This is now the Engagement List

2013-08-13 Thread Allan Day
Hi everyone, In case you haven't noticed, marketing-l...@gnome.org is now engagement-list@gnome.org. Our mail archives have also been migrated to: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/engagement-list/ Don't worry - mails to the old address will be redirected here. Thanks for setting this up, Andrea!

Logo Usage Guidelines

2013-08-13 Thread Allan Day
Hi all, GNOME's logo usage guidelines are really out of date, and they are kept in a standard wiki page [1], which can be edited by pretty much anyone. This isn't good considering that we rely on these guidelines to enforce the GNOME trademarks. I've recently done a bit of work to try and resolve

Migrating Our Files to OwnCloud

2013-08-13 Thread Allan Day
Hey everyone, We currently use the wiki to store our various files. Unfortunately, this hasn't been working very well - there are files scattered all over the place, and it's hard to know what is current and what isn't. During GUADEC a bunch of us sat down and figured out a plan for how to use ou

Re: Migrating Our Files to OwnCloud

2013-08-13 Thread Allan Day
Ekaterina Gerasimova wrote: >> […] >> >> * Files that we are using, but which are mostly of interest to the >> Engagement team go in "Engagement Team - Private". >> * Files that are old or out of date will go in "Engagement Team - >> Private > Archive". >> […] > > Hi, will these be public as wel

Re: Migrating Our Files to OwnCloud

2013-08-15 Thread Allan Day
"Ekaterina Gerasimova" wrote: > If I was to want to view an old document for reference purposes, what will I need to do to get an account with suitable permissions and where will this process be documented? > > As someone who does reference old material relatively regularly, I would personally fin

Re: meetings..

2013-08-27 Thread Allan Day
Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > I see we have missed a meeting since I was gone. Do we want to have one > this week? New time is 19:00 on Wednesdays. > > I think we still have some stuff to work from our BOF. So we should start > following up from that meeting and then work out our plans. It would

Re: meetings..

2013-08-27 Thread Allan Day
Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: ... > Sounds like we should have a meeting this week so that we can discuss > release promotion and anything else needed before you go offline ... Tomorrow would work for me, if anyone else is interested. Allan ___ engagement-l

Re: engagement meeting thursday 20:00 UTC

2013-09-19 Thread Allan Day
That time works for me. A general discussion about next week's release would be good. Allan ___ engagement-list mailing list engagement-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/engagement-list

Re: engagement meeting - Thursday 19:00 - 20:00 UTC

2013-10-23 Thread Allan Day
Hey Sri, Thanks for picking this up. I'll definitely try and make the meeting, although it might be a little difficult. I think it would be good to talk about our social media presence in general. I'd also like to figure out where we are in relation to internship opportunities. Allan On Mon, Oc

Re: engagement meeting - Wedneday 18:00-19:00 UTC October 30th

2013-10-29 Thread Allan Day
Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > Is teh timing okay? ... Works for me! Allan ___ engagement-list mailing list engagement-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/engagement-list

Re: Logo Usage Guidelines

2013-11-07 Thread Allan Day
Karen Sandler wrote: >> GNOME's logo usage guidelines are really out of date, and they are >> kept in a standard wiki page [1], which can be edited by pretty much >> anyone. This isn't good considering that we rely on these guidelines >> to enforce the GNOME trademarks. >> >> I've recently done a

Re: Logo Usage Guidelines

2013-11-08 Thread Allan Day
Hi, There was a problem with the link to the new page. This is now: http://www.gnome.org/logo-and-trademarks/ Allan On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 6:34 PM, Allan Day wrote: > Karen Sandler wrote: >>> GNOME's logo usage guidelines are really out of date, and they are >>> ke

Re: Community Teams

2013-12-04 Thread Allan Day
Ekaterina Gerasimova wrote: >>> This looks really bad and is probably quite >>> harmful to encouraging participation. >> >> Thank you for your support! I was really hoping that the weeks of effort >> I've been putting into this will have the intended effect. I was so worried >> for a while because

