Kicking off some questions for the 2015 sysadmin sponsorship brochure (or fundraising campaign)

2015-11-07 Thread Jeff F. T.
Hi all, You may be familiar with the fact that circa 2010, we ran a successful fundraising campaign to allow the GNOME Foundation to hire a part-time sysadmin (see also http://www.vuntz.net/journal/post/2010/06/02/Hiring- a-sysadmin-for-the-GNOME-infrastructure for a memory refresher). This has se

Re: I need a logo :)

2015-11-17 Thread Jeff F. T.
As usual I'm happy to work on the graphical execution (unless another designer wants to go for it), if people here would like to discuss and come up with the base idea ("concept"). Having a brainstorm as a starting point can be helpful. There is also the question of if/how "GNOME" gets incorporated

Re: I need a logo :)

2015-11-23 Thread Jeff F. T.
Yes, technically it could only be a wordmark written with http://www.co micneue.com ;;)___ engagement-list mailing list engagement-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/engagement-list

Cleaned up Annual Report folders structure

2015-12-03 Thread Jeff F. T.
Hi all, Just to let you know I fixed something that caused a lot of confusion because of the whole calendar-vs-fiscal year thing: the annual reports' folder naming in our git repo. The fix: https://github.com/gnome-design-team/gnome-marketing/commit/cceb175147 So it went from: /annual-report /a

Re: current prospectus for LAS GNOME

2015-12-03 Thread Jeff F. T.
I didn't see it in the "gnome-marketing" github repo, so could you throw the .odt/source file out here so I can polish its looks a bit?___ engagement-list mailing list engagement-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/engagement-list

Re: current prospectus for LAS GNOME

2015-12-03 Thread Jeff F. T.
> I don't have access to that.  Can I put it on cloud.gnome.org?  Oh sure, or email, or whatever works! ___ engagement-list mailing list engagement-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/engagement-list

Re: Kicking off some questions for the 2015 sysadmin sponsorship brochure (or fundraising campaign)

2015-12-07 Thread Jeff F. T.
Hullo again, o wise ones! To help provide background and ammunition for the brochure, Andreas published a report on his activities in the sysadmin role: https://www. dragonsreach.it/2015/12/02/three-years-and-counting/ I would really appreciate the team giving me some input, on the questions I ra

Statement of support for the SFC's campaign

2015-12-30 Thread Jeff F. T.
Hi all, It would be nice of us to make a public statement of support for the SFC's campaign* to raise funds for their continued existence and their legal battle to uphold the GPL (against infringement by VMWare)**. The FSF has made such a blog post already***. I discussed with the board, and they

Re: Statement of support for the SFC's campaign

2016-01-09 Thread Jeff F. T.
Thanks for continuing the work on this! Looking at the evolution of the draft, I see that there was this opening sentence that was removed: > The GNOME community dedicated the last 18 years to building a > cohesive desktop experience for our users. We have created a library > of work that is found

Re: app idea generation..

2016-02-01 Thread Jeff F. T.
Le dimanche 31 janvier 2016 à 23:20 +, Sriram Ramkrishna a écrit : > How many food recipe apps are out there that look good, designed > well, and has the kind of features for the Internet age?  Probably > none. As an aside and purely for your curiosity: there's http://jeff.ecchi.ca /blog/2010/1

Re: infographic rev 0

2016-02-01 Thread Jeff F. T.
Beyond the execution, details and visual polish, what do you folks think of the concept in general? And the contents? FWIW, there are also alternative ways to represent a timeline generally (with a circle, spiral, serpent, or some other object metaphor). Open to any ideas.

Some branding guidelines and historical info lost in migration

2016-02-10 Thread Jeff F. T.
Hi all, There were some interesting contents in https://wiki.gnome.org/action/r ecall/BrandGuidelines?action=recall&rev=58 that were lost in the migration to https://www.gnome.org/logo-and-trademarks/ - namely, the detailed spacing guidelines and the origins of the logotype. For instance, this para

Re: Some branding guidelines and historical info lost in migration

2016-02-14 Thread Jeff F. T.
Allan wrote: > There are spacing guidelines on the logo and trademarks page. It says > "", and then points to http://www.gnome.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/0 > 6/logo-spacings.png > > Is there something missing from that? Well that image is for external spacings, but there were two more images on

Re: infographic rev 0

2016-02-18 Thread Jeff F. T.
Le lundi 08 février 2016 à 18:33 +, Allan Day a écrit : […] > I've had a rough go at sketching out an infographic that communicates > some of this information. Some things are missing, and some parts are > quite rough: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5031519/gnome-year-i > nfographic.png So

Do we have a calendar?

2016-02-26 Thread Jeff F. T.
Do we have such a thing as an online collaborative calendar for the Engagement team? Something where we can put deadlines for events/publications/etc., that people could subscribe to in Evolution, GNOME Calendar, etc. Looking at the Annual Report's planning wiki page, it occurred to me that this m

Re: Annual report: Drafts review - The XDG-App story, continued

2016-05-12 Thread Jeff F. T.
Uh oh, looks like I'll have to fork this thread and turn it into a cross-mailing list one! Le jeudi 12 mai 2016 à 12:59 -0700, Adelia Rahim a écrit : > Hi everyone, > > It has taken a while, but finally we have the bulk of the articles > ready for review; > > 1) Hackfests > 2) Releases > 3) Confe

