On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 10:09 AM, Karen Sandler <ka...@gnome.org> wrote: > On Fri, December 7, 2012 10:05 am, Brett Legree wrote: >> Great! Yes, Katherine Noyes is another friendly, positive person I had in >> mind. >> >> That's a good plan - to figure out what we want to showcase, and then >> start >> writing and submitting. >> >> One thing I've noticed a lot of detractors say is that "you can't do 'real >> work' with GNOME" - which is a load of hullabaloo, as we know. >> >> Surely the people who code it, design it, and so forth are using it. Greg >> KH uses it on at least one of his systems, and what he does is pretty >> intense. > > Great - I'll contact Greg! > >> >> I'm a nuclear engineer and when I'm using Linux, GNOME is my graphical >> shell of choice (I don't use it to design reactors, but I use it to do >> engineering consulting work and it does the job just fine - the nature of >> the UI helps me to stay focused on the task at hand, distraction free). > > Wow! You should write this up in more detail then this can be some of the > content we use :) >
I agree - that sounds very cool! *I* certainly want to read about it :) Emily > karen > > >> So obviously it isn't just for Facebook and frivolous things - which all >> of >> us know, but the idea is to get the message out there. >> >> -Brett >> On Dec 7, 2012 9:56 AM, "Karen Sandler" <ka...@gnome.org> wrote: >> >>> On Fri, December 7, 2012 4:28 am, Brett Legree wrote: >>> > Good day all, >>> > >>> > One suggestion is to engage various journalists, tech bloggers, or >>> other >>> > online personalities who either write about GNOME (good or bad >>> feedback) >>> > or >>> > use/have used it. >>> > >>> > For example, Bruce Byfield just wrote a fairly positive article on how >>> we >>> > need to engage with the community, get our message out more clearly - >>> hey, >>> > good idea ;-) >>> > >>> > Others have not been so kind, but I'd say if we reach out to them with >>> > positive news before they pick up rumours from the grapevine, we can >>> sort >>> > of use them as positive messengers. >>> >>> Agreed! I have an email interview with Bruce that I'm working on now, >>> and >>> I also have been in touch with Katherine Noyes too. I've also contacted >>> a >>> few other reporters. Everyone - let me know what points to highlight! >>> >>> > Another idea for instance - some tech blogs that have been writing >>> about >>> > GNOME welcome guest articles (Muktware is one) - if we can start >>> getting >>> > articles out there, again food for us. I could take Muktware as I know >>> the >>> > owner of the site. >>> >>> This is a great idea - the barrier in the past has been generating the >>> necessary content to do this. Perhaps we should start by writing what we >>> wish were out there and then shopping it around? >>> >>> karen >>> >>> > >>> > Brett >>> > On Dec 6, 2012 1:12 AM, "Sriram Ramkrishna" <s...@ramkrishna.me> wrote: >>> > >>> >> Howdy folks, >>> >> >>> >> It's that time to start thinking about when to schedule our marketing >>> >> meeting next week. Is the same time frame okay or do people want to >>> try >>> >> a >>> >> different time frame in order to have more people. I know that >>> several >>> >> people keen on attending. >>> >> >>> >> I would request the people who volunteered for community outreach >>> attend >>> >> this as we will probably spend the entire hour talking about >>> community >>> >> management. >>> >> >>> >> Before we talk, we probably want to plan on a structured discussion >>> as >>> >> I >>> >> think that without one we won't come out of the meeting without any >>> >> concrete goals. We should strive to have some kind of actionable >>> item >>> >> at >>> >> the end of the discussion. >>> >> >>> >> Can we open the floor on what we want to focus on, in the next >>> meeting? >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> I want to do one test call Friday so that we can get everybody's >>> >> software >>> >> working prior to the real meeting. We spent way too much time trying >>> to >>> >> get things working and I want to not waste time getting people's >>> >> software >>> >> working. >>> >> >>> >> Once we find a bullet proof method, we can put it on l.g.o and >>> reference >>> >> it. >>> >> >>> >> sri >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> -- >>> >> marketing-list mailing list >>> >> marketing-list@gnome.org >>> >> https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list >>> >> >>> >> >>> > -- >>> > marketing-list mailing list >>> > marketing-list@gnome.org >>> > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list >>> > >>> >>> >>> >> > > > -- > marketing-list mailing list > marketing-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list -- Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. - Goethe Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. - Dr.Seuss Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. - Albert Einstein -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list