Re: We reached our FoG goal \o/
Whoo-hoo! Congrats! On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 4:30 PM, Tobias Mueller mue...@cryptobitch.dewrote: Hi everyone! I blog-posted already but I haven't sent a mail yet. Our fundraiser is complete. We received 2 USD to make GNOME more secure and more privacy aware. We should think about the next steps. I.e. we should update the current banner to thank the donors. Andreas suggested something along the lines of Thank you all generous donors for helping us reach our security and privacy campaign goal of $20.000. What do you think? Could anybody do it? We might also want to get some press release out. We have a good climate now to get good coverage. Cheers, Tobi -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Fwd: Action Required: Submit Your Google Grants Renewal Form
I submitted it today with Rosanna as the contact person! They said they review them on a rolling basis so we should hear back in the next couple of weeks. Stormy On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 6:22 PM, Karen Sandler ka...@gnome.org wrote: On Thu, July 18, 2013 2:34 pm, Stormy Peters wrote: I have that number. I have no idea if it's a number that should be kept private or not. When I fill out the form, I'd rather not be the contact person. Should I put Karen's name or someone else? I suggest Rosanna, but I'm happy for it to be me too :) karen Stormy On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 3:52 PM, Ekaterina Gerasimova kittykat3...@gmail.com wrote: On 17 July 2013 21:16, Karen Sandler ka...@gnome.org wrote: On Wed, July 17, 2013 4:00 pm, Stormy Peters wrote: The forms are in the link in the original email below. No login required. The only piece of info that people might not have handy is the federal id. Awesome! And I've got that and it's public info: the EIN is 04-3572618 It also asks for the customer ID for the AdWords account. karen Stormy On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 1:09 PM, Karen Sandler ka...@gnome.org wrote: On Wed, July 17, 2013 1:05 pm, Ekaterina Gerasimova wrote: On 17 July 2013 17:07, Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org wrote: If we want to do it, I can fill out the form. It's very simple. Is the information which is needed to fill this out recorded somewhere so that other people can do it? I just searched everything I have and I don't have it. Stormy tried to add me as an admin to the account but that never went through (I never received the email). Perhaps Rosanna or Stormy has it? karen But then we should probably figure out what we want to do with it ... Stormy On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 9:23 AM, Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.mewrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org Date: Jul 16, 2013 11:08 AM Subject: Fwd: Action Required: Submit Your Google Grants Renewal Form To: GNOME Marketing List marketing-list@gnome.org Cc: We need to renew if we want to keep this. It took 6 months to get it the first time around ... Stormy Yeah we should do this. Anybody want to volunteer? -- Forwarded message -- From: “Google Grants” googlegra...@google.com Date: Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 5:07 PM Subject: Action Required: Submit Your Google Grants Renewal Form To: sto...@gnome.org Action Required: Submit Your Google Grants Renewal Form Dear Google Grantee, The Google Grants renewal window is now open. Our renewal policy is in place to ensure that your organization is in fact still a registered nonprofit, and that your AdWords account is compliant with the Google Grants policies and guidelines. Any Google Grantee who has been in the program six months or longer is required to renew their eligibility. Please complete the renewal form, located on the renewal FAQ page, within the next three weeks: Renewal FAQs and forms We will review organizations on a rolling basis. As we have many Google Grants accounts to review, you may not receive your notification decision for several weeks. Your account will remain active and running while you wait to hear back from us. Please refer to the renewal FAQs for more information. Sincerely, The Google Grants Team Please note: this email acts as a notification only. Please do not reply. © 2013 Google Inc. 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 You've received this mandatory service announcement email to update you about important changes to your Google Grants AdWords account. -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Fwd: Action Required: Submit Your Google Grants Renewal Form
I have that number. I have no idea if it's a number that should be kept private or not. When I fill out the form, I'd rather not be the contact person. Should I put Karen's name or someone else? Stormy On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 3:52 PM, Ekaterina Gerasimova kittykat3...@gmail.com wrote: On 17 July 2013 21:16, Karen Sandler ka...@gnome.org wrote: On Wed, July 17, 2013 4:00 pm, Stormy Peters wrote: The forms are in the link in the original email below. No login required. The only piece of info that people might not have handy is the federal id. Awesome! And I've got that and it's public info: the EIN is 04-3572618 It also asks for the customer ID for the AdWords account. karen Stormy On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 1:09 PM, Karen Sandler ka...@gnome.org wrote: On Wed, July 17, 2013 1:05 pm, Ekaterina Gerasimova wrote: On 17 July 2013 17:07, Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org wrote: If we want to do it, I can fill out the form. It's very simple. Is the information which is needed to fill this out recorded somewhere so that other people can do it? I just searched everything I have and I don't have it. Stormy tried to add me as an admin to the account but that never went through (I never received the email). Perhaps Rosanna or Stormy has it? karen But then we should probably figure out what we want to do with it ... Stormy On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 9:23 AM, Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.mewrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org Date: Jul 16, 2013 11:08 AM Subject: Fwd: Action Required: Submit Your Google Grants Renewal Form To: GNOME Marketing List marketing-list@gnome.org Cc: We need to renew if we want to keep this. It took 6 months to get it the first time around ... Stormy Yeah we should do this. Anybody want to volunteer? -- Forwarded message -- From: “Google Grants” googlegra...@google.com Date: Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 5:07 PM Subject: Action Required: Submit Your Google Grants Renewal Form To: sto...@gnome.org Action Required: Submit Your Google Grants Renewal Form Dear Google Grantee, The Google Grants renewal window is now open. Our renewal policy is in place to ensure that your organization is in fact still a registered nonprofit, and that your AdWords account is compliant with the Google Grants policies and guidelines. Any Google Grantee who has been in the program six months or longer is required to renew their eligibility. Please complete the renewal form, located on the renewal FAQ page, within the next three weeks: Renewal FAQs and forms We will review organizations on a rolling basis. As we have many Google Grants accounts to review, you may not receive your notification decision for several weeks. Your account will remain active and running while you wait to hear back from us. Please refer to the renewal FAQs for more information. Sincerely, The Google Grants Team Please note: this email acts as a notification only. Please do not reply. © 2013 Google Inc. 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 You've received this mandatory service announcement email to update you about important changes to your Google Grants AdWords account. -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Fwd: Action Required: Submit Your Google Grants Renewal Form
If we want to do it, I can fill out the form. It's very simple. But then we should probably figure out what we want to do with it ... Stormy On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 9:23 AM, Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.mewrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org Date: Jul 16, 2013 11:08 AM Subject: Fwd: Action Required: Submit Your Google Grants Renewal Form To: GNOME Marketing List marketing-list@gnome.org Cc: We need to renew if we want to keep this. It took 6 months to get it the first time around ... Stormy Yeah we should do this. Anybody want to volunteer? -- Forwarded message -- From: “Google Grants” googlegra...@google.com Date: Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 5:07 PM Subject: Action Required: Submit Your Google Grants Renewal Form To: sto...@gnome.org Action Required: Submit Your Google Grants Renewal Form Dear Google Grantee, The Google Grants renewal window is now open. Our renewal policy is in place to ensure that your organization is in fact still a registered nonprofit, and that your AdWords account is compliant with the Google Grants policies and guidelines. Any Google Grantee who has been in the program six months or longer is required to renew their eligibility. Please complete the renewal form, located on the renewal FAQ page, within the next three weeks: Renewal FAQs and forms We will review organizations on a rolling basis. As we have many Google Grants accounts to review, you may not receive your notification decision for several weeks. Your account will remain active and running while you wait to hear back from us. Please refer to the renewal FAQs for more information. Sincerely, The Google Grants Team Please note: this email acts as a notification only. Please do not reply. © 2013 Google Inc. 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 You've received this mandatory service announcement email to update you about important changes to your Google Grants AdWords account. -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Fwd: Action Required: Submit Your Google Grants Renewal Form
The forms are in the link in the original email below. No login required. The only piece of info that people might not have handy is the federal id. Stormy On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 1:09 PM, Karen Sandler ka...@gnome.org wrote: On Wed, July 17, 2013 1:05 pm, Ekaterina Gerasimova wrote: On 17 July 2013 17:07, Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org wrote: If we want to do it, I can fill out the form. It's very simple. Is the information which is needed to fill this out recorded somewhere so that other people can do it? I just searched everything I have and I don't have it. Stormy tried to add me as an admin to the account but that never went through (I never received the email). Perhaps Rosanna or Stormy has it? karen But then we should probably figure out what we want to do with it ... Stormy On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 9:23 AM, Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.mewrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org Date: Jul 16, 2013 11:08 AM Subject: Fwd: Action Required: Submit Your Google Grants Renewal Form To: GNOME Marketing List marketing-list@gnome.org Cc: We need to renew if we want to keep this. It took 6 months to get it the first time around ... Stormy Yeah we should do this. Anybody want to volunteer? -- Forwarded message -- From: “Google Grants” googlegra...@google.com Date: Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 5:07 PM Subject: Action Required: Submit Your Google Grants Renewal Form To: sto...@gnome.org Action Required: Submit Your Google Grants Renewal Form Dear Google Grantee, The Google Grants renewal window is now open. Our renewal policy is in place to ensure that your organization is in fact still a registered nonprofit, and that your AdWords account is compliant with the Google Grants policies and guidelines. Any Google Grantee who has been in the program six months or longer is required to renew their eligibility. Please complete the renewal form, located on the renewal FAQ page, within the next three weeks: Renewal FAQs and forms We will review organizations on a rolling basis. As we have many Google Grants accounts to review, you may not receive your notification decision for several weeks. Your account will remain active and running while you wait to hear back from us. Please refer to the renewal FAQs for more information. Sincerely, The Google Grants Team Please note: this email acts as a notification only. Please do not reply. © 2013 Google Inc. 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 You've received this mandatory service announcement email to update you about important changes to your Google Grants AdWords account. -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Fwd: Action Required: Submit Your Google Grants Renewal Form
We need to renew if we want to keep this. It took 6 months to get it the first time around ... Stormy -- Forwarded message -- From: “Google Grants” googlegra...@google.com Date: Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 5:07 PM Subject: Action Required: Submit Your Google Grants Renewal Form To: sto...@gnome.org [image: Google Grants] Action Required: Submit Your Google Grants Renewal Form * * * * *Dear Google Grantee,* * The Google Grants renewal window is now open. Our renewal policy is in place to ensure that your organization is in fact still a registered nonprofit, and that your AdWords account is compliant with the Google Grants policies and guidelineshttp://www.google.com/appserve/mkt/p/tVL120znhWOvmSMZf9NhDR1LxPZnHEsQGAybP1GSlGPRwUYizLqboCFlEcxAOj17WMhrm6q3oXOobN-KBQ==. Any Google Grantee who has been in the program six months or longer is required to renew their eligibility. Please complete the renewal form, located on the renewal FAQ page, within the next three weeks: Renewal FAQs and formshttp://www.google.com/appserve/mkt/p/Os-UoVZoSbwFQrKOX8L-K1bTh5kQShLrwTBWiMpO4LSwLxs5x-aIyqWWyiS5dyHEJ2tIXfZOXl3TbEEk We will review organizations on a rolling basis. As we have many Google Grants accounts to review, you may not receive your notification decision for several weeks. Your account will remain active and running while you wait to hear back from us. Please refer to the renewal FAQshttp://www.google.com/appserve/mkt/p/Os-UoVZoSbwFQrKOX8L-K1bTh5kQShLrwTBWiMpO4LSwLxs5x-aIyqWWyiS5dyHEJ2tIXfZOXl3TbEEkfor more information. Sincerely, The Google Grants Team Please note: this email acts as a notification only. Please do not reply. * © 2013 Google Inc. 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 You've received this mandatory service announcement email to update you about important changes to your Google Grants AdWords account. -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Fwd: Must Read: Google Grants Renewal Required
Are we using our Google Grants account anymore? (I am not doing anything with it.) The two main advantages that I remember are: * Getting donations though Google checkout without having to pay a fee. * Free Google ads Stormy -- Forwarded message -- From: “Google Grants” googlegra...@google.com Date: Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 10:42 AM Subject: Must Read: Google Grants Renewal Required To: sto...@gnome.org [image: Google Grants] Must Read: Google Grants Renewal Required *Google loves to give grants to nonprofits! But every now and again, we need to make sure you are in fact still a registered nonprofit, and that your AdWords account is compliant with Google Grants guidelines. Our Google Grants renewal policy will require Google Grantees who have been in the program longer than six months to submit updated nonprofit status documentation, along with their AdWords Customer ID, for review. Google Grants will continue to be available, and we'll likely request you renew your eligible status every year **going forward. * *What Next?* *You don’t have to do anything yet! We wanted to give you a heads up that the renewal policy is coming so that you can have your nonprofit status documentation ready and you can review the Google Grants guidelineshttp://www.google.com/grants/eligibility.html to ensure your AdWords account is compliant. We plan to launch the renewal policy in July 2013. We will provide a three week window for Google Grantees to submit a renewal form at that time, so please be on the lookout for an email in July.* * New URL Policy We recently sent an email announcing a change to our URL policy. Google Grantees are now only allowed to advertise the one URL associated with the registered nonprofit listed in their original application. Please remove extra URLs from your account before the renewal policy to avoid suspension from the program. Please refer to the renewal FAQshttp://www.google.com/grants/renewalfaq.htmlon the what, why, when and how of the renewal policy. Sincerely, The Google Grants Team Please note: this email acts as a notification only. Please do not reply. © 2013 Google Inc. 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 You've received this mandatory service announcement email to update you about important changes to your Google Grants AdWords account. * -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Marketing Marketing
