Re: review request: GNOME marketing flyer for new users in less economically developed countries.
Hi Stormy, On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 5:01 PM, Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org wrote: Hi Ben, That looks awesome! Thanks for the good work. Please be sure to put it on the wiki: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/MarketingMaterial/Resources I've been working with Joshua Joseph Garcìa who contacted me on the gnome developing world list. He came up with a really cool first page and I added links to the files to the wiki. Thanks for the feedback. Ben -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: review request: GNOME marketing flyer for new users in less economically developed countries.
Hi Andreas, On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 4:44 AM, Andreas Nilsson nisses.m...@home.se wrote: That looks really great, excellent work! I would advice to export the icons as bitmaps and then add them to the document as such, that way you can be sure that they render correctly. Make sure to embed them rather than link them though. Another way is to try and use simpler icons. I found out that the rendering problems come from a bug in evince / poppler. The files render properly in acroread so I've decided to keep them as SVG. I would like the highest quality I can get for printing. The updated files are linked on the gnome marketing wiki but I'll list them here too. PDFs: http://www.bagu.org/gnome/gnome-dev-world-brochure-with-fold-marks-v4.pdf http://www.bagu.org/gnome/gnome-dev-world-brochure-v4.pdf Inkscape SVGs: http://www.bagu.org/gnome/gnome-dev-world-flyer-p1-with-fold-marks.svg http://www.bagu.org/gnome/gnome-dev-world-flyer-p2-with-fold-marks.svg The PDF with fold marks should be used if you're folding the brochure by hand. The PDF without the fold marks should be used if you're using a printer or folding machine to automatically fold the brochure. The SVG files have the fold marks included but the marks should be removed when generating PDFs for use with automatic folding machines. Cheers, Ben -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: GNOME 3.0 official logo and banners
I wonder if makes sense to create some banners with screenshots of gnome-shell. Ubuntu has this kind of banners for Unity. http://www.flickr.com/search/?w=7235424%40N02q=unity+bannersm=text We should start the competion at marketing level ;) Cheers, -- Juanjo Marin PS: I CC this message to the art team list Since we already have options / proposals of GNOME 3.0 logos / banners, should we initiate a marketing / art team irc meeting to vote / finalize which GNOME 3.0 logo / messages to use and talk about banners as well? Pockey -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: review request: GNOME marketing flyer for new users in less economically developed countries.
On 11/16/2010 06:15 PM, Ben Konrath wrote: Hi Andreas, On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 4:44 AM, Andreas Nilssonnisses.m...@home.se wrote: That looks really great, excellent work! I would advice to export the icons as bitmaps and then add them to the document as such, that way you can be sure that they render correctly. Make sure to embed them rather than link them though. Another way is to try and use simpler icons. I found out that the rendering problems come from a bug in evince / poppler. The files render properly in acroread so I've decided to keep them as SVG. I would like the highest quality I can get for printing. The updated files are linked on the gnome marketing wiki but I'll list them here too. PDFs: http://www.bagu.org/gnome/gnome-dev-world-brochure-with-fold-marks-v4.pdf http://www.bagu.org/gnome/gnome-dev-world-brochure-v4.pdf Inkscape SVGs: http://www.bagu.org/gnome/gnome-dev-world-flyer-p1-with-fold-marks.svg http://www.bagu.org/gnome/gnome-dev-world-flyer-p2-with-fold-marks.svg The PDF with fold marks should be used if you're folding the brochure by hand. The PDF without the fold marks should be used if you're using a printer or folding machine to automatically fold the brochure. The SVG files have the fold marks included but the marks should be removed when generating PDFs for use with automatic folding machines. Cheers, Ben Hi! Sorry for the late feedback. I do have a few comments: 1. The green background is quite blurry giving a potential sub-par impression on the display quality of the GNOME desktop. Maybe a plain color or gradient background would fix this. 2. Remaining typo in mobile phones section, 2nd sentence: you get get the... 3. Accessibility: I would try to rephrase the paragraph without the word 'disabilities' and emphasizing on 'unconditional access' or 'access for everyone'. I am not a native speaker, but if needed, can give it a try. 4. No Serial Numbers: having lived in the developing world for the past 15 years, serial numbers are never an issue: they actually come on the CD with the pirated copy of whatever proprietary software you decide to use. Maybe replacing that section with all the productivity, graphic/artistic, fun/games, and web applications available for GNOME might make the space usage more compelling. Then again it might depend on the audience but from my experience I've never met any developing world government who was concerned about internal piracy (ymmv). 