Re: GNOME 3.22 Release Video: Manuscript Draft 1

[Nuritzi Sanchez]

Hey Bastian,

Great job, as always! I've added some suggestions and questions at the
bottom of the wiki page (
https://wiki.gnome.org/ThreePointTwentyone/ReleaseVideo).

Thanks for all your effort on this - I can't wait to see it! :)

Best,
Nuritzi

On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 5:06 AM, Bastian Ilso 
wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
>
> I need your input on the 3.22 Release Video manuscript. You can read it
> here:
> https://wiki.gnome.org/ThreePointTwentyone/ReleaseVideo
>
>
> We reach out to ~100,000 viewers, let's strongly consider what we show:
> - Is there something about the release you think we should cover better?
> - Is there something taking too much narrator time?
> - Do you have suggestions for music (for CC-BY-SA 4.0)?
>
>
> My thoughts on what the video should cover:
>  - Emphasize our values: being the modern, bleeding-edge,
> community-powered, free and open desktop.
>  - Talk about the technological advancements we are making (fx
> sandboxing/distribution), but keep it on a high level.
>  - Show highlights of the new application features, thank our contributors.
>  - Make a call for new contributors towards the end, they can help us make
> a difference.
>
>
> Feel free to:
> 1) Edit the manuscript as you wish.
> 2) Reply with feedback in this thread.
> 3) Reply with feedback on the wiki page.
>
>
> Your input is very valuable, I expect to finish the manuscript by Sunday
> the 11th. Thank you so much!
>
> -Bastian
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Reminder | GNOME #Engagement Meeting Friday, September 9th

[Nuritzi Sanchez]

Hi everyone,

This is a quick reminder about the GNOME Engagement team meeting
tomorrow, *Friday,
2016-09-02 (September 9th) at 17:00 UTC*.

At that time, join the #engagement channel and join us via video chat. You
can join by clicking the link below or dialing in on your phone:

*Join the call: https://www.uberconference.com/gnome-engagement
*
Optional dial in number: 857-216-6156
PIN: 62777


Please see the agenda here: Engagement Meeting Agenda
 [1]. If you have
anything else you'd like us to talk about, please add it to the
new meeting item list.

Best,
Nuritzi


If you're new to GNOME or the Engagement Team...
We'd love to have you join our meeting and get to know part of the team!

To join the engagement team meeting, make sure that you have an IRC account
and join the #engagement channel. IRC setup instructions are here:
https://wiki.gnome.org/Community/GettingInTouch/IRC

Make sure you know what time 17:00 UTC is in your timezone. If you want to
chat before the call, just email or ping me on IRC: nuritzis.

If you feel comfortable, add yourself to the "New Member Introductions"
section of the agenda (https://etherpad.gnome.org/p/engagement-team-meetings).
We'd love to say hi and learn more about who you are and what you're
interested in.

We look forward to meeting you!

*Note: if you're new to IRC, you should set up your IRC account at least an
hour before the team call since it will take around 15 - 30 minutes to set
up. You may want to try using a web-based client first and then ping
someone on IRC for help setting up a native client.*


[1] https://etherpad.gnome.
org/p/engagement
-team-meetings 
[2] https://wiki.gnome.org/Engagement/TeamMeetings


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DRAFT | GUADEC 2017 in Manchester

[Nuritzi Sanchez]

Hi All,

I've drafted a release for the GUADEC 2017 Manchester announcement. Please
take a look and let me know if you have any edits or feedback. I hope to
post this one on Monday, September 12th.

Thanks!

Best,
Nuritzi

News 

September 9, 2016
GUADEC 2017 to take place in Manchester, UK

It is with great pleasure that the GNOME Foundation announces next year’s
GUADEC to be held in Manchester, United Kingdom during the summer of
2017. The GNOME User and Developer European Conference (GUADEC) brings
together hundreds of users and developers every year to further the GNOME
Project. It is one of the Foundation’s longest-standing and most noteworthy
events.

Manchester is located about 160 miles (260 km) northwest of London, with
Manchester Airport providing easy access for international guests, as well
as plenty of public transportation. It has a long history of being a place
of learning and innovation, with over 20 Nobel prize winners having worked
or studied in Manchester, Chetham library being the oldest library in the
English-speaking world, and notable accomplishments like the splitting of
the atom by Ernest Rutherford in the early 1900s.

The GNOME Foundation looks forward to hosting the 2017 GUADEC in
Manchester, and expects GUADEC 2017 to take place during the last weekend
of July. Final dates will be announced in the upcoming months.
[image: CC-BY-SA-3.0 Pete Birkinshaw]

*Photo: Manchester Montage. CC-BY-SA-3.0 Pete Birkinshaw*


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Re: Ideas for gnome.org

[Allan Day]

Alexandre Franke  wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 7:15 AM, Nuritzi Sanchez
>  wrote:
> > Provide a place for contributors to organize themselves
>
> I don't really see that in the website. To me that's the wiki. Where
> do you see that happening on the website?
>
> > Keep the community updated on important updates
>
> I'd say our news updates are more external. Our main internal news
> channels are the planet and foundation-list.
>
> > Access important information about the Foundation or Project
>
...

gnome.org is the first point of contact between the GNOME project and the
outside world. It needs to be able to route visitors through to the various
aspects of the project that they might be interested in, and it needs to
channel people to critical paths (fund raising, attracting volunteers).
gnome.org also defines us though. It is our public face - it is where we
present who we are, what we have to offer, and what we are about.