I don't have a preference but agree that the term marketing is misleading. As a reference point, at Mozilla it's Engagement. Then within Engagement there is user contributor engagement, developer engagement, websites, product marketing and brand. I think most people equate marketing to product marketing. Stormy On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 1:35 PM, Allan Day allanp...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Marketing is associated with corporations, and is done by marketing professionals. I've often felt that the term isn't a good fit for what we do in GNOME, and I suspect that it puts some people off contributing. We discussed this during the recent hackfest, and it seems that there's support for changing GNOME Marketing to a different term. Ideas that we discussed include promotion, outreach, engagement and advocacy. What do people think of this? Do you have a preference for the name? Allan -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Revisiting rewards for the FoG campaigns
I found the best way to get the data and collate it was through the emails that paypal sends out. CiviCRM handles donors and gifts really well too. Stormy On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 5:53 PM, Tobias Mueller tobias...@gnome.org wrote: Hola, On 09.04.2013 03:53, Karen Sandler wrote: I'm not sure if zana is on the marketing-list, so I'm ccing her. I think she may be able to shed some light on the history... Maybe stormy knows, too? I think people who adopt a hacker are really excited about the postcard part. I think this happening within a month or two at most is really important to keep them from feeling disappointed. Okay. That makes things easier anyway. We've seen people get confused (and upset) when they notice that the donation continues indefinitely, perhaps because the standard is just a year. FWIW: We have 121 subscriptions, 50 of which are younger than a year, leaving 71 which are older than a year. I interpret that as the people being happy with the non-expiring subscriptions. It's a big pain to get hold of that data though. And Paypal doesn't give me the details used when the donors was checking out, like who she wants to receive a postcard from. That said, I'd love to send a gift to all of our subscribers that have been with us for two years or more. Perhaps ebassi and muelli, together with gpoo might be able to pool all the data to do this? hm. As far as I've found out it's not possible to get the data straight from Paypal (see above). And to only get the address, I'd have to click at least twice for each subscription in Paypal's webinterface. I'm not going to do that. In the special case of donors sticking for more than two years, it might be feasible though as it's ~35 donors. I can send you their details, if you want. If we wanted to send postcards to everyone staying for longer than a year, getting hold of the emails that Paypal sent and parsing them might be an option. Rosanna might have an archive. Cheers, Tobi -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Friends of GNOME donation methods
We are set up with a Google nonprofits account. On Feb 16, 2013 8:49 AM, Andreas Nilsson li...@andreasn.se wrote: Right now we only support Paypal as a payment method for FoG, and that is less than ideal. Looking into some other payment methods: Amazon Payments: https://payments.amazon.com/**sdui/sdui/nonprofithttps://payments.amazon.com/sdui/sdui/nonprofit Google checkouts: http://checkout.google.com/**seller/npo/http://checkout.google.com/seller/npo/ We pay: https://www.wepay.com/ Any other good tips for non-profits that people know of? - Andreas -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/**mailman/listinfo/marketing-**listhttps://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Revisiting rewards for the FoG campaigns
I haven't gotten any requests either in well over a year. I know that sending out the requests is a manual process. I think Emmanuele owns it right now. I went to see if there was still a way to select a person to send a postcard (there is) and I have a few other pieces of feedback. * There's no donate button on this page: http://www.gnome.org/friends/. You have to choose Become a Friend or pick a level. I don't think that's obvious. * If I pick the Donate Now button at the top of the page, it takes me to the same page. I think if we do away with the levels, we can do away with the adopt a hacker/postcard idea. It's only relevant to developers or people who know the community, not to all donors. Stormy On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 3:30 PM, Andreas Nilsson li...@andreasn.se wrote: On 2013-02-12 12:38, Andre Klapper wrote: On Mon, 2013-02-11 at 13:58 -0700, Stormy Peters wrote: Also, given our current, rather manual, process for tracking and shipping and handling, it takes (Rosanna's) time to manage and ship too. On a related note, how are Adopt a hacker postcard requests tracked and handled currently? My inbox has been empty I have ego problems to accept the fact that people out there don't like me anymore. Oh yeah. I haven't gotten to write any postcards in a while either. Maybe we should revisit this system and just send them out centrally from GNOME to whoever donates on a continuing basis (like say, you've donated once a year for more that 3 years in a row or something)? - Andreas -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/**mailman/listinfo/marketing-**listhttps://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Revisiting rewards for the FoG campaigns
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 1:04 PM, Dave Neary dne...@gnome.org wrote: What is our lowest price point before we make a loss? While it's goog to be aware of this, I think it's important to underline that people aren't buying a t-shirt - not even a special edition t-shirt they can't get anywhere else. They're helping the foundation, and we set the price points not to make a margin of 10% or 20% or whatever, we set the price points to raise money for the foundation. Incidentally, typical margin for garments on the internet is somewhere between 100% and 150% of cost. Excl. delivery costs. Also, given our current, rather manual, process for tracking and shipping and handling, it takes (Rosanna's) time to manage and ship too. I'm sure there's data out there if someone wants to study the optimum level. Papers like this on suggested donation amounts: http://faculty.haas.berkeley.edu/rjmorgan/Silence%20is%20Golden.pdf Decreasing donor choices raised donations: http://economics.ucr.edu/winter11/Barbieri%20paper%20for%202%2011%2011%20seminar.pdf Not suggesting levels might be the best thing: http://googlecheckout.blogspot.com/2009/12/google-checkout-for-non-profits-in-2010.html Stormy -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: PROPOSED Marketing Meeting: January 9th 20:00 UTC
What time are these and how often do the happen? (So I can put them in my calendar and try to hold the time ...) Thanks, Stormy On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 3:40 AM, Flavia Weisghizzi fla...@weisghizzi.itwrote: I'll be there :) Cheers Flavia Il 07/01/2013 21:09, Fabiana Simões ha scritto: Works for me too. I'll be there :) On 7 January 2013 17:15, Karen Sandler ka...@gnome.org wrote: And the dial-in info will be: PSTN: +1-718-247-9666 SIP: sip:c...@sfconservancy.onsip.com PIN: 8602 looking forward to talking to you then! karen On Wed, January 2, 2013 6:17 pm, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: Same time as usual. Topics: 1) managing classic experience expectations 2) 2.8 marketing message and materials 3) FoG 4) follow up on action items from the last meeting Please propose any other topics for discussion as well. Thanks, sri -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: GNOME Presence at SCALE 11x
Or ask Jeff if there is someone he recommends? On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 2:55 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.me wrote: I think we would love to be there, but I don't know of any GNOME folks that reside in SoCal. I could write a call for volunteers on planet and ask? On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Gareth J. Greenaway gar...@socallinuxexpo.org wrote: Greetings all, A quick introduction, I'm Gareth Greenaway, one of the organizers for the Southern California Linux Expo. An annual free open source conference held in Southern California. I've been lurking on the list for awhile, just observing :) The last few years we've had an awesome GNOME presence at SCALE. spearheaded by Jeff Schroeder. Unfortunately for us, Jeff has relocated and is no longer local to SoCal, so he'll be unable to represent GNOME at the show. My hope is that there is someone whose willing to step in and fill this role. Any questions at all, please don't hesitate to ask. Thanks! Gareth -- SCALE 11X - February 22nd - 24th, 2013 This time it goes to 11! -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: scheduling FoG campaign call
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 8:39 PM, Andre Klapper ak...@gmx.net wrote: On a related note: Have the issues mentioned in https://mail.gnome.org/archives/marketing-list/2012-November/msg0.html https://mail.gnome.org/archives/marketing-list/2012-June/msg00084.html https://mail.gnome.org/archives/marketing-list/2012-June/msg00069.html https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2012-October/msg00102.html been sorted out? I don't feel comfortable to launch a campaign if we end up with disappointed people because our processes don't work out well. +1 Stormy -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Subscription status
Hi Misha, Rosanna Yuen should be able to help you. If not, the Board of Directors would be the right place to go. Thanks for donating to GNOME! Stormy On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 2:50 AM, Misha Shnurapet shnura...@fedoraproject.org wrote: Hello. I contacted frie...@gnome.org and the Foundation mailing list, noone responded to my emails. I'd really like to receive the promotional t-shirt. Thanks! Пересылаемое сообщение 31.10.2012, 13:09, Misha Shnurapet shnura...@fedoraproject.org: Hi. I adopded a hacker a year ago. My subscription #S-4HA33164WY7445946 was dropped by PayPal along the way and I continued to send monthly donations manually. I donated in the name of Andreas Nilssen. The year is over. What's next? -- Best regards, Misha Shnurapet, Fedora Project Contributor Email: shnurapet AT fedoraproject.org, IRC: misha on freenode https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/shnurapet, GPG: 218264B3 Завершение пересылаемого сообщения -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: push back on negative articles
On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 12:36 AM, Olav Vitters o...@vitters.nl wrote: As stated before: you can disagree what you want. But do so nicely. You've given no arguments, just focussed on trying to rile emotions. Such behaviour is not acceptable here. So bye. Olav, I respectively disagree with you. I think Larry's emails were fine. Stormy -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: push back on negative articles
On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 9:39 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.mewrote: On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 7:08 PM, Karen Sandler ka...@gnome.org wrote: I love that we're re-evaluating the ways that we handle press and that we're looking for opportunities to improve. I can accept that. But I won't allow gross mis-characterizations to go unchallenged. I can use my own plus page for that... although I might also use the comment section to gently explain our side. I would not create any new pages that link to the article, but I think commenting on the article in a very positive, fact based way, could be good. As we see from Olav and Larry's conversation, it's one we all feel strongly about so we need to be careful. I think it's also worth reaching out to Bruce. I'm happy to do intros. I think the right person to talk to him is someone who is passionate about GNOME 3, very patient and a good listener. :) Stormy -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: push back on negative articles
I think we could arrange some media training if people want to attend. Sally Dhudairi works with Apache and lives in Boston. She has expressed interest in helping us in the past. Maybe she'd be willing to host a session at the Boston Summit. If she can't, I know a few other people who would be good and might be willing to help. Here are my basic takeaways from the several media trainings I've done: 1) Know your story. Know what you want the other person to take away from the conversation. Write those 3 things down. 2) No matter what the question, try to tell your story. Or how that relates to your story. See #1. 3) If someone asks you a tough question, you don't have to say no, but ... Try to get back to #1. 4) Practice how you'll answer the tough questions ahead of time. (You probably know what they are.) Most companies put out FAQs for their spokespeople when there's big news. Included in that is how to answer the difficult questions. While a few reporters only want the controversy, most of them are very nice and also want the story you are passionate about. :) Stormy On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 8:08 PM, Karen Sandler ka...@gnome.org wrote: I love that we're re-evaluating the ways that we handle press and that we're looking for opportunities to improve. I think we should focus on ways to get positive press, as others have said, and I think one of the best ways to do that right now is probably to talk about the 3.6 release. Maybe we should systematically look at the negative articles and make sure that we address the substantive points in our press about the new release? I think a free software community run project is different than a company's product in that we'll always be a work in progress. It's ok to talk about areas that can be improved for future, for example. I do think there's a lot of great stuff happening that I gets overlooked in an effort to zone in on juicy disagreement and we can probably help with that by making sure we take opportunities to talk about the good things. We've still got a good amount of time to work on it too. On Sun, August 19, 2012 6:43 pm, Olav Vitters wrote: Briefly, any politician or anyone dealing with the press is media trained. Any big company will have spoke persons (either someone external, or some high up manager). For anyone reading along, the idea is not that they (spoke person or anyone media trained) lie; it is to avoid any spins. Say exactly one thing, nothing more. I think it would be a good idea to get media training, and I'd be up for being the one to do it, of course! I am a little skeptical about how overall effective it will be (I've had small amounts of training in the past that would have been helpful if I'd want to be more like a television personality for example with tips on wardrobe, and I've had other media experts tell me that everything we do is too inside baseball). Depending on the price, it couldn't hurt! I have a few friends who have had some media training and I'll ask them who to contact. Anyone else have any ideas where to start? Let's find out what kind of options there are and see if we can maybe find some group sessions that would be helpful. I think we're a handful of people that are generating most of our marketing content right now, and it would be great to spread the knowledge around. I realize that I should remind everyone that I'm probably going to be out of contact for a lot of September on maternity leave so we should come up with a game plan for 3.6 release related press at any rate! karen -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: push back on negative articles
Hi Bruce, Thanks for reaching out! We'd definitely like to take you up on your and talk to you. Maybe Karen or Sri would be the right person? (Karen, Sri?) Or Allan Day? Stormy On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 12:10 PM, Bruce Byfield bbyfi...@axion.net wrote: ** Negative articles? Are you kidding? Because I mention what many people in the community are saying? What some GNOME developers are saying? If I didn't care what was happening in the free software community, I wouldn't have written the article in the first place. I would be doing a poor job as a journalist, and doing nothing for the community if I only reported on the happy things and ignored the problems. That said, if anyone cares to engage in a responsible conversation about GNOME's current state and how the project is being received, you're welcome to get in touch. I can't guarantee publication of the result -- that is ultimately up to my editors -- but I would certainly be interested in writing an article that accurately reflects opposing views. I don't have to agree with a position to think that it's worth letting other people hear. -- Bruce Byfield 604-421-7189 (on Pacific time) blog: https://brucebyfield.wordpress.com website: http://members.axion.net/~bbyfield/ -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Any chance to move your MLs to Google Groups?
