Re: Fwd: Good day - re: new direction for Cinnarch

2013-04-12 Thread Olav Vitters
On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 10:57:00AM -0400, Brett Legree wrote: > The Getting GNOME link doesn't include a "nice to point to rolling release > distribution that uses GNOME as default", though. > > But anyway... no matter, all feedback is valuable, and I have emailed > Alexandre to say that no one se

Re: Fwd: Good day - re: new direction for Cinnarch

2013-04-12 Thread Olav Vitters
On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 09:11:01AM -0400, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > On 12 April 2013 07:21, Brett Legree wrote: > > In any case, does anyone have any interest in a sort of "nice to point to > > rolling release distribution that uses GNOME as default"? > > Isn't that what https://www.gnome.org/getting

Re: Fwd: Good day - re: new direction for Cinnarch

2013-04-12 Thread Olav Vitters
On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 07:07:41AM -0400, Brett Legree wrote: > I thought since a few GNOME users are using Arch that it might be > interesting if this became "GNOME OS". GNOME OS is not about creating or replacing distributions. It is more like: - providing an SDK - being able to build GNOME on a

Expectations of 'Classic' mode

2013-02-15 Thread Olav Vitters
In GNOME 3.8 there will be a new mode. The workflow will be a bit like GNOME 2.x, but it is still based on 3.x. As such, the wording is really important to not give a wrong expectation. If the expectation is off, then likely we'll get negative responses. Names have been thought of: - Traditional

Worried but very happy GNOME 3 user

2013-02-07 Thread Olav Vitters
See following email to release team: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/release-team/2013-February/msg6.html I already responded. I really like the involvement and the nice words, so wanted to share. -- Regards, Olav -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org

Re: [Fwd: FOSDEM stands, practical information]

2013-01-11 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 06:26:55PM -0500, Karen Sandler wrote: > We've assigned the stand places as such: > '''Group A''' > 3. QT > 1. KDE > 2. KDE > 4. Gnome > 5. Gnome > 8. Mageia FWIW, I've asked via Mageia if the order could be changed as per above. This as being right next to KDE is IMO nicer

Re: instructions for SIP calling

2012-12-11 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 10:47:31AM -0800, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > Can someone who was able to reliably get a call going, post some > instructions on how to dial in? See my post for Ekiga (no account needed actually, just ignore that part of the wizard). I also managed with CSipSimple on Android

Re: marketing meeting next week!

2012-12-08 Thread Olav Vitters
On Sat, Dec 08, 2012 at 06:10:44PM +0100, Olav Vitters wrote: > On Sat, Dec 08, 2012 at 01:49:10PM +, Juanjo Marín wrote: > > b) Fedora 18 + Ekiga 4 + ekiga.net free account > > (https://www.ekiga.net/?page=register) > > Use the Configuration Assistant > > You onl

Re: marketing meeting next week!

2012-12-08 Thread Olav Vitters
On Sat, Dec 08, 2012 at 01:49:10PM +, Juanjo Marín wrote: > b) Fedora 18 + Ekiga 4 + ekiga.net free account > (https://www.ekiga.net/?page=register) > Use the Configuration Assistant > You only need to add your user and password > you don't need to sign up a call out account > use default opti

Re: GNOME in the press - 2012-12-05

2012-12-05 Thread Olav Vitters
On Wed, Dec 05, 2012 at 02:56:05PM +0100, Dave Neary wrote: > On 12/05/2012 11:05 AM, Olav Vitters wrote: > >On Wed, Dec 05, 2012 at 09:01:57AM +0100, Dave Neary wrote: > >>LinuxInsider.com: "Return of the King: GNOME 2 Is Making Its Way > >>Back": > >&

Re: GNOME in the press - 2012-12-05

2012-12-05 Thread Olav Vitters
On Wed, Dec 05, 2012 at 09:01:57AM +0100, Dave Neary wrote: > LinuxInsider.com: "Return of the King: GNOME 2 Is Making Its Way > Back": > http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/Return-of-the-King-GNOME-2-Is-Making-Its-Way-Back-76753.html WTF. An article consisting of opinions of people on slashdot and

