helping analyze the data to updating the site)
* User Analysis (stolen from John Williams email last month)
I'm keen to help with this in any way I can. I, too, am time poor, but I'll
give it a shot.
* GNOME Website (Darton is doing an awesome job revamping content for
the new website
Please accept my apologies for butting in, if that's what I'm doing. I have
a thought that may be useful, but that, of course, is for you to judge.
GNOME needs a metric of success. Years ago it was 10x10, which is
ridiculous today as it was when it was first proposed. But it reveals an
On 02/09/2010 04:49 PM, Nelson Marques wrote:
I would like to ask one thing to this list, would it be possible for
people to introduce themselfs and say what is their role around on the
list?
Hello all.
My name is John Williams. I am not a developer or documenter. I am a user.
I also
itself as leading and cutting-edge. Isn't the
latest GNOME version Made for sharing?
Sorry for the rant. Sometimes us folks who are not in the USA, UK or EU feel
a bit left out ... sniff :-)
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earlier in the year, there is
nothing quite like it, in my opinion. The energy and flow of ideas from
meeting in person really seem to drive engagement.
Paul
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 3:43 PM, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier
j...@zonker.netwrote:
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 4:31 PM, John Williams
coming, please add your name and travel details if they're set.
Hope to see you there!
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[2]
http://marketing.otago.ac.nz/studying/papers/martpapers.asp?papercode=mart303
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problem. I wish I had a solution to that one ...
Historical efforts can be found here:
http://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/SurveyUsers
http://live.gnome.org/CountingUsers
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On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 17:32 +0100, Calum Benson wrote:
I've always wondered if maybe we need a dedicated 'user feedback' squad
along the lines of the bug squad... a single point of contact (well, a
single group of people) to whom user feedback from all sources is
channeled[1], who would then
It continually amazes me when producers of market offerings (vendors)
refer to feedback as informal or anecdotal. As if formal feedback
(I presume people are referring to focus groups and surveys here) gave
you any better information.
The only deficiency of the informal user feedback is that it
How's this look?
http://www.gnome.org/~shaunm/notes2-20/index.html
This looks great! Thanks for all the hard work that has gone into
producing this page.
If you are interested, some areas for improvement are listed below.
GNOME 2.20 includes all of the improvements made in GNOME 2.12
Do we
On 8/7/07, Dave Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It might be useful for you and others in the team to familiarise
themselves with the current status of our trademark policy
OK, where do we find it? Can we link to it from the GNOME Marketing pages?
Sorry to hear that you can't make it Dave, I
Hello all,
I have taken it upon myself to organise a meeting of interested folk
with the purpose of discussing the Mission of the Marketing Team. If
you are interested in participating, please visit this page:
http://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/Meetings
While you are there, please edit the
.
On 7/30/07, Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
quote who=John Williams
Oh dear. I am going to try again to push the idea of what marketing is.
BTW: If anyone is getting sick of my pontification on this, please let me
know, publicly if necessary.
I'm not going to tell you to shut up
On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 11:10 +0300, Quim Gil wrote:
This discussion about the mission and the responsibilities defined
around the objectives will tell us also a lot about who is a member of
this marketing team.
My small contribution to this debate was done in the GNOME marketing
presentation
On Sun, 2007-07-29 at 21:45 +0300, Quim Gil wrote:
(lots of good stuff)
There is a Marketing Team defined as committee and it's time to define
it. This is an invitation for a brainstorming.
Can we do it on IRC, as Ken (and others?) tried previously?
- We need at least a mission. Our nearest
On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 10:19 +0530, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote:
The broad goal of a Marketing function is to let as many folks know
about GNOME which in turn means provide guidance and support towards
events, activities, material that allow folks to know about GNOME.
Oh dear. I am going to
Dudes and Dudettes,
I would like to seek some clarification and offer some advice. I am
sure it is old advice to some, but what the hay.
We seem to be discussing two separate issues here:
(1) Generating new ideas
(2) Getting things done
Brainstorming is perfect for (1) and crap for (2). And
On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 21:20 +0200, Quim Gil wrote:
5. One last question - what will you do with the information?
This is the key issue, all else is mere technical details.
I also want to know the answer. :) I'm confident that a good
marketing team will find good questions and a strategy to
On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 17:17 -0500, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 11:12 +1300, John Williams wrote:
Let's do this, but let's not kid ourselves as to the value of the
data. I can see us putting it in press releases and feeding to
journalists, but not much else.