Mozilla uses an odd combination of Mailman and Google Groups. So most Mozilla lists can be subscribed to via Mailman *or* Google Groups. I wasn't around when the decision was made but I believe the driving force was to provide a Mailman interface for those who work best with that and a web interface for people who liked the newsgroup format. While it doesn't always work perfectly, it seems to work for a lot of people. On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 6:16 AM, Tobias Mueller tobias...@gnome.org wrote: Right now, I can download the mboxes, index, search and share all *I* want. And this is a huge feature. The problem with the Mozilla hybrid, from my Mailman biased perspective, is that the archives are in Google Groups. So when I join a list, I can't download the mbox to search and read the archives effectively given the way I work. Stormy -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Friends of GNOME campaign
I think campaigns that target the development of GNOME are often most successful. So I think hardware for GNOME OS might be a good one. Stormy On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 4:23 PM, Juanjo Marín juanjomari...@yahoo.eswrote: - Mensaje original - De: Oliver Propst oliver.pro...@gmail.com Para: ka...@gnome.org CC: marketing-list@gnome.org Enviado: Miércoles 18 de abril de 2012 1:22 Asunto: Re: Friends of GNOME campaign On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 5:32 AM, Karen Sandler ka...@gnome.org wrote: 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 Maybe the current campaign should continue until GNOME ASIA in the beginning/middle of June. The next campaign could start in end of July/the beginning of August and continue through the fall to November and in December we can lunch a Christmas/New Year campaign. The end of July/ beginning of August are a good time to start a new campaign because the GNOME project usually get some press attention around that time because of GUADEC and the upcoming release in September. Here are a few suggestions of themes for a new campaign. Website/infrastructure campaign. One resource that many GNOME users and contributors take for granted are the websites and infrastructure that support the GNOME project in various way. In the marketing meeting we had back in October it was stated that the website/infrastructure was not in ideal shape (http://goo.gl/eB0um). I know that the past months great progress have been made with the websites (foundation website migration to new design). A campaign to raise money for website/infrastructure work could also be a good way to raise awareness about the GNOME infrastructure. The money collected could be used to improve the website/infrastructure and finish outstanding website projects (mention of the projects are in meeting minutes). Developer documentation campaign If the GNOME project are to succeed it is important that great apps are available and if want we want developers to write great apps for GNOME it is important that they have access to good developer documentation (including examples). While the developer documentation are not that bad today, I think it could be much better. When I look at the developer documentation I get the feeling that there are certain 'gaps' that need to be filled, certain topics needed to be explained in greater detail and we need to provide more code examples tutorials. The money collected could be used to “fill the the gaps” and construct examples/tutorials. Tagline: Help make great GNOME 3 apps possible Good developers want good documentation, help make it possible Anjuta IDE campaign As well as it is important for developers to have access to good documentation it is important for all GNOME developers that do non trivial programming to have access to a great IDE. As I understand it, the official GNOME IDE Anjuta are missing features from a modern state of the art IDE, look a bit outdated and have old non trivial bugs that need to be resolved. A campaign could raise money to help fix these issues. Tagline: Ease the life for GNOME developers “Help make it easy and enjoyable to develop for GNOME” In general I think the upcoming campaign should aim at making the life easier for GNOME developers and thus make it easier to contribute to GNOME. Hi ! I think is time to retake this proposal. AFAIK, people who are working in the GNOME OS proposal need some hardware for testing. This could be another target for the FoG campaign. Cheers, -- Juanjo Marin -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Microblogging Workflow
I've heard lots of good things about CoTweet and groups of people tweeting on the same account. However, it doesn't do Identica. Stormy On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 3:54 PM, Allan Day allanp...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 10:50 PM, Allan Day allanp...@gmail.com wrote: Anthony Papillion anth...@papillion.me wrote: ... Tweetdeck is great except it's not really for group microblogging. I'm part of a crisis mappers group and we use a service called Timely to coordinate tweeting as a team. It's great and it lets people collaborate on the tweets sent out, track metrics, reach, etc. I believe the site is www.time.ly but if that's not it let me know and I'll dig it up. Thanks for the suggestion, Anthony! It looks like Timely [1] does automatic scheduling of posts rather than allowing you to schedule them for a specific time in the future... is that right? ... Could it be that Buffer [1] is what we need? Allan [1] http://bufferapp.com/ -- IRC: aday on irc.gnome.org Blog: http://afaikblog.wordpress.com/ -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: GNOME Rollup Display
+1 to just going for whatever you think is best so that you can get it in time for LinuxTag and then, if you have feedback, we can re-evaluate. I'd suggest a self standing banner, even if it were a bit more. That and a table cloth. Stormy On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 3:17 PM, Tobias Mueller mue...@cryptobitch.dewrote: Heya :) I'm picking up this old discussion so that we can eventually get roll-up displays. I am aware of the fact that they won't fit in the EventBox, but well, we can probably find someone to store them somewhere and with the displays costing ~50 Euro it's probably not worth sending them around Europe anyway. On 06.02.2012 16:48, Stormy Peters wrote: I 100% support having a table cloth and a roll up self-standing banner Andreas provided a mockup here: https://live.gnome.org/GnomeArt/ArtRequests/rollup-display-ad I'd like to receive comments on that. Ideally, until next week or so, so that we might even be able to get the thing for LinuxTag. The cheapest offer I found is 52 Euro incl. everything (VAT and shipping) http://www.wir-machen-druck.de/category.htm?c=14136. Does anybody have a cheaper offer? Cheers, Tobi -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Marketing Calendar
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 3:28 PM, Allan Day allanp...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 11:18 AM, Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org wrote: We have a GNOME community calendar in Google. Maybe we could use that? Thanks Stormy, this does exactly what we need in terms of functionality. Nice to pick something up that already has people signed up to it, too. I'd like to add events to the calendar (hackfests, conferences, release dates) as well as marketing planning dates (when to start preparing release materials, when to post news stories, etc). I hope that's OK. Sounds great! Stormy -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Marketing Calendar
We have a GNOME community calendar in Google. Maybe we could use that? I don't know how the find the public url for a Google calendar and I'm in meetings for the rest of the day (but can try later ...), but I invited you to it ... Stormy On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 3:00 AM, Allan Day allanp...@gmail.com wrote: Hi folks, A little while ago we spoke about setting up a calendar for GNOME marketing. I think this is really needed. (The key requirement for the calendar is that different people can subscribe to it and receive updates as events are added and modified.) We've been testing a Wordpress plugin on the gnome.org test site but I'm not getting the behaviour we need (indeed, I can't subscribe to it from my Google Calendar at all). Does anyone have any bright ideas for how to set up a shared calendar? Allan -- IRC: aday on irc.gnome.org Blog: http://afaikblog.wordpress.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: Friends of GNOME campaign
On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 7:32 PM, Bryen M Yunashko a11yro...@bryen.comwrote: Website/infrastructure campaign. One resource that many GNOME users and contributors take for granted are the websites and infrastructure that support the GNOME project in various way. In the marketing meeting we had back in October it was stated that the website/infrastructure was not in ideal shape (http://goo.gl/eB0um). I know that the past months great progress have been made with the websites (foundation website migration to new design). I'm not sure this would be effective for a campaign. Yes you raise valid points about why we could use additional funds to cover infrastructure, but from a human-appeal POV, I don't think a campaign about web infrastructure is going to make someone dig into their pockets to donate, unless they happen to be close to GNOME already. This campaign would leave out those who might donate out of a basic human appeal. A few years ago when I ran a survey, most donors were close to the project and wanted to contribute but did not have either time or skills. The sys admin campaign was definitely a success. Stormy -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: marketing meeting Tuesday 20th, 2012 - 8am - 9:15am PST (16:00 -17:15 GMT)
FYI, that's at the same time as the board meeting. On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 5:00 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.mewrote: I don't know if anybody saw this or not.. it seems that nobody did.. I sent it three days ago :( sri -- Forwarded message -- From: Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.me Date: Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 2:11 PM Subject: marketing meeting Tuesday 20th, 2012 - 8am - 9:15am PST (16:00 -17:15 GMT) To: marketing-list-requ...@gnome.org Greetings, Marketing Meeting is set for Tuesaday at 16:00 GMT (8am PST, 9am MST, 11am EST) etc etc. We'll use google hangouts unless there is strong objection in which case we can degrade to IRC. We'll need someone to volunteeer as note taker. sri -- 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: Marketing Meeting next week.
Regardless of whether it's Google services or not, I'd like to put in a word for video calls. In the past year and a half, I've come to really appreciate video calls. In my experience, meetings held via video are universally more on track and productive. I much prefer them over phone only calls now. They do tend to have more technical difficulties and they often get started more slowly as people figure out technical difficulties. IRC, etherpad, and even phone, don't seem to have that problem. They also require a good internet connection and the right hardware. Stormy On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 10:54 AM, Karen Sandler ka...@gnome.org wrote: On Fri, March 16, 2012 6:59 am, Allan Day wrote: On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 10:11 PM, Bryen M Yunashko a11yro...@bryen.com wrote: On Mon, 2012-03-12 at 16:00 -0700, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: I have setup a doodle for a marketing meeting using google hangouts. Please RSVP what would be the best time. If I'm missing a convenient time zone, please let me know. All the times are London times, (GMT -7 for west coast, -6 for mountain, etc) How come the meeting has to be in some Google service instead of our own marketing IRC channel? Google Hangouts are really nice for video conferencing. I find them more effective than IRC for meetings, plus it's more personal. But we can use IRC if anyone has a serious objection. FWIW, I'd much rather use IRC than google services :) Karen Allan -- IRC: aday on irc.gnome.org Blog: http://afaikblog.wordpress.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 -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Marketing Meeting next week.
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 12:10 PM, Bryen M Yunashko a11yro...@bryen.comwrote: The meetbot can be useful that someone can volunteer to make a human-friendly minutes without even being present at the meeting because of transcripts etc. How do you get a transcript of a video conference? That seems to only be useful for those who are present at the meeting, but not for those who are unable to attend the meeting but still want to read the meeting transcript? You take good minutes. Etherpad is a good tool for that. Stormy -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: GNOME Donations only through PayPal?
You can make donations via Google Checkout. We just need someone to add the option to the donations page ... Stormy On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 10:52 AM, Karen Sandler ka...@gnome.org wrote: On Wed, February 15, 2012 12:44 pm, Emily Gonyer wrote: Hi there, I just donated to the Friends of GNOME Campaign and was dissapointed to have to make a PayPal account. Is there a way we could allow donations through Google Checkout or at least as a guest via paypal, rather than forcing everyone to have have an actual paypal account? I deleted mine a while ago in response to the wikileaks fiasco, and would have much rather not had to use PayPal at all, and I suspect I am not alone. Just a thought! A great thought too! And one that's my fault - it's been on my to do list to get google checkout sorted (and Stormy did all of the hard work when she was Executive Director). I will bump it up priority-wise and look at it in the next day or two :) karen Emily -- 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 -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Join Mozilla ideas for Friends of GNOME
I thought the Join Mozilla numbers might be interesting to those of us working on Friends of GNOME. Join Mozilla update: 2/10/12 webmaker http://engagingopenly.wordpress.com/tag/webmaker/, webmakershttp://engagingopenly.wordpress.com/tag/webmakers/ Following up our successful end-of-year fundraising campaignhttp://engagingopenly.wordpress.com/2012/02/02/eoy-2011-wrap-up/, January and February have been pretty good so far from a fundraising perspective, despite no aggressive pushes (other than the PS in aSOPA/PIPA email we sent in Januaryhttp://engagingopenly.wordpress.com/2012/01/20/just-sent-you-made-it-happen/). Here’s where we are so far: 2012 online donations to Mozilla: 3,723 2012 online revenue: $78,657.80 Current @Mozillahttp://engagingopenly.wordpress.com/2012/02/10/join-mozilla-update-21012/twitter.com/mozilla followers: 4,880 Current email subscribers https://donate.mozilla.org/email: 292,263 More at the post: http://engagingopenly.wordpress.com/2012/02/10/join-mozilla-update-21012/ Stormy -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: We are GNOME movie
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 8:48 AM, Bryen M Yunashko a11yro...@bryen.comwrote: We need captions at all times, not just at conferences. :-) I think with Universal Subtitles[1] it's relatively easy for a group of people to add captions and localize them. They've offered to work with us before[2]. Stormy [1] http://www.universalsubtitles.org/ [2] http://old.nabble.com/Fwd%3A-Universal-Subtitles-will-caption-your-videos!-td30942349.html -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: GNOME FOSDEM Stand
I 100% support having a table cloth and a roll up self-standing banner in both of the event boxes. Stormy On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 8:05 AM, Allan Day allanp...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Thanks to everyone who staffed the GNOME stand at FOSDEM! It was great to have so many enthusiastic volunteers. If you were there - how did you think the stand worked, and what could we improve for next time? I thought our visual presence was pretty good, and the videos we showed on the demo machine were good. It was also really great to have information posted up about upcoming GNOME talks - that was a great idea. As was brought up on the list recently, I also thought it would be good to organise the stand around a more engaging activity. Friends of GNOME sign up was one idea there. Technical demonstrations was another. We could also do things like a GNOME Love/Hate board or a suggestions box or even a game that people can play at the stand. Any other ideas? The other thing I thought was that the stand would be better if we had more in the way of merchandise (pens, mugs, keyrings, usb sticks, a greater range of stickers, etc etc). We also need new banners (some of which are looking like they have seen better days) and a big GNOME tablecloth (I was also envious of the roll-up vertical banners that the other stands had). Do we know if there is room in the box for those things? Who has the box at the moment? Perhaps we could organise for it to be restocked? Allan -- IRC: aday on irc.gnome.org Blog: http://afaikblog.wordpress.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
Nonprofits, communicating building community
Some free webinars and posts around nonprofits, grant seeking and social media that someone at Mozilla forwarded to me. http://www.idealist.org/blog/**en/take-professional-** development-into-your-own-**hands-this-year/http://www.idealist.org/blog/en/take-professional-development-into-your-own-hands-this-year/ Stormy -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: speaker schedules for conference
We should think about who we are trying to reach ... existing end users, potential end users, developers, community members, distros, downstream partners, ... All 3 of those events are very technical events and the reach would be to existing fans and community members, I think. Stormy On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 8:03 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna sriram.ramkris...@gmail.com wrote: I think we need to start scoping out conferences for the next year and figure out how we are going to talk about GNOME 3.4. There are a number of talks I'm thinking of presenting: 1) Open Source Bridge 2nd quarter 2012 2) Northwest Linuxfest 2nd quarte 2012 3) Linuxcon - wherever - 3rd quarter 2012 We should definitely talk about our marketing plans. sri -- Sriram Ramkrishna (sriram.ramkrishna_@@_...@.gmail.com (remove _@@_) -- 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: GNOME Press Team: usage of gnome-press-team list
I've never understood the difference between marketing private and press ... I think I'd stick with the press alias over the marketing private though as it makes more sense for people trying to contact us. Stormy On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 2:01 PM, karen ka...@punkrocklawyer.com wrote: On Thu, December 1, 2011 1:54 pm, Marina Zhurakhinskaya wrote: Sure, we can see if Stormy thinks there is any particular use for this list. As I mentioned, few of the people who are really part of the GNOME's press team are on it and it seems that the public discussion can be happening in a single place on the marketing list, and the sub-team discussion can be happening on the marketing private list. Stormy's on vacation now and off of email for the week, but we can ask her when she gets back! karen ___ gnome-press-team mailing list gnome-press-t...@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-press-team -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Words about GNOME in 2011
Awesome. Thanks for putting this together, Juanjo! +1 to including it in the annual report. It'd be even cooler if we could get good pictures of these folks and spread the pictures with the quotes out through the report. Stormy 2011/11/7 Juanjo Marín juanjomari...@yahoo.es Hi, As a mentioned in my email about the content of the annual report, I think it could be cool to have a Words about GNOME in 2011 section. These are the quotations I think we could include: Words about GNOME in 2011 = The developers behind the GNOME project have announced the official release of GNOME 3.0, a significant redesign of the open source desktop environment. The update introduces a new desktop shell that offers a streamlined window management workflow and a more modern look and feel. The new version also represents a major architectural overhaul, with many important enhancements to the GNOME platform's technical underpinnings.[...] The solid technical work that has been done under the hood really complements the new user experience features in GNOME 3.0. Despite some of the gaps in the feature set, I think that the environment and the new shell is a good starting point for building something even better. The GNOME contributors will be able to iterate on the design and move it forward in future updates. Ryan Paul, Ars Technica http://arstechnica.com/open-source/reviews/2011/04/ars-reviews-gnome-30-a-shiny-new-ornament-for-your-linux-lawn.ars --- Five years in the making, the newly released version 3 of the GNOME Linux desktop interface has been radically redesigned. [...] For this release, the boxy look and feel has been replaced with a more aerodynamic, clutter-free visage. All the icons were redesigned, and new default font Cantarell was adopted. Applications can be called up by simply typing the first few letters of a program name. Frequently used applications can be pinned to a desktop dashboard. Previous versions of GNOME allowed for multiple workspaces, or windows. The new version allows users to create workspaces on the fly, and to drag and drop applications into a workspace. It also includes a unified messaging feature, in which e-mail and instant messages can be responded to directly from a messaging tray. Also new is a search function that can be accessed by hitting the Windows key on the keyboard. Joab Jackson, IDG News, PC World http://www.pcworld.com/article/224573/new_gnome_cuts_the_clutter.html --- Gnome 3 (code-named ToPaZ for “Three Point Zero”) marks the beginning of a completely new desktop experience. The developers took a long time to develop and test the new release. In fact, almost all components were ready a year ago, but the Foundation delayed the release to double-check and improve the new desktop [...] Gnome is quite stable; I didn’t encounter any crashes or bugs whatsoever. The missing features aside, Gnome 3 still provides a good user experience [...] Gnome 3 is indeed a step ahead. I am glad developers finally came up with a bold and radical release Shashwat Pant, Linux Magazine http://www.linux-magazine.com/w3/issue/128/044-047_Gnome.pdf --- The most important remark for Gnome 3 came from a non-techie. A user who doesn't much care about kernels and mutters; someone who uses computer to do her job. My wife was sitting right behind me when the machine booted. Wow...what's that! I heard someone from behind. I turned and found her looking at my machine. Is it a new OS? It looks cool! [...] The moral of the story is – we, the so called tech-savvy users, may fight, argue, and create mountain out of mole, ordinary users don't care. They just need something that works. And when you hear wow, that's cool from an ordinary user, it means a lot. Swapnil Bhartiya, Muktware.com http://www.muktware.com/b/14/2011/832/my-wife-loves-gnome-3 --- Back when I first reported on GNOME 3 I was proclaiming it to be the future of the desktop. I still feel that way…very much so. Although it may take some time to get used to the cleaner look and feel of the desktop, GNOME 3 should make many user levels very happy. It is a drastic departure from the standard, but one that is long overdue and will make using the desktop (especially in the touch-screen happy world) much easier. Jack Wallen, Tech Republic http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/opensource/linux-shakedown-testing-both-gnome-3-and-fedora-15/ --- Mit GNOME 3.0 verpasst sich der Desktop beinahe schon so etwas wie einen Neustart, die User Experience unterscheidet sich in zentralen Bereichen recht deutlich vom bisherigen GNOME. Das heißt auch: Wer auf die neue Version wechselt, braucht zunächst einmal etwas, um die neuen Konzepte zu erkunden. Es lohnt sich aber durchaus, diese Zeit zu investieren, hat man sich einmal eingearbeitet - und den eigenen Widerwillen gegen Veränderungen an sich überwunden - zeigen sich die Stärken des GNOME3-Konzepts
Re: tasks for Google's code-in!