Re: release notes help

2012-09-11 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 10:37:07PM -0700, Sri Ramkrishna wrote: > OK, as promised here is the breakdown of what is being worked on and > what needs to be done. Please correct, and then let's get working on > this. We really need to get this done by next weekend. (I might have > made some mistake

Release notes: behind schedule

2012-09-10 Thread Olav Vitters
Could someone assist in helping to write these? They're pretty much behind schedule now. -- Regards, Olav -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Release notes: dislike of 'Shell' name

2012-09-03 Thread Olav Vitters
GNOME 3 is GNOME shell. Though we have a fallback mode, that might go away in 3.8. GNOME Shell in 3.6 has a lot of changes, some which might not be attributed to the shell, e.g.: - lock screen - message tray things - differences in overview mode - new style for modal dialogs (maybe this is mutter

GNOME 3.6 release notes: Mallard!

2012-09-02 Thread Olav Vitters
Frederic Peters setup the 3.6 release notes to be in Mallard. This required some changes to library-web. A small amount of work is still needed to make translations work. To learn about Mallard: http://projectmallard.org/about/learn/index.html It is *much* easier to write than Docbook. My plan i

Re: push back on negative articles

2012-08-20 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 08:36:10AM +0200, Olav Vitters wrote: > As stated before: you can disagree what you want. But do so nicely. > You've given no arguments, just focussed on trying to rile emotions. > Such behaviour is not acceptable here. So bye. As pointed out by others, but

Re: push back on negative articles

2012-08-20 Thread Olav Vitters
Hi Bruce, On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 11:10:18AM -0700, Bruce Byfield wrote: > Negative articles? Are you kidding? > > Because I mention what many people in the community are saying? What some > GNOME developers are saying? I totally was wrong about you. My apologies. I honestly was only reading t

Re: push back on negative articles

2012-08-20 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 09:54:56AM -0500, Brian Cameron wrote: > the userbase that wants it. The GNOME community could, I think, be more > clear and proactive about how GNOME 2 and "GNOME Fallback" will be > supported going forward. Any GNOME release is supported for about 6 months. GNOME 2: is

Re: Ubuntu GNOME Flavor naming

2012-08-20 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 11:25:59AM +0200, Olav Vitters wrote: > On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 11:56:04AM -0400, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > > At the Ubuntu Developer Summit in May, several of us that work with > > GNOME in Ubuntu discussed the need for a Ubuntu community derivative > &g

Re: Ubuntu GNOME Flavor naming

2012-08-20 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 11:56:04AM -0400, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > At the Ubuntu Developer Summit in May, several of us that work with > GNOME in Ubuntu discussed the need for a Ubuntu community derivative > similar to Kubuntu, Xubuntu, and others but which will try to ship a > relatively pure GNOME e

Re: push back on negative articles

2012-08-20 Thread Olav Vitters
On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 10:08:19PM -0400, Karen Sandler wrote: > our press about the new release? I think a free software community run > project is different than a company's product in that we'll always be a > work in progress. It's ok to talk about areas that can be improved for > future, for ex

Re: push back on negative articles

2012-08-19 Thread Olav Vitters
On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 08:53:16PM -0700, Larry Cafiero wrote: > I read the code of conduct and I don't think it violates it. Maybe you > should read it yourself. Comparing GNOME to the racism what happened in the USA is not acceptable. [..] > Pity. Anyway, you're welcome. Same with getting pers

Re: push back on negative articles

2012-08-19 Thread Olav Vitters
On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 03:49:54PM -0700, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 3:34 PM, Olav Vitters wrote: > > > > > I find this comparison over the top offence. > > > > I urge you to read https://live.gnome.org/CodeOfConduct > > > > &g

Re: push back on negative articles

2012-08-19 Thread Olav Vitters
On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 02:59:16PM -0700, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > Is there some place to learn about media training? I don't know. I go > with my gut on some of this stuff and I haven't had any negative > consequences, but then I'm not dealing with the press, I'm dealing with > people in forum