5. Joining GNOME: I would probably add something more dynamic like mentioning that it's fun, you make lots of friends and you get to learn of a lot of (new) stuff which could get you a job. Again not being a native speaker doesn't make me the ideal candidate to rewrite this section but let me know if you can't find anyone else. 6. joining GNOME user groups: unfortunately there are a lot more LUGs than GNOME user group and only recommending to visit GUG limits the possibilities for our target audience. I'd mention any Free Software group such a *nix UG, Free Software groups and others (including GUGs) as they will encounter the GNOME experience in any of those. 7. You might mention somewhere in the bottom made with GNOME? 8. It'd be nice to have a native speaker reduce word repetitions and help produce a better phrased document. (9.) As a side note I don't think Linux is the best platform for multimedia playback or encoding (not something I'd put forward anyway) but I suppose we can allow ourselves to embellish the reality... Of course you might not agree with everything I wrote... ;-) Let me know if I can do anything to help. Fred -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Reimbursement further costs.
On Sat, 2010-11-13 at 05:07 +0100, Joey Ferwerda wrote: Hello First off all, thank you for making it possible for me to contribute in Boston Summit, this was a very useful convention! Jason will sent you guys a email regarding reimbursement of the hotel costs, since he payed for it in advance and we shared a room. Also I had spend about 90 dollar on travelling inside of Boston, but I was not able to get recites from the travelling. Its from 2 cab rides and Subway costs (I tried using the subway as much as I could to safe costs). I also did some travelling for own benefits, but did not include that in this costs (1 additional cab ride and 1 metro ride on the last day). I tried to cut expenses as much as possible for the Foundation, and I think I did rather well! Joey, We can not reimburse funds without receipts. According to our accountant, that is a requirement for non-profits organizations like us. Regards, -- Germán Póo-Caamaño http://www.gnome.org/~gpoo/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Reimbursement further costs.
Hello Ouch, that is tough. I have tried to get recites, but I could not get them in the cab, and I only got the subway card itself. Isen't there any way to get the costs reimbursed anyway? Has Jason mailed you already regarding the hotel costs? Thanks Joey On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 8:05 AM, Germán Póo-Caamaño g...@gnome.org wrote: On Sat, 2010-11-13 at 05:07 +0100, Joey Ferwerda wrote: Hello First off all, thank you for making it possible for me to contribute in Boston Summit, this was a very useful convention! Jason will sent you guys a email regarding reimbursement of the hotel costs, since he payed for it in advance and we shared a room. Also I had spend about 90 dollar on travelling inside of Boston, but I was not able to get recites from the travelling. Its from 2 cab rides and Subway costs (I tried using the subway as much as I could to safe costs). I also did some travelling for own benefits, but did not include that in this costs (1 additional cab ride and 1 metro ride on the last day). I tried to cut expenses as much as possible for the Foundation, and I think I did rather well! Joey, We can not reimburse funds without receipts. According to our accountant, that is a requirement for non-profits organizations like us. Regards, -- Germán Póo-Caamaño http://www.gnome.org/~gpoo/ http://www.gnome.org/%7Egpoo/ -- Alias. Morton Black -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Reimbursement further costs.
On Tue, 2010-11-16 at 16:57 +0100, Joey Ferwerda wrote: Hello Ouch, that is tough. I have tried to get recites, but I could not get them in the cab, and I only got the subway card itself. Isen't there any way to get the costs reimbursed anyway? Unfortunately. without receipts we can not. As a non-profit we must prove where the goes, and the way to do it is with receipts. Has Jason mailed you already regarding the hotel costs? Not yet. Regards, -- Germán Póo-Caamaño http://www.gnome.org/~gpoo/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