Re: Proposing to change logo to a happy smiling garden gnome

2013-12-10 Thread Allan Day
Karen Sandler wrote: >> http://www.simonscat.com/Blog/2013-12-09/Meet-the-Gnome/ convinces me >> that garden gnomes -- despite the obvious pun -- could be a nice mascot >> for our community, something the current logo never really managed to >> do. ... I definitely like the idea of injecting some

Re: FOSDEM 2014 Beer Event

2013-12-11 Thread Allan Day
Tobias Mueller wrote: ... > Has anyone taken care of finding a place to go to on Saturday evening? > > If so, it'd be cool if the wiki page could be updated: > https://wiki.gnome.org/GnomeEvents/FOSDEM/2014 Thanks for the reminder, Tobi. I just checked with Guillaume and he said that he's happy t

Re: Note time change - 19:00 UTC ! Re: REMINDER: Engagement meeting TOMORROW - Thursday, Dec 12, 2013 - 19:00 UTC

2013-12-12 Thread Allan Day
>> Sorry that should have been 19:00 UTC, not 20:00 UTC. I doubt I'll be able to make this, I'm afraid. I have plans tonight. Allan ___ engagement-list mailing list engagement-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/engagement-list

Re: Engagement meeting CANCELLED

2013-12-13 Thread Allan Day
Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > Today's meeting is cancelled. Looks like we don't have many RSVPs. > We could schedule for next week. How do pepole feel about that? I have plans for next Thursday and Friday. Could maybe do Wednesday... Sorry, evenings in the pre-Christmas period are busy. Allan __

Re: REMINDER: Tomorrow meeting January 9th 2014, 19:00 UTC

2014-01-09 Thread Allan Day
I should be able to make it. See you there! Allan On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 1:32 AM, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > Please remember we have a meeting tomorrow on IRC. > > Agenda: > > Standard agenda items: > > * GNOME in the media > * GNOME engagement issues > * GNOME events to advertise > * Upcoming e

Re: FOSDEM planning

2014-01-14 Thread Allan Day
Tobias Mueller wrote: >> https://wiki.gnome.org/Events/FOSDEM/2014 >> > Yep. Status is there. It does not look very golden. > ATM, we have only two people staffing the booth: > https://wiki.gnome.org/Events/FOSDEM/2014/Stand#attendees ... Three now. Asking around, it seems like most of the FOSDE

Re: media kit

2014-01-21 Thread Allan Day
Rosanna Yuen wrote: > Actually, I need to order more stickers. Should I reorder the same designs? > Or does anyone want to design new ones? I think we could do with some new sticker designs. I'll sort this out; will let you know when we have something. Allan

Yay FOSDEM!

2014-02-04 Thread Allan Day
Hi all, Thanks to everyone who enabled us to have a great FOSDEM this year. I thought that the GNOME stand was a big success - we seemed to have a lot of interest, and interaction around the stand was great. I'd especially like to thank Tobi for working so hard on the stand, Alexandre for the cak

Re: Engagement team meeting on IRC Thursday 19:00 UTC February 13th

2014-02-12 Thread Allan Day
I can make it. We should put 3.12 release planning on the agenda - it's coming up soon. Allan ___ engagement-list mailing list engagement-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/engagement-list

Re: Status of GNOME OS

2014-02-18 Thread Allan Day
Hey Oliver, Oliver Propst wrote: ... > What parts of the initiative are working, should we try to make a new > stronger commitment to the original ideas or are we happy with the situation > today as described on the wiki [2] ? ... "GNOME OS" is a label that we used to describe a collection of co

3.12 Features

2014-02-20 Thread Allan Day
Hi all, I thought I'd update the list with what we can expect from 3.12 in terms of features. The main user visible changes that we can expect, I think, will come from some of the apps, particularly Videos, Software, Web and gedit. Videos and gedit have have fairly dramatic redesigns, and the oth

Re: 3.12 Features

2014-02-20 Thread Allan Day
Karen Sandler wrote: >> * In general there have been fixes made due to feedback on the last >> release (such as Wired Network indicator). > > In general I think we should try to focus attention on these kinds of fixes > as much as possible as part of our press story, maybe even using a header > "W

Updated Marketing Materials

2014-02-21 Thread Allan Day
Hi all, Andreas and I have updated the sticker, badge and t-shirt designs that are hosted on our ownCloud instance: https://cloud.gnome.org/public.php?service=files&t=41ed7027380ff6af519cbec42498396e The designs aren't fantastically exciting, but they are nice and are consistent with what we hav

3.12 Release Promotion

2014-02-24 Thread Allan Day
Hi all, 3.12 is due for release on 26 March. That gives us about a month to prepare our promotional materials. Key items, as usual: * Press release, including quotations. * Release notes. * Updates to the website. * Reach out to the press - send them advance notice about the release, make a

Re: anybody see this on the numix project?

