Thanks again for the minutes, Emily. I was unable to attend the meeting, due to not being able to dial in again (this time I kept being told that the PIN was wrong).
Emily Gonyer <emilyyr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Minutes from Marketing Tele-Conference, December 13, 2013 > > Participants: Sririm Ramkrishna, Karen Sandler, Andreas Nilsson, Emily > Gonyer, Alan Day, Olav Vitters, Flavia Weisghizzi > > Topic: Community Outreach/Development > > Sri: Theres a common wisdom that GNOME will throw out features and are > unfriendly. We've let others tell our story for us. As a result, most > of the press we receive is negative, focusing on GNOME 3's failures > and shortcomings. ... I don't think it's actually that hard to figure out what we need to do to improve the perception of GNOME and GNOME 3. There are lots of examples that run contrary to the negative discourse that has been circulating - you don't have to look far to find people who love GNOME 3, or to find developers and designers who are receptive to feedback or who are doing cool stuff. It might be an obvious point, but GNOME contributors don't actually conform to the way that they are often described. Our task is to let the world know about the great side of GNOME that people don't often hear about, by sharing positive stories about GNOME 3 and our community. That can be through writing blog posts, talking to the press, sharing posts on social media channels (either personal accounts or the GNOME ones), or by participating in forums and mailing lists. We also need advocates who can liaise between our core contributors and the disparate communities that are interested in GNOME. The difficult part is finding people to take on all these tasks, and I actually think that growing and sustaining the GNOME marketing effort is the biggest challenge that we face: we need to focus on how we can grow the GNOME marketing effort. The telephone meetings are a fantastic start here, but we need to do more. One thing we obviously need is critical mass - a few core contributors who can drive things forward by coordinating activity and by enabling and encouraging people to participate. We also need our contributors to feel motivated and valued. One possible way we could help with this would be to invite designers and developers to come and speak to the marketing crew as a part of regular meetings (I'd be happy to help organise that). Another thing we should think about is how to give exposure to marketing contributors. Things like having identifiable authors on gnome.org could really help. It could also be good to have regular activity reports on the list as a way to celebrate the work done by our marketing contributors. What do others think? What can we do to grow the GNOME outreach effort? Allan -- IRC: aday on irc.gnome.org Blog: http://afaikblog.wordpress.com/ -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list