Re: push back on negative articles

2012-08-19 Thread Olav Vitters
On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 03:02:17PM -0700, Larry Cafiero wrote: > Observations from a former participant who is now an outside observer: > > On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 2:30 PM, Olav Vitters wrote: > > There are a lot of sites out there whose only intention is to cause > > cont

Re: push back on negative articles

2012-08-19 Thread Olav Vitters
On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 12:01:20PM -0700, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 5:42 AM, Olav Vitters wrote: > > > On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 07:54:44PM -0700, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > > > seriously. What the hell. > > > > It is just a troll. Probab

Re: push back on negative articles

2012-08-19 Thread Olav Vitters
On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 07:54:44PM -0700, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > seriously. What the hell. It is just a troll. Probably to generate clicks or make the site name known by hoping people link to it. Not sure what to do. I suggest someone should get media training. -- Regards, Olav -- marketi

Re: Any chance to move your MLs to Google Groups?

2012-08-16 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 02:51:27PM +0300, alex diavatis wrote: > *Easy of Use* > Nothing to say here, you all have used Google Groups(GG) :) > One thing only is the good searching inside the GG and how easily you can > follow, respond, star a subject etc etc Google groups is only webbased right?

Re: Ubuntu GNOME Flavor naming

2012-08-13 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 11:56:04AM -0400, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > At the Ubuntu Developer Summit in May, several of us that work with > GNOME in Ubuntu discussed the need for a Ubuntu community derivative > similar to Kubuntu, Xubuntu, and others but which will try to ship a > relatively pure GNOME e

Re: happy birthday GNOME website!

2012-08-13 Thread Olav Vitters
On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 11:17:00AM -0400, Karen Sandler wrote: > HappyBirthdayGNOME.com and HappyBirthdayGNOME.org Make sure following is in /etc/hosts: 209.132.180.176 HappyBirthdayGNOME.org 209.132.180.176 HappyBirthdayGNOME.com To commit things to the website: - Git repository

Re: happy birthday GNOME website!

2012-08-13 Thread Olav Vitters
On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 11:17:00AM -0400, Karen Sandler wrote: > What should we have on the site? It would be nice if people could respond. E.g. share their stories / memories. Explicitly maybe ask for certain type of responses. Suggest disqus, though the non-free javascript might get a comment f

Re: GNOME Commit digest on Planet GNOME

2012-08-01 Thread Olav Vitters
On Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 04:46:32PM +0200, Andreas Nilsson wrote: > In short; Planet GNOME is currently only for Humans, not robots, ie. > A blog needs to be strongly tied to a individual in order to be > added. Project news etc. go on news.gnome.org I never read news.gnome.org anymore; due to not

Re: GNOME Commit-Digest

2012-06-05 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Jun 04, 2012 at 04:56:22PM +0300, alex diavatis wrote: > I was wondering how can extract the commits data from gnome git similar > the way that http://blogs.gnome.org/commitdigest/ does, in order to make > some html5 pies charts, just to compare the development per > week/month/year/versio

Re: Microblogging Workflow

2012-05-17 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 05:17:03PM +0100, Allan Day wrote: > Thoughts? Opinions? I saw a post somewhere on Google+ that with "Feedburner" you can automatically turn your RSS stuff into posts on twitter. The idea was: Google+ -> Some RSS thing for G+ -> Feedburner -> Twitter But you could use thi

Re: Greetings

2012-05-09 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, May 08, 2012 at 09:01:09PM -0400, Jayson Rowe wrote: > I was previously involved with the GNOME Journal, and I understand that > the Journal itself has been absorbed into this group, so I wanted to > introduce myself, and let you all know that I'm willing to help out with > the group in any

Re: Website(s) todo list

2012-04-26 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 03:19:31PM +0200, Andreas Nilsson wrote: > Related to this, Elena Petrevska have been accepted as an intern to > work on implementing the style changes to these sites during the > summer, but if anyone else have experience with say cgit or mailman > styling, I'm sure she'll

Re: Getting GNOME page on gnome.org

2012-04-03 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Apr 03, 2012 at 05:05:39PM +0200, Olav Vitters wrote: > On Tue, Apr 03, 2012 at 10:54:25AM -0400, Karen Sandler wrote: > > I know it's not ideal, but it does at least sort of solve the problems > > we're discussing here, without cluttering up our main page for new

