Re: GNOME motto brainstorming

2005-12-02 Thread YetZero
I think "Intuitive by design" has the two words that mostly represent Gnome at least for me, and it's not a cliche phrase, I think it has potential. 2005/12/2, Erik Snoeijs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 11:59 +0100, Quim Gil wrote: > > > Throw your ideas in this thread. > > "intui

Re: One-word poll

2005-12-02 Thread John Williams
On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 08:14 -0500, Luis Villa wrote: > On 12/2/05, Murray Cumming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Here's a little unscientific information about what maybe inspires people, > > or what people might be ready to get behind as a major marketing theme: > > http://gnomedesktop.org/node/24

Re: GNOME motto brainstorming

2005-12-02 Thread Erik Snoeijs
> On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 11:59 +0100, Quim Gil wrote: > > Throw your ideas in this thread. "intuitive by design" "Your choice" -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

RE: GNOME's Target Markets

2005-12-02 Thread Erik Snoeijs
On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 10:33 +0100, Murray Cumming wrote: > On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 03:15 +0100, Erik Snoeijs wrote: > > On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 22:55 +0100, Murray Cumming wrote: > > > > How many of the people we want to target actually know what an > > > > "operating system" or a GUI or a "desktop she

Re: GNOME motto brainstorming

2005-12-02 Thread Gezim Hoxha
On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 11:59 +0100, Quim Gil wrote: > Throw your ideas in this thread. That sounds like an awesome motto. Err. Nevermind. -Gezim -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Re: GNOME's Target Markets

2005-12-02 Thread Gezim Hoxha
On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 10:29 +0100, Murray Cumming wrote: > On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 00:16 -0700, Gezim Hoxha wrote: > [snip] > For now, what do we have that's simple and > cool, that they can't get on Windows? > - Workspaces? In windows you can get workspaces but you have look for them. Here are some

Re: One-word poll

2005-12-02 Thread Luis Villa
On 12/2/05, Murray Cumming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here's a little unscientific information about what maybe inspires people, > or what people might be ready to get behind as a major marketing theme: > http://gnomedesktop.org/node/2499. > > Easy, Friendly, and Quality seem to be leading over m

Re: GNOME's Target Markets

2005-12-02 Thread Santiago Roza
> creating the future i liked this one the most; i think it could be incredibly powerful to attract those cool hackers we were talking about. i'm thinking something like "come build the future with us", with some short explanation of the slogan ("come ... with us" meaning this is built by a commu

Re: GNOME motto brainstorming

2005-12-02 Thread Murray Cumming
> Throw your ideas in this thread. > > walk ahead It's so easy, "I feel free". Murray Cumming [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.murrayc.com www.openismus.com -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

GNOME motto brainstorming

2005-12-02 Thread Quim Gil
Throw your ideas in this thread. walk ahead (we shouldn't forget we have already a lovely and successful foot we all love) -- Quim Gil - http://desdeamericaconamor.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gno

Re: GNOME's Target Markets

2005-12-02 Thread Quim Gil
En/na Murray Cumming ha escrit: > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-web-list/ > > I am not a web hacker so anything that follows is my own speculation. > Really, this discussion mostly belongs there. (...) > Maybe your new GUADEC site can show how this might work. I've never seen a > syste

One-word poll

2005-12-02 Thread Murray Cumming
Here's a little unscientific information about what maybe inspires people, or what people might be ready to get behind as a major marketing theme: http://gnomedesktop.org/node/2499. Easy, Friendly, and Quality seem to be leading over my own favourite Beautiful. Does someone with marketing experien

Re: GNOME's Target Markets

2005-12-02 Thread Murray Cumming
> > > En/na Murray Cumming ha escrit: > >> We can improve it for 2.14, but now is the time to come up with a >> mock-up. > > I'm still confused about who and where debate and decide about gnome.org > website. Take out the wiki, bugzilla, planet, etc. We are talking now > about the gnome.org homepa

Re: GNOME's Target Markets

2005-12-02 Thread Quim Gil
En/na Quim Gil ha escrit: > about the gnome.org homepage and strcit website, composed by static > pages touchable only via CMS, without options to register, without RSS I meant "touchable only via CVS", sorry. -- Quim Gil - http://desdeamericaconamor.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP d

Re: GNOME's Target Markets

2005-12-02 Thread Quim Gil
En/na Murray Cumming ha escrit: > We can improve it for 2.14, but now is the time to come up with a > mock-up. I'm still confused about who and where debate and decide about gnome.org website. Take out the wiki, bugzilla, planet, etc. We are talking now about the gnome.org homepage and strcit w

RE: GNOME's Target Markets

2005-12-02 Thread Murray Cumming
On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 03:15 +0100, Erik Snoeijs wrote: > On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 22:55 +0100, Murray Cumming wrote: > > > How many of the people we want to target actually know what an > > > "operating system" or a GUI or a "desktop shell" is? > > > > On their level, it's a computer. A cool, friendl

Re: GNOME's Target Markets

2005-12-02 Thread Murray Cumming
On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 00:16 -0700, Gezim Hoxha wrote: [snip] > So what I'm trying to > say is, coolness to noobies often comes in form of visual effect and not > necessarily functionality. Yes, when it comes to the details, we should definitely highlight the "cool" features, maybe with sidebar adv