Re: 2.12 Press Release

2005-09-07 Thread Lucas Rocha
Some more news in Brazil: BR-Linux http://br-linux.org/linux/?q=node/1715 SoftwareLivre.Org http://www.softwarelivre.org/news/4696 p eace --lucasr 2005/9/7, Sebastien Biot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Some more over on Wikinews: > > http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/GNOME_Project_unveils_latest_version_o

Re: 2.12 Press Release

2005-09-07 Thread Sebastien Biot
Some more over on Wikinews: http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/GNOME_Project_unveils_latest_version_of_Linux_and_Unix_desktop Sebastien Biot "mus in pice" -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Re: 2.12 Press Release

2005-09-07 Thread Claus Schwarm
Hi, just a little bit more PR feedback from Germany: Articles: Heise.de (German) http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/63689 Bulletin Board: OSZine (German) http://www.oszine.de/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=3941 Linux Community (German) http://www.linux-community.de/Neu

2.12 Press Release

2005-09-07 Thread Tim Ney, GNOME Foundation
Thanks to everyone who contributed to the press release and it's localization. tim Press release: DallasNews.com http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl? ACCT=danews.story&STORY=/www/story/09-07-2005/0004102090&EDATE=WED+Sep +07+2005,+01:13+PM Yahoo! http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050907/sfw

Re: 2.12 Press Release ready for translation

2005-09-02 Thread Pedro de Medeiros
2005/9/2, Murray Cumming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > How about the location at the begining of the text. Are translators > > allowed to change "BOSTON, Mass" with their city/country name? > > Yes, I guess that is OK. Do it if it seems to make sense for you, though > it might be strange if everyone

Re: 2.12 Press Release ready for translation

2005-09-02 Thread Murray Cumming
> Murray Cumming wrote: > >>Feel free to add your own local press contact details when translating, >> but make >>sure that any local press contacts are subscribed to marketing-list and >> listed here: >>http://www.gnome.org/press/ >> > > How about the location at the begining of the text. Are tra

Re: 2.12 Press Release ready for translation

2005-09-02 Thread Арангел Ангов
Murray Cumming wrote: Feel free to add your own local press contact details when translating, but make sure that any local press contacts are subscribed to marketing-list and listed here: http://www.gnome.org/press/ How about the location at the begining of the text. Are translators allowed

2.12 Press Release ready for translation

2005-09-01 Thread Murray Cumming
The press release is now also ready for translation, giving you one week for translation before the release on September 7th. The press release is now string frozen, and only the gnome-i18n co-ordinators may decide to break that freeze. If the build isn't broken, you can see your translated versio

Re: 2.12 press release quotes

2005-08-31 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
Murray Cumming wrote: > Sure, I'll mention the new locales in the press release. What's a nice > concise thing to say about the developer community? We already mention it > in About GNOME. Here is the current draft, by the way, with the old 2.10 > quotes: > http://www.gnome.org/start/2.12/press_re

Re: 2.12 press release quotes

2005-08-31 Thread Murray Cumming
> How about > > "This release is the result of a lot of work from a great group of > people," said Elijah Newren, GNOME release manager. "We're proud of the > what this community has done, and proud of the result we have produced. > It's been fun." > > The "It's been fun" is optional, but I like i

Re: 2.12 press release quotes

2005-08-31 Thread Murray Cumming
> Murray Cumming wrote: > >> As usual, improvements are welcome, but this time, let's avoid >> overloading the quotes to mention every single talking point. We have >> the rest of the press release and release notes for that. > > The quotes are lovely, but would it be possible to talk about the >

Re: 2.12 press release quotes

2005-08-31 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
Murray Cumming wrote: > As usual, improvements are welcome, but this time, let's avoid > overloading the quotes to mention every single talking point. We have > the rest of the press release and release notes for that. The quotes are lovely, but would it be possible to talk about the developer co

Re: 2.12 press release quotes

2005-08-31 Thread David Neary
Murray Cumming wrote: Hi, Are these quotes representative of what we stand for, though? I'd like someone to say "we're proud of the work that this community has done, and proud of this release, which is the result of that work." Frankly, I don't think the community is too bothered about the f

Re: 2.12 press release quotes

2005-08-31 Thread Murray Cumming
> > Hi, > > Are these quotes representative of what we stand for, though? > > I'd like someone to say "we're proud of the work that this community has > done, and proud of this release, which is the result of that work." > Frankly, I don't think the community is too bothered about the fact that >

Re: 2.12 press release quotes

2005-08-31 Thread David Neary
Hi, Are these quotes representative of what we stand for, though? I'd like someone to say "we're proud of the work that this community has done, and proud of this release, which is the result of that work." Frankly, I don't think the community is too bothered about the fact that we added new

Re: 2.12 press release quotes

2005-08-30 Thread Murray Cumming
So, time is up, and I have no alternatives yet. Do you object to the following? I'll delay translation for 24 hours. "GNOME 2.12 brings greater consistency and looks better than ever," said Owen Taylor, chairman of the GNOME Foundation's board, "There are useful new features throughout the desktop

Re: 2.12 press release quotes

2005-08-30 Thread Murray Cumming
> On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 11:44 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote: > >> Here are our (UNFINISHED, don't link from your blogs yet, people) >> release >> notes so far: >> http://www.gnome.org/start/2.12/notes/C/rnwhatsnew.html >> >> The major changes, I think, are: >> - New theme. >> - Hierarchical nautilus

Re: 2.12 press release quotes

2005-08-30 Thread John Williams
On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 11:44 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote: > Here are our (UNFINISHED, don't link from your blogs yet, people) release > notes so far: > http://www.gnome.org/start/2.12/notes/C/rnwhatsnew.html > > The major changes, I think, are: > - New theme. > - Hierarchical nautilus. > - sane cl

Re: 2.12 press release quotes

2005-08-30 Thread Jeff Waugh
> - New theme. > - Hierarchical nautilus. Vastly improved Browse mode. - Jeff -- GNOME Summit: October 8th-10th http://live.gnome.org/Boston2005 "I allege that SCO is full of it, and that the Linux process is already the most transparent process in the whole industry." - L

2.12 press release quotes

2005-08-30 Thread Murray Cumming
Owen (as board chairman), and Elijah (as release manager), could you whip up quotes for the 2.12 press release real quick please? You get to hate me for needing this tomorrow, so the translation can start on time. People on marketing-list should feel free to make suggestions, but please don&#

2.12 Press Release

2005-08-19 Thread Murray Cumming
Using the same system as the 2.12 Release Notes and the Tour, I've created the translatable 2.12 press release here: http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/gnomeweb-wml/www.gnome.org/start/2.12/press_release/docbook/C/ At the moment it just contains the text from the 2.10 press release, with the ve