Re: Getting GNOME page on gnome.org

2012-04-03 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Apr 03, 2012 at 10:54:25AM -0400, Karen Sandler wrote: > I know it's not ideal, but it does at least sort of solve the problems > we're discussing here, without cluttering up our main page for new > users... I don't see anything wrong with only having good GNOME 3 distributions listed here

Re: Getting GNOME page on gnome.org

2012-04-02 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 09:30:45AM -0400, Emily Gonyer wrote: > So, what your saying is that its really hard to get a good GNOME 3 install > on Mageia and therefor it shouldn't be on the list of distros, correct? I > get that. Theres a reason we don't list *every* distro on the page > afterall! May

Re: Getting GNOME page on gnome.org

2012-04-02 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 03:10:35PM +0200, Dave Neary wrote: > I'm sure that wasn't your intention, but you're coming across as > rude & demanding here. The image of my son shouting "I don't want to > take a bath" comes to mind. > > There may be good reasons to include or exclude Mageia from the li

Re: Getting GNOME page on gnome.org

2012-04-02 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 02:06:16PM +0100, Allan Day wrote: > > I want Mageia to be removed from this list the way it is now. You're not > > getting GNOME 3 with the stated instructions. As such, I don't want it > > in there. > > I'd be sorry to see it removed. Would it be possible for Mageia to >

Re: Getting GNOME page on gnome.org

2012-04-02 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 01:57:29PM +0100, Allan Day wrote: > GNOME 3. It is also a nice place to illustrate the communities and > values associated with GNOME, of course, and this page can do a bit of > that, but this shouldn't detract from its primary focus. Having a less > prominent secondary lis

Re: Getting GNOME page on gnome.org

2012-03-31 Thread Olav Vitters
On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 03:40:41PM +0200, Andreas Nilsson wrote: > So what about the others then? I forgot about the Amazing Distro X! :) > I felt that the instructions for Arch ("GNOME is available in the > _extra_ repository"), Mageia ("GNOME 3 is coming in the next I don't like this change. I

Re: Sound-juicer: is it the part of official release

2012-03-27 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 03:23:43PM +0300, Ihar Hrachyshka wrote: > in GNOME 3.4 release-notes, some improvements in sound-juicer are > mentioned [1]. Though this module is not listed as part of official 3.4 > release set [2]. > > Doesn't it indicate that it should be moved to official release set,

Release notes announcement to press

2012-03-21 Thread Olav Vitters
Hey, The release notes have now been finalized. Does someone have contacts with the press? If so, please share below with them. Details: URL: http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.4/ Username: gnome Password: 3.4 -- Regards, Olav -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gno

Re: 3.4 Release Notes

2012-03-16 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Mar 06, 2012 at 01:31:41PM +0100, Andre Klapper wrote: > @fpeters: Could you please set up > http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.4/ with password > protection? To get in: gnome / 3.4 Please remember: it is all lies until the password protection has been removed (not kidding, I've

Re: 3.4 Press Release

2012-03-15 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 09:12:28AM +, Allan Day wrote: > We should already be making progress with the press release for the > 3.4 release. Is anyone willing to take it on? > > I'm going to be busy with the release notes, but I'll chip in where I can. You mentioned yesterday that ideally you

Re: 3.4 Release Notes

2012-03-15 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 12:03:43AM +0100, Andre Klapper wrote: > On Wed, 2012-03-14 at 15:50 -0700, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > > We're pretty much out of time for this. We should really have > > a draft > > of the release notes finished already. I'm busy working on > >

Re: GNOME News - Progress and Plans

2012-03-01 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 05:37:15PM +0100, Dave Neary wrote: > On 03/01/2012 04:36 PM, Olav Vitters wrote: > >As long as it is on there within 24 hours, all is fine. > > I don't understand. > > Is this a requirement you'd like to suggest for the news site? That &g

Re: GNOME News - Progress and Plans

2012-03-01 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 04:33:51PM +0100, Dave Neary wrote: > It might be nice for the sender, but as you say, it's not that nice > for the reader. I would discourage that practice. I'd much prefer > that interesting announcements get a news article which can point to > the announce email (like on

