http://live.gnome.org/GnomeJournal has all the information including what's being worked on. Paul Cutler has been doing a great job of being our release person. We are on track for a May 1st release.
sri On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Stormy Peters <sto...@gnome.org> wrote: > That's great. > > Do you have a content/article schedule? > > Is there a way we can share the content early with journalists so perhaps > they could write articles that point at it? > > Stormy > > > On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Sriram Ramkrishna <s...@ramkrishna.me>wrote: > >> GNOME Journal is doing a series of articles on various parts of GNOME 3.0 >> includeing gnome-zeigist, gnome-shell and so forth. If you want to do >> marketing I highly suggest we use the Journal for articles. Morever, I want >> to start doing some kind of content sharing agreement with red hat magazine >> and others so that they can publish our articles to a larger audience. As >> well, we want them translated for print magazines. This is how we can get >> our message far and wide. >> >> We want to build anticipation, and we want to woo developers first so that >> they can create apps that are 3.0 ready. >> >> sri >> >> >> On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 8:41 AM, Stormy Peters <sto...@gnome.org> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Alex Hudson <h...@alexhudson.com>wrote: >>> >>>> Stormy Peters wrote: >>>> >>>>> + Identify our target audience(s). Do we want to communicate with >>>>> existing GNOME users, all free desktop users, or try to reach out to >>>>> non-free-desktop users? (I think we can safely leave communicating with >>>>> developers up to the developers themselves.) >>>>> + Identify our key messages. What's new/interesting/cool about GNOME >>>>> 3.0. Who will it benefit? How? >>>>> >>>> >>>> I'd like to proffer an observation on the above two points: part of what >>>> people are talking about being cool about GNOME 3.0 is the developer >>>> platform being streamlined and modernized. Although we want to evangelise >>>> the benefits, the most powerful message wouldn't be GNOME saying that stuff >>>> (we would, wouldn't we?) but having a series of other projects saying that. >>>> >>>> If there was an early marketing campaign toward developers expounding >>>> the virtues of the new platform, and the stuff you can do with it, by the >>>> time we get around to release maybe we could have the results of that to >>>> show as well - either independent apps talking up GNOME 3, or in-house dev >>>> teams saying nice things, that kind of thing. As a concrete example, with >>>> Firefox being Gtk-bound already, are there examples where the GNOME >>>> integration story there could be improved and/or new GNOME 3 hotness added >>>> to Firefox? I realise there may be better examples which conflict less with >>>> GNOME (=epi), but it would be pretty cool to point users at new stuff in >>>> Firefox which GNOME 3 enables. Other examples: why not Wordpress, Noserub, >>>> etc., and similar services? How is the integration with web stuff going to >>>> work? Can we say cool things about the likes of Dropbox for GNOME 3? (I >>>> care >>>> less for the non-free stuff personally, but it appears to be pretty >>>> popular). >>>> >>>> Perhaps the timescales are too short here, but I think it would be >>>> really cool if we could have others echo our messages, which in many ways >>>> might mean talking to developers and telling them about what's happening in >>>> GNOME world.... >>> >>> >>> Very good point. Perhaps our job is to align all the marketing messages >>> that other projects will say about GNOME 3.0 and so it makes sense to reach >>> out to developers. >>> >>> We are also best at talking to developers, so we could build on our >>> strengths ... >>> >>> Stormy >>> >>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Cheers, >>>> >>>> Alex. >>>> -- >>>> marketing-list mailing list >>>> marketing-list@gnome.org >>>> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> marketing-list mailing list >>> marketing-list@gnome.org >>> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list >>> >>> >> >
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