Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

2012-09-05 Thread Rajiv Vyas, CFA, CMT
LinkedIn GNOME, I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn. - Rajiv Rajiv Vyas, CFA, CMT Senior Credit Analyst at RNC Genter Capital Management Greater Los Angeles Area Confirm that you know Rajiv Vyas, CFA, CMT: https://www.linkedin.com/e/5t5u8r-h6ql2ar6-

Major Linux deployment

2007-02-15 Thread Rajiv Vyas
This has been mentioned before but the article has more details on the deployment: http://www.networkmagazineindia.com/200702/casestudy05.shtml Rajiv -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Re: EnabledPeople and partners deploy 50 000 Linux desktops in Brazil

2007-02-13 Thread Rajiv Vyas
Looks like one of the biggest Linux/GNOME deployment. Rajiv On 2/13/07, Jeff Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Howdy, > > It looks like Windows XP on the outside, but it has a juicy nougat GNOME > filling: > > > http://www.enabledpeople.com/2007/02/12/bitway-imtech-enabledpeople-deploy-5-

Re: Probably the biggest Linux deployment

2006-07-23 Thread Rajiv Vyas
http://www.networkmagazineindia.com/200607/casestudy01.shtml On 7/23/06, Andreas Nilsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rajiv Vyas wrote: > > LIC's Linux move could be one of the biggest yet by a single entitity. > > Since it's Red Hat, there are chances it is GNOME

Re: Probably the biggest Linux deployment

2006-07-23 Thread Rajiv Vyas
Great!! Someone in India could also probably write an article for the Gnome Journal. Thanks, Rajiv On 7/23/06, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7/23/06, Rajiv Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > LIC's Linux move could be one of the bigges

Probably the biggest Linux deployment

2006-07-22 Thread Rajiv Vyas
LIC's Linux move could be one of the biggest yet by a single entitity. Since it's Red Hat, there are chances it is GNOME. Rajiv -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Re: [guadec-list] Press Team meeting minutes..

2006-06-23 Thread Rajiv Vyas
Regarding putting out press releases, there are cheaper ways to do it. I was talking to couple of folks at Ubuntu and they said they were paying $120 or so to put out a release vs. $400 that most people I know have to pay -- not sure what Novell is paying. Rajiv On 6/23/06, Murray Cumming <[EMA

Re: Press releases

2006-03-10 Thread Rajiv Vyas
> Concerning lenght: The argument is, ehm, misleading. Otherwise, we > should simply write: "GNOME 2.14 released." and that's it. That's the > shortest version possible. ;-) I agree. I am a former journalist (non-tech press before) and also worked in public relations. I think the press release n

Re: Press releases

2006-03-10 Thread Rajiv Vyas
On 3/10/06, Corey Burger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, > > We currently have two press releases, from myself and Claus. I have > attached both. The key difference between the two is length. Mine is > fashioned on the 2.12 press release, as well as looking at a few other > non-gnome ones.

Re: Writing the press release for 2.14.0 (was Re: release notes: first draft)

2006-03-09 Thread Rajiv Vyas
On 3/9/06, Vincent Untz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Le lundi 06 mars 2006 à 23:57 +0800, Davyd Madeley a écrit : > > - Does anyone want to take charge on writing a press release? I am > > willing to raise my hand again if so required. > > Did anyone start working on it? Any volunteer from

Re: Gnome Idea Pool maybe??

2006-02-24 Thread Rajiv Vyas
> Look for instance at > http://www.gnome-look.org/content/preview.php?preview=1&id=31128&file1=31128-1.jpg&file2=31128-2.jpg&file3=31128-3.jpg&name=Gentle+Gnome+mockup > > , this guy has a pretty good sense of aesthetics. Very nice look and feel. Rajiv -- marketing-list mailing list marketi

Re: Promotion campaign for GNOME 2.14 release?