Re: GNOME News - Progress and Plans

2012-03-01 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 10:26:03AM +, Allan Day wrote: > 1. Aggregate news feeds just like the current news site does So all existing feeds would be preserved? Currently it has various mailing lists as source. The resulting post is not that great, but it is pretty nice to just be able to send

"We are GNOME" movie

2012-02-10 Thread Olav Vitters
I noticed the following: http://launch.wearemaersk.com/ It is a movie which pretty much explains the goal of a company. It also talks about some challenges. I think it would be nice to have a movie like that to explain GNOME. And then something which is not out of date within a year. I guess it i

Fwd: feedback on stands

2012-02-07 Thread Olav Vitters
I registered the stand, so received this email. I cleared out the To: list. Any feedback we want to give to FOSDEM? IMO, I think the stands are too far away from the real action (talks). But maybe that was due to the cold. Didn't like going outside much :P -- Regards, Olav --- Begin Message ---

Re: GNOME FOSDEM Stand

2012-02-07 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Feb 07, 2012 at 12:01:55PM +0100, Tobias Mueller wrote: > Heya :) > > On 07.02.2012 11:48, Olav Vitters wrote: > > The information leaflets are in black and white [...] > > ^^ send me a (link to a) PDF and I'll print > Yeah, well. I guess we'd need a leaf

Re: GNOME FOSDEM Stand

2012-02-07 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 03:05:40PM +, Allan Day wrote: > Thanks to everyone who staffed the GNOME stand at FOSDEM! It was great > to have so many enthusiastic volunteers. If you were there - how did > you think the stand worked, and what could we improve for next time? The information leaflets

Re: flyers at FOSDEM

2012-01-31 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 07:40:23PM -0500, Marina Zhurakhinskaya wrote: > Please take these flyers if you are going to any other conference in the near > future too. The flyers are here: > https://live.gnome.org/GnomeWomen/OutreachProgram2012/SpreadTheWord Made be think of the following: http://ww

Re: FOSDEM stand

2012-01-23 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 08:58:03AM +0100, Tobias Mueller wrote: > Let me draw your attention at the wiki: > . It'd be awesome > if you could add yourself to the list of people helping out at the > FOSDEM stand. So far, it's only a couple of peop

Re: promoting the a11y FoG campaign

2012-01-04 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 02:04:40PM -0500, Karen Sandler wrote: > Because of sys admin problems we've been unable to get the progress bar > going, but looking at out paypal account, it looks like we've gotten a > fairly weak response (less than $2k). The big issue preventing this was resolved yeste

Re: GNOME+ page managers

2011-12-21 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 10:50:55PM -0800, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > Am I missing anybody else or would someone else also like to help out with > managing the GNOME+? Me too please. -- Regards, Olav -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/

Re: extensions.gnome.org release

2011-11-21 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 12:01:34PM -0500, Jasper St. Pierre wrote: > My current plan of attack is to launch quietly and see how many people > notice it. I'm expecting that the release will still be a bit buggy > and broken, so I don't want to launch too triumphantly and then fail > completely. Can

extensions.gnome.org release

2011-11-21 Thread Olav Vitters
extensions.gnome.org is going to be finished soon Though I no it is not according to "design", some gnome-shell maintainers even hate it I think. We'll need to think of the message to send. IMO, as a funny reference, we should put a car analogy in there. I'm thinking of: - most people just buy a

Re: extensions.gnome.org release date?

2011-11-11 Thread Olav Vitters
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 01:58:55PM +0100, Olav Vitters wrote: > On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 02:58:44PM +0200, alex diavatis wrote: > > Do we know when the extensions.gnome.org is opening? > > Under active development @ gnome-shell-list (cc'ed). Heard there will be a public

Re: extensions.gnome.org release date?

