Re: Journalists contacted
Have you tried contacting Wired? sri On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 16:39 +0200, Dave Neary wrote: > I also contacted Graeme Wearden of ZDNet and Gavin Clarke of TheRegister > (through a web form, if anyone knows him feel free to double up). > > Cheers, > Dave. > > Dave Neary wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I just sent mail to Joe Zonker Brockmeier (Newsforge and more), Ando > > Oram (ORA), Nathan Willis (also Newsforge) and Denis Bodor (Linux > > Magazine France) about the 2.16 release (following my own advice and > > centralising the knowledge). > > > > Cheers, Dave. > > > > -- > David Neary > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Sri Ramkrishna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
wgo homepage structure
Lee is doing a nice work with components and pages structures at http://live.gnome.org/GnomeWeb/LayoutPlanning Have a look to this no-look&feel proposal of wgo homepage structure: http://www.leetambiah.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/downloads/layoutPlanHome0.3.svg Tip: open it with Inkscape or similar, since Evince or similar won't show the comments around the image. -- Quim Gil /// http://desdeamericaconamor.org | http://guadec.org signature.asc Description: Això és una part d'un missatge, signada digitalment -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Design Reference
Yes, it is possible. My question is... where? The closest we have got to a relase notes credits is what you have at the bottom of http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointFifteen/ReleaseNotes I'm sure there is a way to credit this in the CVS changelogs, for what is worth. Were you thinking in anything else? El dj 07 de 09 del 2006 a les 13:16 +0300, en/na Panos Laganakos va escriure: > Hello Quim, > > I'd like to get a reference for the 2.16 as a designer so I can link > to it. Is that possible? > > > Cheers! > -- Quim Gil /// http://desdeamericaconamor.org | http://guadec.org signature.asc Description: Això és una part d'un missatge, signada digitalment -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Broken link in the release notes
Le mercredi 06 septembre 2006 à 23:21 +0200, Carlos Fenollosa a écrit : > http://www.gnome.org/start/2.16/notes/C/rnfeatures.html points to the > images http://www.gnome.org/start/2.16/notes/C/figures/rnfeatures-laptop.png > and http://www.gnome.org/start/2.16/notes/C/figures/rnfeatures-laptop2.png, > which don't exist > > Am I the only one with this problem? Just to let everyone know: I fixed this a few hours ago. 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: 2.16 splash
(Sorry for cross-posting, this thread should be kept in marketing-list) Hi Jimmac, the logo was discussed a while ago in the marketing-list (with the rest of the relase notes discussion), pity that we didn't have your input by then. In my humble opinion that 2.16 splash image is as released as GNOME 2.16. We can fix bugs in order to get a better 2.16.1, but I wouldn't introduce new features. Instead, I would concentrate the effort creating new splash images. ;) Possible bugs: - Stretched font: Well, surely you are right here. However, we can't change a slogan just because it's not cool to stretch fonts. I mean, there must be a better way to implement graphically the slogan, but its content should be mandatory on the design. "Simply Powerful" is the best slogan candidate selected by the Marketing Team, and should stay as it is. Can you find a solution keeping the current slogan? - Tomboy logo/icon: which is the official, the one of the current banner or the one you introduce in your proposal? We need to go for the official one in the GNOME 2.16 release. - Microphone icon: mmm the icons selected are there for a reason, they were discussed as well. The Evolution icon is there because there were Evolution improvements mentioned in the Release Notes. You could say "but this microphone icon is cooler" and perhaps I would agree (I was asking for cool logos 2 weeks ago). Now I think it's too late to reopen a discussion and I would leave that envelope with a clock. - Rest of design changes, like smaller GNOME logo, frame, shadows... Again, we considered the current logo as pre-final like 1 week ago, inviting anyone to suggest fine-tuning improvements. Now I think it's too late. Sorry if these arguments sound a bit rigid, but rigid deadlines and releases are good for the GNOME code... and probably too to the rest of GNOME projects. El dv 08 de 09 del 2006 a les 00:04 +0200, en/na Jakub Steiner va escriure: > Howdy webbies! > > The 2.16 splash on gnome.org has some nice feeling to it, but also some > horrid things done to the fonts. Stretching a font like that is > something that should be avoided. I've created a remix of the splash: > > http://jimmac.musichall.cz/stuff/two-sixteen.png > > Please feel free to update the front page. > > cheers > -- Quim Gil /// http://desdeamericaconamor.org | http://guadec.org signature.asc Description: Això és una part d'un missatge, signada digitalment -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Spreading the press release/release announcement and collecting press coverage
Hi Santiago, Santiago Roza wrote: > i don't know about the "young" or "bright" parts :P, but i can do the > review compiling thing again (i did it for 2.12), in case you guys are > ok with that. Thanks for the offer - that would be wonderful. It's a lot of work for one person if we do it right, so I would encourage you to look for others to help (and I would also encourage others to help). I would like to suggest a change in approach this time - to back up the conclusions that you make, point to relevant articles, and try to make concrete suggestions about how to address the concerns. Developers like to (1) know what you want them to do and (2) why. Breaking things down into digestable action-oriented tidbits will make it easier for our efforts to generate results later. In other words, the more work we do, the more likely we'll have an influence on 2.18 (for comparison, and an idea of what I'd like to see us do, look at the openusability reports - making concrete suggestions, backed up by real examples of people who had trouble). In fact, it might not be a good idea to interract with the usability people (Calum, Anna, ...) to get their opinion on suggestions. Cheers, Dave. -- David Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Spreading the press release/release announcement and collecting press coverage