2014-02-25 Thread Allan Day
Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > Looks like the numix theme is turning into a full OS with designers > and everything. They have funding for developers as well. > > https://plus.google.com/+NumixprojectOrg/posts/fgo3cAikTM9 > > I find that kind of interesting. They aren't forking anything, but > worki

Re: team meeting - 19:00 UTC Thursday Feb 27th 2014

2014-02-25 Thread Allan Day
Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > Let's focus completely on the release this meeting. I htink it's > important that we get everything resourced. I also want as a goal to > put less pressure on Alan this time who usually works hte hardest on > this. I'll be there. It would be especially good to discuss

Re: Engagement team Hackfest in connection to Boston Summit 2014?

2014-02-25 Thread Allan Day
> On 02/23/2014 11:08 AM, Oliver Propst wrote: ... >> I would want to suggest that we follow-up the successful >> Marketing/Engagement team Hackfest last year with a new one this year [1]. >> One suggestion is to have it sometime in October in connection to Boston >> Summit 2014. ... Sounds like a

Re: Implement whatcanidoforgnome.org?"

2014-03-03 Thread Allan Day
Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: ... >> Check this out: >> http://diegoe.be/2014/02/24/habits-and-engagement/ Heh, Diego was using the engagement word before it was cool. >> The video is only 20 minutes, and it's really interesting. If you have >> extra time, also check the youtube video linked in the p

Re: SXSW stuff

2014-03-03 Thread Allan Day
Diego Escalante Urrelo wrote: >> With SXSW, I get to talk to orthogonal communities, and one of the >> things that really bugs me is the lack of participation in the overall >> GNOME communities. The people I interact with are generally been >> core, active members. But what do I know about the

Re: GNOME Table at Flourish! 2014

2014-03-10 Thread Allan Day
Karen Sandler wrote: >> I'm going to be attending Flourish! on April 5th and I'm wondering if >> I can have the booth box (is that what you all call it?) sent this way ... Sounds great to me too. :) > Emily has the event box so you should work with > her and Rosanna (for the Foundation to pay th

Re: Thoughts on GNOME Release Notes

2014-03-10 Thread Allan Day
Hey Alex! alex diavatis wrote: ... > I think that GNOME Release Notes should get some improvements. > > 1. GNOME Regressions > I haven't experience issues my self, but I read comments about tearing and > flickering in GNOME Shell, and those are known bugs in X that affect Shell > as well. > I als

Re: 3.12 Press Release, news story & quote

2014-03-11 Thread Allan Day
Oliver Propst wrote: > Its great to see the progress of the Release Notes. I guess its time > to start on the 3.12 press release, news story and think about who we > want a quotation from this release. You are right! I am in the process of obtaining at least one quote, and I think Karen said she'

Re: debconf planning

2014-03-14 Thread Allan Day
Good job on picking this up, Sri. Diego Escalante Urrelo wrote: > FTR, > > August 23-31, Portland: > > http://debconf.org/ One obvious thing we could do is have someone propose a talk about what GNOME offers. I have a personal commitment around then, but I be happy to help write the talk. Allan

3.12 Release Notes: First Draft

2014-03-17 Thread Allan Day
Hi all, I completed the first draft of the 3.12 release notes earlier today. There's been a snag getting them online, so if you'd like to see what they look like, I've uploaded an archive with the source files here: https://cloud.gnome.org/public.php?service=files&t=bcb5f9538c75737a18a82dc691ceb9

Re: 3.12 Release Notes: First Draft

2014-03-18 Thread Allan Day
Thanks for this Hashem! Hashem Nasarat wrote: > Looks great so far! Thanks for your work, Allan. > > * s/3.10/3.12 in a few places Already fixed. > In the Getting GNOME section: > * Can we do have "https://gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html"Free > Software" when you say "GNOME's software is Free S

