Re: Website work
Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=James Henstridge There have been a few discussions about improvements to the website on this list, however not many of them have resulted in the changes getting rolled out. One of the proposals that was discussed was making the various developer websites feel more coherent with some shared navigation. This got as far as a mockup I put together: http://www.gnome.org/~jamesh/web-test/developer.html I'm going to set up a shared module for the websites, so we can have common css, images, etc. Once that is ready, shifting things over to the new style, particularly between all the developer sites, will be much simpler. Okay. I was thinking it would be a good idea to have all the various Gnome websites pulling these common files from a single set of URLs rather than having a copy of them on each website. It would make changes like the recent logo change a lot easier. I also brought up redoing the wiki's skin to address some of the discoverability problems with the current skin. This work is here: http://www.gnome.org/~jamesh/moin/ This stalled because I did the skin for moin 1.3, so live.gnome.org would need to be migrated to that version before it could be used (the migration doesn't look like it should be too difficult, but it isn't something I can test due to the file permissions). I've done some test runs locally; I'll do it on the live site soon. Sounds great! James. -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: support for local gnome groups.
Hey, 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. I think it would be a great idea to have a set of marketing materials in each country where there is an active local group that are doing these types of shows. I'd like to see any of our surplus budget from GUADEC invested in a set of generic banners at least for a start, and then see where we go from there. Glynn -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: support for local gnome groups.
El jue, 09-06-2005 a las 21:24 +1200, Glynn Foster escribió: Hey, 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. I think it would be a great idea to have a set of marketing materials in each country where there is an active local group that are doing these types of shows. I'd like to see any of our surplus budget from GUADEC invested in a set of generic banners at least for a start, and then see where we go from there. Great at least we're almost one event by month in difference places arround the country, could be very good if we can get some propaganda in every place that we go. -- Fernando San Martín Woerner Jefe de Informática Galilea S.A. -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Software Freedom Day
Hi, We should probably do something for Software Freedom Day (even if it's only letting more people know about it) http://softwarefreedomday.org/ - it's the second year it's been help, and I think it's a really good idea which deserves traction and attention. I don't know what we can do, in particular, apart from encouraging local groups to form groups for the event, or join existing groups, putting a splash for the event on our front page at some stage (before the 2.12 release, I think), and organising release parties for 2.12 to coincide with it. But even if that's all we do, I'm for it. Cheers, Dave. -- David Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Software Freedom Day
Simos wrote: A task would be to inform the end-users that they are using software based on GNOME technologies. * Perhaps rework the About dialog menu to show prominently that the app is based on GNOME technologies. * Do application branding around the idea Based on GNOME technologies, GNOME Inside (hmm), or a logo with a foot, the word Inside, in a cirlce. Anything but the circle and the word inside - it's a trademark violation and the sharky lawyers at Intel will be all over it. Someone else had this idea a few years ago and bought themselves a bunch of legal trouble. -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Software Freedom Day
Leslie Proctor wrote: Simos wrote: A task would be to inform the end-users that they are using software based on GNOME technologies. * Perhaps rework the About dialog menu to show prominently that the app is based on GNOME technologies. * Do application branding around the idea Based on GNOME technologies, GNOME Inside (hmm), or a logo with a foot, the word Inside, in a cirlce. Anything but the circle and the word inside - it's a trademark violation and the sharky lawyers at Intel will be all over it. Someone else had this idea a few years ago and bought themselves a bunch of legal trouble. Ok, point taken. I suppose the resident designer of the marketing list would come up with a proper idea. In any case, these actions would go on if there is positive response to the thread. Simos -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Software Freedom Day
Hi, Simos Xenitellis a crit : In addition, the OpenCD will be available, which has cross-platform applications based on GNOME technologies. A task would be to inform the end-users that they are using software based on GNOME technologies. * Perhaps rework the About dialog menu to show prominently that the app is based on GNOME technologies. * Do application branding around the idea Based on GNOME technologies, GNOME Inside (hmm), or a logo with a foot, the word Inside, in a cirlce. In brainstorming during board and marketing sessions at GUADEC, we came up with the idea of GNOME certification - things would earn a GNOME certification level by playing nice with GNOME. Level 1 could be using common desktop standards like the notification area, drag drop, thumbnailing standards. Level 2 could be use of the GTK+ toolkit. HIG compliance would be another level, using GConf and other GNOME platform technologies another, and so on. Once you're at level 4 or 5 (using GNOME technologies, respecting GNOME visual guidelines and the HIG), you *are* a GNOME app (de facto), regardless of whether you're part of the platform or not. The idea will take off, or not, withing the next month. Federico is going to draw up a rough list of what we consider the various levels of certification (while trying to focus on user visible function rather than back-end technology),and from there we'll start working towards launching the idea. Software on the OpenCD should all have certifications of 2 or 3, I think, which means that we're already pretty GNOMEy. It's definitely a strategy that we should exploit, that GNOME applications are often available on Windows. Cheers, Dave. -- David Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
