Re: A11y @ Ohio Linux Fest
I am planning to attend Ohio Linux Fest this year one way or another - I have family in Columbus to stay with, so it shouldn't be a big deal at all. I'm game to help however I can, manning a GNOME booth or an A11y booth or doing anything else thats needed. Just let me know :) Emily On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 7:41 PM, Bryen M Yunashko a11yro...@bryen.comwrote: This year, Ohio Linux Fest will be held in Columbus, Ohio September 28-30. I initially thought about proposing my A11y: Its about you! talk, but after reading the OLF website, knowing their interests in promoting open A11y, and seeing how people commented about a11y at Indiana Linux Fest last weekend, I thought... Why not go for something bigger this time? Go for the bang! My proposal: 1. We set up a very large booth that isn't focused on any one organization, but rather on open a11y in general. Booth staff would include reps from GNOME, Mozilla, FSF, Oracle, etc. Hands on demonstrations of what our software can do. 2. Propose more advanced talks, such as How you can test to ensure your software is accessible, or how to deploy a11y software in your environment. (I get asked this a lot!) My It's about you! talk really is more an introduction/marketing talk. It's good, but doesn't do enough to get more people to pay attention to a11y in their own development. 3. Organize a hacksession, perhaps either one of our traditional fix what's broken in a11y events, or fix what's accessibly-broken in non a11y-software. OLF has a community day on Friday which is more focused on workshops and whatnot. An ideal day to set up hacksessions before the main event on Saturday. I think given the combined resources of the various organizations and that a number of a11y contributors live somewhat close to Ohio, we could make a good go of this. And potentially make this a blueprint for organizing similar events around the world. Getting more people aware, interested, and involved, is a good thing, IMO. It would also create an opportunity to invite local agencies, school districts, etc. that work with people of various abilities. A plus for us to demonstrate our awesomeness to target audiences, and a plus for the event host to increase attendance to their show. I'm not proposing we do this instead of traditional dotOrg booths. For example, if GNOME community plans to have a booth, they should still do so. But we would be creating a traveling A11y Center of which GNOME would be a consortium member. Frankly, I think this would be a more likely success-story outcome than at places like CSUN conference. Thoughts? Bryen M Yunashko -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list -- Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. - Goethe Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. - Dr.Seuss Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. - Albert Einstein -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
GNOME Quarterly Report Q1/2012
Hi everybody, it's time again for a quarterly GNOME report to let community and companies know what has been going on between January and March 2012. Please update your section for Q1/2012 here: https://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/QuarterlyReports/2012/Q1 The list of potential teams and writers: * Board and Executive Director - Karen Sandler * Bugsquad - Andre Klapper * Membership and Elections Committee - Tobias Mueller * GNOME User Groups - ??? * Accessibility Team - Alejandro Piñeiro Iglesias, Joanmarie Diggs * Outreach Program for Women - Marina Zhurakhinskaya * Localization - Petr Kovar * Documentation - ??? * Web - Andreas Nilsson, Vinicius Depizzol * Google Summer of Code 2012 - ??? * Marketing - ??? * Sysadmin - ??? * Design - ??? * Conference planning: GUADEC, GNOME.asia? - ??? If you do not have time, please consider delegating the task! There are some sections that do not have writers yet - please fill your name in on the wiki if you could write a summary. It really does not have to be long! I also assume that every writer welcomes help and input (that's why I also send this to corresponding mailing lists). We would like to finish the Q1 report before by May 11, 2012. Thanks for your help, andre -- mailto:ak...@gmx.net | failed http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Friends of GNOME campaign
hi all, We've had the accessibility campaign up for a while, and I'm going to post a new item about it this week (pointing to Diego's story - http://www-old.gnome.org/friends/a11y-testimonial-2.html) but I think it's time to start looking ahead. What do we think the next campaign should be? And when should we ideally launch it? (While giving full consideration to running the current campaign for the right amount of time.) karen -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
[Fwd: Question about the trademark policy and usage of the GNOME logo]