Re: GNOME 3.12 Video Draft 1 Feedback

2014-03-20 Thread Allan Day
I'm going to join the wave of admiration here: this is fantastic! I'm so happy we're going to have this for 3.12, and I think we should think about adding the video to http://gnome.org/gnome-3/ . Apart from the high production quality, two things I really like are the grid of video thumbnails, whi

Re: Link Rot to IRC Channel(s) Support

2014-03-21 Thread Allan Day
Hi William, Thanks for pointing out the problem! I just checked and it seems to be fixed. Allan On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 11:23 PM, William Paul Liggett wrote: > My Evolution client doesn't like semi-colons when adding multiple recipients > in the "To:" block, so as my P.S. note states, I am also

Re: 3.12 Press Release, news story & quote

2014-03-24 Thread Allan Day
Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > Looks like we'll need to get togehter tomorrow, Mathias has released > GNOME 3.12.0 stable. :) I can only assume that you mean that Fred has released 3.11.92. The actually release won't be out until Wednesday. https://mail.gnome.org/archives/devel-announce-list/2014-Ma

Congratulations!

2014-03-27 Thread Allan Day
Hi everyone, I'd just like to congratulate everyone on a fantastic 3.12 release. So far the response we've got has been excellent - which the Engagement Team has played no small part in. Well done! Allan ___ engagement-list mailing list engagement-list

Re: Engagement meeting - Wednesday April 2nd 2014 20:00 UTC

2014-04-01 Thread Allan Day
"Sriram Ramkrishna" wrote: > > It's been awhile, let's get a meeting going... I'm afraid that I'll be away at LGM. Allan ___ engagement-list mailing list engagement-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/engagement-list

Re: Next meeting

2014-04-11 Thread Allan Day
Thanks for kicking this off, Oliver. I filled in the Doodle, but my suggestion would be to stick with the regular time. This Doodle business is complicated and feels like work, and people are likely to miss the meeting if we change the time too often. Other agenda items: * Friends of GNOME * Up

Re: Next meeting

2014-04-14 Thread Allan Day
Oliver Propst wrote: ... >> my suggestion would be to stick with the regular time. This Doodle >> business is complicated and feels like work, and people are likely to >> miss the meeting if we change the time too often. > > Right, then I suggest we try to have meetings on Wednesdays 19pm UTC > (

Re: Next meeting

2014-04-15 Thread Allan Day
nnection to Boston Summit 2014 > *Friends of GNOME > * Upcoming events > * Enterprise engagement at the distribution level. > > As we tend to limit the meetings to around hour, we may not > be able to cover all agenda items during this meeting. > > On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 10

Re: We need to put the release notes and video back on teh front page

2014-04-22 Thread Allan Day
Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > Arch Linux has 3.12 in the stable repo, so it would be nice to have it > back on there so that people can get information the release. > Possible? Shouldn't be too hard to put it on the website. We might need to redesign the home page a bit to make it fit there. In the

Re: How we can improve our fundraising efforts

2014-04-24 Thread Allan Day
Oliver Propst wrote: > When we are doing a campaign we tend to be very focused on it (thus > busy), and not have the resources to focus on more long term planning. > > Thus its a a good time for us now to think about how we can improve > our fundraising efforts [1]. A great start is to learn how f

Re: Next meeting, Wednesday 30/4 7UTC.

2014-04-25 Thread Allan Day
Oliver Propst wrote: > Want to announce our next Engagement Team meeting on Wednesday 30/4 7UTC. > > Agenda items include: > *Publicity Plan for GNOME.Asia summit [1] > *How we can improve our fundraising efforts [2] [3] I'll be at the Developer Experience Hackfest in Berlin next week, so I won't

Re: How we can improve our fundraising efforts

2014-04-25 Thread Allan Day
Karen Sandler wrote: ... >> So, some general thoughts: >> >> * One of my main issues with Friends of GNOME right now is that we >> don't do enough to engage with existing donors. If people donate, the >> least they should get back is regular updates about how we are >> spending their money. Right