I like all the ideas so far. We could ask for help on the 2011 annual report ... We could ask someone to make a website that shows where all the GNOME talks are and have been with links to any videos or slides. Stormy On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 3:32 AM, Allan Day allanp...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 1:00 AM, Karen Sandler ka...@gnome.org wrote: Hey marketing team, Hopefully you saw André Klapper's email to desktop-devel about the Google Code-in: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2011-October/msg00175.html We only have a few days to add tasks, and at least 5 of them should be in the Community Outreach/marketing category. I think the program is a bit late to ask for help on our annual report, but I think there are a lot of other things we could use help with. For example: * we could ask for nice promotional videos be made about some aspects of GNOME 3.2 along the lines of Jason Clinton's excellent ones for the GNOME 3 release, or about other GNOME initiatives like a11y. * we could ask for help with GNOME Journal, including asking for specific articles to be written. * we can also ask a student to go through our whole website and identify out of date sections, broken links and other areas that can be improved or updated. We need easy, medium and hard tasks, so there's really a wide opportunity here. As others have pointed out, we should focus on tasks that will be cool and interesting to students and that will probably look good on a college application. What do you think? What tasks should we add? karen A few more ideas: * Write a history of the GNOME project * Create a presentation to promote GNOME * Design a template for one page release notes [1] Allan [1] http://mairin.wordpress.com/2009/11/13/fedora-12-one-page-release-notes-pdf/ -- IRC: aday on irc.gnome.org Blog: http://afaikblog.wordpress.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: Interview members of the advisory board for the GNOME Journal.
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 4:05 PM, Oliver Propst oliver.pro...@gmail.comwrote: I'm not opposed to have specific questions but it will make things a bit more complicated. Can we ask one or two specific questions in every interview or is that to weird? I think that would be good. Stormy -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Interview members of the advisory board for the GNOME Journal.
I like the idea. Just as an FYI, I did interview advisory board members for GNOME Journal articles for a while. I interviewed Leslie Hawthorne/Google, Quim Gil/Nokia, Bradley Kuhn/FSF and Juan José Sánchez Penas/Igalia. http://gnomejournal.org/article/105/interview-with-bradley-kuhn-of-the-gnome-advisory-board http://gnomejournal.org/article/98/interview-with-quim-gil-of-the-gnome-advisory-board http://gnomejournal.org/article/97/interview-with-juan-jos233-s225nchez-penas-of-the-gnome-advisory-board http://gnomejournal.org/article/81/an-interview-with-leslie-hawthorn I like the idea of asking them the same questions. At the same time, I think we should be sure to ask a few questions that are specific to the person or company being interviewed. Stormy On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 8:26 PM, Karen Sandler ka...@gnome.org wrote: On Sun, October 23, 2011 1:19 pm, Oliver Propst wrote: On the last meeting we briefly discussed an idea to interview the members of the GNOME Foundation advisory board and publish one interview every month in the GNOME Journal. I propose we use 5 standard questions for the interviews. It would be great if Karen could email the questions to one representative of each company/organization on the board and collect the answers. I suggest that we wait to publish any interview before the future of GNOME Journal has been decided. Thanks for writing this up, Oliver! I really like this idea of interviewing advisory board members. These questions are a good start, I think, but we should also ask questions that are more targeted at the particular advisory board member and how that company uses GNOME and participates in our community.The more focused the questions we can ask, the better the interview will read. That said, we've got to start from somewhere, and it will be really helpful to have a list of general question to start from. The questions are just suggestions. x=company/organization name The email could look something like this (rough draft) [name], the GNOME marketing team are conducting an interview serie with the members of the GNOME foundation advisory board. We would appreciate if you as a representative for x could answer the following questions. *How long have x been a member of the Gnome Foundation advisory board? We may have better access to this kind of information than the advisory board rep, if they weren't the company's rep from the beginning. We could probably add information like this ourselves in the intro to the interview. Maybe instead we could ask how that member started using GNOME? *How would you describe x relationship with the GNOME foundation today? *How are x using GNOME/GNOME technology? How about adding some questions like: * What do you hope will be incorporated into GNOME in the future? * What do you think GNOME's biggest challenge is? *Do x support the GNOME project in any other way then being a member of the advisory board, if so how? *Anything else you want to add? We plan to publish the interview in a future edition of the GNOME Journal. Does anyone else have any other basic questions to add? I think this is a good thing to pick up along with revitalizing the GNOME Journal. karen -- 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: The GNOME Annual Report
I second what Brian says - when I was ED, our advisory board members often told me the annual report was important for them to show people who helped make the funding for the GNOME Foundation possible. I'd like to also point people to Mozilla's annual report that just came out. It's a website (or at least a set of web pages) with video, text and photos. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/annualreport/2010/ I'm not sure a web site would be as helpful to the advisory board members. But it does seem like it might be seen by a lot more people. Stormy On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 11:08 AM, Brian Cameron brian.came...@oracle.comwrote: Allan/Tobias: Great question. The value of the Annual Report is that we provide it to current and existing advisory board members and sponsors to communicate the value of The GNOME Foundation, and GNOME Foundation membership. After reading the Advisory Report, we hope that sponsors feel encouraged to participate and contribute to our efforts. So, if you have made use of GNOME travel sponsorship, found a hackfest productive, think the GNOME Women's Outreach program is great, then you should be think about the fact that the Annual Report is an important part of raising the funds to make these sorts of things possible. It is our main communication vehicle to sponsors. Past Annual Reports have done a pretty good job of communicating this value. We have been talking a lot about how the foundation.gnome.org website really lacks at communicating the values that we find in the reports. So, we can think of the Annual Report as a part of a larger project focused on better communicating these values. With GNOME 3 released, now is probably the right time to evaluate how we need to update the GNOME Foundation image as well. This is why I have suggested doing a one-off Biannual Report, and then return back to doing annual ones for future years. This would allow us to go to press with a report that communicates the exciting GNOME 3 work the GNOME community has been focused on lately. In the past, the board has done most of the work printing and distributing the report and provides digital copies online. I think we could do a much more effective job of identifying potential sponsors and sending them printed copies. But Advisory Board members have told us that the reports help them to justify AdBoard membership and event sponsorship. I think there is a lot of room for the marketing team to help in many of these areas. Brian On 10/10/11 04:10 AM, Allan Day wrote: On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 6:58 PM, Tobias Muellermue...@cryptobitch.de wrote: Hey Brian, On 27.09.2011 04:46, Brian Cameron wrote: Is the reason this task keeps falling to the wayside because it has become too much work? Maybe. But I can imagine that the motivation to create such a report is not too high, because it lacks a reason, i.e. why should we create such a report in first place. Indeed. Explaining the role and benefits of the report might help to encourage people to work on it. Allan -- IRC: aday on irc.gnome.org Blog: http://afaikblog.wordpress.**com/ http://afaikblog.wordpress.com/ -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/**listinfo/marketing-listhttp://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Custom Tablecloth Proof for GNOME Event Box
2011/8/31 Juanjo Marín juanjomari...@yahoo.es So what's the status of the custom tablecloths ? Were they made and stored in the event boxes ? If not, we should because the design it's cool and a tablecloth is very convenient :-) I agree we should order one. The one we ordered for Kids on Computers turned out really well. When's the next event? Perhaps we could order and ship there? The Boston Summit? SuSE conference? Stormy -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Press list
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 6:53 AM, Jos Poortvliet j...@opensuse.org wrote: Hi there, I'd like to propose setting up a 'press list' which we can use for embargoed pre-release information on announcements and cool stuff going on in GNOME. The list would only be for selected journalists and low-traffic. I volunteer for managing and I'm sure a few others would be able to help with that too. I think that's a great idea. I can invite a bunch of journalists to sign up. I've seen this used in both KDE and openSUSE and it is a very effective way of ensuring extra attention to announcements. Workflow is a bit like this: - write announcement - send draft of announcement + some extra info quotes to the press list 2-3 days before the announcement. Mention it's under embargo and tell the press when to release it. - on the day of the announcement you can count on a few articles by press on the ML they otherwise might not have written... The ML would be one-way, max 2 mails/week and closely moderated. Anyone (so all GNOME marketeers) will be able to send an info mail for the press to the list but the moderators would have to let it go through. Obviously, spam on that list is VERY BAD... If the marketing heads on this list agree it's a good idea I would like to know who to ask to set it up and who wants to help moderate it ;-) To get it set up, I think you can file a bug or ask one of the sys admins on IRC. Stormy Cheers, Jos -- 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
Marketing update at AGM
Hi GNOME Marketing folks, We have been asked to give a 5 minute update at the AGM tomorrow afternoon. If there is someone on the list that is here at the Desktop Summit that would like to do it, please speak up, otherwise I am happy to do it. I could use all your help in calling out what was important and why it was so cool. * GNOME 3 * Launch parties * press * all the work Allan and Sumanah did ... Thoughts? I will be working on this later tonight ... Thanks! Stormy -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Marketing update at AGM
Thanks so much! Will try to do you and the others justice for all the great work you've done. Stormy On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 10:47 AM, Allan Day allanp...@gmail.com wrote: Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org wrote: Hi GNOME Marketing folks, We have been asked to give a 5 minute update at the AGM tomorrow afternoon. If there is someone on the list that is here at the Desktop Summit that would like to do it, please speak up, otherwise I am happy to do it. Looks like that might be best. Thanks Stormy. :) I could use all your help in calling out what was important and why it was so cool. * GNOME 3 * Launch parties * press * all the work Allan and Sumanah did ... Thoughts? I will be working on this later tonight ... The Q2 report I wrote might come in handy: https://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/QuarterlyReports/2011/Q2#Marketing As might the debrief that me and Sumanah wrote: https://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/ThreePointZero/LessonsLearned Best, Allan -- IRC: aday on irc.gnome.org Blog: http://afaikblog.wordpress.com/ -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Marketing update at AGM
Here's what I have so far ... https://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing?action=AttachFiledo=gettarget=GNOMEMarketing2011.pdf https://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing?action=AttachFiledo=gettarget=GNOMEMarketing2011.odp Note that the release parties, www.gnome.org and maybe the photo competition will also be covered under other presentations, but I think we should mention them. We only have 5 minutes so I won't be going into detail on any one slide but I will probably show the video. Thanks! Stormy On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 4:52 PM, Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org wrote: Thanks so much! Will try to do you and the others justice for all the great work you've done. Stormy On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 10:47 AM, Allan Day allanp...@gmail.com wrote: Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org wrote: Hi GNOME Marketing folks, We have been asked to give a 5 minute update at the AGM tomorrow afternoon. If there is someone on the list that is here at the Desktop Summit that would like to do it, please speak up, otherwise I am happy to do it. Looks like that might be best. Thanks Stormy. :) I could use all your help in calling out what was important and why it was so cool. * GNOME 3 * Launch parties * press * all the work Allan and Sumanah did ... Thoughts? I will be working on this later tonight ... The Q2 report I wrote might come in handy: https://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/QuarterlyReports/2011/Q2#Marketing As might the debrief that me and Sumanah wrote: https://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/ThreePointZero/LessonsLearned Best, Allan -- IRC: aday on irc.gnome.org Blog: http://afaikblog.wordpress.com/ -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Gnome advert for Linux User Developer issue 102
Hi Clare, I'm cc'ing the GNOME Marketing list who can help. Can you remind us what the parameters for the advert are? Thanks! Stormy On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 10:16 AM, Clare Hunt clare.h...@imagine-publishing.co.uk wrote: Hi Stormy, We’re looking to get a new community advert for Gnome to go into Linux User Developer issue 102 – as the current copy is expired. Would you be able to send me new copy, or point me in the right direction for a new advert? Cheers, Clare J *Clare Hunt* Ad Co-ordinator *Imagine Publishing Ltd* Richmond House 33 Richmond Hill Bournemouth Dorset BH2 6EZ Tel: 01202 586410 (Direct) Fax: 01202 294032 Registered company 5374037 (England): VAT No 997 3331 76 Directors: Damian Butt, Steven Boyd, Mark Kendrick, Harry Dhand, Alistair Ramsay -- This Email and the information contained in it and in any attachments are confidential and may be privileged. If you have received this Email in error please notify Imagine Publishing immediately. If you are not the intended recipient, you are not authorised to, and must not use, disclose, copy, distribute, retain or rely on this Email or any part of it -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Fwd: Tanath9 sent you a message: Comments disabled?
