Re: promoting good gnome apps via news.gnome.org
Am Dienstag, den 16.06.2009, 12:15 -0500 schrieb Brian Cameron: We work hard to get our patches upstream, but there is usually a lag time and some modules are not well maintained (we have patches in bugzilla for modules like libgnome and gnome-vfs that have sat idle for years). Probably because libgnome and gnome-vfs are both deprecated and there's no interest in spending much time on them. I can imagine that the current maintainers are open for requests on co-maintenance. 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
Meeting Minutes - June 15
Hi all, Sorry for the delay. Here are the minutes from our last meeting: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeWeb/Minutes/Minutes20090615 FYI: I created a page for publishing future meeting minutes: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeWeb/Minutes Cheers! --lucasr -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Meeting Minutes - June 15
The irc log is attached in the wiki page btw. --lucasr 2009/6/17 Lucas Rocha luc...@gnome.org: Hi all, Sorry for the delay. Here are the minutes from our last meeting: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeWeb/Minutes/Minutes20090615 FYI: I created a page for publishing future meeting minutes: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeWeb/Minutes Cheers! --lucasr -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Next milestone - July 15 (Front page, About, Contact implemented)
Hi all, About previous milestone: DONE: Content: Final proposal of content structure Overview table: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeWeb/TwoPointTwentyseven/Content#head-b3f35f41481fac92825b0a812964e7d73bfc0dcf Content dev pages: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeWeb/TwoPointTwentyseven/Content#head-45e2743e1d043e96643b5750e92409896dd35fb6 DONE: Design: Final website design ready to be implemented HTML/CSS pages: http://www.andreasn.se/diverse/temp/gnome.org-design/template.html http://www.andreasn.se/diverse/temp/gnome.org-design/page.html http://www.andreasn.se/diverse/temp/gnome.org-design/foundation.html DONE: CMS: All contenttypes implemented Content types documented: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeWeb/Plone/Implementation#head-9a21019dcd57fb0f8d75befbfc3bfa563ea8ba4a DONE: CMS: Initial front page implementation Johannes sent test instructions: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-web-list/2009-June/msg00036.html PENDING: CMS: Test website setup in GNOME servers Carsten, what's the status here? Alexandro sent a message reporting some problems on the setup. Was this solved? We've made an excelent job in this milestone! Thanks a lot everyone for the hard work! Let's try to get the test website running by the end of this week. Milestone goals: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeWeb/TwoPointTwentyseven#head-facef5f119f55d6a19025d7b72686a2be90aa1c3 Suggestions/questions: - Content team: send a list of specific tasks involving content production/review for the Front page, About and Contact sections. This will make it easier for new volunteers to jump in; - Content team: it seems we already have quite a lot of pre-existing content for About and Contact, right? We should have a much more exciting text on front page presenting GNOME. The current What is GNOME text in w.g.o is totally boring! - Content team: let's keep working on the content in the wiki during most of this milestone. As I said, I want to avoid any infrastructure-related distractions. By the end of this cycle, we can start moving the content to the test website. Let's see. - CMS team: send a list of tasks around theming so that new volunteers can get involved; Please, document theming bits in http://live.gnome.org/GnomeWeb/Plone/Implementation. - CMS team: did you have time to change the Plone content tree to match the final content structure? - CMS and Design teams: good communication is essential to efficiently get the new design implemented in Plone. Use the mailing list and irc as much as you can! At the end of this milestone, we should have the new design applied in our Plone site, a nice front page, and the About and Contact sections pretty much done. Let's make it happen! Cheers! --lucasr -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: GNOME 3.0 Roadmap - Promotion/Marketing
Hi Marketing team! Lucas is looking for feedback by the 19th, which is in two days? Any comments or recommendations for our GNOME 3.0 goals for Marketing? Paul On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 12:31 AM, Paul Cutler pcut...@gnome.org wrote: I'd love to hear the community's thoughts on Lucas' email. I would personally recommend for the objective: To introduce existing GNOME users to GNOME 3.0, including it's features, benefits and changes Why existing? I think we need to be aware of scope, and our first mission should be to help users adjust to the change from 2.x to 3.0, and as time goes on, build on that community to other target markets. Feedback? Too narrow? Suggestions and alternatives? Paul On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Paul Cutler pcut...@gnome.org wrote: Lucas, thanks for the email. I had been taking a slightly different approach, but I think we can figure it out. For the BoF Stormy and I are giving at GUADEC, my hope had been to be able to share out our plan with the community at that time based on discussions on the list. I sent the Brief out yesterday, and there are some things that need to be finished out. I was going to send out 3 campaign ideas on Wednesday (2 of mine, and Claus') for discussion, and next weekend I was going to send out a calendar of events and marketing vehicles built in an OOo spreadsheet that I was going to attach to lgo. In this calendar, it lays out a number of marketing activities, including (off the top of my head without looking at the doc): * Creating presentations for volunteers to give at conferences / LUGs (they have a base to start from) * Blog strategy (similar to FoG where we have a schedule of volunteers blogging once a week about FoG) * Press kit (we can send journalists information about our new product release) * Video campaign (This is an integral part of a marketing campaign I have) * Interviews (Make members of the GNOME community available for interviews with the press, provide speaking points) And a couple others. All are zero cost. In the spread sheet, the column headers are weeks, and I was shading the cells with 3 colors, one for planning, development, and implementation. There are a number of marketing vehicles that we can deploy over time, as opposed to a press release which is released on a certain day and you're kind of done with. This is probably a much more complex answer to your question than you wanted. The goal of the marketing brief sent out yesterday is to answer some of these questions. Paul On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 1:34 PM, Lucas Rocha luc...@gnome.org wrote: Hi all, We're working on the roadmap for GNOME 3.0 now. The idea is to have a more concrete set of goals for 3.0 and bring more clarity and transparency to the 3.0 general plans. Instead of doing a current per-module roadmapping process, we're trying to use a more topic-based approach. One of topics I'm including on our roadmap is Promotion/Marketing. So, here's the information I'm looking for: 1. Summarize in one sentence/paragraph the goal(s) for Promotion/Marketing in GNOME 3.0 2. What are the goals for Promotion/Marketing in GNOME 3.0? Some general guidelines: - For 2, I'm expeting a simple bullet list; - The items should be as concise and concrete as possible; - Ideally, the goals listed here should have a good level of feasibility. Try to avoid blue sky type of ideas with no people actually backing them; - Try to split those in two milestones: 2.28 and 2.30; - It would be nice to have the roadmap by June 19. We can include the result of our discussions about GNOME Marketing Brief[1], GNOME 3.0 marketing[1], bringing more focus to apps[2], website revamp[3], Friends of GNOME drive[4], etc. Other ideas? Suggestions? Anyway, I think it would be a good exercise for us to try to come up with a concrete plan for 3.0. Who volunteers to organize that? Let me know if you have any questions. Cheers! --lucasr [1] http://live.gnome.org/MarketingBrief2009 [2] http://live.gnome.org/ThreePointZero/Plan [3] http://live.gnome.org/GnomeWeb/TwoPointTwentyseven [4] http://www.gnome.org/friends/drive/ -- 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
