Changing marketing areas to engagement

2013-08-06 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
We made a big decision today to change marketing to engagement. So, we will be moving immediately to the #engagement channel. but we will also need to start moving all the marketing pages to engagement as well. We will need to figure out how to do that. It might be that we can do it as part of

Re: Release change proposal

2013-08-03 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Hey guys, thanks for doing this! We do need to make changes to how we release software. Let me make some comments below. On Sat, Aug 3, 2013 at 2:22 AM, Benjamin Tissoires benjamin.tissoi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, after the QA with the board of this morning session, I discussed with

Re: Fwd: Action Required: Submit Your Google Grants Renewal Form

2013-07-21 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
but that never went through (I never received the email). Perhaps Rosanna or Stormy has it? karen But then we should probably figure out what we want to do with it ... Stormy On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 9:23 AM, Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.mewrote

marketing bof?

2013-07-20 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
When are we doing teh marketing bof again? I seem to have forgotten. Also, Alex are you (or Bill) planning on coming to GUADEC? -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Re: marketing bof?

2013-07-20 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
: Sri, Marketing BoF will be on August 6th, during the morning (Web on August 6th, during the afternoon, and ideally FoG on August 7th). Fabiana On 07/20/2013 01:49 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: When are we doing teh marketing bof again? I seem to have forgotten. Also, Alex are you

Re: Fwd: Action Required: Submit Your Google Grants Renewal Form

2013-07-17 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
figure out what we want to do with it ... Stormy On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 9:23 AM, Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.mewrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org Date: Jul 16, 2013 11:08 AM Subject: Fwd: Action Required: Submit Your Google Grants

Re: propose new time for marketing meeting

2013-07-12 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
. That used to irritate me to no end. On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 11:41 AM, Karen Sandler ka...@gnome.org wrote: On Fri, July 12, 2013 10:14 am, Emily Gonyer wrote: Either time works for me :) me too! karen On Jul 12, 2013 6:51 AM, Allan Day allanp...@gmail.com wrote: Sriram Ramkrishna s

propose new time for marketing meeting

2013-07-11 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
? What do people think of that? sri -- Sriram Ramkrishna (sriram.ramkrishna_@@_...@.gmail.com (remove _@@_) -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Re: propose new time for marketing meeting

2013-07-11 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
I'm flexible.. we can go for 18:00 UTC. That would make it about 11am my time. On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 8:01 AM, Andreas Nilsson li...@andreasn.se wrote: On 07/11/2013 10:14 AM, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: I'd like to propose another time for marketing meeting. I'm hoping to get more people

Re: Pixel photos

2013-07-10 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Do you mind if I forward this to Dirk? On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 10:07 AM, Ekaterina Gerasimova kittykat3...@gmail.com wrote: Photos of two of the donated pixels. I tried to get photos from other recipients, but no luck. As far as I am aware, the following people have one: - Allan Day (Red

Re: REMINDER: Marketing meeting July 9th 2013 20:00 UTC

2013-07-09 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Looks like a full docket! We will need to plan accordingly so we can complete on time. On Jul 9, 2013 3:37 AM, Allan Day allanp...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the the reminder, Sri. A few more agenda items: * GUADEC messaging schedule - https://wiki.gnome.org/GUADEC/2013/MessagingSchedule

Re: want to help with GNOME audcast processing?

2013-07-03 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
I can ask on my google+ page, and on my local mailing list of free software folks and see if there is a bite. On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 8:08 PM, Karen Sandler ka...@gnome.org wrote: As some of you know, I recorded some audio of interviews with various GNOME people during my travels. I think most

markeiting meeting today

2013-07-02 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
I have not heard much feedback. I know a couple of people cannot make it. Would it work best if I moved it next week to say Wednesday? It's also holidays in the U.S. Let me know. -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

marketing meeting Tuesday July 2nd 2013 - 20:00 UTC

2013-07-01 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Yes, it's a week early. The reason is that three of us have board meetings on Tuesdays at the same time and it would be easier to offset the two meetings so that every week we have a meeting one for the board and one for marketing ni order to not have too many meetings on the same day.

