Re: recruiting sponsors
I guess that it could damage GNOME's overall relationship with potential sponsoring companies if companies found themselves being contacted by multiple random people on our behalf. -- murr...@murrayc.com www.murrayc.com www.openismus.com -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: survey Friends of GNOME donors
Am Donnerstag, den 21.05.2009, 10:52 -0600 schrieb Stormy Peters: 2. Do you use ... (check all that apply) - GNOME desktop - GNOME applications like Abiword, Gimp, Banshee, Inkscape (which ones should we list here?) - GNOME products on Windows - GNOME products on KDE - None of the above What are GNOME products compared to GNOME applications? andre -- mailto:ak...@gmx.net | failed http://www.iomc.de/ | http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: survey Friends of GNOME donors
Good question! I assumed that products would encompass more than applications. But I think in the cases below applications would work well. Stormy On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 2:25 AM, Andre Klapper ak...@gmx.net wrote: Am Donnerstag, den 21.05.2009, 10:52 -0600 schrieb Stormy Peters: 2. Do you use ... (check all that apply) - GNOME desktop - GNOME applications like Abiword, Gimp, Banshee, Inkscape (which ones should we list here?) - GNOME products on Windows - GNOME products on KDE - None of the above What are GNOME products compared to GNOME applications? andre -- mailto:ak...@gmx.net | failed http://www.iomc.de/ | http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper -- 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
Re: recruiting sponsors
Good point. We should probably have some type of process where people log their intent to contact a company and log the contact they've had so others can follow up if and when appropriate. Stormy On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 1:17 AM, Murray Cumming murr...@murrayc.com wrote: I guess that it could damage GNOME's overall relationship with potential sponsoring companies if companies found themselves being contacted by multiple random people on our behalf. -- murr...@murrayc.com www.murrayc.com www.openismus.com -- 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
Re: recruiting sponsors
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 10:34, Dave Neary dne...@gnome.org wrote: Hi, Diego Escalante Urrelo wrote: We might follow the GIMP KDE models, and simply have a page where we list benefactors of the foundation, separately from the advisory board. Yes, that could work, they might ask for having a logo plus their name in the thank you pages instead of just their name. Just an idea. This is what the GIMP has done in the past (I don't know if it's still maintained): http://gimp.org/donating/sponsors.html We had guidelines on the maximum size of logos per level, and the more people gave the bigger their logo, and the higher they were on the page. Individual donors also got their name embossed rendered with script-fu in a big font if they gave over a certain level. I've suggested to have a sponsor tab on the main gnome page http://mail.gnome.org/archives/marketing-list/2009-May/msg00039.html I think that brings value to our corporate sponsors. Now it is quite hidden that they are sponsoring GNOME Jaap -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: recruiting sponsors
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 22:09, Dave Neary dne...@gnome.org wrote: Hi, Diego Escalante Urrelo wrote: OTOH, I have wonder if it would be fair to our current Advisory Board members to give other companies paying less the same marketing benefit, can we consider that the seat in AB is worth -say- $4000 or should we limit the marketing benefits of our possible smaller companies? You want to lower ad board fees? $10K is a ridiculously small amount of money for many of the companies funding the foundation. At this price level, we already have a small budget. We might want to consider *increasing* ad board fees, especially since I have the impression that this year we are giving good value for money in terms of networking and feedback access. Now there are 2 possible fees 5000$ if you have =50 employees 1$ if you have 50 employees You could think of a 1 or 2 more levels here. Because a company of 51 employees is quite different to 5000 employees. So what about 1000$ 10 employees 2500$ 25 employees 5000$ 100 employees 1$ 1000 employees 2$ 1000 employees If the current sponsors agree to this (I think it's very important that they agree) the income would go up significantly because GNOME has quite some sponsors with more than a 1000 employees (HP, Google, Intel, Motorola, Nokia, Novell, Redhat). Furthermore on the low end we also introduce more options. For the big companies to pay more we need to come up with a plan on how to spend the money. A full time sysadmin helping to setup stuff comes first to mind, but then there is quite some money left. Jaap -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: recruiting sponsors
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 17:54, Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org wrote: Thanks for the feedback I've gotten for this off list. An idea that's come up several times is financially compensating individuals and companies that bring additional companies to the GNOME community. While we want companies to come join the community and participate, regardless of whether or not they sponsor the Foundation financially, it might be worth rewarding people for bringing financial contributions. What would people think of a 10% finders fee for individuals or companies that brought in sponsors? Maybe there's some guidelines like must give at least $5,000. I don't like the finders fee that much. If we want to offer something it should be more in the spirit of free beer. So maybe a travel cheque that can be used to visit GUADEC. So in the proposed case of 10% and 5000$ it would be a 500$ travel cheque that can only be used to visit GUADEC or some other GNOME conference Jaap -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