I'm catching up on my queue from all of the travel I've had, and one of the items that was on my to do list was to follow up on this trademark request. I (and the board) think in this instance the trademark request is something that the marketing team should weigh in on. Check out the attached image for the proposed sticker. While I like the sticker a lot and think it's well designed, it maybe touches on some bigger questions about the GNOME brand and how we want to market ourselves. This says Powered by GNOME and I know that some folks wanted us to shy away from using terms like that or GNOME Technologies, though I think it's also necessary to provide ways for folks to say that there are GNOME components involved in their products to help people understand how useful GNOME is. Allan Day and I had a long discussion about some issues connected to this at FOSDEM (with Dave Neary and Emily Gonyer too) but it was impossible to come to any quick conclusions there. This is a narrower request, so maybe we don't need to tackle the huge questions now, but what do you think about this? I think it's kind of a neat way of handling our problem (though I'd of course ask them to include the TM, etc to comply with our policy - so don't worry about that part). thanks! karen Original Message Subject: Question about the trademark policy and usage of the GNOME logo From:i...@nixstickers.com i...@nixstickers.com Date:Mon, March 26, 2012 8:14 am To: licens...@gnome.org -- Hi, Concerning the GNOME trademark policy: https://live.gnome.org/Foundation/LicensingGuidelines I'm Teemu Otala from NixStickers.com (site still under construction). NixStickers.com will be a webshop where one can purchase reasonable priced OpenSource related stickers; *nix like distros, software (Apache, Tomcat, etc) and programming languages (Python, Perl, etc). The selection will depend on the responses/approvals from the trademark/logo owners. Estimated price for a sticker is around 0.70-1 euros at the moment. The idea is to raise the awareness of OpenSource software with fashionable stickers that developers and users can use to decorate their hardware. The site is not non-profit, but it is not really about making money either as this site is more of a hobby for me. I would like to request your permission to use GNOME logo and perhaps text GNOME (with R) on a sticker - see attached file for early draft version. Could you please respond if this request can be approved even partially, and if so what should be changed in the sticker design. The original idea is to get these ready for LinuxTag2012 in Berlin, I would like to visit GNOME stand to give out some free GNOME stickers. Best Regards, Teemu Otala +358-40-841 6966 -- http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/board-list From time to time confidential and sensitive information will be discussed on this mailing list. Please take care to mark confidential information as confidential, and do not redistribute this information without permission.attachment: gnome.jpg-- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: [Fwd: Question about the trademark policy and usage of the GNOME logo]
On Mon, 2012-04-16 at 23:43 -0400, Karen Sandler wrote: I'm catching up on my queue from all of the travel I've had, and one of the items that was on my to do list was to follow up on this trademark request. I (and the board) think in this instance the trademark request is something that the marketing team should weigh in on. Check out the attached image for the proposed sticker. While I like the sticker a lot and think it's well designed, it maybe touches on some bigger questions about the GNOME brand and how we want to market ourselves. This says Powered by GNOME and I know that some folks wanted us to shy away from using terms like that or GNOME Technologies, though I think it's also necessary to provide ways for folks to say that there are GNOME components involved in their products to help people understand how useful GNOME is. Allan Day and I had a long discussion about some issues connected to this at FOSDEM (with Dave Neary and Emily Gonyer too) but it was impossible to come to any quick conclusions there. This is a narrower request, so maybe we don't need to tackle the huge questions now, but what do you think about this? I think it's kind of a neat way of handling our problem (though I'd of course ask them to include the TM, etc to comply with our policy - so don't worry about that part). thanks! karen At openSUSE, we have a similar system label that we distribute at FOSS events. They're quite popular as people love to put them over the Windows system label that comes with most PCs. I don't see a problem with GNOME having a similar label. I also have a system label with Tux Penguin on it. I'm personally looking forward to getting my hands on a GNOME system label once its available. I say go for it and I hope at some point GNOME Foundation also includes these labels in the GNOME booth kit. It's relatively inexpensive to print these rolls in bulk and easy to transport to events. Bryen Original Message Subject: Question about the trademark policy and usage of the GNOME logo From:i...