Karen Sandler <ka...@gnome.org> wrote: >>>>> As per Tobi's email, we should consider again whether to organize a >>>>> marketing hackfest! Shaun has suggested co-locating with the docs >>>>> sprint >>>>> in Cincinatti June 17-19. >> ... >>>>> What do people think? Would it be workable this time and if so would >>>>> having it in June make sense? >> >> I'm definitely interested in attending a marketing hackfest. That >> said, I am busy and my primary responsibility is design, so I'd want >> to be confident that the event would be an effective use of time. Do >> you (or anybody else) have any ideas for what we would work on? > > I think there are a lot of things we could work on, but one big thing we > want to do is to better articulate why GNOME and free software generally > is so important. Also, our marketing materials site is old and seriously > out of date so on the more mundane side, combing through those materials, > reorganizing them and figuring out if there's anything new that we need > would probably be very useful.
With the resources that we have for marketing, there's a danger that planning discussions would remain just that - discussions. We've been down this road before; we all want to do more, but there are limits, and I think we should be realistic. So I have a strong preference for doing work at the hackfest rather than planning. As for things that we could work on, there are a number of priority areas for me: * Marketing materials - we could use the opportunity to move our existing content over to OwnCloud and fill in any blanks * Updating the brand guidelines and move them to a restricted location (this would include elaborating them to cover things like visual style, colour schemes, etc) * Writing a GNOME mission statement For some of these items, particularly the last one, we will need more expertise than the marketing team has. If we are going to tackle these tasks - and I think that a hackfest would be a good opportunity to do so - we should think about getting other people to the event, either from the GNOME community and/or specialists who can help us to articulate our message. (And if we do want to get other members of the community involved, New York might be a better location.) Allan -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
