Whoohoo!!! Thanks Paul. Special thanks goes to Paul Cutler, for writing
all 3 articles for this issue! This is issue 16, Paul Cutler edition! :)
Jim
On 09/09/2009 09:57 AM, Paul Cutler wrote:
The GNOME Journal team has released Issue 16 of the GNOME Journal.
Issue 16 features three new
Hi all,
Below is the all the candidate themes for GNOME.Asia summit 2009 in Vietnam
so far, I cc: to marketing-list@gnome.org to get more ideas.
1. Discover GNOME 3.0
2. Discover GNOME
3. Discover GNOME - Your Accessible Desktop
4. Discover GNOME - The Accessible Desktop
5. Discover GNOME -
Ar Mer, 2009-09-16 am 11:03 -0600, ysgrifennodd Stormy Peters:
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 7:01 PM, Brian Cameron brian.came...@sun.com
wrote:
Stormy:
How do we encourage people to write recommendations? Could
we do some
sort of
Hi,
Shall I add to the main gnome page like this
http://gnome.haitsma.org/
Jaap
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 23:40, Shane Fagan shanepatrickfa...@ubuntu.com wrote:
I didnt know about the gnome amazon store until I heard about it on this
list. Its just not visable on the main page of Gnome.org so
I don't like having the Amazon logo on our home page. We don't have
anyone else's logo there.
I am ok with the text and link.
Stormy
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 8:40 AM, Paul Cutler pcut...@gnome.org wrote:
+1 from me.
Let's get one more from the marketing team before making the change.
Paul
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 16:56, Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org wrote:
I don't like having the Amazon logo on our home page. We don't have
anyone else's logo there.
I am ok with the text and link.
I understand maybe somebody with more graphic skills than me can make
a nice logo for the GNOME
I incorporated Paul's feedback and I'm cc'ing the marketing team so we
can get some more feedback as this needs to go out tomorrow. (FYI, I
won't be online this afternoon so please don't wait for me if you have
good feedback or ideas.)
We are looking for input and feedback on a GNOME press
Emily:
How about Discover Accessing Freedom With GNOME - Your Desktop
Just joking.
Brian
1. Discover GNOME 3.0
2. Discover GNOME
3. Discover GNOME - Your Accessible Desktop
4. Discover GNOME - The Accessible Desktop
5. Discover GNOME - Access Your Desktop
6. Access Your Desktop - Discover
Hey,
2009/9/18 Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org:
I incorporated Paul's feedback and I'm cc'ing the marketing team so we
can get some more feedback as this needs to go out tomorrow. (FYI, I
won't be online this afternoon so please don't wait for me if you have
good feedback or ideas.)
We are
I vote for Freedom with GNOME.
My second choice would be something with a subtitle. Discover GNOME:
Your Free Desktop. I'm not sure I'd use the word accessible in the
title. At least in English it's not an easy word to say.
And obviously I'd like to defer to people that know the local language
On 18/09/09 17:22, Lucas Rocha wrote:
Can we say it is the default desktop environment in openSUSE? Not sure.
AIUI, Enterprise editions of SUSE default to it (at the moment).
OpenSUSE itself actually defaults to KDE, albeit only by pre-selecting
an option for the user to choose between.
Let's just drop the openSUSE part. That'll give us a nice round 3.
Fedora, Ubuntu and OpenSolaris.
Stormy
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Alex Hudson h...@alexhudson.com wrote:
On 18/09/09 17:22, Lucas Rocha wrote:
Can we say it is the default desktop environment in openSUSE? Not sure.
Marketing Team:
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) encourages the usage of the term
GNU/Linux instead of the term Linux, and also discourages referring
to free software and licenses as open source. Their argument, which
I think is valid, is that doing so helps to highlight free software and
Well I dont think many people outside of FSF care. Its harder to say
GNU/Linux and more people simply call it just linux. We should respect
the FSF but its not a big deal in my opinion. Its just politics.
Regards
Shane Fagan
On Fri, 2009-09-18 at 17:07 -0500, Brian Cameron wrote:
Marketing
Am Freitag, den 18.09.2009, 17:07 -0500 schrieb Brian Cameron:
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) encourages the usage of the term
GNU/Linux instead of the term Linux, and also discourages referring
to free software and licenses as open source.
Thoughts?
See
Shane:
Well I dont think many people outside of FSF care. Its harder to say
GNU/Linux and more people simply call it just linux. We should respect
the FSF but its not a big deal in my opinion. Its just politics.
It may be politics, but within the context of the GNOME marketing-list,
there
So then we just use GNU/Linux and Free and Open Source. Its not too
hard to do.
On Fri, 2009-09-18 at 17:41 -0500, Brian Cameron wrote:
Shane:
Well I dont think many people outside of FSF care. Its harder to say
GNU/Linux and more people simply call it just linux. We should respect
the
A couple different thoughts:
* The most important thing we can do as marketers is know our audience.
While I respect Brian's comment we should be sensitive to politics, it's
really dependent on document we're writing and whom it is for.
* Most of our marketing is at end users - and for that
Hi Brian;
There was a big discussion about GNU/Linux terminology usage in
documentation years ago. Here is the starting thread about that
discussion:
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-doc-list/2006-July/msg00200.html
I didn't re-read whole discussion but I remember there wasn't any
Paul:
* The most important thing we can do as marketers is know our audience.
While I respect Brian's comment we should be sensitive to politics, it's
really dependent on document we're writing and whom it is for.
Agreed.
* Most of our marketing is at end users - and for that reason, I
Baris:
There was a big discussion about GNU/Linux terminology usage in
documentation years ago. Here is the starting thread about that
discussion:
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-doc-list/2006-July/msg00200.html
I didn't re-read whole discussion but I remember there wasn't any
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 6:19 PM, Brian Cameron brian.came...@sun.comwrote:
Paul:
* The most important thing we can do as marketers is know our audience.
While I respect Brian's comment we should be sensitive to politics, it's
really dependent on document we're writing and whom it is for.
Paul:
My point is that we are being asked (or recommended) that we following
their naming guidelines. My point is how does the FSF respect GNOME - I
am wiling to bet $100 a normal user couldn't find the
http://directory.fsf.org/project/gnome/ link - you have to go their
searchable database
Get Freedom with GNOME?
Stormy
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 8:07 PM, Pockey Lam poc...@beijinglug.org wrote:
Dear Stormy,
I vote for Freedom with GNOME too,
but a minor suggestion, can we add a call for action in the slogan?
like
Step into Freedom with GNOME?
step into maybe a bit long, but
On 9/18/09 3:40 PM, Andre Klapper ak...@gmx.net wrote:
Am Freitag, den 18.09.2009, 17:07 -0500 schrieb Brian Cameron:
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) encourages the usage of the term
GNU/Linux instead of the term Linux, and also discourages referring
to free software and licenses as open
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