Re: Emergency marketing team meeting
I don't know about you guys, but I'm still not clear what came out of the UX hackfest. Which would automatically make me agree with the below. Furthermore, I don't understand how within the 6 month time period that you will have all the user testing, addressing regression (gnome shell for instance has no applets, I consider that a regression regardless of whether it is a good thing or not and finally documentation. I'm in India this week attending my grandfather's funeral, I would like to attend at whatever time you set.. you don't need to accommodate me. sri On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 8:58 AM, Jason D. Clinton m...@jasonclinton.comwrote: On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 10:31 AM, Jason D. Clinton m...@jasonclinton.comwrote: Let's meet to discuss candidly on #marketing. In order to facilitate the meeting going quickly and with a minimal amount of straying off-topic, I would like to hear on this list in advance if there is anyone whom disagrees with the following premise or whom feels that it needs slight modification: From a marketing perspective we, publicly, cannot promise anything as radically disruptive as proposed by the UX Hackfest brainstorming sessions for delivery *after* Gnome 3.0 (whenever that release may be.) Such a strategy would have the following outcomes: 1. It would make our desktop look like 3.0 is half-baked 2. It would make us look like we're experimenting on our user base 3. It would make our desktop environment look unstable On the other hand, should such changes happen organically--that is, not part of a narrative about what Gnome 3 is--then so be it. Please make your feelings known if you disagree in advance of the meeting so that we all start from the same frame of reference. -- 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: Emergency marketing team meeting
Am Mittwoch, den 10.03.2010, 00:15 -0800 schrieb Sriram Ramkrishna: I don't know about you guys, but I'm still not clear what came out of the UX hackfest. On a related note, I assume that hackfest output is quite unrelated to GNOME 3, as most changes will be too late for GNOME 3, but such a message wasn't communicated. 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
Organizing the Marketing Team
We as a team have done a lot of great stuff over the last year and since I became more active with the team I've tried to help out with scheduling meetings, a BoF at GUADEC and our first hackfest. I've never considered myself a marketer and just tried to help get stuff done. Looking forward, I may have less time to spend than I would hope, and one suggestion is to form a number of sub-teams focused on specific tasks and goals, which I think is a great idea as we think about all the stuff we want to do this year. Some of the groupings that jump out at me: * GNOME 3.0 promotion * GNOME 3.0 video creation /promotion * Fundraising (Friends of GNOME, GNOME Store, Mobile giving) (Jaap has done a great job helping Stormy with the Friends of GNOME program from helping analyze the data to updating the site) * User Analysis (stolen from John Williams email last month) * GNOME Website (Darton is doing an awesome job revamping content for the new website) * GNOME Materials (Conference presentations, brochures, etc) We are all volunteers and help GNOME in our spare time - who is willing to help with some of the tasks above? How would you organize them or what is missing? Can you volunteer to lead one of these initiatives? You'll need to help organize the tasks, find people to help, and each quarter give a brief (few sentence update) for the quarterly report. Paul -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Article and photos from the Project:Possibility USC UCLA face off.
http://www.dailybruin.com/articles/2010/3/5/bruins-face-usc-programming-challenge/ http://picasaweb.google.com/projectpossibility/UCLAVsUSCSS122010Day1# http://picasaweb.google.com/projectpossibility/UCLAVsUSCSS122010Day2# http://picasaweb.google.com/projectpossibility/UCLAVsUSCSS122010FINAL# The winning teams from each campus will be at CSUN Steve Lee -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Article and photos from the Project:Possibility USC UCLA face off.
if it is not clear, the 'existing on-screen keyboard' mentioned is GNOME Caribou. A huge thanks to Ben for helping the students, through a very steep learning curve and on to success. Steve On 10 March 2010 15:01, Steve Lee st...@fullmeasure.co.uk wrote: http://www.dailybruin.com/articles/2010/3/5/bruins-face-usc-programming-challenge/ http://picasaweb.google.com/projectpossibility/UCLAVsUSCSS122010Day1# http://picasaweb.google.com/projectpossibility/UCLAVsUSCSS122010Day2# http://picasaweb.google.com/projectpossibility/UCLAVsUSCSS122010FINAL# The winning teams from each campus will be at CSUN Steve Lee -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Article and photos from the Project:Possibility USC UCLA face off.
Thanks for the links! I was going to twitter them and couldn't fit it in 140 characters so I wrote a blog post: http://blogs.gnome.org/foundation/2010/03/10/gnome-projectpossibility/ Stormy On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 8:01 AM, Steve Lee st...@fullmeasure.co.uk wrote: http://www.dailybruin.com/articles/2010/3/5/bruins-face-usc-programming-challenge/ http://picasaweb.google.com/projectpossibility/UCLAVsUSCSS122010Day1# http://picasaweb.google.com/projectpossibility/UCLAVsUSCSS122010Day2# http://picasaweb.google.com/projectpossibility/UCLAVsUSCSS122010FINAL# The winning teams from each campus will be at CSUN Steve Lee -- 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: Organizing the Marketing Team
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 6:59 AM, Paul Cutler pcut...@gnome.org wrote: Some of the groupings that jump out at me: * GNOME 3.0 promotion * GNOME 3.0 video creation /promotion * Fundraising (Friends of GNOME, GNOME Store, Mobile giving) (Jaap has done a great job helping Stormy with the Friends of GNOME program from helping analyze the data to updating the site) * User Analysis (stolen from John Williams email last month) * GNOME Website (Darton is doing an awesome job revamping content for the new website) * GNOME Materials (Conference presentations, brochures, etc) I will help out where ever I can but will probably most actively help in fundraising, GNOME materials and GNOME 3.0 promotion. I can help lots and I can mentor if appropriate, if someone wants to try a leadership role. Stormy -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Mobile Giving Marketing Plan Draft
Hi Bharat, We don't have a finance person to take over. I think it would help to suggest messages both for twitter, any banners, etc. People are often willing to help but if we just ask them to blog and twitter, it is unlikely anything will happen. But if we say twitter [some catch message here], that's more likely to happen. Stormy On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 10:14 PM, Bharat Kapoor 3.kap...@gmail.com wrote: Sounds good. I am not a twitter/facebook expert Reg. campaign ideas: 1. Can we get friends to send donation via this mode to start with 2. Put a banner on Gnome site 3. Is it possible to stick a banner, if someone uses Gnome :) - I know I am being lame here - but what the heck - its late at night and I can throw ideas hope something sticks. 4. Print a big banner and take it to events where we have booths: Something like: Helping Gnome is just one SMS away - SMS *GNOME10* to donate 410 bucks My suggestion would be, whoever is in charge of Finance/Revenue generation to take over the strategy part of this initiative. I believe we can volunteer to do the work. Its important for the finance person to control the message we send out and at what times. Marketing team can definitely help. On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 10:06 PM, Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org wrote: We should probably add some specifics, like ideas for text for twitter and banners, which event to target, etc. Stormy On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 5:41 PM, Bharat Kapoor 3.kap...@gmail.com wrote: Posted: http://live.gnome.org/Gnome%20Fund%20Raising#preview Please jot ur thoughts. Best Regards Bharat -- 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: Organizing the Marketing Team
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 7:59 AM, Paul Cutler pcut...@gnome.org wrote: * GNOME 3.0 video creation /promotion * Fundraising (Friends of GNOME, GNOME Store, Mobile giving) (Jaap has done a great job helping Stormy with the Friends of GNOME program from helping analyze the data to updating the site) * GNOME Materials (Conference presentations, brochures, etc) I'm already down for having volunteered for the three above, so count me in on those. -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