Re: How we can improve our fundraising efforts

2014-04-25 Thread Allan Day
Ekaterina Gerasimova wrote: ... >>> We also need to encourage the Board of Directors to post >>> more about what they are doing. It's a shame that we the board doesn't >>> have a public face like this. I hope I didn't sound unappreciative of the board - I know you do a huge amount of work already

Re: Upload GNOME.Asia video to youtube

2014-06-02 Thread Allan Day
Hi Emily, How did you get on with this? I just got back to my desk - I can give you access to the GNOME YouTube account if you need it. Thanks again for a great GNOME.Asia! Allan On Thu, 29 May, 2014 at 4:29 PM, Oliver Propst wrote: On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 5:23 PM, Emily Chen wrote: Hi

Re: Upload GNOME.Asia video to youtube

2014-06-03 Thread Allan Day
to youku(like youtube in China), they plan to upload some important video to YouTube . Hi Bootingman, You can ask for Allan if you need help to access to GNOME YouTube account. -emily 2014-06-02 15:45 GMT+08:00 Allan Day : Hi Emily, How did you get on with this? I just got back to m

Re: How we can improve our fundraising efforts

2014-06-04 Thread Allan Day
Hi all, I've been distracted with trips recently, but I had chance to discuss Friends of GNOME with Tobi during GNOME.Asia. I think we can try and turn this discussion into a set of more realistic actions. First, when it comes to sending updates to existing donors, it would make sense to tie this

Re: Upload GNOME.Asia video to youtube

2014-06-10 Thread Allan Day
Engagement meeting by far. >> > >> >> No problem, please do state any concerns about collaboration on the >> list, we would love to see all. >> >> sri >> >> > >> > On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 3:50 AM, Sriram Ramkrishna >> > wrot

Re: setting some goals

2014-06-12 Thread Allan Day
Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: ... > Our meetings have petered off and that is unfortunate. I think that > is probably the most important thing we can do right now in engagement > is to get our meetings back on track and attended. ... Agreed. > One thing to do is to formalize the meeting time and get

Re: Next meeting Wednesday 25 of June 16:00 UTC

2014-06-24 Thread Allan Day
Hey Oliver, Oliver Propst wrote: ... What is the reason behind putting the meeting at 16:00 UTC instead of the default time of 15:00 UTC? Or is 16:00 UTC the new default time? If so I think Engagement/TeamMeetings should be updated. [1] ... >>> I thought that 15:00UTC maybe was a l

GUADEC Promotion

2014-06-26 Thread Allan Day
Hi all, GUADEC begins in a month, so it is high time that we thought about promotional activities for the event. The main goal here is to generate interest in the conference and in GNOME in general, and to any circulate positive stories that we can. We need to have material to post in the run up

Re: GUADEC Promotion

2014-07-01 Thread Allan Day
Hey Stathis, thanks for all the suggestions! Efstathios Iosifidis wrote: ... > If the schedule is out, someone can write a document with tweets-posts > of every presentation title, speaker #guadec14 (or the official > hashtag), #gnome ... Won't this be a lot of tweets? We have around 36 talks co

Re: GUADEC Promotion

2014-07-01 Thread Allan Day
Diego Escalante Urrelo wrote: ... > If the offer sounds attractive, I'm available for doing this. Or happy > to share insights with someone if I'm unable to attend this year (will > known in 2 weeks, yikes). This all sounds fantastic. We'd love your help. One thing though - I wonder if we should

Re: annual report progress and deadlines

2014-07-09 Thread Allan Day
Andreas Nilsson wrote: ... > I'm going on vacation tomorrow and won't be back until the 16th. ... Have a great holiday, Andreas! I'll see what I can do while you're away. Allan ___ engagement-list mailing list engagement-list@gnome.org https://mail.gno

Re: Annual Report next steps

2014-07-14 Thread Allan Day
Hi all, Oliver Propst wrote: > So we are really close to the definitive deadline for articles and > content. ... I have added a list of outstanding work items to the wiki page: https://wiki.gnome.org/Engagement/AnnualReport/AnnualReport2014#To_Do_List This includes missing data, photos, and a

