Message of support following the earthquake in Haiti
Stormy and team, Should the foundation consider sending a brief message of support regarding the earthquake in Haiti? One thought would be to do a minor update to the gnome.org home page. I am not aware of a badge (I am sure they exist) or we can simply had some simple text (short and to the point). People are bombarded with requests for donating already so there is nothing original with this though Haiti really needs the support. Haiti only ranks 148th (out of 179 countries) on the UNDPs Human Development Index. Their PM estimates that the death toll is the hundreds of thousands. About 3 million people -- one-third of Haiti's population -- were affected by the quake, the Red Cross estimated. About 10 million people felt shaking from the earthquake, including 2 million who felt severe trembling, the U.S. Geological Survey estimated. We could use Unicef or the Red Cross as orgs people could donate to: The GNOME Foundation wishes to support the relief efforts following the earthquake and many aftershocks that affected Haiti. Ways to donate: Simply text Haiti to 90999 and give $10 to the American Red Cross Simply text YELE to 501501 and give $5 to the Yele Haiti fun http://www.yele.org/ Best regards, -Guy -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Message of support following the earthquake in Haiti
Am Mittwoch, den 13.01.2010, 12:25 -0700 schrieb Guy Lunardi: Should the foundation consider sending a brief message of support regarding the earthquake in Haiti? Playing the bad cop here: If we started doing this, what is the threshold for future catastrophes, or what is the reason not to do this constantly, having lots of poor people and conflicts on this earth? We could use Unicef or the Red Cross as orgs people could donate to: I have problems with some of these big help organizations as I know well about their behaviour in Sri Lanka after 2004's Tsunami. (Off-topic - let's go off-list if somebody wants to debate.) andre -- mailto:ak...@gmx.net | failed http://www.iomc.de/ | http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Message of support following the earthquake in Haiti
On 01/13/2010 01:25 PM, Guy Lunardi wrote: Stormy and team, Should the foundation consider sending a brief message of support regarding the earthquake in Haiti? One thought would be to do a minor update to the gnome.org home page. I am not aware of a badge (I am sure they exist) or we can simply had some simple text (short and to the point). People are bombarded with requests for donating already so there is nothing original with this though Haiti really needs the support. Haiti only ranks 148th (out of 179 countries) on the UNDP’s Human Development Index. Their PM estimates that the death toll is the hundreds of thousands. About 3 million people -- one-third of Haiti's population -- were affected by the quake, the Red Cross estimated. About 10 million people felt shaking from the earthquake, including 2 million who felt severe trembling, the U.S. Geological Survey estimated. We could use Unicef or the Red Cross as orgs people could donate to: The GNOME Foundation wishes to support the relief efforts following the earthquake and many aftershocks that affected Haiti. Ways to donate: Simply text Haiti to 90999 and give $10 to the American Red Cross Simply text YELE to 501501 and give $5 to the Yele Haiti fun http://www.yele.org/ Best regards, -Guy +1 from me - GNOME is a global community and I think putting this up on our webpage over the near term is a good idea. If Stormy agrees, I'll volunteer to update the homepage in git and commit the changes. Paul -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
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Forwarding to the list as I accidentally used the wrong email address (Just set up Thunderbird today!) Paul Original Message Subject: Re: Message of support following the earthquake in Haiti Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:58:13 -0600 From: Paul Cutler paul.r.cut...@gmail.com To: Guy Lunardi gluna...@novell.com CC: marketing-list@gnome.org, sto...@gnome.org On 01/13/2010 01:25 PM, Guy Lunardi wrote: Stormy and team, Should the foundation consider sending a brief message of support regarding the earthquake in Haiti? One thought would be to do a minor update to the gnome.org home page. I am not aware of a badge (I am sure they exist) or we can simply had some simple text (short and to the point). People are bombarded with requests for donating already so there is nothing original with this though Haiti really needs the support. Haiti only ranks 148th (out of 179 countries) on the UNDP’s Human Development Index. Their PM estimates that the death toll is the hundreds of thousands. About 3 million people -- one-third of Haiti's population -- were affected by the quake, the Red Cross estimated. About 10 million people felt shaking from the earthquake, including 2 million who felt severe trembling, the U.S. Geological Survey estimated. We could use Unicef or the Red Cross as orgs people could donate to: The GNOME Foundation wishes to support the relief efforts following the earthquake and many aftershocks that affected Haiti. Ways to donate: Simply text Haiti to 90999 and give $10 to the American Red Cross Simply text YELE to 501501 and give $5 to the Yele Haiti fun http://www.yele.org/ Best regards, -Guy +1 from me - GNOME is a global community and I think putting this up on our webpage over the near term is a good idea. If Stormy agrees, I'll volunteer to update the homepage in git and commit the changes. Paul -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Message of support following the earthquake in Haiti
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 1:59 PM, Andre Klapper ak...@gmx.net wrote: Am Mittwoch, den 13.01.2010, 12:25 -0700 schrieb Guy Lunardi: Should the foundation consider sending a brief message of support regarding the earthquake in Haiti? Playing the bad cop here: If we started doing this, what is the threshold for future catastrophes, or what is the reason not to do this constantly, having lots of poor people and conflicts on this earth? I too had that thought at first. Then I thought we could have a dedicated ad/support part of gnome.org and GNOME Foundation members could vote up or down on which ads should actually get displayed. Just kidding. But that is what crossed my mind. +1 for adding adding a message of support. Stormy -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Message of support following the earthquake in Haiti
On 01/13/2010 04:20 PM, Guy Lunardi wrote: Thank you Paul, So that we do not do this in vein and that we put our actions where our mouths are, I have just donated $100 USD on behalf of the GNOME Foundation to the YELE HAITI EARTHQUAKE FUND (CNP*Yele Haiti|8668948020) Best regards, -Guy Guy, thanks for doing that, it is very generous. Paul -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