I think that latter question of presentation is the most interesting from a
design point of view. Should gnome.org be a stylish product splash, aimed
at users? Should it set out an organisational mission? Is it a "hub", which
brings together different aspects of the project (product, mission,
technologies, community, etc)?

The other interesting question is the relationship between gnome.org and
the news section, as well as the purpose of the news section in general. We
don't necessarily have to have news on the website, and it's worth
discussing the role it plays there. The news section has a much more
ambiguous audience compared to the rest of the website.

Allan
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Re: Ideas for gnome.org

[Andreas Nilsson]

On 2016-09-08 08:34, Alexandre Franke wrote:

foundation.gnome.org redirects to gnome.org/foundation
Was it ever a separate website? If so, what was the rationale behind the move?


I can probably dig up the archives with a bit of time.

In 2011 gnome.org looked like this: 
http://web.archive.org/web/20110427203703/http://www.gnome.org/?
While foundation.gnome.org looked like this: 
http://web.archive.org/web/20110728095324/http://foundation.gnome.org/
So with the move, not only the look and feel was made consistent, but 
the navigation got harmonized, and the foundation part of the site got 
more integrated with the rest of the website.


According to the website stats over the last year, 0.7 of all visitors 
to the gnome.org front page went straight to the foundation page. [1]

Not much, but at least some.

https://andreasn.portknox.net/index.php/s/3JxVjveseGhMLuq

- Andreas

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Re: Ideas for gnome.org

[nuritzis]

> On Sep 7, 2016, at 11:34 PM, Alexandre Franke  wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 7:15 AM, Nuritzi Sanchez
>  wrote:
>> Provide a place for contributors to organize themselves
> I don't really see that in the website. To me that's the wiki. Where
> do you see that happening on the website?

gnome.org has links to the wiki in the footer, which I've taken to be meant for 
current contributors since the footer link isn't obvious unless you know about 
the wiki / are looking for it. I typically access it by going to gnome.org 
first. 

> 
>> Keep the community updated on important updates
> 
> I'd say our news updates are more external. Our main internal news
> channels are the planet and foundation-list.

I guess I've seen it as the official voice of GNOME, meant for both external 
and internal audiences. 

> 
>> Access important information about the Foundation or Project
> 
> foundation.gnome.org redirects to gnome.org/foundation
> Was it ever a separate website? If so, what was the rationale behind the move?

This I don't know. My guess is that we don't want to have too many websites. By 
condensing, we probably increase our SEO and make it more likely for newcomers 
to find us and learn about the Foundation + the project. 

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Re: Freeze break request, Keyboard Settings

[Alexandre Franke]

On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 2:24 PM, Bastien Nocera  wrote:
> Hey,

Hi,

> The redesigned Keyboard Settings landed shortly before GUADEC, and I
> had hoped that there would be less to fix up after the initial big
> commit so that we would be entering the code freeze in a good state.
>
> The following bug has a number of patches:
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=769314

Seems important and apparently there would only be one string: 1/2 from i18n.

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Freeze break request, Keyboard Settings

[Bastien Nocera]

Hey,

The redesigned Keyboard Settings landed shortly before GUADEC, and I
had hoped that there would be less to fix up after the initial big
commit so that we would be entering the code freeze in a good state.

The following bug has a number of patches:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=769314

That make it match the designs, and fixes a number of bugs. There will
probably be a small follow-up patch, as some keybindings can't be
captured right now.

If somebody wants to test this patch set, the (reverse, as per git log)
order of the patches is:
keyboard: Don't apply "Backspace" straight away
keyboard: Add helper to detect empty keybindings
keyboard: Fix grabs not working when showing the dialog
keyboard: Don't regrab the keyboard after an event
keyboard: Don't rely on events to grab keyboard
keyboard: Don't grab the mouse pointer
keyboard: Remove unused variable
shortcut-editor: show custom page while waiting for input
shortcut-editor: move widgets into a stack
shortcut-editor: update reset button position and style
shortcut-editor: use a different page to edit custom shortcuts
keyboard: add enter-new-shortcut asset
shortcuts: remove bottom label
shortcut-editor: hide editing dialog on Escape
shortcut-editor: use states to handle headerbar mode
shortcut-editor: add 'Set' button
shortcut-editor: update header title message
keyboard: use a better icon to represent "Reset Shortcut"
keyboard: make Add button insensitive after editing
keyboard: change standard shortcut top label

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Re: Ideas for gnome.org

[Alexandre Franke]

On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 7:15 AM, Nuritzi Sanchez
 wrote:
> Provide a place for contributors to organize themselves

I don't really see that in the website. To me that's the wiki. Where
do you see that happening on the website?

> Keep the community updated on important updates

I'd say our news updates are more external. Our main internal news
channels are the planet and foundation-list.

> Access important information about the Foundation or Project

foundation.gnome.org redirects to gnome.org/foundation
Was it ever a separate website? If so, what was the rationale behind the move?

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