Re: Become a friend of GNOME button Take 3

:53 Subject: Re: Become a friend of GNOME button To: GNOME Marketing List marketing-list@gnome.org Thanks for your comments and suggestions. Take 3 is up on http://gnome.haitsma.org/friends/ 1) I've change spread.html to promote.html 2) Changed the text of that page in line with comments

Re: Become a friend of GNOME button Take 3

to change stuff? Regards, Jaap -- Forwarded message -- From: Jaap A. Haitsma j...@haitsma.org Date: Mon, May 11, 2009 at 22:53 Subject: Re: Become a friend of GNOME button To: GNOME Marketing List marketing-list@gnome.org Thanks for your comments and suggestions. Take 3

Re: Become a friend of GNOME button Take 3

On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 23:24, Andreas Nilsson nisses.m...@home.se wrote: Hi Jaap! Here are the banners: http://www.andreasn.se/diverse/temp/new-fog-banners.tar.gz Used the same sizes as Spread Firefox [1]. 1. http://www.spreadfirefox.com/affiliates/homepage#getbuttons - Andreas Just

Re: Become a friend of GNOME button Take 3

you still want to change stuff? Regards, Jaap -- Forwarded message -- From: Jaap A. Haitsma j...@haitsma.org Date: Mon, May 11, 2009 at 22:53 Subject: Re: Become a friend of GNOME button To: GNOME Marketing List marketing-list@gnome.org Thanks for your comments and suggestions

Re: Become a friend of GNOME button Take 3

-- From: Jaap A. Haitsma j...@haitsma.org Date: Mon, May 11, 2009 at 22:53 Subject: Re: Become a friend of GNOME button To: GNOME Marketing List marketing-list@gnome.org Thanks for your comments and suggestions. Take 3 is up on http://gnome.haitsma.org/friends/ 1) I've change spread.html

Re: Become a friend of GNOME button

Jaap A. Haitsma wrote: I've came up with an alternative for the Friends of GNOME button. I've got it running on one of my own websites. You can see the result here. http://test.hightechstartups.nl/friends/ I feel this is a bit too much diversion for the front page. It was designed with

Re: Become a friend of GNOME button

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11.05.2009 10:35, Andreas Nilsson wrote: I'm still not quite happy about it. Our number one goal is to get people to donate, to get others to donate is a secondary goal. When I first enter the page now, it appears that I can become a friend of

Re: Become a friend of GNOME button

On Sun, 2009-05-10 at 19:48 +0200, Jaap A. Haitsma wrote: However after I pushed it actually occured to me that it's probably not a good idea to have this called Spread GNOME. We're asking people to financially support GNOME not to encourage people to encourage people to use GNOME. This is

Re: Become a friend of GNOME button

I agree with Andreas. It's true that we should want many people to put a badge on their side, since it's a prerequisite to find more donors. But to fix this, a prominent place for the link to the badges page will not be sufficient. Just a small fraction of GNOME users will visit the friends page,

Re: Become a friend of GNOME button

On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 8:33 AM, Claus Schwarm clschw...@googlemail.com wrote:  - the GNOME Announce mailing list,  - a planet.gnome blog (Stormy's, maybe?)  - the GNOME frontpage  - gnomesupport.org to announce the badges program. It will probably also be useful to send reminders via

Re: Become a friend of GNOME button

I like Stormy's idea below, though will people have enough data to give an update? I have no idea if it's possible, but if you go back to the Miro Adoption idea, each user gets their own webpage and widget. I thought I had seen another OSS project do something similar, but what I'm thinking

Re: Become a friend of GNOME button

That'd be very cool if we could track how many people/money you've referred! I'd be a big fan of that. We could also consider giving compensation for referrals. At the very least, we'd give recognition but we could also consider money (like Amazon does) or things like GNOME merchandise. On a

Re: Become a friend of GNOME button

Thanks for your comments and suggestions. Take 3 is up on http://gnome.haitsma.org/friends/ 1) I've change spread.html to promote.html 2) Changed the text of that page in line with comments on the list 3) Removed the GNOME lover button from that page 4) Removed the support button on the main

Re: Become a friend of GNOME button

Paul, I've took your page and changed it such that the .wml file is correct and pushed it to git. The result is here http://www.gnome.org/friends/spread.html However after I pushed it actually occured to me that it's probably not a good idea to have this called Spread GNOME. We're asking people

Re: Become a friend of GNOME button

Jaap, thanks for doing this. When I do a git rebase, I see the spread.html file in my working directory, but I don't see it available at http://www.gnome.org/friends/spread.html. Anyone know why? I just wanted to review the page, and then we'll want to decide where we want to link to it from.