Re: Annual report: Drafts review - The XDG-App story, continued

2016-05-12 Thread Jeff F. T.
Le vendredi 13 mai 2016 à 05:32 +0100, Emmanuele Bassi a écrit : > Hi Jeff; > > the name "flatpak" was proposed[0] and it's in the process of being > adopted[1]. > > Ciao, >  Emmanuele. > > [0]: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg-app/2016-May/000195.h > tml > [1]: https://lists.freedeskt

Re: infographic rev 0

2016-05-16 Thread Jeff F. T.
Le jeudi 18 février 2016 à 21:20 +, Allan Day a écrit : > > > On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 11:08 AM Jeff F. T. > > wrote: > > > I have to say wow, Allan, that version of yours looks really > > > good. Other than the bottom part (specifically the "}", the

Re: NOTES | GNOME Social Media Hackathon on March 5th

2016-05-21 Thread Jeff F. T.
Le dimanche 6 mars 2016 à 00:33 -0800, Nuritzi Sanchez a écrit : > Twitter > There is only one login and password that multiple people share.  This is suboptimal indeed. Twitter (or at least TweetDeck, which is a part of Twitter) allows delegating an account to owners of other accounts, without pas

Re: Annual report: Drafts review

2016-05-21 Thread Jeff F. T.
I have now pushed the current state of my initial layout work onto http s://github.com/gnome-design-team/gnome-marketing/tree/master/annual- report/FY2015 (just in case something terrible happens to my computers) Currently this is in Scribus format only; it's so rough that it's not really meant fo

Re: Annual report: Drafts review

2016-05-25 Thread Jeff F. T.
Le mardi 24 mai 2016 à 10:43 +0200, Andreas Nilsson a écrit : > Wasn't there even an xdg-app/flatpak for the unstable version? Oh, didn't know if there was such a thing... just grabbed the easiest thing I could get my hands on, which at that time was the F23 COPR! _

Annual Report - Bugzilla stats?

2016-06-10 Thread Jeff F. T.
Hi all, A question came up during a discussion today: the Annual Report has traditionally had a full page dedicated to "Bugzilla stats". What is its fundamental purpose? Do you know people who read it or expect it in the report each year, vs other types of stats and facts? Would you rather keep it

Re: Annual Report - Bugzilla stats?

2016-06-14 Thread Jeff F. T.
Le mardi 14 juin 2016 à 12:39 +0200, Bastien Nocera a écrit : > Apart from having your name in the report, if you're one of the > people in the list, this is useful when analysed, and would be even > more useful when extended. > > For example, you might want to have a list of people who don't work

Annual Report: layout draft done

2016-06-20 Thread Jeff F. T.
Hi all, in the "Annual Report preparation" folder in OwnCloud you will find a render of the current state of the Annual Report. Texts and layout are final unless you spot last minute errors. Things I still need to do: Proper infographics (for the events/releases, and for the financial report) A ta

Re: Annual Report - Bugzilla stats?

2016-06-22 Thread Jeff F. T.
Just got an idea then: let's simply rip out the most significant stat(s) (ex: total number of opened/closed bugs) and turn them into factoids to be inserted somewhere along the text? ___ engagement-list mailing list engagement-list@gnome.org https://mail.

Re: Annual Report - Bugzilla stats?

2016-06-22 Thread Jeff F. T.
Le mercredi 22 juin 2016 à 09:56 -0700, Adelia Rahim a écrit : > If I have to choose only one to include, I would choose the yearly > summary since the top 5 lists are more useful only when analysed and > extended and explained in the report.  Yeah... > The summary however, makes sense when viewed

FY2015 Annual Report release candidate

2016-07-06 Thread Jeff F. T.
Hi all, The final draft of the annual report is ready! You can find GAR2015- web.pdf in the engagement team's OwnCloud instance or at the usual "/public/" spot on my website (if you don't know where that is, feel free to ask on IRC ;)  I also pushed the sources to the gnome-marketing git reposito

Re: Merchandise page on gnome.org

2016-07-06 Thread Jeff F. T.
Looks good to me, thanks for taking the time to work on this, Allan!___ engagement-list mailing list engagement-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/engagement-list

Re: FY2015 Annual Report release candidate

2016-07-10 Thread Jeff F. T.
All fixed. I'm kind of surprised nobody has complained about the easter egg in the timeline on page number 3, where it says, > "GNOME is 18 years old! > (old enough to drink in Canada)" …should I leave it there? I'm game, if you like the comic relief ;-) ##SELECTION_END## And then, does anyone have

GNOME Summit pre-registration announcement

2016-09-07 Thread Jeff F. T.
Hi all, I announced the GNOME Summit on Planet GNOME, my own social media, and on foundation list: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundati on-list/2016-September/msg6.html I'm a bit surprised by the low amount of registrations so far. We usually have between 20 and 50 participants signing up.

Re: GNOME Summit pre-registration announcement

2016-09-07 Thread Jeff F. T.
Le mercredi 07 septembre 2016 à 16:29 +0200, Andreas Nilsson a écrit : > > Do you mean 20 to 50 by this time of the year, or 20 to 50 at the event? > > > I'm not sure how it is for the Summit usually, but as far as I've seen for GUADEC, people sign up preeetty late in general. Nah, 20-50 at the t

Shipping the remaining annual reports

2016-09-08 Thread Jeff F. T.
Hi all, I will have to depend on you folks to look at last year's spreadsheet I had put into owncloud's "annual report preparation" folder (shared with the engagement team etc.) and to make a new version clearly indicating who I should ship reports to this year. With my current workload I am not i