Re: A Meeting with a Mission

2007-08-07 Thread John Williams
On 8/7/07, Dave Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It might be useful for you and others in the team to familiarise themselves with the current status of our trademark policy OK, where do we find it? Can we link to it from the GNOME Marketing pages? Sorry to hear that you can't make it Dave, I

Re: A Meeting with a Mission

2007-08-07 Thread Quim Gil
There we go: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeWeb/MerchandisingAgreement This is a sanitized version of the provate page Dave wrote and has linked below. Not that the original contains any secret but it's fool of subjective opinions (since this was the job to do) and many of them might be outdated

Re: A Meeting with a Mission

2007-08-06 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Some time ago, I did a survey of what others are doing in the domain of merchandising, and wrote up my conclusions: http://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/MerchandisingAgreement It's currently a board-private page, perhaps you might want to suggest splitting any confidential/non-onfidential

Re: A Meeting with a Mission

2007-08-06 Thread Dave Neary
Hi sri, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: We should talk about trademarks and our team's use of it. I expect that we have explicit use of the GNOME trademark under a set of rules. For example, if I'm in merchandising it should be okay for me to create a t-shirt design with the GNOME logo.

Re: A Meeting with a Mission

2007-08-06 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, John Williams wrote: The (tentative) date and time is 05:00 (UTC) on Saturday August 11. Afraid the timezone issue puts me out of service for this one - it'll be 6 or 7 AM in France at this stage. Plus, next Saturday I will be in the mountains, cut off from the world (not even cell-phone

Re: A Meeting with a Mission

2007-08-06 Thread Patrick Wagstrom
On 8/6/07, Sriram Ramkrishna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If this team is acting as an agent for GNOME on merchandising, then we need to keep the board informed regularly, and of course, when we get to the business end of things, ask the board to approve any agreements and sign any contracts.

Re: A Meeting with a Mission

2007-08-05 Thread Patrick Wagstrom
John Williams wrote: Hello all, I have taken it upon myself to organise a meeting of interested folk with the purpose of discussing the Mission of the Marketing Team. If you are interested in participating, please visit this page: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/Meetings While

Re: A Meeting with a Mission

2007-08-05 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Thanks Ken :) sri On Sat, 2007-08-04 at 14:13 -0400, Ken VanDine wrote: I updated mine and also added the timezone for Sri. I am in! My vote would be to work on coming up with goals and assigning individuals together to spear head each goal. --Ken On 8/4/07, Jump2Top . [EMAIL

Re: A Meeting with a Mission

2007-08-05 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
We should talk about trademarks and our team's use of it. I expect that we have explicit use of the GNOME trademark under a set of rules. For example, if I'm in merchandising it should be okay for me to create a t-shirt design with the GNOME logo. Ironing out the use of the GNOME trademark in

Re: A Meeting with a Mission

2007-08-05 Thread Quim Gil
On 8/5/07, Patrick Wagstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm willing to look into some of the swag related issues. Good! (I think I get the meaning of 'swag' in this context) Being in the US, I'd imagine that the result will be a little North America centric To tell you the truth, more than

A Meeting with a Mission

2007-08-04 Thread John Williams
Hello all, I have taken it upon myself to organise a meeting of interested folk with the purpose of discussing the Mission of the Marketing Team. If you are interested in participating, please visit this page: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/Meetings While you are there, please edit the

Re: A Meeting with a Mission

2007-08-04 Thread Jump2Top .
John, I am pretty new on this mailing list. I would like to know the IRC channel for the US meeting.. Thanks Troy http://dominor.com On 8/4/07, John Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, I have taken it upon myself to organise a meeting of interested folk with the purpose of

Re: A Meeting with a Mission

2007-08-04 Thread Ken VanDine
I updated mine and also added the timezone for Sri. I am in! My vote would be to work on coming up with goals and assigning individuals together to spear head each goal. --Ken On 8/4/07, Jump2Top . [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John, I am pretty new on this mailing list. I would like to know