Re: Official announcement and invitation to GNOME 3.0 Hackfest and GNOME.Asia Summit 2011
On 01/23/2011 03:06 AM, Jason D. Clinton wrote: On Jan 22, 2011 12:04 PM, "Vincent Untz" mailto:vu...@gnome.org>> wrote: > > Le vendredi 21 janvier 2011, à 23:41 +0800, Frederic Muller a écrit : > > So Hackfest registration is happening here: > > http://live.gnome.org/Hackfests/GNOME.Asia2011 , call for papers for > > the conference is here http://live.gnome.org/GnomeAsia/CallForPaper > > and conference registration will be opening soon. > > What's the plan on the marketing team side? Do we have people who can > go? I didn't see any replies on marketing-list to the previous mails, > unless I missed something. Since the dates selected are the span of a work week I cannot go. The scheduling reprecussions would be too difficult to absorb. I would be happy to make myself available on Monday and Wednesday evening on IRC, however. If enough people can't make it and doing telepresence on a larger scale makes sense, I would be willing to take a few days off work to make that more productive. I don't think doing telepresence makes sense if there is a conference as those who would be remote would likely reduce the conference productivity as much as aid it due to synchronization overhead. What about 3 days only, from March 30th to April 1st? Fred -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Official announcement and invitation to GNOME 3.0 Hackfest and GNOME.Asia Summit 2011
On Jan 22, 2011 12:04 PM, "Vincent Untz" wrote: > > Le vendredi 21 janvier 2011, à 23:41 +0800, Frederic Muller a écrit : > > So Hackfest registration is happening here: > > http://live.gnome.org/Hackfests/GNOME.Asia2011 , call for papers for > > the conference is here http://live.gnome.org/GnomeAsia/CallForPaper > > and conference registration will be opening soon. > > What's the plan on the marketing team side? Do we have people who can > go? I didn't see any replies on marketing-list to the previous mails, > unless I missed something. Since the dates selected are the span of a work week I cannot go. The scheduling reprecussions would be too difficult to absorb. I would be happy to make myself available on Monday and Wednesday evening on IRC, however. If enough people can't make it and doing telepresence on a larger scale makes sense, I would be willing to take a few days off work to make that more productive. I don't think doing telepresence makes sense if there is a conference as those who would be remote would likely reduce the conference productivity as much as aid it due to synchronization overhead. -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Official announcement and invitation to GNOME 3.0 Hackfest and GNOME.Asia Summit 2011
On Sat, 2011-01-22 at 19:04 +0100, Vincent Untz wrote: > Le vendredi 21 janvier 2011, à 23:41 +0800, Frederic Muller a écrit : > > So Hackfest registration is happening here: > > http://live.gnome.org/Hackfests/GNOME.Asia2011 , call for papers for > > the conference is here http://live.gnome.org/GnomeAsia/CallForPaper > > and conference registration will be opening soon. > > What's the plan on the marketing team side? Do we have people who can > go? I didn't see any replies on marketing-list to the previous mails, > unless I missed something. Same question goes for Documentation. andre -- mailto:ak...@gmx.net | failed http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Official announcement and invitation to GNOME 3.0 Hackfest and GNOME.Asia Summit 2011
Le vendredi 21 janvier 2011, à 23:41 +0800, Frederic Muller a écrit : > So Hackfest registration is happening here: > http://live.gnome.org/Hackfests/GNOME.Asia2011 , call for papers for > the conference is here http://live.gnome.org/GnomeAsia/CallForPaper > and conference registration will be opening soon. What's the plan on the marketing team side? Do we have people who can go? I didn't see any replies on marketing-list to the previous mails, unless I missed something. Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: 4/14 Friends of GNOME videos finished and posted
On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 07:05, Allan Day wrote: > It would be really good to have screenshots from this kind of system for > gnome3.org. (Hint hint!) > Thoughts on optimal screen size for screen shots? I'm targeting 1280x720 for the videos (for obvious reasons) but I could use the xrandr scale magic to get a native screen of any size for the screen shots. -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Need advice on GNOME-A11y giveaways