I didn't set comments to disabled but I find I don't feel strongly one way or the other. Thoughts? If we want to turn them on, any one willing to help with moderating? Stormy -- Forwarded message -- From: YouTube Service serv...@youtube.com Date: Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 9:06 PM Subject: Tanath9 sent you a message: Comments disabled? To: GNOMEDesktop vi...@gnome.org [image: YouTube] http://www.youtube.com/ help centerhttp://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/static.py?page=start.cs| e-mail options http://www.youtube.com/account#notifications/events | report spamhttp://www.youtube.com/email_spam?v=1ac=KKHA1-TpKoGc2KabVhepoQZ9GVUXbBVY9aD-qmXSwiblPZfBsTK67qZaTO07cNOFe_Qu5KgLjfNb5yAQubzZ5K9vDP4cMYF6PIzG1D0qN4Q2u_wjh6W5Ep2BeocY89FQjJPs8WGvVzSvddMdEMWQSNwGei2Ox9zBXUY5s0ROAvfOlAEoXzucEicLVgaXnj76AZX8oGg7zuJdtk8bzc9L5h_UfbyqacvZg5zGJLnNJA2tNt_MAzBIaZO0RFvV2-gIuZnrimhPynb7qjVEwUCxR3N0dzwvXujL5BraNhYgf04X3UizHfifxNZ_1s5PJlq8fk81t9RKUXoXaMFJBXUVJO9l7o_fh7sQ-FfUzmPz81qZ8yQnXTzuXbjN2GnIJtrX9hE4XReMOC1Z4q1IOgkPT1LuxnGURlTODXWb703TzqKpp2XTUjIDitbwpHCRNCq-O5iqJ6OVWSEEpgRTQxy9RYPefGjmCM-bsZD_qw1oYc1di3FsFZBbYx2IWaeZycSYkl7l1JnSlmBpEhNb-gzNQ1-TeWiTgb_sLHEBO9bcznLTo3MXhNnRJiJvE7Nf87ERB3pvcBfj-b6982LMzZFK-HZg5aiHAyf-zrMwl6pBlFO-J9MTEp6x9A== Tanath9 http://www.youtube.com/user/Tanath9 has sent you a message: Comments disabled? To:gnomedesktop What the hell is wrong with you? You're part of the open source community. Comments can provide valuable feedback, which I hoped to provide... only to find you disable comments for your videos. Disgraceful. You can reply to this message by visiting your inboxhttp://www.youtube.com/inbox?folder=messages. © 2011 YouTube, LLC 901 Cherry Ave, San Bruno, CA 94066 -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Fwd: Apply for revenue sharing for your video GNOME 3: Accessing Apps Quickly
FYI, I have gotten an email like this for each of our videos. Do we want to turn on ads? (My personal thought is no. Not unless we can control what gets advertised next to us. I sit next to my kids while they watch YouTube videos and some of the ads are highly inappropriate for kids in my opinion and I wouldn't want GNOME associated with something like.) Stormy -- Forwarded message -- From: YouTube no_re...@youtube.com Date: Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 9:12 AM Subject: Apply for revenue sharing for your video GNOME 3: Accessing Apps Quickly To: GNOMEDesktop vi...@gnome.org [image: YouTube] http://www.youtube.com/ help centerhttp://www.google.com/support/youtube/| e-mail options http://www.youtube.com/account#notifications/events | report spamhttp://www.youtube.com/email_spam?v=1ac=NU-ndb5vwX2wgqceqG7H0pZ79eWXmuokdxHV5jt3M7betL3Jl3QuNQFCj3-0GDGYGDyfFl-Q1-WJfkpUKm-saXsDlKccXfmkD7UCekit_GyNoOc8GLLE8Dr1Aiguaz_W2Kbie9L8mb8Nz9GKtV1jrARyjbh8kJH-L56TDdk4adRU6u7hlSzLrw== Dear GNOMEDesktop, Your video GNOME 3: Accessing Apps Quicklyhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4fhsgZbgKkmight be eligible for the YouTube Partnership Program, which allows you to make money from playbacks of your video. Making money from your video is easy. Here's how it works: First sign into your YouTube account. Then, review and complete the steps outlined here: http://www.youtube.com/ivp?v=t4fhsgZbgKk. If your video is approved, we'll start placing ads next to the video and pay you a share of the revenue as long as you meet the program requirements. We look forward to adding your video to the YouTube Partnership Program. Thanks and good luck! The YouTube Team © 2011 YouTube, LLC 901 Cherry Ave, San Bruno, CA 94066 -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Stack Overflow: a de facto hub for GNOME support questions
I agree that Stack Overflow is a high quality site for QA. Stormy On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 8:34 AM, Sumana Harihareswara suma...@panix.comwrote: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/gnome There are 204 questions about GNOME on Stack Overflow (a trying-to-be-quality programmers' QA site with lots of traffic). So if you have some spare time to look at new questions there, add a summary of GNOME for their wiki, and inject positivity, that might be a useful thing to do -- I bet GNOME 3 questions will start popping up once it ships. -Sumana -- 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
Fwd: linusbergl sent you a message: Thanks
Thanks Jason and everyone else who's helped with the videos! Nice work, Jason. Stormy -- Forwarded message -- From: YouTube Service Date: Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 5:30 AM Subject: linusbergl sent you a message: Thanks To: GNOMEDesktop [image: YouTube] http://www.youtube.com/ help centerhttp://www.google.com/support/youtube/| e-mail options http://www.youtube.com/account#notifications/events | report spamhttp://www.youtube.com/email_spam?v=1ac=VvG2sKxDyB5RCdXZrKe3ERHUn59pgVd_bzlWOYipTbug1nzaJqGVW38--i0DiYksGWZq_lDdHSlnN3iu_sCK-m0FbwoucM8Lp2sCpGuzh0yCo20UDltyAeBVS1d9OITaaRjWOev98GXYQ6lhOJJ5lU7qruHJia6TFmw75EscAYsC2u8ywFjeHFUvht2xaLTZFl_Er_85k-jdfycVSc11jX6Fo2ampBAYbgQTYj6xaffUfVQGcWFWdWy1ABmeTKdgB_Zg-jDfFSxgrgsQnfqjIBXOC0C7zjWGhaMuN6za0-In4CL4hKhMSGo8akO9Lfr2ipynIiK4sYxwWshDXDuZshJxPnE014MPIPfjgRQd9qu7lrVsevo6dIQMyTD4AhIr3lzKmNvYp8TIieYRry0chbadrA1EgR6ZZ82nvczWpQ5Y4b_eYIbK0c-q3bRke50tn9Zzu5-xkJ1AVv_iIMpmJ3dirNn7xbDqPtNOY0ofWSDl4xqzwV0Z1W1wCMlHrsVT8CATfNIh6ZH0AfwvivOQ3MvOpbHmxFI1GEMxE81B9Uaa-NLjR9gIp73MXeIaiEu_8TZTVP0Zlrmv75XLsFN242EUwvgyb864 linusbergl http://www.youtube.com/user/linusbergl has sent you a message: Thanks To:gnomedesktop I know this is not the place to give feedback, but the videos of gnome 3 looks amazing. I am really looking forward to trying it out. Theese videos are a great way of showing what gnome3 will be. You can reply to this message by visiting your inboxhttp://www.youtube.com/inbox?folder=messagesaction_message=1message_id=messages.vZOP9hB6Z_3X2jbmiuZwA0wtNDn2CFEJcHWF-z-4mqg. © 2011 YouTube, LLC 901 Cherry Ave, San Bruno, CA 94066 -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Video #2 RFC
Nice work! I think these will really make a difference to folks new to GNOME or wondering about GNOME 3. Stormy On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 6:05 PM, Jason D. Clinton m...@jasonclinton.comwrote: A first production attempt of launch video #2 is available here. Comments, please. The sooner, the better because two more will be produced tomorrow. http://people.gnome.org/~jclinton/gnome3_launch_videos/gnome3_launch_video2_beta.webm -- 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: Any Shared Slides - New Features for GNOME 3.0
I think we should focus less on history and more about what is cool right now. And where we are going. Stormy On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 11:08 AM, Brian Cameron brian.came...@oracle.comwrote: Emily: I am writing to ask is there any public shared slides to talk about What's new in GNOME 3.0. Since we are going to have 120+ Launch parties in April, a slides like this can be reused and shared with some launch parties. There are some side fragments you can use here: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/MarketingMaterial/Presentations I'm sure they could be improved. There is a History of GNOME fragment, though it might need to be updated with some of the latest GNOME 3.0 History (e.g. to discuss GNOME 3 in the past instead of the future tense). Brian -- 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: Any Shared Slides - New Features for GNOME 3.0
I really don't think the history is what is interesting to folks. They want to know what it is now. When a new president stands up, he doesn't talk about all the previous presidents, he talks about what he's going to do. Stormy On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 12:02 PM, Juanjo Marin juanj.ma...@juntadeandalucia.es wrote: El mié, 16-03-2011 a las 18:59 +0100, Juanjo Marin escribió: El mié, 16-03-2011 a las 11:43 -0600, Stormy Peters escribió: I think we should focus less on history and more about what is cool right now. And where we are going. Stormy The history could be graphically reduced to 3 images 1. Screenshot of GNOME 1 2. Screenshot of GNOME 3 Obviously a 2. Screenshot of GNOME 2 -- Juanjo -- 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: first draft of my response to Linux Format magazine
I too think you did a great job! On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.me wrote: For the most part, a GNOME 2 application can exist in a GNOME 3 environment. We continue to maintain the same GTK+ api from GTK+ 2 although they are deprecated while providing newer API for application programmers to use. The advantage is that applications developers can move to GNOME 3 at their discretion. This is in contrast to the GNOME 1.x to GNOME 2.x where we broke all APIs and application writers had to re-write their applications from scatch. I think I would remove we broke all APIs and. It will still say the same thing. Stormy -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Speaking opportunity at SVLUG on April 6 about GNOME 3.0
Did you get anyone? I know Luis Villa is in the area. Stormy On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 8:32 AM, Frederic Muller fr...@gnome.org wrote: Dear all, Checking on the SVLUG schedule it seems April 6 is the date of their April's monthly meeting () and the slot is still available. Wouldn't it be nice to have someone submit a talk (http://www.svlug.org/call4speakers.php) about GNOME 3.0 and go there to present to one of the oldest and largest LUG? From the description the meetings are 2-hour technical presentations for an engineering audience, with QA. That could also be a could way to promote and launch GNOME 3.0 on the West Coast. We can definitely arrange some goodies (from the launch parties) to the speaker volunteering to give away on that day. Thanks for stepping up or forwarding the information to the relevant candidates (and letting us know). Fred -- 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: freenode gnome channel
+1 On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 11:37 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.mewrote: On freenode, we have a ##gnome channel that is actually staffed by self interested in volunteers for quite a number of years. There is no official #gnome channel due to Freenode's policy of needing an official group sponsoring it like the GNOME Foundation. I would like to propose that we actually create a #gnome channel under GNOME Foundation and either staff it or get people to use the #gnome channel on irc.gnome.org. ##gnome sees a lot more visitors from my casual observance than #gnome does and this is probably because there is an actual number of people who are in there answering questions. I have talked to the ##gnome folks and they are totally willing to shut down their channel if a #gnome is created. I would assume that they will continue to do the excellent support that they've been giving to a large number of users that pop in from #ubuntu and other channels to ask questions. In the mean time, they have given me +o on their channel so that I can set topics and what not. It'll probably be good to have Allan, Jason and some others also operator access just so that we can manage the /topic for user days and the like. In general, it's been good to see people manning the #gnome channels. I hope we continue. sri -- 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
Fwd: Universal Subtitles will caption your videos!