Re: Become a friend of GNOME button

On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 17:33, Paul Cutler pcut...@foresightlinux.org wrote: Jaap, thanks for doing this. When I do a git rebase, I see the spread.html file in my working directory, but I don't see it available at http://www.gnome.org/friends/spread.html. Anyone know why? Yes, because you

Re: Become a friend of GNOME button

Thanks Jaap - I don't have git access, which is why I didn't push - I thought you might have based on an earlier email. Paul On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Jaap A. Haitsma j...@haitsma.org wrote: On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 17:33, Paul Cutler pcut...@foresightlinux.org wrote: Jaap, thanks for

Re: Become a friend of GNOME button

I have git access, so if you send the patch I can review it and push it if people like the result. Can you sent the patch and the resulting html file to the list. Thanks Jaap On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 21:33, Paul Cutler pcut...@foresightlinux.org wrote: Thanks Jaap - I don't have git access,

Re: Become a friend of GNOME button

Andreas - you're question is right on - the first step was to get the page up, the next question is where we link to it from. Paul On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 7:21 PM, Andreas Nilsson nisses.m...@home.se wrote: Forgive me if I missed something in the discussion, but is the plan to put a url on any

Re: Become a friend of GNOME button

Forgive me if I missed something in the discussion, but is the plan to put a url on any of the friends page somewhere? A small link in the sidebar on the index page would probably be enough. Let me know when you have pushed the changes so the page is up, and I'll put it there. - Andreas Paul

Re: Become a friend of GNOME button

On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 17:08, Claus Schwarm clschw...@googlemail.com wrote: I may be wrong, but it seems to me, Jaap has something different in mind. What about: (1) Moving Paul's embedding code to a separate page, say wgo/friends/spread.html. At least the last two badges could also be used

Re: Become a friend of GNOME button

Thanks. I've prepared images in the following sizes: * 125x125 * 160x300 * 180x150 * 234x60 * 300x250 * 468x60 * 728x90 Filenames are size.png I'm just waiting for feedback on the suggested copy. Best regards, Claus On Wed, 2009-05-06 at 20:58 +0200, Andreas Nilsson wrote: Sure, here

Re: Become a friend of GNOME button

On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 19:52, Paul Cutler pcut...@foresightlinux.org wrote: Jaap - thanks, I did not know this, first time I've done any work in gnomeweb. I'll take a look at the code changes - is it safe to assume you fixed the code and committed? Yes Jaap -- marketing-list mailing list

Re: Become a friend of GNOME button

I've now committed the code of Paul with a couple of minor changes in the html to git. The page http://www.gnome.org/friends/thank-you.html should show up soon I guess. I don't know how often the website is synced from git (Anybody knows??) OK it's synced up by now. I notice that there is a

Re: Become a friend of GNOME button

Let's see if this works - here's the thank-you.html page in an archive. Thanks! Paul On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 12:56 AM, Jaap A. Haitsma j...@haitsma.org wrote: On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 07:41, Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org wrote: I agree we need Friends of GNOME more prominently on the website.

Re: Become a friend of GNOME button

I may be wrong, but it seems to me, Jaap has something different in mind. What about: (1) Moving Paul's embedding code to a separate page, say wgo/friends/spread.html. At least the last two badges could also be used by everybody who wants to support the friends of GNOME program. (2) Offering

Re: Become a friend of GNOME button

Claus, On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 10:08 AM, Claus Schwarm clschw...@googlemail.comwrote: I may be wrong, but it seems to me, Jaap has something different in mind. What about: I attached the archive per Jaap's second email, but I agree with your thoughts below there is more we could do. (1)

Re: Become a friend of GNOME button

Claus Schwarm wrote: Looks good to me, but I have no clue about GIT either. You may like to drop the Javascript: Seems as if it's not useful here. Maybe Andreas can either share his source files for the buttons (I figure he made them), so we can extend the image variety, or help out making

Become a friend of GNOME button

Hi, What about friend of GNOME button that links to http://www.gnome.org/friends/ which people can put on their site/blog? Furthermore the button can be used on the GNOME site. Currently I only see a news story about somewhere down on the main page so it does not really catch attention of many

Re: Become a friend of GNOME button

On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 07:41, Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org wrote: I agree we need Friends of GNOME more prominently on the website. I think we will get some of this when we get the ruler that shows donations towards our goal. We do have badges: http://www.gnome.org/friends/thank-you.html.