I'm more
mesure how GNOME is doing compared to Windows and OSX
since 2003 to now?
It's relatively hard for now, and nigh on impossible for the past, as far as I
can tell
The only reliable way would have been a proper survey with true sample
data, done every year. John Williams is better educated
On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 17:55 -0300, Santiago Roza wrote:
On 2/19/07, John Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Around 1,000 is sufficient if all we want to do is compare
two or three percentages (e.g. GNOME, KDE, Windows) with a margin of
error of around +/- 3% at the 95% confidence level
Suggestion: let's concentrate thought and work in this single page in
order to set the tone, quality standards and implicit guidelines for
the rest of pages to be created.
Great idea. Can I take it that the page elements, fonts and colours are
all approved and set in stone? Or will you
On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 16:25 +0200, Claus Schwarm wrote:
Time's over for writing the release notes, unfortunately. Please
proof-read, and check for correctness.
[snip]
The relevant pages are thus:
http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointFifteen/ReleaseNotes/TwoSixteenFrontPromo
Somewhere on this list (or am I dreaming? I can't find it in the
archives) the call was made for a native English speaker to proof-read
the release notes.
If no-one else has the job already, I volunteer. Actually, even if
someone else has the job, I still volunteer. Studies have shown that
On Thu, 2006-08-10 at 11:27 +0200, Quim Gil wrote:
[GNOME logo] Discover - Try - Learn - Create - Join
I think Learn is in fact better, softer than study.
[snip]
Anyway, I guess what counts here is to have the opinion of native
English speakers.
Hi! John the native English speaker here.
On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 10:54 +0100, Thilo Pfennig wrote:
Hi,
as there is also a Linux client for SecondLife
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SecondLife) I decided to try it out and
also created a group for GNOME users.
Where can the client be downloaded? I didn't see a link in that page,
or on
On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 21:31 -0800, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:
Rather, this is our opportunity to:
a) go through osnews/slashdot looking for decent feedback
b) get a feel of what people think about GNOME both good and bad.
and other things.
Hallelujah, brother!
And thanks again to
On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 21:43 -0300, Santiago Roza wrote:
btw, i'll try to summarize all online comments about this linus/kde
thing. from what i've read so far, they seem to have a couple valid
points we shouldn't be ignoring.
I think that would be very helpful, thanks!
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With the LiveCDs (and soon the VMPlayer images) it is almost that
easy.
Check. In about 90 seconds I am going to give a copy of Ubuntu to one
of my colleagues.
Forgive my desparate amateurism. Save us.
It's all good! There is no such thing as an amatuer in marketing. We
are all consumers!
On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 10:01 +0100, Murray Cumming wrote:
I'll put a poll on gnomdesktop about the slogan suggestions. It's not the
best way of choosing something, but it's better than nothing, and it might
force marketing experts to have an opinion.
Good on you, Murray, for prodding the experts
On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 11:37 +0100, Dave Neary wrote:
We have lots of data. Every GNOME release, we get data. So far, we've
simply had no way to analyse, synthesis and transmit that data to the
people who need to get it.
Oooh! Oooh! Pick me! Pick me!
Can you be more specific please Dave?
Hi all
I have attempted to summarise the Real Marketing thread here:
http://live.gnome.org/RealMarketing
I think this could become the basis for something good, but I'm not sure
what, yet.
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On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 13:15 +0100, Murray Cumming wrote:
Time to revive this thread again.
Cool!
On Sun, 2005-07-10 at 18:50 +1200, John Williams wrote:
On Sat, 2005-07-09 at 22:25 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote:
Try to explain the issues to us, and suggest definite actions. There are
many
On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 18:03 +0530, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote:
Without straying too far from the topic - What is GNOME ? Or as someone
recently asked me in one session for college kids (WTF is guh-nome)
With respect to the recent discussion on slogans and general discussion
of about Real
I have, for some time, been uncomfortable with the use of the phrase
switch to GNOME in our private and public communications. However
after looking at http://live.gnome.org/GnomeWeb I think it is time to
bring my reservations about this out into the open.
Switch to implies giving up what you
On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 16:47 +0100, Murray Cumming wrote:
What is GNOME? We seem to fond of asking that question these days. The
answer is simple: it is the GNU Network Object Model Environment.