Universal Subtitles is awesome. You can easily transcribe a video and then localization folks can translate the text. If there are particular GNOME videos we would like subtitles for, we should add them ... Stormy -- Forwarded message -- From: Ed I. Date: Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 10:34 AM Subject: Universal Subtitles will caption your videos! Hello Stormy, I'm contacting you on the behalf of Dean Jansen at the Participatory Culture Foundation. You might have heard of Universal Subtitles, a project we are currently working that enables collaborative creation and editing of subtitles for online video. Great for reaching an audience that doesn't speak your language, or to improve accessibility for deaf and hard of hearing users. We're currently working on a list of social interest videos, as well as on a page where deaf and hard of hearing users can suggest social videos they'd like subtitled. We are also working with organizations to ask what videos they would like subbed. This is where you come in: its a chance for your organization to get free captions and translations from volunteers. So, if you'd like to send me links for one to four videos you'd like captioned and translated, we'll get the ball rolling! Best regards, Ed Participatory Culture Foundation -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Fwd: Universal Subtitles will caption your videos!
Awesome. When you get them set up, I'm happy to start transcribing. (I'll leave the translating to people who can actually write well in a language other than English.) Stormy On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 10:01 AM, will kahn-greene wi...@bluesock.orgwrote: I've been working with the Miro Community folks to figure out how to add Universal Subtitles functionality to videos on GNOME Miro Community (http://gnome.mirocommunity.org/). It seems it's not too difficult. Once a video has been registered with Universal Subtitles, there's some embed code that I can just swap into GMC. I'm definitely interested in doing that for GNOME videos on GMC for any videos registered with Universal Subtitles. On 02/16/2011 11:28 AM, Stormy Peters wrote: Universal Subtitles is awesome. You can easily transcribe a video and then localization folks can translate the text. If there are particular GNOME videos we would like subtitles for, we should add them ... Stormy -- Forwarded message -- From: Ed I. Date: Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 10:34 AM Subject: Universal Subtitles will caption your videos! Hello Stormy, I'm contacting you on the behalf of Dean Jansen at the Participatory Culture Foundation. You might have heard of Universal Subtitles, a project we are currently working that enables collaborative creation and editing of subtitles for online video. Great for reaching an audience that doesn't speak your language, or to improve accessibility for deaf and hard of hearing users. We're currently working on a list of social interest videos, as well as on a page where deaf and hard of hearing users can suggest social videos they'd like subtitled. We are also working with organizations to ask what videos they would like subbed. This is where you come in: its a chance for your organization to get free captions and translations from volunteers. So, if you'd like to send me links for one to four videos you'd like captioned and translated, we'll get the ball rolling! Best regards, Ed Participatory Culture Foundation -- 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: GNOME 3 User Day: Debrief and analysis
Hi Allan, Thanks so much for making these happen! The one I attended was so full of people with questions that it was hard to follow all the conversations - which was awesome! I agree that the general tone was positive. People had questions and concerns but they were looking for information, not to complain. I think it would be helpful to post a short summary (maybe a paragraph or so?) to the Foundation list to let people know this happened and perhaps to pull in more people next time. Thank you again! Stormy On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 3:20 PM, Allan Day allanp...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Yesterday was the first GNOME 3 user day [1, 2]. Many thanks to everyone who contributed. I was really pleased with how the event went. Attendance was excellent, and those who participated seemed to get a lot out of it. It certainly seemed to boost enthusiasm, and I daresay that we managed to calm a few critics (though there was surprisingly little of that, actually). I also thought that the publicity that was generated was useful, and the fact that we've held the session will come in handy in our ongoing PR work. We might want to hold more of these events in the future, so it seems worthwhile to examine how yesterday went. Some observations: * Attendance was good at all three sessions. The 15:00-16:00 session was vastly more popular than the others though. Almost too popular. * The popularity of the second session made it difficult (though not impossible) to manage the discussion. I ended up having to list the questions that were asked, which I then called out in sequence. This was a bit messy at times, but worked fairly well on the whole. (I eventually transferred the list of questions to an Etherpad, which other volunteers were then able to use.) - As a result of these experiences, the third and final session of the day was organised using two channels - one for asking questions and one for answering and discussing them. Though this was undoubtedly more efficient, I actually thought that it impaired the atmosphere of the event, since it left most of the participants disconnected from the discussion. - I'd be interested in hearing people's thoughts on the best way to organise these sessions in the future. Andre mentioned that there is a bot that can be used for hosting meetings. That could be an interesting line to pursue. Another possibility might be to use an Etherpad to record the questions that are asked, in much the same way that we ended the second session of the day. * In future, we need to have details on how the sessions will be organised on the wiki prior to the event itself. This will ensure that latecomers are informed about how we are organising things. * The questions asked in the sessions covered a lot of ground. Most were design questions (generally relating to GNOME Shell), but technical issues were also raised. There wasn't enough expertise in the channel to answer the questions at times. Though I think it's fine to refer people on or even to say 'I don't know', we do want to be able to address most of the queries that are brought to us. - There are two ways we can approach this issue (that I can think of). First - we can be clear about the kind of knowledge and expertise that are being made available: we can say 'Andreas will be answering design questions' or 'Fred will be taking questions about the GNOME 3 platform'. The other approach is to broaden the amount of expertise that is on hand for each session. Having each one be co-hosted by a designer and a developer could work. Any thoughts about any of this? Anything that I've missed? (You can view the logs of the event on the wiki [2].) An aside: one thing that the user day made clear to me is how many enthusiastic GNOME users there are out there. This project has a lot of supporters - the more we can reach out to them, the better. Best wishes, Allan [1] http://live.gnome.org/ThreePointZero/UserDays/ [2] http://live.gnome.org/ThreePointZero/UserDays/2011-02-15 -- Blog: http://afaikblog.wordpress.com/ IRC: aday on irc.gnome.org -- 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: Fwd: FreeWear.org - Royalty Report (2011/01).
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 10:00 AM, Brian Cameron brian.came...@oracle.comwrote: I do think we want to avoid creating a confusing clutter of options, but I do not think that is a real concern at this point considering the small number of merchants who have arrangements to sell GNOME branded merchandise. This could become more of a concern if the number of merchants grows significantly, but it does not seem a serious issue at the moment to me. I am not sure if it makes sense to promote merchants on the GNOME front page, but I think we should promote all merchants somewhere on the GNOME website. Perhaps a website like http://store.gnome.org/ could contain a link to each merchant. Then we could link to this website from sensible places, like the FoG website and perhaps the GNOME front-door. Maybe we could do this in a way that doesn't give any one user too many options by breaking it down by region. (Too many options often means people buy none.) Stormy -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Conference t-shirts: kids sizes
For conference people in general, including hackfest organizers and people that have booths at conferences, I think the Foundation list might be your best bet. Alternatively (or in addition) you could put a note at the top of the Hackfest page and the top of the Event Box page. Stormy On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 9:19 AM, Olav Vitters o...@vitters.nl wrote: Got a few requests @ FOSDEM for kids size t-shirts. This was started at last years GUADEC. I think for at least Europe it might be nice to make such sizes available (together with mens + womans sizes). How do I make this known? I know guadec-list... but I'd like to contact conference people in general. Maybe gnome-i18n? -- Regards, Olav -- 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: GNOME 3 QA
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 2:19 AM, Allan Day allanp...@gmail.com wrote: [1] http://www.doodle.com/nhgec7p29ebyfgcf I filled out the time. But like Sri, if I'm not traveling, I can monitor it throughout the day, usually 7am-4pm MT plus some time in the evening. The week of Feb 21st I'm traveling. Stormy -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Mission statement status
I too think we should put our mission on the about page. Right now it lists our values, not our mission. Stormy On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 11:20 AM, Jason D. Clinton m...@jasonclinton.comwrote: After reviewing a few email threads that mentioned the topic, it seems that the most up-to-date copy of the mission statement is held here: https://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/ConferenceMaterial/Brochure I don't have any complaints about the statement--I actually love it. However, I am wondering if the statement getting prominently placed on http://www.gnome.org/about/ was blocking on the new website launch or some other reason? -- 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: GNOME Corporate Sponsor Brainstorming
I think this is a great idea. On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 9:30 AM, Paul Cutler pcut...@gnome.org wrote: * Non-profits: $0 This was defined as 501(c)(3)'s. Stormy -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Questions about FoG and campaigns
We also need to promote the campaigns more. People need to blog about it, maybe we can ask some journalists to help us by writing about it, we can use our Google Adsense account, etc. Other than here on the marketing list and on the header of gnome.org, I haven't seen it mentioned any where ... Stormy On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 9:28 AM, Og Maciel ogmac...@gnome.org wrote: On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 11:24 AM, Jason D. Clinton m...@jasonclinton.com wrote: I guess the question would be: do the campaigns switch like clock-work or do we do it manually depending on how close we are to the goal when the time for the next campaign period arrives? I'd like to have campaigns scheduled in advance so that we can better plan things out. -- Og B. Maciel GNOME Foundation Board of Directors omac...@foresightlinux.org ogmac...@gnome.org GPG Keys: D5CFC202 http://www.ogmaciel.com (en_US) http://blog.ogmaciel.com (pt_BR) -- 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: GNOME 3.0 launch party attack?
Perhaps the sys admin team could help? On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 6:26 PM, Frederic Muller fr...@gnome.org wrote: On 01/27/2011 09:11 AM, Frederic Muller wrote: Hi! in the past 8 hours the wiki page for GNOME 3.0 launch parties has disappeared http://live.gnome.org/ThreePointZero/LaunchParty/ . I do subscribe to it but got no notification and history is gone. In parallel 2-3 days ago the blog post about launch parties http://pockey.dao2.com/2011/01/gnome-3-0-launch-parties-support-from-the-gnome-foundation/ was removed from the GNOME planet. Those might be 2 totally separate issues, but I'd be happy if someone could help us out restore the wiki page and investigate this weird happening. Thank you. Fred After further investigation the page has been renamed to http://live.gnome.org/ThreePointZero/LaunchParty/Athens/TEI%20of%20Athensby George Chatzipapas, I suppose by mistake. Is it possible to prevent renaming of a page? Thanks. Fred -- 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: GNOME 3.0 launch party attack?
gnome-sysad...@gnome.org And they are also on IRC, #sysadmin I think. Stormy On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 6:38 PM, Frederic Muller fr...@gnome.org wrote: How can I get in touch with them? Thanks a lot. Fred On 01/27/2011 09:35 AM, Stormy Peters wrote: Perhaps the sys admin team could help? On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 6:26 PM, Frederic Muller fr...@gnome.org mailto:fr...@gnome.org wrote: On 01/27/2011 09:11 AM, Frederic Muller wrote: Hi! in the past 8 hours the wiki page for GNOME 3.0 launch parties has disappeared http://live.gnome.org/ThreePointZero/LaunchParty/ . I do subscribe to it but got no notification and history is gone. In parallel 2-3 days ago the blog post about launch parties http://pockey.dao2.com/2011/01/gnome-3-0-launch-parties-support-from-the-gnome-foundation/ was removed from the GNOME planet. Those might be 2 totally separate issues, but I'd be happy if someone could help us out restore the wiki page and investigate this weird happening. Thank you. Fred After further investigation the page has been renamed to http://live.gnome.org/ThreePointZero/LaunchParty/Athens/TEI%20of%20Athens by George Chatzipapas, I suppose by mistake. Is it possible to prevent renaming of a page? Thanks. Fred -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org mailto: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: Goodies for GNOME 3.0 launch parties
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 7:18 AM, Allan Day allanp...@gmail.com wrote: How shall we announce this (and where)? Planet GNOME, Identica, Twitter, www.gnome.org... any others? (I'm interested in this too.) Facebook too. In fact I am also interested in a more generic question which is how do we usually use our channels to announce stuff? I tried to motivate people with the T-shirt contest but didn't receive much feedback except from the people I contacted personally. How do we actually usually promote stuff outside of the GNOME community? (I thought GUGs would be a good way, but they seem a little bit sleepy ;) ). Good question! I've been thinking for a while that GNOME needs an outward facing media channel. The Planet and GNOME News are primarily places where we talk to ourselves. www.gnome.org is outward facing and has a news section, but it isn't primarily a news site (you certainly can't subscribe to it)... A blog or news site where we talk to our partners and to GNOME enthusiasts would be a great way to promote GNOME and to keep people in tune with where the project is going. It'd need volunteers if it were to become an enduring reality, of course... There are people that have been helping with Facebook and Twitter. I think a blog would be hard but perhaps a blog that gives excerpts and points to other articles. That way someone could follow Planet GNOME, GNOME News and other channels, make a judgement call on what would be interesting to our users and add them to the feed. Stormy -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Made of Easy - Made of Inspiration
People use their computer to do things. We are making GNOME so that it does not interfere with what you are doing. What you need is at your finger tips. You are notified, but not interrupted, by messages. You can switch tasks easily. It's made to inspire you - at the work you are trying to create. To assist you in your main creative efforts. Stormy On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 6:08 AM, Olav Vitters o...@vitters.nl wrote: On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 11:50:10AM -0700, Stormy Peters wrote: Made to Inspire? Playing devil's advocate: What is the benefit of an OS if it inspires? Inspires me? Inspires other OS makers? -- Regards, Olav -- 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: Made of Easy - Made of Inspiration
Made to Inspire? On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 11:34 AM, Jason D. Clinton m...@jasonclinton.comwrote: So, as we ramp up our marketing earlier than anticipated (good!) the launch theme that we selected in November 2009 has been bothering me. Mostly, I think, because what was a common meme at the time (made of fail, made of awesome) isn't so common now. And so the play on the meme doesn't seem very clever any more. Also, as I am reviewing the list of videos to produce, I am increasingly of the feeling that they need to inspire people by explaining the inspired design behind the new UI. What about Made of Inspriation? Thoughts? As it stands now, we haven't done anything with the official launch theme so changing it is a zero-cost proposition... -- 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: Pre-release marketing and community management [Was: getting www.gnome3.org]
Hi Allan, On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 1:29 AM, Allan Day allanp...@gmail.com wrote: Is someone willing to go through archives and talk to the people close to the decision to try to document the features and rationale? That was my plan for the shell design page. I'm familiar with most of the design principles as well as the documentation which has been produced. I can also dredge the lists, and I can harass Jon and Jimmac if it comes down to it. :) That'd be great. We could start it on the wiki and then move it to gnome3.org/... when it's ready. Stormy -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Pre-release marketing and community management [Was: getting www.gnome3.org]