Hello GNOMEie Marketeers and A11y'ers! I'd like your advice before I start ordering up stuff for the upcoming CSUN conference in San Diego in March. I actually need this nailed down much sooner as I'll be leaving for California in February. - I will be ordering some nice vinyl banners that Andreas Nillson helped design for me a while ago. This will help our booth look very spiffy at CSUN. I intend to reuse these banners elsewhere after CSUN. One set I already ordered should still be residing in Spain if anyone wants to use it for a European event. - I created some 5"x7" postcard handouts and still have a bunch left that I can give out, but I'd like to redo them in a way that might be better. The design I did was a last minute design and you can see here http://www.bryen.com/images/Gnomea11y.pdf Keep in mind that the audience at CSUN is non-open source oriented. And we'll be literally buried in a sea of hundreds of other a11y booths. (It's a pretty big event!) So, I believe the cards really have to speak to why look at open source as an option? So... does what I have created speak to that well enough? And how can we design it in a way that looks better/more appealing? One drawback to this card was that we crammed a lot of text into what is a fairly sizable piece of paper. So large-print wasn't really going to work well. I'd like to be able to address large-print goals this time around. - I want to create some really cool sticker (in 2inchx2inch format) that would appeal to non-open source folks. Yes we have the nice GNOME stickers which I intend to give out as well. But it doesn't inspire people to use and display them if they aren't adopting GNOME right away. I'm looking for a very cool design that says "I'm proud to be an a11y user!" and yet still has some reference to GNOME for anyone to look up at a later time. Something that says Accessibility ROCKS! I did think previously about removable tattoos and pins. But removable tattoos, while cool, can only be used once. And pins cost too much if I don't order in significant bulk. :-( Stickers though are very economical and I can afford to pony up for those if we can move quickly before the current sale price goes away. Any ideas, folks? Bryen -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: 4/14 Friends of GNOME videos finished and posted
Jason D. Clinton wrote: > Unlike the previews from late November, these files can be considered > "done." I have reduced the bandwidth requirements by half while mostly > retaining the same level of quality. (Yay, codec progress!) > > http://people.gnome.org/~jclinton/FoG/ > > I think it would be fine to put these finalized versions in the git > repo. for site development convenience. (I would not put anything this > large which is anticipated to change in to a git repo.) > > There will not be H.264 versions of these files as we cannot pay the > streaming licenses and the FoG target audience is going to be running > a browser which can play Theora or WebM. Also, these files are so > small, bandwidth shouldn't be a concern. > > My suggestion would be to use straight-forward, browser UI, nested > tags to put these on the FoG site update (with the WebM > version on the outside so that it is preferred). The video URL would > be randomly selected from a list that we provide by either client-side > JS or server-side scripting. I also believe that > http://universalsubtitles.org/ is the method by which we should solve > the a11y and i18n challenges; it's crowd sourced via this method. If > there aren't any show-stoppers and no one else steps up to implement > this change, I will implement the suggested site changes. Later, if > bandwidth becomes a problem, perhaps we can distribute the load by > asking people to mirror a video and we can use the same random URL > provider to rotate between mirrors. > > All videos are 720P 30fps with 128Kbit/s Vorbis stereo audio. The WebM > videos targeted 1Mbit/s. The Theora videos targeted 2Mbit/s and have > slightly more artifacting despite being almost twice as large. Wow, this all looks great! > I am still thinking about what to do about the gnome3.org video > hosting and video format questions as the audience and bandwidth > situation is slightly different. And no solution proposed so far is > perfect. > > I've solved a number of problems with my video workflow (by building a > bunch of stuff from svn and git, by hand) so I can crank the remaining > 10 FoG videos out over the coming days including that re-spin of the > GNOME 3 preview that I have promised. It'll be wonderful to have video material on gnome3.org. > Also, I just today finished assembling a GNOME 3 installation with the > finalized Adwaita theme, the new GNOME font (Cantarell) with git > master OTF hinting, the latest GNOME Shell git, and most of the GNOME > 3 applications in their current state. GNOME 3 is looking *fantastic* > now that the design vision is coming together with the art team's > work. I'm hugely optimistic about the GNOME 3 final product and we are > rapidly approaching the time when producing materials that look > near-identical to the final version becomes achievable. It would be really good to have screenshots from this kind of system for gnome3.org. (Hint hint!) Regarding updates to gnome3.org: it would be good to try and time these so they come in a steady flow rather than all once. That way we can generate regular announcements for the microblogs. Allan -- Blog: https://afaikblog.wordpress.com/ IRC: aday on irc.gnome.org -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