@nixstickers.com i...@nixstickers.com Date:Mon, March 26, 2012 8:14 am To: licens...@gnome.org -- Hi, Concerning the GNOME trademark policy: https://live.gnome.org/Foundation/LicensingGuidelines I'm Teemu Otala from NixStickers.com (site still under construction). NixStickers.com will be a webshop where one can purchase reasonable priced OpenSource related stickers; *nix like distros, software (Apache, Tomcat, etc) and programming languages (Python, Perl, etc). The selection will depend on the responses/approvals from the trademark/logo owners. Estimated price for a sticker is around 0.70-1 euros at the moment. The idea is to raise the awareness of OpenSource software with fashionable stickers that developers and users can use to decorate their hardware. The site is not non-profit, but it is not really about making money either as this site is more of a hobby for me. I would like to request your permission to use GNOME logo and perhaps text GNOME (with R) on a sticker - see attached file for early draft version. Could you please respond if this request can be approved even partially, and if so what should be changed in the sticker design. The original idea is to get these ready for LinuxTag2012 in Berlin, I would like to visit GNOME stand to give out some free GNOME stickers. Best Regards, Teemu Otala +358-40-841 6966 -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: A11y @ Ohio Linux Fest
On Mon, April 16, 2012 6:53 am, Emily Gonyer wrote: I am planning to attend Ohio Linux Fest this year one way or another - I have family in Columbus to stay with, so it shouldn't be a big deal at all. I'm game to help however I can, manning a GNOME booth or an A11y booth or doing anything else thats needed. Just let me know :) Emily On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 7:41 PM, Bryen M Yunashko a11yro...@bryen.comwrote: This year, Ohio Linux Fest will be held in Columbus, Ohio September 28-30. I initially thought about proposing my A11y: Its about you! talk, but after reading the OLF website, knowing their interests in promoting open A11y, and seeing how people commented about a11y at Indiana Linux Fest last weekend, I thought... Why not go for something bigger this time? Go for the bang! My proposal: 1. We set up a very large booth that isn't focused on any one organization, but rather on open a11y in general. Booth staff would include reps from GNOME, Mozilla, FSF, Oracle, etc. Hands on demonstrations of what our software can do. this is a great idea! I've been talking with various orgs about ways we can work together to promote accessibility and this seems like a great way to really get started. let me know how I can help! karen 2. Propose more advanced talks, such as How you can test to ensure your software is accessible, or how to deploy a11y software in your environment. (I get asked this a lot!) My It's about you! talk really is more an introduction/marketing talk. It's good, but doesn't do enough to get more people to pay attention to a11y in their own development. 3. Organize a hacksession, perhaps either one of our traditional fix what's broken in a11y events, or fix what's accessibly-broken in non a11y-software. OLF has a community day on Friday which is more focused on workshops and whatnot. An ideal day to set up hacksessions before the main event on Saturday. I think given the combined resources of the various organizations and that a number of a11y contributors live somewhat close to Ohio, we could make a good go of this. And potentially make this a blueprint for organizing similar events around the world. Getting more people aware, interested, and involved, is a good thing, IMO. It would also create an opportunity to invite local agencies, school districts, etc. that work with people of various abilities. A plus for us to demonstrate our awesomeness to target audiences, and a plus for the event host to increase attendance to their show. I'm not proposing we do this instead of traditional dotOrg booths. For example, if GNOME community plans to have a booth, they should still do so. But we would be creating a traveling A11y Center of which GNOME would be a consortium member. Frankly, I think this would be a more likely success-story outcome than at places like CSUN conference. Thoughts? Bryen M Yunashko -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list -- Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. - Goethe Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. - Dr.Seuss Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. - Albert Einstein -- 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