Re: Annual Report next steps

2014-07-16 Thread Allan Day
Jul 14, 2014 at 10:28 AM, Allan Day wrote: > Hi all, > > Oliver Propst wrote: >> So we are really close to the definitive deadline for articles and >> content. > ... > > I have added a list of outstanding work items to the wiki page: > > https://wiki.gnome.org

Re: Annual Report next steps

2014-07-16 Thread Allan Day
Oliver Propst wrote: ... > *The picture of Karen are very blurry, don't we have a better picture? That picture was suggested by Karen. I think it's her call which picture we use. > *I supplied a photopack with improved pictures, that would for example > improve the picture on page 11 that are ex

Re: Annual Report next steps

2014-07-16 Thread Allan Day
Oliver Propst wrote: ... >>> *I notice that the articles not have been updated to the latest version. >> Can you explain what you mean by latest version? > > They do not include the latest edits, at least some of them does not. ... Yes, but which latest edits? I literally have no idea what you're

Engagement BoF at GUADEC

2014-07-17 Thread Allan Day
Hi everyone, I know that members of the Engagement Team will be in Strasbourg, and it would be great to schedule a time to do some work together. BoFs are currently being scheduled on the wiki: https://wiki.gnome.org/GUADEC/2014/BOFs/ I'm personally around for the whole conference, and am free o

Re: Engagement BoF at GUADEC

2014-07-18 Thread Allan Day
Thanks for your responses, everyone. I've added an Engagement Team session to the BoFs schedule [1], and started a page for the meeting itself [2]. Feel free to add potential agenda topics. Also, please speak up if you would like to attend, but the time/day doesn't work for you. Allan [1] https:

Re: Annual Report next steps

2014-07-18 Thread Allan Day
Hi Oliver, Thanks for the suggestions. Oliver Propst wrote: ... > First I want to really recommend the person who compose the > final document to read the articles in the wiki [1] as those > contains the latest edits, including grammar. Tobi reviewed the changes on the wiki, and I've imported h

Re: Upload GNOME.Asia video to youtube

2014-07-21 Thread Allan Day
I think we should use). I haven't found the time to resolve this, and things are quite busy in the run up to GUADEC. Allan On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 12:05 PM, Andre Klapper wrote: > Any news here? Would love to see the videos too. > > andre > > On Tue, 2014-06-10 at 14:28 +0100,

Engagement Team Report @ GUADEC

2014-07-21 Thread Allan Day
Hi all, Every year at GUADEC, representatives from the various GNOME teams give a brief report on their activities over the past year. This year, the Team Reports have been split into a separate session which will be run on the first day of the conference [1]. It would be great to hear who from t

Meeting Today at 16:00 UTC

2014-07-23 Thread Allan Day
Hi all, Here's a quick reminder that we have a meeting scheduled for 16:00 UTC today. Details can be found here: https://etherpad.gnome.org/p/engagement-team-meetings The main thing to discuss is what we plan to do during GUADEC next week. I know that people are busy though, so let's try and kee

Re: Engagement Team Report @ GUADEC

2014-07-23 Thread Allan Day
Allan Day wrote: ... > It would be great to hear who from the Engagement Team would like to > present this year. The presentation needs to be quite short - 5 > minutes or less. Sri has agreed to give the talk. It's a team presentation, of course, so it would be great if people cou

Re: Meeting Today at 16:00 UTC

2014-07-23 Thread Allan Day
2:51 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > I could participate but I am heading out to the airport at that time. > > Sri > > On Jul 23, 2014 5:33 AM, "Allan Day" wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> Here's a quick reminder that we have a meeting scheduled for

Re: Adding about page to git.gnome.org repositories

2014-08-01 Thread Allan Day
Olav Vitters wrote: ... > I've currently made two (unannounced except r-t; also not fully ready > yet!) changes: ... > 4 Automatic "about" page: > - Based on the DOAP file > description, mailing lists, bugzilla link, weblinks, developer > names (no email, for that there's bugzill

Re: Adding about page to git.gnome.org repositories

2014-08-01 Thread Allan Day
Olav Vitters wrote: ... > Regarding Bugzilla: > 1. The git link at the moment is totally unreliable (it just does a >git.gnome.org/browse/$BUGZILLA_PRODUCT_NAME > 2. Multiple doap files might point to the same Bugzilla product > 3. Could be that these doap files have different categories > 4.