On 9/7/06, Dave Neary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Again, this > will be a database of information for some young bright spark with some > time who would like to analyse all the reviews and slashdot comments > later on, and make some concrete suggestions based on those comments and > reviews to the appropriate developer/mailing list. Let's get that > feedback loop working for the next release. i don't know about the "young" or "bright" parts :P, but i can do the review compiling thing again (i did it for 2.12), in case you guys are ok with that. -- Santiago Roza [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Journalists contacted
I also contacted Graeme Wearden of ZDNet and Gavin Clarke of TheRegister (through a web form, if anyone knows him feel free to double up). Cheers, Dave. Dave Neary wrote: > Hi all, > > I just sent mail to Joe Zonker Brockmeier (Newsforge and more), Ando > Oram (ORA), Nathan Willis (also Newsforge) and Denis Bodor (Linux > Magazine France) about the 2.16 release (following my own advice and > centralising the knowledge). > > Cheers, Dave. > -- David Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
wgo Planning Document 2.16
This is the compilation of approved documents we have got for the 2.16 release cycle: http://live.gnome.org/data/GnomeWeb/attachments/wgoplanning216.odt http://live.gnome.org/data/GnomeWeb/attachments/wgoplanning216.pdf This is the current reference for any wgo planning and development work. Hopefully useful for anybody interested in the wgo revamp but not wanting to dig in all the wiki pages. The idea is to update this document at the beginning of every release cycle. The related wiki pages are open to comments at any time, but the maintainers would need to discuss and implement feedback only every six months. This is a way to have stable planning documents to allow stable development work within the release cycle. -- Quim Gil /// http://desdeamericaconamor.org | http://guadec.org signature.asc Description: Això és una part d'un missatge, signada digitalment -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Journalists contacted
Hi all, I just sent mail to Joe Zonker Brockmeier, Ando Oram, Nathan Willis and Denis Bodor about the 2.16 release (following my own advice and centralising the knowledge). Cheers, Dave. -- David Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Errors in Release Notes
Hey team, Sorry for pointing out these small problems today, and not when quim called for reviewers, I was quite busy last week: - backend: "Ephyphany" -> "Epiphany" - backend: [...] "New widgets to display clickable hyperlinks, or to create multi-step wizards, for example and better drag-and-drop support in notebooks allowing tabs to be reordered [...]" Punctuation before "for example". I suggest: "These include new widgets to display clickable hyperlinks, or to create multi-step wizards, and better drag-and-drop [...]" - usability: bug-buddy screenshot has noise in the lower right corner - features: "analyse" is British English, while GNOME favours American forms by default. I should have not written this, because I prefer writing "analyse" myself :) - somewhere in the document there's a sentence with a "plural vs singular" problem. I can't find it again, after a second re-read. Cookie to whoever finds it. Jordi -- Jordi Mallach Pérez -- Debian developer http://www.debian.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sindominio.net/ GnuPG public key information available at http://oskuro.net/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Spreading the press release/release announcement and collecting press coverage
Hi all, We need to improve how we push out announcements like the announcement of the release - while we're waiting for a nice CRM which lets us mass-mail all the journalists we know, we need to do it by hand. For each journalist that you know, you might want to drop them a friendly note saying that 2.16 is out and pointing them to the release notes. If they get the announcement 2 or 3 times, no harm - really, they're not going to get bothered by 2 or 3 personal notes from acquaintances. If they get the *same* email 2 or 3 times, they will get annoyed, though - please avoid using stock emails. Ask them about their kids while you're at it, or how that big old shaggy dog they used to have that scared the bejesus out of you is getting on. If you don't know any journalists, get out your computer magazines, look at the by-lines, see if there's an email address for the geeky journalist type, and drop him a friendly mail. Since you don't know if he has kids, avoid that subject. A quick "I read your column, liked your article on X, and thought you might like to know that GNOME released a new version yesterday. There's more info here: http://www.gnome.org/start/2.16";. And when you've met the shaggy dog, you can talk about that next time. Oh - and please mail me and/or the list with the people you mail, since I would like to centralise all this info at some stage. When we do get press coverage, can you all use the tag "gnome216" if you are tagging it in del.icio.us, please? This way we can build a full list of articles in all languages on the web about the release. Again, this will be a database of information for some young bright spark with some time who would like to analyse all the reviews and slashdot comments later on, and make some concrete suggestions based on those comments and reviews to the appropriate developer/mailing list. Let's get that feedback loop working for the next release. Cheers, Dave. -- David Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