That is never ever the answer, and hasn't been for a long time. If it's
anywhere on our web
On Sat, 2005-12-10 at 10:59 +0100, Claus Schwarm wrote:
i started to draft a few characteristics of my personas; please tell
me what you think. remember it's VERY conceptual, they don't even
have names yet :)
Sorry to butt in here, but I am not sure of the value of this exercise.
Everyone
On Sun, 2005-12-11 at 07:12 +0100, Quim Gil wrote:
As a Marketing Team member here is my vote to consider the personas
research as our primary goal in the field of Theory for 2006, being this
project only questioned if somebody comes with a better alternative and
I have just posted a message
On Sun, 2005-12-11 at 07:52 +0100, Quim Gil wrote:
En/na John Williams ha escrit:
I have just posted a message about this. If we are going to vote, I
want to nominate
It was just a rethoric, countless vote. :)
I was only saying critique like yours to the personas project
On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 19:38 +0700, Ross Golder wrote:
On ศ., 2005-07-08 at 09:33 +1200, John Williams wrote:
I see that there is talk of modifying the About Myself capplet.
Perhaps this is a better home for gathering info about users?
I probably shouldn't need to say it, but... obviously
to this, please cc marketing list, and consider dropping by
#marketing on irc.gnome.org
cheers,
John
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On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 14:08 -0700, Jeff Waugh wrote:
quote who=John Williams
Previously the home for this functionality has been suggested as About
GNOME, but it strikes me that the About Me capplet is much more likely
to be seen by a large proportion of users than the About GNOME dialog
. Again, have you read the background
info?
Notwithstanding that, how will those data enable us to estimate the
number of GNOME users worldwide? If we can do that already, I want to
know about it, otherwise I am wasting my time (and that of others) here.
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of assumption (1)?
Can we get ANY HARD DATA on assumption (2)? Anyone lurking who works
for a major distro?
Bottom line: it probably is not worth arguing too much about the
perfect place for this functionality. What really matters is that it
happens.
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How does Tuesday, 19:00 GMT sound for everyone?
That is 7am for me. That is a slight PITA [1] but bearable. I would, however,
prefer an hour to two later if that won't cause too many problems for others.
Do we have many takers Luis?
[1] PITA == Pain in the arse (ass, for Americans)
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On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 13:15 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
It all started with trying to find a way to estimate the number of GNOME
users. An automated ping is the best way, but is ethically dangerous. An
opt-in register is ethically fine, but sub-optimal for our purposes.
Also, we can do it
On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 22:03 -0400, Luis Villa wrote:
(2) can we have a meeting in yarrr.gnome.org[1], perhaps weekly[2],
and perhaps restricted in attendance, until we hash some of this out,
at least at a high level?
I think this is a great idea. Just tell me a time, and I will be there,
On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 17:01 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
quote who=John Williams
Anyway, I am delighted to stumble across this thread. Can I ask if there
is any idea how soon one will be able, without a financial cost, to
register as a user of GNOME and optionally ask to be kept up-to-date
I hope our designers can come up with a fuller brand image. That might
include our brand colors, fonts, etc.
Or, it would be nice if people provided links to examples of corporate
brand guidelines.
What I want to say is slightly off-topic and I risk exposing myself as
an ivory-tower
On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 16:48 -0400, Luis Villa wrote:
Join Friends of GNOME and celebrate easy to use software for $OS! (email
form)
What question are we asking? :-)
I *think* we're asking 'how many users of GNOME are there', not 'how
many discovered gnome-about in their panel and
On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 12:40 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
are quite simple and good (ignoring everything underneath for a moment). As
it happens, Linux Australia have a pretty good membership database, so that
might be an option too.
Interesting. Could you forward the URI for that please? I would
into
microtasks, making the job a little less daunting.
It would be great to get people from this list involved over there.
I am willing to help. What needs to be done, specifically?
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On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 11:10 +0200, Dave Neary wrote:
Perhaps someone else - I seem to recall a few months ago someone who was
interested in market research. A hunt in the archives shows I was
thinking of John Williams. John - you still about? Interested in taking
this on?
Hi Dave
On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 22:36 +0200, David Neary wrote:
The advise on research design is one that we need, at least for an
effective survey to be given to conference attendees and others.
Bring it on!
More than coding, designing the actual surveys themselves is what were
suggested, which
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