2011-11-11 Thread Olav Vitters
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 02:58:44PM +0200, alex diavatis wrote: > Do we know when the extensions.gnome.org is opening? Under active development @ gnome-shell-list (cc'ed). -- Regards, Olav -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-li

Re: Developing GNOME News

2011-10-28 Thread Olav Vitters
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 12:25:31PM +0100, Allan Day wrote: > *** Use news.gnome.org *** > > This only carries syndicated content right now. We could turn it into > a site that pushes stories from elsewhere and has its own original > content, however (like LWN does). This approach appeals to me bec

gnome3.org is gone

2011-09-28 Thread Olav Vitters
As per request, http://www.gnome3.org/ now redirects to http://www.gnome.org/gnome-3/ We had some pretty awesome videos @ gnome3.org. Not sure what the plan is with them.. oh.. and PiTiVi looks awesome :P -- Regards, Olav -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gno

Re: Urgent - 3.2 Press Release

2011-09-28 Thread Olav Vitters
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 03:25:08PM -0400, Karen Sandler wrote: > done! :) Thanks!! PS: someone noticed a wrong link to friends-of-gnome, so I corrected that (link pointed to "../friends/" instead of "/friends/"). -- Regards, Olav -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://m

Re: Urgent - 3.2 Press Release

2011-09-28 Thread Olav Vitters
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 09:41:14AM -0400, Karen Sandler wrote: > great, thanks! I've added it to the press release, which is now a draft > post on the website, waiting to be published. Please publish *now* :-) -- Regards, Olav -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.

Re: Urgent - 3.2 Press Release

2011-09-27 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 06:10:41PM +0100, Allan Day wrote: > The 3.0 release notes had a section on how to get the release. Might be > useful: I replaced it in 3.2 with: | To install or upgrade your machine to GNOME 3.2, we recommend you | install the official packages provided by your vendor or

Re: Urgent - 3.2 Press Release

2011-09-27 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 01:22:38PM -0400, Karen Sandler wrote: > On Tue, September 27, 2011 1:07 pm, Olav Vitters wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 12:26:46PM -0400, Karen Sandler wrote: > >> "I'd like to offer my congratulations to GNOME team for their 3.2 >

Re: Urgent - 3.2 Press Release

2011-09-27 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 12:26:46PM -0400, Karen Sandler wrote: > "I'd like to offer my congratulations to GNOME team for their 3.2 > release," said Rick Spencer, Director of Engineering, Ubuntu, at > Canonical. "Coming on the heals of the groundbreaking 3.0 release, 3.2 > continues to offer innovat

Re: Urgent - 3.2 Press Release

2011-09-27 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 02:46:02PM +0200, Andreas Nilsson wrote: > As in trying by building the tarballs? > I don't think we have live-cd's this time around. Plan is to have them. Suggest *not* to advertise tarballs. We don't in the release-notes. -- Regards, Olav -- marketing-list mailing list

Re: Colour management in release-notes

2011-09-13 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 02:30:55PM +0100, Richard Hughes wrote: > On 12 September 2011 13:21, Olav Vitters wrote: > > I need some urgent help with the release-notes. I want to finish the > > release-notes within 2 days, but I know nothing about the colour > > management

Colour management in release-notes

2011-09-12 Thread Olav Vitters
Hey Richard, I need some urgent help with the release-notes. I want to finish the release-notes within 2 days, but I know nothing about the colour management. Could you assist to explain and give a screenshot? I read https://live.gnome.org/ThreePointOne/Features/ColorManagement but not sure what

[otay...@redhat.com: Re: Notes looking at sweettooth-plugin]

2011-09-11 Thread Olav Vitters
FYI, Going to hide the extension.gnome.org in the release notes -- Regards, Olav --- Begin Message --- On Sun, 2011-09-11 at 14:57 +0200, Olav Vitters wrote: > On Fri, Sep 02, 2011 at 12:24:18AM -0400, Jasper St. Pierre wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 3:36 PM, Owen Taylor wrote: &

Re: 3.2 Release Notes: Featured Apps

2011-09-11 Thread Olav Vitters
On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 01:43:33PM +0200, Olav Vitters wrote: > I'll also try and assist in the release notes. I'll assist, so if you > (Andre/Alan/sri) think something I wrote is bad, just change please. I've changed loads of things. See http://library.gnome.org/m

