Re: GNOME Journal and World of GNOME Re: About worldofgnome org

[Sriram Ramkrishna <sri ramkrishna me>]

On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 10:23 PM, alex diavatis <alexis diavatis gmail com> wrote:

Hello Sri,

The principle goal of GJ is to promote GNOME through articles.  You had mentioned interviews and the like and that's where I felt the overlap was.

How many people are in your tam to do this?  I'm just curious?  Would they be available to work on GNOME things for marketing/ GNOME Journal as well?

Right now we are 3. Seems few, but we are ok to produce the kind of material we want. For example, 1 of us writes on osarena.net. He manages 20 interviews a month. 

On contrary with GJ we want much more simpler things, we target to easiness of read. We don't want so much technical. And we go beyond Gnome also.

We consider GNOME and Linux one thing. 

We have a section called Community. We will try somehow to bring together some GNOME sources.

Would be glad if we could help you, but we haven't the knowledge to write so deep articles as GJ has. And personally I don't want to committed as I have huge amount of work.

Basically we need you to help us :)

On the end of the day we have to see how the people will respond, we haven't open yet, if we get like 500 hits a day, there is no meaning to continue :)  

OK, that's fine.  I'm okay with that..  Let us know though if you're interested in writing more in depth ones.  As I said earlier, Linux Foundation is happy to re-publish any articles we come up with on Linux.com so we'll have some access to people outside our readership.  Which is where we want to go.

sri
 

Regards

- alex

On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 6:33 AM, Sriram Ramkrishna <sri ramkrishna me> wrote:

On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 7:24 PM, alex diavatis <alexis diavatis gmail com> wrote:

Hello all, 

I uploaded an empty early draft (many things have changed, don't freak out!) to show you what WoGue is about.

You can see it on http://worldofgnome.org/404/woguedemo/ (hover mouse on banner to open Menu)

Ramkrishna I think there is not any kind of overlap between G. Journal and WoGue. There are totally different things.

However I included a G Journal icon on Explorer tab. We can republish G Journal news there by reference on gnomejournal.org.

That would be appreciateed, thank you.  The principle goal of GJ is to promote GNOME through articles.  You had mentioned interviews and the like and that's where I felt the overlap was.

How many people are in your tam to do this?  I'm just curious?  Would they be available to work on GNOME things for marketing/ GNOME Journal as well?

sri
 

About licences

We release under Free of any licence. But I afraid we have to change this, because we have issues with the work of other people that we use, like republishing things, or using Faenza Icons.

About WoGue Goals

Our primary goal is to bring Design Ideas for GNOME from Mailing Lists and Blogs to one place, and give people that aren't on "Gnome", "Linux", "etc", the opportunity to express their opinion, and to get a better product by getting new ideas based on their wishes. Gnome is a community project after all. 

Secondary goal is to convince people that Gnome is the best thing out there (I personally think so).

Last Goal is to make an enjoyable page for people to read. 

About WoGue Content

It would be great if we could run a site only with the primary goal. Unfortunately I doubt if we can collect so many stuff, so we need to enrich the page a bit. 

So we added the Gnome Stories area.  

People can say what they like in Gnome (assuming that Gnome is OS), when they tried it first time, and things like that...

We also have Theming & Personalization

We picked some of the best themes on our opinion and we represent them. Same thing with Extensions. 

Interviews

One of our major parts is to having interviews from Gnome Design Team (and other people of course), about why they do that, what they are going to do next, no technical analysis, simple things, that are enjoyable to read and helpfull to learn and understand. 

Games

Leaving out Web, 90% of software is Games. Games is an important factor for an OS to be succeed. People are looking for games and they may choose to use Gnome if they are happy with games on it.

Commercial Software

Well, I think we have to refer on this also. We use closed drivers, closed hardware, Flash etc. We are going to show Games even if are commercials. However we are not 100% sure about it.

Anyway I don't want to spend your time with a huge text, I just wanted to explain what WoGue is about. 

I hope you will not have any issues with our work, and we would really appreciateif  you to CC us your Design Ideas and News from Mailing Lists and your Blogs so we can publish them on our page. we can't follow all of them :( 

We don't ask your TM Logo, just a logo that is similar with it :) a

Besides, WoGue is not going to represent GNOME,  WoGue is trying to advertise GNOME.

Friendly,

 - alex

   

On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 9:40 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna <sri ramkrishna me> wrote:

Allan,

It seems World Of GNOME and GNOME Journal have some overlap.  We might need to discuss this a little bit I think.

sri

On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 9:50 AM, alex diavatis <alexis diavatis gmail com> wrote:

Hello, 

We plan to release worldofgnome.org some day this week -Thursday most probably- and we still haven't any answer from you about if we have the right to use the Gnome Logo.

Our logo is just a text "WoGue" and we want to add Gnome Icon next to it. 

We don't claim any rights on our work, or on our logo and we don't go commercial in any way. 

If we haven't any answer from you by the time we release it, we assume that we can use Gnome logo as a part of ours (actually next to ours not part of it), 

and we discuss it between us if we should or shouldn't not use it.

Hope hearing from you,

Thank you

- alex

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