

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

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