Re: Adding about page to git.gnome.org repositories

2014-08-04 Thread Allan Day
Olav Vitters wrote: > On Fri, Aug 01, 2014 at 03:43:39PM +0200, Allan Day wrote: >> Having the about pages on git.gnome.org seems like a nice approach. >> The only issue I see is that we're potentially duplicating material >> that's on the wiki, and if people

Friends of GNOME Web Pages

2014-08-06 Thread Allan Day
Hi all, During the Engagement BoF at GUADEC, we spent a bit of time discussing Friends of GNOME. As a follow-on, I've resurrected my wireframes for the Support Us/Friends of GNOME web pages: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gnome-design-team/gnome-marketing/master/websites/friends-of-gnome/frien

Re: important discussion on LWN

2014-08-08 Thread Allan Day
Matthias Clasen wrote: > I don't want to reply there directly, but we've done a number of > things this cycle that should be useful in countering this perception: ... There's also the longer list of things that have happened in GTK+ over the past 2/3 of cycles: - Widget opacity - Frame sync f

Re: important discussion on LWN

2014-08-11 Thread Allan Day
Oliver Propst wrote: ... > Personally I much rather see a focus on making GTK+ a really great and > integrated Linux/GNOME library, given the resources available it seems > as a big enough task itself. Cross-platform support is a basic requirement for many GTK+ users (think GIMP, Inkscape, etc et

Re: important discussion on LWN

2014-08-11 Thread Allan Day
Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: ... > A good exercise is to identify all tlhe barriers of GTK+ adoption and > support. For instance, I have heard some claims that ABI breakages > are happening between releases. It's hard to quantify and qualify > these issues as they are wrapped in sarcasm or exaggerat

Re: Friends of GNOME Web Pages

2014-08-20 Thread Allan Day
Sorry for the slow response! I've been wrapped up in something else. Rosanna Yuen wrote: ... > Is there a time frame for implementing these changes? ... Not that I know of. I mean, I don't have the skills to implement them myself, and it's dependent on when web hackers have the time. > As for t

3.14 Release Marketing

2014-08-21 Thread Allan Day
Hi all, GNOME 3.14 is scheduled for release on 24 September - that's in five weeks. However, we should be aiming to have the necessary marketing materials ready two weeks before that [1]. As usual, the major items are the release notes and press release. I can take the lead on release notes. It w

Engagement Hackfest @ Boston Summit

2014-08-21 Thread Allan Day
Hi all, It would be great to get into the routine of having regular Engagement Team hackfests. There was some discussion about having a hackfest around this year's Boston Summit [1] - that's fast approaching, so it's time to seriously consider the possibility. As a first step, who is interested i

Re: Engagement Hackfest @ Boston Summit

2014-08-21 Thread Allan Day
Fabiana Simões wrote: ... > What if we had it around LinuxCon Europe in Germany or somewhere else > in Europe? Many of us live in Europe and I guess Karen and Sri would > be around for the conference? That would certainly make logistical sense! Allan _

Re: Engagement Hackfest @ Boston Summit

2014-08-22 Thread Allan Day
Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > Have to see if work will pay for the journey. I assume that Karen is still figuring out transport too - makes it a little tricky to know what to do. LinuxCon is in Dusseldorf... should we tentatively organise something there? If that doesn't work, we could perhaps have

Re: Annual Report next steps

2014-08-26 Thread Allan Day
Oliver Propst wrote: > From my understanding we are still waiting on the last fixes to land > before we have publish ready report. ... What fixes are those? Allan ___ engagement-list mailing list engagement-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman

Re: Friends of GNOME Web Pages

2014-09-05 Thread Allan Day
Hi Tom! > I'm not a member of GNOME Web Hackers but i've made a progress implementing > the mockup. This is amazing! Thanks so much. Sorry it has taken me a while to respond - I've just got back from holiday. > @Allan > One time donations and monthy subscriptions are two separated pages, or they