Re: Marketing Marketing

2013-06-26 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 9:08 AM, Karen Sandler ka...@gnome.org wrote: On Wed, June 26, 2013 6:34 am, Allan Day wrote: Hi all, We discussed this during yesterday's phone meeting. A few points that stood out for me: * There were some concerns that advocacy sounds too political and

reminder: marketing meeting 20:00 UTC Tuesday June 25th

2013-06-24 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Greetings, reminder that we have a marketing meeting tomorrow. Any agenda items? 1) Follow up from marketing hackfest 2) update on annual report 3) Marketing GUADEC We could discuss the tasks that our OPW intern - Tiffany is doing. Stef, since you're doing some work for us, please be

Re: GNOME Promo Video Animation Mockup

2013-06-22 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Pretty sweet, Bastian. I'm getting a much better idea of what you're thinking here. My only issue is that it's sort of cold in a star trekkie kind of way. It would be great to also have a contrasting video full of warm colors, smiles, and so forth as well. I think this video might appeal to

another SIP client

2013-06-20 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
So I found another SIP client that seems to be actively being developed and seems to be integrated with evolution and has some fancy features. I'd like to test to see if it works for people: https://freecode.com/projects/sflphone sri -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org

Re: gnome.org/news and the community calendar

2013-06-17 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 3:05 PM, Ekaterina Gerasimova kittykat3...@gmail.com wrote: On 17 June 2013 16:14, Karen Sandler ka...@gnome.org wrote: On Sun, June 16, 2013 6:14 pm, Ekaterina Gerasimova wrote: Hi all, could someone add a post each about GUADEC and Open Help to gnome.org/news,

Re: Marketing meeting Tuesday June 10th 20:00 UTC

2013-06-11 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
I have a sudden conflict and will not be able to make the meeting. I'm hesitant to cancel, but if there is not enough participant please feel free to go ahead and do that. On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 10:52 AM, Flavia Weisghizzi fla...@weisghizzi.itwrote: Hi! I will try to be there, let's hope

Marketing meeting Tuesday June 10th 20:00 UTC

2013-06-10 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Agenda items? Things we need to follow up from the marketing hackfest? Let me know, -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Re: Marketing Marketing

2013-06-06 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 12:57 PM, Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org wrote: I don't have a preference but agree that the term marketing is misleading. As a reference point, at Mozilla it's Engagement. Then within Engagement there is user contributor engagement, developer engagement, websites,

Re: Marketing Marketing

2013-06-06 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 7:15 PM, Allan Day allanp...@gmail.com wrote: Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.me wrote: ... I was going to respond that engagement is the best fit. It's also generic enough that we can apply to everything or anything we do. My vote is for 'engagement'. My

other conferences that we should have a presence at

2013-06-04 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Here is the one conference that I can help create a presence at since it is in Portland. Plus I will be on vacation and can totally attend. http://techfestnw.com/ -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Re: Promo Video Storyboard: Feedback Wanted

2013-05-25 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Hey I went through your storyboard! Here is my feedback: 1) Why do you have an initial spark that disappears and then reappears? Is that some kind of attention grabber? 2) I'm not sure I understand what frog perspective means? So you have shiny pieces coming from the initial spark and then

Re: LinuxTag 2013 - Not going to happen

2013-05-21 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
I'm really sorry to hear that. Most unfortunate. :/ sri On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 4:23 AM, Tobias Mueller mue...@cryptobitch.dewrote: Hey folks, unfortunately, we lack people to run the booth at LinuxTag. I thus cancelled our booth and two presentations we had. Cheers, Tobi --

marketing meeting on Tuesday?

2013-05-19 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
I've lost track, are we going to do a marketing meeting this Tuesday? I will have issues because I will be in SFO, but I will do my best to attend. sri -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

SIP software

2013-05-08 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
I would be interested to see if https://jitsi.org (jitsi) works with our conference software. Looks quite good if it works. -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

REMINDER: Marketing meeting Tuesday May 7th - 20:00 UTC

2013-05-06 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
We have a meeting, agenda I have is: 1) annual report 2) OPW 3) marketing hackfest Please add to the list if you have any thing else? sri -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

reminder: annual report work today

2013-04-30 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Today we are going to finish off the annual report as we commit to last week. Tentatively, I have it set for 19:00 UTC - 21:00 UTC. But feel free to work on it any time. All the work will be done on IRC. See you there! -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org

Re: Services is now MeetBot capable

2013-04-26 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
This is awesome! Worth having! Sri On Apr 26, 2013 3:01 AM, Andrea Veri a...@gnome.org wrote: Hello guys, from today the Services bot will be able to manage / log meetings by using the MeetBot plugin. The logs will be publicly available at [1]. For more information about the plugin itself

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

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.

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: 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: 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: 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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: 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

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

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: 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

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 *

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

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

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

2013-02-14 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: 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

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: 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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: 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

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