Re: Promotion campaign for GNOME 2.14 release?
quote who=Santiago Roza On 2/24/06, Alex Hudson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I seem to remember him saying he was switching to Kubuntu when Dapper comes out? no exactly, luckily. he said he was now using Kubuntu on his desktop machine: http://www.kubuntu.org/announcements/kde-commitment.php on his desktop machine means he's using ubuntu (gnome) on his laptop, at least. if it wasn't like that, he would have just said using kubuntu. ... and he doesn't actually use his desktop machine. ;-) - Jeff -- FISL 7.0: Porto Alegre, Brazilhttp://fisl.softwarelivre.org/7.0/www/ The Vines are the latest pretenders to the thrown. - Vines review by liv4now.com -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Promotion campaign for GNOME 2.14 release?
One of the possibilites is try and do an interview with Linus and see if his view has changed on GNOME with the new 2.14 coming out. If it has, it would be a great marketing plug!! Rajiv -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Promotion campaign for GNOME 2.14 release?
On 2/24/06, Santiago Roza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/24/06, Rajiv Vyas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One of the possibilites is try and do an interview with Linus and see if his view has changed on GNOME with the new 2.14 coming out. his views on gnome won't change with a minor release, he simply doesn't like our concept of usability. it'd be great if he did, but he doesn't and he won't. That sucks. How about using Mark Shuttleworth? -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Promotion campaign for GNOME 2.14 release?
On Fri, 2006-02-24 at 09:07 -0500, Rajiv Vyas wrote: his views on gnome won't change with a minor release, he simply doesn't like our concept of usability. it'd be great if he did, but he doesn't and he won't. That sucks. How about using Mark Shuttleworth? He probably doesn't mind Gnome, but I seem to remember him saying he was switching to Kubuntu when Dapper comes out? Cheers, Alex. -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Promotion campaign for GNOME 2.14 release?
On 2/24/06, Alex Hudson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I seem to remember him saying he was switching to Kubuntu when Dapper comes out? no exactly, luckily. he said he was now using Kubuntu on his desktop machine: http://www.kubuntu.org/announcements/kde-commitment.php on his desktop machine means he's using ubuntu (gnome) on his laptop, at least. if it wasn't like that, he would have just said using kubuntu. -- Santiago Roza Departamento I+D - Thymbra [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Promotion campaign for GNOME 2.14 release?
On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 07:11:24AM -0500, Rajiv Vyas wrote: One of the possibilites is try and do an interview with Linus and see if his view has changed on GNOME with the new 2.14 coming out. If it has, it would be a great marketing plug!! I would much prefer Alan Cox who has been involved in GNOME for quite some time plus with his business degree he can approach things at a different angle than an uber geek like Linus would. That would make a much more interesting read. I hardly believe that Linus would have changed his mind a mere 2 months since that remark. (which I'm sure he and everyone else would like to forget about and move on) .:-) sri -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Promotion campaign for GNOME 2.14 release?
On 2/24/06, Sriram Ramkrishna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 07:11:24AM -0500, Rajiv Vyas wrote: One of the possibilites is try and do an interview with Linus and see if his view has changed on GNOME with the new 2.14 coming out. If it has, it would be a great marketing plug!! I would much prefer Alan Cox who has been involved in GNOME for quite some time plus with his business degree he can approach things at a different angle than an uber geek like Linus would. That would make a much more interesting read. I hardly believe that Linus would have changed his mind a mere 2 months since that remark. (which I'm sure he and everyone else would like to forget about and move on) .:-) Alan would be a much more interesting read, no doubt. Regarding Linus, I thought he would probably take this opportunity to undo what he did couple of months ago. But for a man with strong opinions, you never know. Rajiv -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Promotion campaign for GNOME 2.14 release?
All, According to the timeline (http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointThirteen) we're about a month away from GNOME 2.14 product release. Aside from release notes what about doing a promotional campaign for the products launch? This would be an ideal way to generate some buzz and interest in our offering. Some ideas: - Do web buttons for launch day As the blogs show our community is very web savvy. The easiest way we could promote GNOME and get some buzz would be have community members and users to put links/buttons and banners on their site. A small and easily achievable version of the spread firefox campaign (http://www.spreadfirefox.com/). Things we would need: - someone to draw buttons/banners - someone to put them up on the site - someone to e-mail/blog about putting them up on any supporters site. Note: be brilliant if we could do something automated/animated that counted down until launch and then afterwards was just a standard button. - Encourage blog posts We should encourage and actively solicit people to blog about their GNOME 2.14 experiences during the release period and particularly after launch. We can remind people about the key features so they have some areas to concentrate on. With our performance improvements even people who may previously been negative should look again. Things we could do: - encourage testers - encourage testers to blog their experiences - actively look for past blog posts referencing GNOME experiences and ask people to have another go. - ask supporters/users to blog how they are finding GNOME now - favourite things in GNOME. - Come up with something wacky You may remember that when Evolution 1.0 was released there was some wackiness - http://www.gnome.org/~jdub/2002/evolution/ Has anyone got any ideas on how we could do something similarly creative? Things we need: - someone to come up with an idea - commitment from people to make it happen - Actively contact media that has previously reviewed us Contact media/outlets that have previously reviewed GNOME and tell them about our new upcoming release. This gives them a chance to try again, and we can help by being available with assistance or commentary. - someone to draw up a list of previous reviews (some on live.gnome.org already) - people who will actively contact media - someone to split media by contact and check that all are followed up. - Contact traditional media that has not reviewed us. Try for traditional media that hasn't previously reviewed us and see if they would be interested in trying. We can send a liveCD or whatever. We'd probably need some specific stories for particular classes of media: for general computing media the line could be that GNOME 2.14 brings VOIP to all with Ekiga. - someone has to draw up a list of features for 2.14 - list of media verticals/specific sites/magazines to approach - list of approaches for each vertical - set of people who will approach some of the media outlets. Anyone agree this is a good idea AND willing to work on it? Steve -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Promotion campaign for GNOME 2.14 release?
quote who=Steve George According to the timeline (http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointThirteen) we're about a month away from GNOME 2.14 product release. Aside from release notes what about doing a promotional campaign for the products launch? This would be an ideal way to generate some buzz and interest in our offering. Rock on Steve - nice plan. Great set of goals. - Come up with something wacky I'll muse upon this a bit. - Actively contact media that has previously reviewed us This one I'll be actively doing. - Jeff -- FOSDEM 2006: Brussels, Belgiumhttp://www.fosdem.org/2006 Penguinillas Pack GNUzis -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