2006-02-24 Thread Rajiv Vyas
On 2/24/06, Sriram Ramkrishna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 07:11:24AM -0500, Rajiv Vyas wrote: > > One of the possibilites is try and do an interview with Linus and see > > if his view has changed on GNOME with the new 2.14 coming out. If it > &g

Re: Promotion campaign for GNOME 2.14 release?

2006-02-24 Thread Rajiv Vyas
On 2/24/06, Santiago Roza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2/24/06, Rajiv Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > One of the possibilites is try and do an interview with Linus and see > > if his view has changed on GNOME with the new 2.14 coming out. > > > his v

Re: Promotion campaign for GNOME 2.14 release?

2006-02-24 Thread Rajiv Vyas
One of the possibilites is try and do an interview with Linus and see if his view has changed on GNOME with the new 2.14 coming out. If it has, it would be a great marketing plug!! Rajiv -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Re: Simple Idea for Gnome Journal

2006-02-23 Thread Rajiv Vyas
On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 11:58 +, Steve George wrote: > Hi, > Sometimes the value is in being recognised; Miguel's been interviewed > a hundred times, but the longest contributor to the bugsquad probably > hasn't. > How about profiling someone who is involved in various projects and focus the

Re: slashdot: linus says "use kde"

2005-12-13 Thread Rajiv Vyas
Very strong opinion from an extremely smart and influential guy. On 12/13/05, Santiago Roza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > oh god... > http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/12/13/1340215 > > > -- > Santiago Roza > Departamento I+D - Thymbra > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- > marketing-list mailing lis

Re: using blogs as measure of "buzz"

2005-12-04 Thread Rajiv Vyas
On 12/4/05, Jeff Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I do not know how easy it's implement such a thing or getting word out > > to use GNOME as a talkback subject. > > Just watch technorati searches. This is what I do to track mentions of me, > Ubuntu, GNOME and other topics. So, do you man

Re: using blogs as measure of "buzz"

2005-12-04 Thread Rajiv Vyas
On 12/4/05, Sri Ramkrishna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It seems to me that we aren't using blogs to good advantage. A lot of > them have a talk back feature based on subject.(so I understand) It > would be cool to be able to record when someone talks about GNOME in > their blog and have some kin

Re: FOSS.in and GNOME

2005-11-16 Thread Rajiv Vyas
On 11/16/05, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rajiv Vyas wrote: > > There's one tutorial by Shreyas Srinivasan on Hackety Gnome Hack: > > Howto hack gnome. More details can be found here: > > http://foss.in/2005/schedules/ > > Umm...I was

Re: FOSS.in and GNOME

2005-11-16 Thread Rajiv Vyas
There's one tutorial by Shreyas Srinivasan on Hackety Gnome Hack: Howto hack gnome. More details can be found here: http://foss.in/2005/schedules/ Rajiv On 11/16/05, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > For those who came in late, FOSS.in is happening check the URL below

Re: some article wishlist stuff added.

2005-10-27 Thread Rajiv Vyas
Sri: Extremely helpful. Could someone also add more details i.e. best way to contact this person, what is the Mallard project, etc. so we know where to start. Thanks, Rajiv On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 20:08 -0700, Sri Ramkrishna wrote: > I've added a list of articles for those who want to do article

Re: GOSCON report

2005-10-25 Thread Rajiv Vyas
Tim: Which of the speakers did you find most interesting? Were there any state CIOs as speakers and Who stood out (among state CIOs) in terms of conviction, logic and also had their Return on Investment Calculations? Thanks, Rajiv On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 19:55 -0400, Tim Ney wrote: > Sri, >

GNOME Specific story

2005-10-24 Thread Rajiv Vyas
I have lined up a meeting and an interview with for a one piece on Jeff Elkner. Red Harring did an article recently in which they mentioned about his implementation of EdUbuntu (hence a possibility for some GNOME plug). The story can be found here: http://www.redherring.com/Article.aspx?a=13995&he