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 12:14 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.mewrote: OK, point taken. Let's modify that argument instead to people who are worried as there isn't any documented evidence that this design is going to work. We do not have official Gnome usability studies to back up our design of shell. We need something that we can point to that says that we thought of all possibilities. When there is a lack of evidence then indeed people do fear change. I know Jon and others are using research material, books and what not to back up their design and they have done some internal testing. None of which is public. I've heard this again and again. That there were design decisions made that were supposedly based on research and supposedly that information is public but supposedly nobody can find it. (I personally haven't looked hard for it online.) I think it would be a huge help if someone could go through and document the Design principles behind GNOME 3.0. And talk about the major features, changes and why they are good for users with pointers to any discussions or supporting research. We could make it a subpage of gnome3.org. I think having it all on one page, clearly laid out by features with rationale would be great. No matter what we write, people will argue, but at least we can point to something and say this is what and why. Stormy -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Pre-release marketing and community management [Was: getting www.gnome3.org]
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 6:09 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.me wrote: We didn't do this for 2.0 which fed into a lot of rage on a number of forums. Nobody could understand why we were removing features or the philosophy behind it. Because of that history, Gnome 3.0 will fall into the same cycle. Let's hope we can avoid doing it this time with a little forethought now that we are a lot more mature project. :-) So my concern isn't making sure everyone agrees or even gets it but rather that everyone who wants to can explain why we did it (or at least point to somewhere that does explain.) Is someone willing to go through archives and talk to the people close to the decision to try to document the features and rationale? Stormy -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Pre-release marketing and community management [Was: getting www.gnome3.org]
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 2:05 AM, Allan Day allanp...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 13:50 -0800, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: We've never done community management (well or at all) and it might be a good way to do a sales job on our own existing user base who fear change. It will also prepare us for after the release for questions that will certainly be forthcoming when we make presentations at various conferences. I have two conferences that I'll be talking at, Open Source Bridge and Linuxfest Northwest. I've already put in the paperwork for them and I want to make sure that I can address any users who might be confrontational. Making the effort will earn us some brownie points I think. *raises hand* Me and Sri have discussed this a bit online. There already seems to be an unorganised effort to do community management on the lists and channels. Pooling, recycling and generating resources in the fight against stop energy would only enhance that effort, I think. It seems like we need two things: 1) a website to speak to the world (our our community) about GNOME 3.0 - that's gnome3.org 2) a place for all those interested in helping with community management to share stories and ideas - is that this list? Stormy -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: New face to Friends of GNOME
Thanks, Andreas. It definitely needed an update and I like how it all fits above the fold now. I would actually suggest simplifying it more and only giving people 2-3 options. If we could offer them monthly and one time and then take them to payment page and fill in a default (editable) amount and list what all the amounts benefit from, that would be great. (I don't think we can easily do that with Paypal though.) FYI, in the last box, Philanthropist, when I select it, the words overwrite the title. Stormy On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 7:10 AM, Andreas Nilsson nisses.m...@home.se wrote: Wanted to do some modifications to the Friends of GNOME website as the design me and Kalle did hasn't scaled well with the content added over time and with the new website [1] coming around the corner, needs a facelift anyway. The current site is getting a bit cluttered and I wanted make the process of donating as simple as possible. Some darlings might have gone lost in the process. :) http://www.andreasn.se/diverse/temp/friends-of-gnome-2.0/ This can be considered alpha state as I think the forms are a bit broken here and there and not all sub pages are finished. If you find something broken, fix it here: http://gitorious.org/gnome-design/gnome-design/trees/master/www/friends-of-gnome-2.0 1. http://wptest.gnome.org/ - Andreas -- 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: GCI: Update Gnome Usergroup Info, Introduction
I agree with Dave Neary's points. I also think showing that you are going to follow up and record the information might encourage people to take your request seriously. Maybe create the wiki page beforehand and populate it with all the information you have? On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 3:40 PM, Andre Klapper ak...@gmx.net wrote: This assumes that the GUG has a leader, however I have the feeling that some GUGs listed are just mailing lists without a defined internal hierarchy? Maybe one piece of information is how many people are signed up on the mailing list and how active it is, i.e. how many mails/month? The sys admin team can probably help gather any information that's not public (like number of people on the list). Stormy -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: GNOME 3.0 Contract Opportunity
Is this just to create materials or to also do social media and press management? I think it's critically important that we organize our marketing activities within the community, with external communities, within social media channels and with the press. I would prioritize that over creating materials. (But I assume they'd have to create some materials to get it done.) Stormy On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 9:32 AM, Paul Cutler pcut...@gnome.org wrote: Hi Marketing Team! Over the last few months I haven't had the time I would like to dedicate to the marketing team and work with the community on GNOME 3.0 deliverables. With GNOME 3.0 coming, the GNOME Foundation Board believes this work is important and is willing to sign a short term contract to get some marketing materials created to help support the GNOME 3.0 launch. If anyone is interested, please email the Board with your resume per official announcement below. Paul The GNOME Foundation is seeking a marketing expert to do short-term contract work to help improve GNOME and GNOME 3 marketing materials, to work to promote GNOME in the media, and to assist with press management. The GNOME Foundation has $5,000 (USD) allocated to pay a contractor for the creation of marketing materials supporting GNOME. Interested parties should email board-l...@gnome.org with a resume detailing related work or volunteer experience. Please include a cover letter that explains your interest and level of familiarity with marketing as it relates to GNOME and free software. Please include references. -- 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: The GNOME Foundation blog
Maybe somebody with WordPress experience could make the Foundation blog look like the gnome.org web page? (Or the new web page look and feel ...) We might also want to ask people with hosted blogs on blogs.gnome.org if they are happy with the look and feel and customizations they have. Stormy On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 7:55 AM, Paul Cutler pcut...@gnome.org wrote: Hi Pockey, Thanks for the feedback. We're going to be upgrading blogs.gnome.org to the latest WP version in the next couple of months and I'll take a look at it then. I don't plan on using the GJ theme as I believe GNOME Journal, as a quarterly magazine, should have its own look and feel. Paul On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 3:12 AM, Juanjo Marin juanjomari...@yahoo.es wrote: On Mon, 2010-12-06 at 11:38 +0800, Pockey Lam wrote: Dear all, When promoting the new Friends of GNOME campaign via facebook, I received some feedback that 'the theme of The GNOME Foundation blog (http://blogs.gnome.org/foundation) is too simple'. 'They also suggest to use the one from gnomejournal (http://gnomejournal.org/)http://gnomejournal.org/%29 '. What do you guys think and what can we do about it? Pockey I agree that the theme of the GNOME Foundation blog is too simple and looks like a sort-of default theme. We should use a most elaborate theme. The only thing I like about this theme is the fact it uses an suitable font for GNOME. Cheers, -- Juanjo Marin -- 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 -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: FoG pending Tasks
A while back Lucas Rocha said he could help. Stormy On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 8:01 AM, Og Maciel ogmac...@gnome.org wrote: On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Paul Cutler pcut...@gnome.org wrote: Og - any updates on getting the banner added to the GNOME sites to track new subscribers? Hey Paul, I thought since you had the task of working on the ruler, that you'd also add it. Let me get back to my desk and I'll ping you to discuss this and get it done. -- Og B. Maciel GNOME Foundation Board of Directors omac...@foresightlinux.org ogmac...@gnome.org ogmac...@ubuntu.com GPG Keys: D5CFC202 http://www.ogmaciel.com (en_US) http://blog.ogmaciel.com (pt_BR) -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: FoG pending Tasks
On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 6:38 AM, Og Maciel ogmac...@gnome.org wrote: * LWN (Stormy) I'm not sure the exact action here but I think I've introduced all the right people to the right people and between Og, Paul and Rosanna, things are good here. (We still need to send the subscriptions out to the people that wanted them.) I feel that we should make the new FoG launch right now and add new items as we go, as we should take advantage of the end of the year and see if we can attract more/new contributos! Things marked as NEEDED can be punted and worked on later imho. I agree. I think we should just go for it. Put the banner up and have everyone blog and spread the word! Stormy -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: FoG pending Tasks
Hi Joey, It would be great to see the press mail and the radio jingle before you send them out. Looking forward to it! Stormy On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 12:43 PM, Joey Ferwerda joeyferw...@gmail.comwrote: Hey all I have a lot of things ready but pending, the Annual doodad is created, but i am waiting for Shapeways to contact me back, i think this might be a better plan for 2011. I have created a Press mail for Magazines and Websites, but i am still waiting for the website to contain the Video, since i mentioned it in the Press message. I did some ad design, but it was to short time to get it towards the print media, so i am thinking of doing a banner instead. The radio Jingle is almost done, will have it before end of the weekend, and will send it to multiple radio stations then. Thanks Joey On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 7:27 PM, Og Maciel ogmac...@gnome.org wrote: On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 12:01 PM, Brian Cameron brian.came...@oracle.com wrote: It's great that FoG is moving forward. However, we have had plans to make it possible for organizations to donate money to the GNOME Foundation in exchange for recognition, link exchange, being said to sponsor GNOME events/activities, etc. We already have a previous donors page in place which I manually update... -- Og B. Maciel GNOME Foundation Board of Directors omac...@foresightlinux.org ogmac...@gnome.org ogmac...@ubuntu.com GPG Keys: D5CFC202 http://www.ogmaciel.com (en_US) http://blog.ogmaciel.com (pt_BR) -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list -- Alias. Morton Black -- 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
I love GNOME videos
At the Boston Summit we discussed recording I love GNOME segments, perhaps in people's native languages. The Mozilla video at the bottom of this page has something similar: http://www.mozilla.org/foundation/annualreport/2009/a-competitive-world.html Stormy -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: litl arrival - GNOME slideshow
At the Boston Summit we discussed recording I love GNOME segments, perhaps in people's native languages. The Mozilla video at the bottom of this page has something similar: http://www.mozilla.org/foundation/annualreport/2009/a-competitive-world.html Stormy -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: FoG changes
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 2:29 PM, Jason D. Clinton m...@jasonclinton.comwrote: On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 19:51, Og Maciel ogmac...@gnome.org wrote: You can view these changes by going to http://www.gnome.org/friends and the social media option by going to http://www.gnome.org/friends/thank-you.php Looks good but I would remove the like breast cancer scanners unless we are going to start linking to specific products. This is the company that makes the breast cancer scanners: http://www.supersonicimagine.fr/ They sponsored GUADEC one year. Stormy -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Urgent - Screenshots needed
Hi Lidia, I agree with Jos, that your website is useful and probably the easiest thing to do is to create a wiki page that shows them off and then file a bug for someone to put them on gnome.org. Thanks so much for creating this page! I think it is something that was very much needed and will be used by many people making presentations to talk about GNOME. I hope we will continue to see you on the list - both reviewing and making suggestions and contributing! Welcome to GNOME marketing! Best, Stormy On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Jos Poortvliet jospoortvl...@gmail.comwrote: On Monday 25 October 2010 01:21:24 Lidia Urra wrote: Hi, I send you all my work on the website for screenshots to GNOME, you can see it know on http://alumnos.elo.utfsm.cl/~lurra/http://alumnos.elo.utfsm.cl/%7Elurra/ I like the screenshots. So your goal with this website is to create a site with official screenshots of GNOME? That's not a bad idea - of course user- screenshots can be found on gnome-look.org plenty but official ones can be very useful. I would however just put them on thew wiki that Stormy mentioned, unless you want to use this as some marketing tool? If so, where would it fit in exactly? The GNOME website could use a screenshot tour page, that might be a good spot... and also I attached it in this email. I need feedback from you, so any opinion is really important to me, because I'm a newbie in this. If you can help me with the writing content will be perfect. Thanks, Jos! Can you put them on the wiki? http://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/MarketingMaterial/Posters Thanks, Stormy On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 4:37 AM, Jos Poortvliet jospoortvl...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday 11 October 2010 21:04:03 Jos Poortvliet wrote: On Monday 11 October 2010 18:12:42 Brian Cameron wrote: One issue that I have noticed with screen shots taken in the past is that they tend to show off the way GNOME looks in a particular distro with distro branding, etc. This is understandable since people taking screenshots would likely often overlook this as a concern. However, if we are going to put together some more formal screenshots to use going forward, then it seems that it would be nice to either: 1) Organize screenshots taken on a variety of distros so that we are not seen as favoring one distro over another (even unintentionally). This might be cool since we could show off that GNOME is widely used across many distributions, but might be more work to organize. 2) Configure the desktop so that distro specific branding is removed before taking the screenshots, so it has more of a vanilla (or unbranded) look. If we are going to do this, then it would be useful to have some guidelines about how to go about taking screenshots for use by upstream GNOME. Such guidelines could include infomration about how to reset your desktop configuration to an approved neutral unbranded state. Or do such guidelines already exist somewhere? In openSUSE you can install either the openSUSE-branding packages or the upstream-branding. That's how I made a few vanilla GNOME screenshots. By tomorrow I'll have a space to put 'em and you'll get them. Will be just 3-4 but they might be usable for GNOME.org. I made some GNOME screenshots. Some are openSUSE style but a few are vanilla. I have added text over them saying something like GNOME 2.30 which I don't think makes sense for the GNOME website. Luckily I have the originals so let me know if you want them by mail :D Brian -- 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 -- 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: Gnome-Mobile
Hi Loreto, I really liked your brochure - it's very creative and unique. A few of the images/panels have outdated information on them but perhaps the list can help with feedback and suggest updates to them? Stormy On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 6:18 PM, Loreto Godoy Alvarez loreto...@gmail.comwrote: Hi everyone, it's a little weird write to a list :P, first sorry for my english, I'm Loreto from South America (Chile) .. and i sent to you a brochure i am working ... its about Gnome Mobile... (the files are heavy so i upload the files on my personal page of my university ... apart i had the 18 frames so if i had to do some change its not a problem) http://alumnos.inf.utfsm.cl/~ggodoy/GnomeMobile/http://alumnos.inf.utfsm.cl/%7Eggodoy/GnomeMobile/ - PartA - PartB and a instructive to fold (inst.odt) ( the idea is: print it for the both side of paper, fold and get a little card you can expand with all the information... ) I would like to print it on some copy shop to look the dimension its right but the measure i used are 216x330 cm, and every frames had 72x110 cm well, that its all... i hope you like... any change you like to do, you are free to do it ... Thank for you time, Byeee :) -- _ Gloria Loreto Godoy Alvarez Estudiante Ingeniería Civil Informática - UTFSM Coordinadora de Comunicaciones, Centro de Alumnos De Informática Coordinadora de Promoción Informática -- 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
Friends of GNOME: Discount for annual subscription option
Hi GNOME Marketing folks, Og Maciel is working on the Friends of GNOME page and he had the idea of offering a discount if people sign up for the year. So a yearly subscription would be $100/year and a monthly subscription would be $10/month. Thoughts? Stormy -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: review request: GNOME marketing flyer for new users in less economically developed countries.