Re: 3.2 Release Notes: Featured Apps

2011-09-07 Thread Olav Vitters
related to this: I'll also try and assist in the release notes. I'll assist, so if you (Andre/Alan/sri) think something I wrote is bad, just change please. -- Regards, Olav -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Re: Live image downloads

2011-08-18 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 10:47:44AM +0100, Allan Day wrote: > Frederic Crozat wrote: > > And here are more recent download stats : > > > > May : 46551 > > June : 24747 > > July : 23611 > > August (from 1 to 17) : 13063 > > Which means that there have been roughly 250,000 downloads of the > openSUS

Re: Live image downloads

2011-08-18 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 10:47:44AM +0100, Allan Day wrote: > Frederic Crozat wrote: > > And here are more recent download stats : > > > > May : 46551 > > June : 24747 > > July : 23611 > > August (from 1 to 17) : 13063 > > Which means that there have been roughly 250,000 downloads of the > openSUS

Re: Live image downloads

2011-08-17 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 03:00:48PM +0200, Frederic Crozat wrote: > Well, I don't have time to handle it :( > > But if somebody is interested, I'll be happy to mentor / help them. I've done a call for volunteers. Let's see if we get someone new. Else, I'll try and get some experience... -- Regard

Re: Live image downloads

2011-08-16 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 02:25:17PM +0200, Frederic Crozat wrote: > This got lost somehow, but here is some stats I got, regarding > openSUSE GNOME3 live image : > > On GNOME 3 release day : 4526 > April (after release): 141378 > May: 42997 Could we get new live USB images for testing purposes? It

Re: press conference

2011-08-04 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Aug 04, 2011 at 02:10:35PM +0200, Jos Poortvliet wrote: > The mail below needs to go out to any press attending the Desktop > Summit. It's been send to a few channels but I'd like to ask you to try > and get this out on the GNOME press channel too ;-) Btw, not sure how involved you want

Re: Volunteers needed for the Desktop Summit!

2011-08-03 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Aug 01, 2011 at 06:57:01PM +0200, Ekaterina Gerasimova wrote: > On 22 July 2011 22:12, Olav Vitters wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 03:34:32PM +0200, Ekaterina Gerasimova wrote: > >> - find trustworthy volunteers to man the stand > > > > Don't think I

Re: Volunteers needed for the Desktop Summit!

2011-07-22 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 03:34:32PM +0200, Ekaterina Gerasimova wrote: > - find trustworthy volunteers to man the stand Don't think I'll arrive earlier, but have manned the stand at The Hague for a while and can also put in some time during the Desktop Summit. -- Regards, Olav -- marketing-list m

Re: [Fwd: Fwd: Tuesday announcement of Desktop Summit sponsors]

2011-07-19 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 09:51:34AM +0200, Dave Neary wrote: > Is there anyone who can ensure that this announcement gets published on > gnome.org/news, please? done. was not specified if this was a press release or just news, so I ticked news. > "SUSE is proud to be a Gold Sponsor of the Desktop

Re: [Fwd: Fwd: Tuesday announcement of Desktop Summit sponsors]

2011-07-19 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 09:51:34AM +0200, Dave Neary wrote: > Is there anyone who can ensure that this announcement gets published on > gnome.org/news, please? I'll try and publish this -- Regards, Olav -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listin

Re: Syndicating gnome.org/news to news.gnome.org

2011-06-22 Thread Olav Vitters
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 11:38:31AM +0200, Dave Neary wrote: > Weird. The feed title is "Comments on: News" in Google Reader. http://www.gnome.org/feed/ ? -- Regards, Olav -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Re: Syndicating gnome.org/news to news.gnome.org

2011-06-22 Thread Olav Vitters
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 10:46:32AM +0200, Dave Neary wrote: > Could we get gnome.org/news syndicated to news.gnome.org straight away, > please? Regardless of other changes we might make, I think this is a > good idea. Just add the feed to planet-web module. -- Regards, Olav -- marketing-list mai

Re: Can we document how to do GNOME announcements, please?

2011-06-09 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 11:23:50AM +0200, Dave Neary wrote: > Olav Vitters wrote: > > So news.gnome.org: redirect to www.gnome.org/news > > but news.gnome.org/announce: show existing content? > > I don't think it should redirect - it should be: > > news.gnome.org

Re: Can we document how to do GNOME announcements, please?