Re: Another major Linux and possible GNOME deployment

2005-10-17 Thread Rajiv Vyas
On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 21:47 -0400, Luis Villa wrote: > I've poked someone at RH (and cc'd Rajiv) to ask if they can > confirm/deny the assumption that this is a GNOME deployment... > Luis > Thanks Luis. I know about Canara Bank and am also quite familiar with India. So, if this turns out to be a

Another major Linux and possible GNOME deployment

2005-10-17 Thread Rajiv Vyas
The media didn't pick much on this and maybe it was announced before, but Canara BAnk in India is deploying RHEL and I am guessing GNOME with it on 1,000 servers and 10,000 desktops. http://www.infoworld.nl/idgns/bericht.phtml?id=00256F6C005C22FC0025709D0043CC99 Rajiv -- marketing-list maili

Possible article on implementation of GNOME

2005-10-17 Thread Rajiv Vyas
Claus: Has anyone done a one-on-one piece on Jeff Elkner. Red Harring did an article recently in which they mentioned about his implementation of Ubuntu (hence a possibility for some GNOME plug). If no one has written about it in the GNOME journal, please let me know and I could do one for next ye

Re: Mass Deployment of GNOME in schools in Macedonia

2005-10-16 Thread Rajiv Vyas
Arangle: This reads great. Couple of very interesting quotes about why the country's public school system is going for FOSS -- not because it's free but because they want their students to hack into codes and learn from that. I think this is one of the key messages that we as well as other FOSS p

GNOME Boston Summit

2005-10-14 Thread rajiv vyas
Looks like a ton of stuff happened at the Boston Summit. Has/is anyone putting a piece together for the GNOME journal? Rajiv -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Re: Some findings

2005-10-10 Thread rajiv vyas
On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 12:07 +, Thilo Pfennig wrote: > Zitat von rajiv vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Google: This gets really interesting. There are 435 million times Linux > > appeared on Google vs. Microsoft 716 million -- that's fantastic. KDE is > > 15

Some findings

2005-10-09 Thread rajiv vyas
I have been doing some "Google" research using news, Google and blogs on topics such as GNOME, KDE, and Linux for the past couple of weeks and thought I'll share this: Google News: The world Linux GNOME appeared more than Linux KDE in the past few days. Red Hat consistently has been in the news tw

GNOME Summit

2005-10-08 Thread rajiv vyas
Andy Oram at onlamp.com has a nice write up on the Summit and can be found here: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/wlg/8037 Is someone thinking about putting something out on the success of the Summit and some of the highlights? Thanks, Rajiv -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org

Re: Mass Deployment of GNOME in schools in Macedonia

2005-10-08 Thread rajiv vyas
Arangel: This one reads nicely. A very important question that I would like to know in the story would be, how big is the public school system in Macedonia. You have said that they have installed this on 5,000 PCs. Is that all for a country with 2 million people? Assume that 15% of the population

Re: Mass Deployment of GNOME in schools in Macedonia

2005-10-07 Thread rajiv vyas
> Most of the info I got out from the interview was more in general about > their project and organization, etc etc... The guy wasn't really the > average GNOME user but I think he gave me enough to write about. > > It's a short one. Would be glad to see some critics. > Arangel: Looks good. I h

Re: Announcement guidlines

2005-09-28 Thread rajiv vyas
On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 02:35 +0530, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote: > Rajiv Vyas wrote: > > • As a writer, the first question I would ask is: What's the story > > here? So, we should have a hook. > > Add to that *what does that mean to the user* ? In pure non-technical

Re: Another big GNOME deployment in Brazil

2005-09-28 Thread Rajiv Vyas
On 9/28/05, Lucas Rocha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > More than 100 infocenters were deployed in Bahia. They have 75,000 > users. In the next 2 months, more 200 infocenters will be deployed in > over 200 cities of the state expecting more than 200,000 users. Each > infocenter has 10 dis