Hi Ben, That looks awesome! Thanks for the good work. Please be sure to put it on the wiki: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/MarketingMaterial/Resources Stormy On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 9:44 PM, Andreas Nilsson nisses.m...@home.sewrote: On 10/30/2010 06:27 AM, Ben Konrath wrote: http://bagu.org/scratch/GNOME-dev-world-flyer-v2.zip http://bagu.org/scratch/GNOME-dev-world-flyer-v2.pdf The icons are bit messed up in the pdf because the inkscape print to pdf doesn't seem to be able to handle gradients. I'll have to work around that some how. Hi Ben! That looks really great, excellent work! I would advice to export the icons as bitmaps and then add them to the document as such, that way you can be sure that they render correctly. Make sure to embed them rather than link them though. Another way is to try and use simpler icons. - Andreas -- 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: IRC meeting for New Friends of GNOME campaign with LWN
Just a reminder that our meeting is tonight/tomorrow morning! I look forward to seeing you all there. Stormy On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 3:24 PM, Juanjo Marin juanjomari...@yahoo.eswrote: On Tue, 2010-10-12 at 14:52 -0600, Stormy Peters wrote: We will meet on IRC at 3:00 UTC Wednesday, Oct 20th. For those of you that are time zone challenged like I am, this is TUESDAY in many time zones, in particular it's 9pm Tuesday the 19th in MST. Please join us! irc.gnome.org/#marketing Oct 20, 3:00 UTC / Oct 19, 20:00 PST Stormy Hi, irc.gnome.org/#marketing This local time around the world for Wednesday, 20 October 2010, 03:00:00 UTC time http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=20month=10year=2010hour=3min=0sec=0p1=0 I hope this helps, -- Juanjo -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Urgent - Screenshots needed
Thanks, Jos! Can you put them on the wiki? http://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/MarketingMaterial/Posters Thanks, Stormy On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 4:37 AM, Jos Poortvliet jospoortvl...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday 11 October 2010 21:04:03 Jos Poortvliet wrote: On Monday 11 October 2010 18:12:42 Brian Cameron wrote: One issue that I have noticed with screen shots taken in the past is that they tend to show off the way GNOME looks in a particular distro with distro branding, etc. This is understandable since people taking screenshots would likely often overlook this as a concern. However, if we are going to put together some more formal screenshots to use going forward, then it seems that it would be nice to either: 1) Organize screenshots taken on a variety of distros so that we are not seen as favoring one distro over another (even unintentionally). This might be cool since we could show off that GNOME is widely used across many distributions, but might be more work to organize. 2) Configure the desktop so that distro specific branding is removed before taking the screenshots, so it has more of a vanilla (or unbranded) look. If we are going to do this, then it would be useful to have some guidelines about how to go about taking screenshots for use by upstream GNOME. Such guidelines could include infomration about how to reset your desktop configuration to an approved neutral unbranded state. Or do such guidelines already exist somewhere? In openSUSE you can install either the openSUSE-branding packages or the upstream-branding. That's how I made a few vanilla GNOME screenshots. By tomorrow I'll have a space to put 'em and you'll get them. Will be just 3-4 but they might be usable for GNOME.org. I made some GNOME screenshots. Some are openSUSE style but a few are vanilla. I have added text over them saying something like GNOME 2.30 which I don't think makes sense for the GNOME website. Luckily I have the originals so let me know if you want them by mail :D Brian -- 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: Doodle Meeting! Re: New Friends of GNOME campaign with LWN!
We will reschedule the meeting. Tuesday 3am UTC is actually *Monday* 9pm in my time zone. I assume others also had this problem as Joey and Bryen were the only ones that showed up. Thanks to Joey and Bryen for hanging in there! I'll send another Doodle invite shortly. Stormy On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org wrote: We will meet Tuesday at 3am UTC. I realize this is not a good time for anyone in Europe but it worked the best for the people that filled out the poll. See you there! (IRC: irc.gnome.org, #marketing) Stormy On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org wrote: I think a good way to kick this off would be with an IRC meeting to discuss some of the details. If you are interested, please indicate what times would work well for you: http://www.doodle.com/gadqfyrte69adi6a (Note that there are *3* days so please scroll all the way to the right and fill in all the times.) Best, Stormy On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 11:36 AM, Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org wrote: Hi GNOME Marketing team, LWN and the GNOME Foundation have partnered to support the GNOME project! Every Friend of GNOME monthly subscriber will receive a subscription to LWN.net as part of their subscription. (For all subscribers that give $10+/month.) So it's time for a new Friends of GNOME campaign! This one is to show how great our community is - by focusing on our supporters instead of the dollars. In order to take advantage of our agreement with LWN, I'd love to see us do something big for a subscriber campaign. Here are some initial thoughts I have. We'll need everyone's help to make it happen, so your thoughts on what parts are most interesting or important would be great. * Campaign time frame: October - Dec 31st * Goal: Number of subscribers (how many do we want our goal to be? 500?) * Perks: LWN subscription!, tshirt - we could do a new tshirt with LWN on it too * Target: technical users (not GNOME developers) - 95% of our current subscribers give money because they can't contribute code * Slogan? * I think it would also be good to give people a way to track the people the refer (through word of mouth or their blog or whatever) and give out some sort of recognition or prize to people that recruit the most people. To do: * Find a way to track referrals. * Develop slogan/ad campaigns. * Design ads (Need specs for LWN ads.) * Modify the ruler (subscribers instead of $s) * Design new tshirt if we want a new one. * Design swag for people who referred the most people. * Place ruler on gnome.org and Planet GNOME. * Place ads on Google Adwords, LWN, blogs. * Send an email to all existing subscribers offering them an LWN subscription. * Add a yearly subscription option (This is especially important for those that live in places with really high Paypal fees.) Thoughts? Ideas? Would you be willing to help? Stormy -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Doodle Meeting! Re: New Friends of GNOME campaign with LWN!
Joey can't make it and I think after being one of the few to try to attend at the right time we should keep his schedule in mind! Stormy On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 9:33 AM, susero...@bryen.com wrote: I thought afterward rgar nighr have been the case. I have no problem hanging out for the next one tonight. Keep the appt if tjhats what most people had planned on. Bryen Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org Sender: marketing-list-boun...@gnome.org Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 09:25:46 To: GNOME Marketing Listmarketing-list@gnome.org Subject: Re: Doodle Meeting! Re: New Friends of GNOME campaign with LWN! We will reschedule the meeting. Tuesday 3am UTC is actually *Monday* 9pm in my time zone. I assume others also had this problem as Joey and Bryen were the only ones that showed up. Thanks to Joey and Bryen for hanging in there! I'll send another Doodle invite shortly. Stormy On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org wrote: We will meet Tuesday at 3am UTC. I realize this is not a good time for anyone in Europe but it worked the best for the people that filled out the poll. See you there! (IRC: irc.gnome.org, #marketing) Stormy On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org wrote: I think a good way to kick this off would be with an IRC meeting to discuss some of the details. If you are interested, please indicate what times would work well for you: http://www.doodle.com/gadqfyrte69adi6a (Note that there are *3* days so please scroll all the way to the right and fill in all the times.) Best, Stormy On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 11:36 AM, Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org wrote: Hi GNOME Marketing team, LWN and the GNOME Foundation have partnered to support the GNOME project! Every Friend of GNOME monthly subscriber will receive a subscription to LWN.net as part of their subscription. (For all subscribers that give $10+/month.) So it's time for a new Friends of GNOME campaign! This one is to show how great our community is - by focusing on our supporters instead of the dollars. In order to take advantage of our agreement with LWN, I'd love to see us do something big for a subscriber campaign. Here are some initial thoughts I have. We'll need everyone's help to make it happen, so your thoughts on what parts are most interesting or important would be great. * Campaign time frame: October - Dec 31st * Goal: Number of subscribers (how many do we want our goal to be? 500?) * Perks: LWN subscription!, tshirt - we could do a new tshirt with LWN on it too * Target: technical users (not GNOME developers) - 95% of our current subscribers give money because they can't contribute code * Slogan? * I think it would also be good to give people a way to track the people the refer (through word of mouth or their blog or whatever) and give out some sort of recognition or prize to people that recruit the most people. To do: * Find a way to track referrals. * Develop slogan/ad campaigns. * Design ads (Need specs for LWN ads.) * Modify the ruler (subscribers instead of $s) * Design new tshirt if we want a new one. * Design swag for people who referred the most people. * Place ruler on gnome.org and Planet GNOME. * Place ads on Google Adwords, LWN, blogs. * Send an email to all existing subscribers offering them an LWN subscription. * Add a yearly subscription option (This is especially important for those that live in places with really high Paypal fees.) Thoughts? Ideas? Would you be willing to help? Stormy -- 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
IRC meeting for New Friends of GNOME campaign with LWN
We will meet on IRC at 3:00 UTC Wednesday, Oct 20th. For those of you that are time zone challenged like I am, this is TUESDAY in many time zones, in particular it's 9pm Tuesday the 19th in MST. Please join us! irc.gnome.org/#marketing Oct 20, 3:00 UTC / Oct 19, 20:00 PST Stormy -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Urgent - Screenshots needed
Hi Jos, I agree that we need more and better screenshots. Having a nice page on gnome.org would be good too. I put the screenshots I found on the wiki here: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/MarketingMaterial/Posters I'm thinking this would be a great project for the people applying for the Outreach project that need to do a project as part of their application. I'm going to go try to talk one of them into it now! Stormy On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 6:39 AM, Jos Poortvliet jospoortvl...@gmail.comwrote: On Monday 04 October 2010 17:49:16 Paul Cutler wrote: Hi GNOME Marketing Team! I received an email from the Desktop Summit 2011 team late yesterday with an urgent request for a website they are building targeting the press that is going up Wed. From the email: Could you please help out with two-three screenshots representative for what GNOME software is about? One for desktop form factor, one for handheld, one for tablet, perhaps also some demo video embedddable from vimeo, youtube and similar? Thanks. Idea is to give journalists some easy-to-pick nice pictures/videos to use in their writings In general, having a page with some nice screenshots (compare for example what KDE has here: http://kde.org/workspaces/plasmadesktop/ ) would be very helpful. I am trying to create a 'slideshow' with cool GNOME screenshots but there are a few things making it harder: - no good 'official' screenshots on gnome.org (that I know off) and most screenshots I can find are not with the default GNOME look and feel - GNOME3 screenshots are a bit outdated. I have installed a clean GNOME install on openSUSE but that's also not vanilla, with the modified panel setup and all. It's fine for openSUSE promo purpose, of course - but not for general GNOME. I will share what I have made once it is done - but note that it will be openSUSE, not vanilla. Does anyone have any ideas - screenshots (preferably of GNOME 3.0) - I think we want to focus on GNOME Shell as that is what will be released by the time of the Desktop Summit next summer. Any videos on the GNOME Miro community? I think we can just focus on the desktop - we don't have a formal handheld or tablet experience yet. Thanks for the help - I'll help compile anything we find tonight and forward it on. Paul -- 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: New Friends of GNOME campaign with LWN!
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Jason Clinton m...@jasonclinton.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 12:36, Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org wrote: To do: * Find a way to track referrals. * Develop slogan/ad campaigns. * Send an email to all existing subscribers offering them an LWN subscription. Thoughts? Ideas? Would you be willing to help? My only thought is that this is a wonderful opportunity and I would be willing to help with the above three items. If no one else says anything in the next few days, I will open sysadmin tracking tickets in Bugzilla for #1 and #3, above. Jason, that'd be great! As for #2, hopefully we can have an IRC meeting arranged via Doodle for that. I am setting up a Doodle meeting now. Stormy -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Urgent - Screenshots needed
I put those that I know of here: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/MarketingMaterial/Posters http://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/MarketingMaterial/PostersBut we could really, really use some good screenshots if anyone has the time to take some. Stormy On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 9:49 AM, Paul Cutler pcut...@gnome.org wrote: Hi GNOME Marketing Team! I received an email from the Desktop Summit 2011 team late yesterday with an urgent request for a website they are building targeting the press that is going up Wed. From the email: Could you please help out with two-three screenshots representative for what GNOME software is about? One for desktop form factor, one for handheld, one for tablet, perhaps also some demo video embedddable from vimeo, youtube and similar? Thanks. Idea is to give journalists some easy-to-pick nice pictures/videos to use in their writings Does anyone have any ideas - screenshots (preferably of GNOME 3.0) - I think we want to focus on GNOME Shell as that is what will be released by the time of the Desktop Summit next summer. Any videos on the GNOME Miro community? I think we can just focus on the desktop - we don't have a formal handheld or tablet experience yet. Thanks for the help - I'll help compile anything we find tonight and forward it on. Paul -- 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
Marketing tasks for Outreach Program for Women applicants
We've received several applications from women interested in interning with the marketing team! As part of their application, they need to contribute something. It should be something that can be done in a couple of days but something that shows their commitment and let's them try out working with a free software project. (Typically on the code side, I believe they contribute a patch which requires them to set up their development environment, check out the code and make at least a minor change.) Ideas for marketing tasks? Tasks for the application process (so small tasks!), not the internship itself. (Although if you have ideas for that too, that'd be great. Please feel free to add yourself as a mentor, http://live.gnome.org/GnomeWomen/OutreachProgram2010#participating-projects .) Thanks, Stormy -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Getting some students in communication helping with copywriting web?
I'd be willing to help. On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 10:04 AM, Jason Clinton m...@jasonclinton.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 04:28, Dave Neary dne...@gnome.org wrote: I want to make sure that there is sufficient mentoring resources available in the marketing team to give regular feedback ensure follow-through if I propose this idea to the course supervisor. Would love to help! library.gnome.org is another idea; needs a lot of updating for GNOME 3 and it's a target community, too. -- 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