Re: media for release

2014-09-08 Thread Allan Day
Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > So, does anybody want to volunteer writing some articles for linux.com > or red hat magazine as such? Would be great to at least generate some > nice buzz. ... Nice idea. If we're going to do that, we should figure out which 3.14 features will be interesting to those a

Re: Engagement Hackfest @ Boston Summit

2014-09-11 Thread Allan Day
Oliver Propst wrote: > So what are the status of this? I can confirm I will be in London for > Mozfest [1] in October. During the 23-27th I'm expected to dedicate > most of my time to Mozilla stuff but I might be able to get a arrival > ticket for let's say the the 18th, maybe we can have a hack

Re: 3.14 Release Marketing

2014-09-15 Thread Allan Day
Oliver Propst wrote: > The release is only a week away now, how are we doing? Have anyone > started on the pressrelease, what about screenshots and website > updates? The text of the release notes is done, and I'm getting on with screenshots. I've also reached out to a couple of organisations for

Re: Need a good and recent book on GLib/GTK+

2014-09-16 Thread Allan Day
Sébastien Wilmet wrote: ... > One of the mentioned problems is the GTK+ documentation. I don't agree > with that, I think the API is well documented. But what is really > missing is a good and recent book, for an introduction to how to write a > GLib/GTK+ application. There is one book out there

Re: Need a good and recent book on GLib/GTK+

2014-09-16 Thread Allan Day
Allan Day wrote: > ... Building an effective developer site with a > collection of up-to-date tutorials seems like a good goal. ... The other critical issue we need to tackle for developer docs is generated API reference documentation for the different programming languages, of course...

Re: Giving up maintenership of my modules

2014-09-17 Thread Allan Day
On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 3:07 PM, Andre Klapper wrote: > On Tue, 2014-09-16 at 07:17 +0200, Juan Rafael García Blanco wrote: >> Does Gnome keep track of which projects need developers, >> documentators, maintainers, ...? I mean something similar to gnu's >> savanah. > > Developers: Always needed. >

Re: Free social media presence

2014-09-18 Thread Allan Day
Juanjo Marín wrote: ... > I've realised that our identi.ca/gnome account is zombie since a year ago or > so. I would to return to live if anyone hasn't any objection for that. I > think is important for GNOME to support free software services like > identi.ca, even though the audience on identi

Re: first draft of release notes completed

2014-09-24 Thread Allan Day
Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: ... > Pretty much. We'll have the last set of quotes tomorrow (today). > Allan has worked on it some more. It isn't as wordy as I have or have > the flowery language, but I think it works. I think I'd actually prefer some more flowery language. The cuts I made were mere

Re: FOSDEM Table Application

2014-11-17 Thread Allan Day
Bastian wrote: ... > Last year I was the one to send the table application. I plan to send this > application off to them (similar message as last year): > > https://wiki.gnome.org/BastianIlsø/FOSDEM2015DraftMessage Looks great to me! Thanks for taking care of this, Bastian. I wonder if we could

Re: our story for html5

2014-12-08 Thread Allan Day
Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > So I've been going to a number of these startup events where people > who are starting tech businesses show up. Almost all of them are > doing some kind of app using html5 or something related to android. I > don't really have a good story for them when it comes to htm

Re: Photo pledge, we need more photos from GNOME events

2015-01-26 Thread Allan Day
>> One challenge we face when doing the Annual Report (this is also true >> for other print and web resources) is to find high quality photos of >> our community. Therefore it would be great if people took more CC >> licensed [1] quality photos during GNOME events (conferences and >> Hackfests) an

Re: Photo pledge, we need more photos from GNOME events

2015-02-06 Thread Allan Day
Andre Klapper wrote: ... > If content is under a free license I don't really get why something like > Wikimedia[1] Commons or Flickr isn't used to *share* with the wider > manchild out, there instead of putting them in our own 'data silo'. ... Sorry, I totally forgot to reply to this. The main re

Re: GNOME 3.16 Release Video: Manuscript for revision

2015-02-15 Thread Allan Day
Bastian wrote: ... > Also, what's the timing on this? I've got a bunch of travel coming up so if > you want me to do the voice again I'm happy to do it so long as we plan > ahead and coordinate :) > > I would love if you could! It's one of the reasons to that I put the > manuscript out this early

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