Announcement guidlines

2005-09-28 Thread Rajiv Vyas
Some guidelines for media/public relations and putting out announcements (in press release formats of Blogs): • Pre announcements should go out in time – usually a week before the event • If you want to put out an announcement after the event, it should be within two days, usually the

Re: Summit on gnome.org

2005-09-28 Thread Rajiv Vyas
Please see the second draft with minor edits and suggestions. What's the best way to put this release out? Thanks, Rajiv Gnome Summit-2.sxw Description: OpenOffice Writer document -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Re: Summit on gnome.org

2005-09-26 Thread Rajiv Vyas
Attached is the text. I have taken a middle of the ground approach -- a mix between press release and a blog. Let me know how you want to go with it eventually and also suggestions/inputs/edits. Right now, I have hyperlinks in the text. We could replace that with text at the bottom but I prefer h

Re: Summit on gnome.org

2005-09-24 Thread rajiv vyas
On Sat, 2005-09-24 at 17:38 +0200, David Neary wrote: > Hi, > > rajiv vyas wrote: > > So, do you mean something similar to how Google announces new products > > on its Blog? > > Yeah, that kind of thing. Perfect. Will get cranking on it. > > I am persona

Re: Summit on gnome.org

2005-09-24 Thread rajiv vyas
On Sat, 2005-09-24 at 10:34 +0200, David Neary wrote: > Can we try an experiment? > > Rather than the standard (rather sterile) press wire release, can we > make something a lottle less formal, and use word-of-mouth? Have it on > the website as an announcement, and send it around as an e-mail (w

Re: Summit on gnome.org

2005-09-23 Thread rajiv vyas
On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 21:05 -0400, Tim Ney, GNOME Foundation wrote: > On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 20:38 -0400, rajiv vyas wrote: > > > Let me look into this. Where can I find details (including summit > > topics) of past and present summit information? > > The Summit is

Re: Summit on gnome.org

2005-09-23 Thread rajiv vyas
On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 20:28 -0400, Tim Ney, GNOME Foundation wrote: > On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 19:46 -0400, rajiv vyas wrote: > > > Besides the text for the start page, what about a press release of some > > sort that we can put it on the Web site and even distribute it to > &g

Re: Summit on gnome.org

2005-09-23 Thread rajiv vyas
On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 12:02 -0400, Tim Ney, GNOME Foundation wrote: > The Summit is approaching. How about some text or splash art on the > start page with a link to the WiKi? > Besides the text for the start page, what about a press release of some sort that we can put it on the Web site and ev

Re: Revamped of GNOME.org

2005-09-21 Thread rajiv vyas
On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 13:38 +1000, Hugh Buzacott wrote: > To the Marketing-List, > > > > One of these is whether we should use the term ‘Free Software’ of the > more common ‘Open Source’. > > ‘Free software’ is the correct term (with the term ‘Free Software’ > predating the term ‘Open-Source’

Re: Revamped Gnome.org

2005-09-18 Thread rajiv vyas
Instead of emails and abiword files going back and forth, should we move text editing to www.writely.com? I can invite the group or individual members? Of course, if it does not work or people find it inconvenient, we can move back to the old email/abiword way. Thanks, Rajiv -- marketing-list

Re: Revamped Gnome.org

2005-09-17 Thread rajiv vyas
On Sat, 2005-09-17 at 19:45 -0400, Luis Villa wrote: > On 9/13/05, Andreas Nilsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hugh Buzacott wrote: > > > > > I am still pushing for a new GNOME.org so I created a mock-up. > > > > > > The mock-up is at http://www.geocities.com/bzctt/ and is only a front > > > pa

Re: Christmas cards

2005-09-17 Thread Rajiv Vyas
> Interesting idea*. Maybe this is something the gimp or inkscape people > would want to drive, as the 'graphics people'? Certainly they have the > artistic firepower to bring to bear :) > Very interesting idea, but I agree that it should be something that the gimp or inkscape people get involve