2011-06-09 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 10:32:23AM +0200, Dave Neary wrote: > Olav Vitters wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 06:38:39PM +0200, Vincent Untz wrote: > >> I'd actually simply make news.gnome.org redirect to www.gnome.org/news > >> and find a better place fo

Re: Can we document how to do GNOME announcements, please?

2011-06-09 Thread Olav Vitters
On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 06:38:39PM +0200, Vincent Untz wrote: > I'd actually simply make news.gnome.org redirect to www.gnome.org/news > and find a better place for the other feeds on the current > news.gnome.org. What to do about the existing content on news.gnome.org? Rename it to announce.gnome

Re: Fwd: Tanath9 sent you a message: Comments disabled?

2011-04-28 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 05:10:08AM -0600, Stormy Peters wrote: > I didn't set comments to disabled but I find I don't feel strongly one way > or the other. > > Thoughts? If we want to turn them on, any one willing to help with > moderating? > What the hell is wrong with you? You're part of the o

Re: an analysis of mine, of possible interest (branding/Linux/desktops)

2011-04-21 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 07:46:48PM +0200, Sean DALY wrote: > http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-April/013841.html If you have concrete suggestions or questions, fine. But I don't see why you're sending this to the GNOME marketing list. Most of the post seems to be about distri

Re: getting a domain of srilanaka.gnome.org

2011-04-19 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 07:03:47PM +0530, Danishka Navin wrote: > Why we localize? > Why we market the product? > Why do we release parties? We are talking about different things. I am not after if you get a subdomain or not. That's totally fine. I understand for marketing you want something '$NA

Re: getting a domain of srilanaka.gnome.org

2011-04-19 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 06:27:58PM +0530, Danishka Navin wrote: > This is not just for the Gnome 3 release but for Gnome Community Building > and Marketing. What functionality do you expect on such a subdomain? - Basic HTML only, use VIM to edit anything - http access to make HTML pages + simple

Re: getting a domain of srilanaka.gnome.org

2011-04-19 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 06:55:22AM -0600, Christer Edwards wrote: > On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 6:37 AM, Olav Vitters wrote: > > It first starts off with 'events'. Wordpress doesn't do 'events'. It is > > going to be wasteful if we spend time setting something

Re: getting a domain of srilanaka.gnome.org

2011-04-19 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 05:08:20PM +0530, Danishka Navin wrote: > On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 4:49 PM, Christer Edwards < > christer.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 3:51 AM, Sureshkumar Packiyarajah > > wrote: > > > Dear Olav, > > > > > > behalf of snavin(our Gnome community m

Live image downloads

2011-04-12 Thread Olav Vitters
http://www.acc.umu.se/technical/statistics/ftp/gnome.html.en ignore the number of downloads, those include partials as well (download tools). 17,173,908,500,707 bytes for the -latest.iso link. about 650MB for the iso. dividing using the real size I get 22600 downloads up to now. I have asked

GNOME 3 DVDs

2011-04-07 Thread Olav Vitters
Heard we will get 10.000 GNOME 3 DVDs from Novell. They'll be snail mailed in batches of at least 100 DVDs. Suggest: * Filling our event boxes * Asking/sending to our language teams * Asking/sending to everyone on the GNOME 3.0 party page Then update gnome.org and say that we have free DVDs and t

Re: The last long steps of the gnome.org website

2011-04-05 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 09:38:57AM +0100, Allan Day wrote: > > Resources / User support > > It think there should be a top level entry, in first place, for users > > only: "User support". I am a user, I am lost on jhbuild page, where > > should I go? Documentation, forums, ml, irc, bug reports, etc

Re: The last long steps of the gnome.org website

2011-04-05 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 10:40:01AM +0100, Lucas Rocha wrote: > Can we all meet at 16h (UTC) today for a meeting to draw plan for the > deployment? Olav, maybe Christer could join to help us too? What do > you think? Ok. Note: I have almost 0 wordpress experience. -- Regards, Olav -- marketing-

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