Re: Brochure for potential sponsors: need help!

2009-03-24 Thread Bruno Boaventura
Support local conferences such as GNOME.Asia, GUADLAC (Latin America), the - Boston Summit, GNOME.conf.au (Australia), and Forum GNOME. Support local conferences such as GNOME.Asia, GUADLAC (Latin America), the + Boston Summit, GNOME.conf.au (Australia), and Forum GNOME (Brazil). --

Re: Brochure for potential sponsors: need help!

2009-03-23 Thread Jonh Wendell
Em Seg, 2009-03-23 às 07:24 -0600, Stormy Peters escreveu: I'd be interested in a separate version targeted at GNOME Foundation members. I think as a marketing team, we should think about how to explain the benefits of the GNOME Foundation to its members. Providing infrastructure for the

Re: Brochure for potential sponsors: need help!

2009-03-23 Thread Alberto Ruiz
2009/3/23 Jonh Wendell jwend...@gnome.org: Em Seg, 2009-03-23 às 07:24 -0600, Stormy Peters escreveu: I'd be interested in a separate version targeted at GNOME Foundation members. I think as a marketing team, we should think about how to explain the benefits of the GNOME Foundation to its

Re: Brochure for potential sponsors: need help!

2009-03-21 Thread Andreas Nilsson
Ok, it's ready to go to print! http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/184285/foundation-folder.pdf http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/184285/foundation-folder.sla (source) (sorry that I didn't have the energy to change the texts further, we'll do better next time) - Andreas Stormy Peters wrote: Hi Andreas, Is

Re: Brochure for potential sponsors: need help!

2009-03-21 Thread Jonh Wendell
Em Sáb, 2009-03-21 às 14:07 +0100, Andreas Nilsson escreveu: Ok, it's ready to go to print! http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/184285/foundation-folder.pdf http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/184285/foundation-folder.sla (source) (sorry that I didn't have the energy to change the texts further, we'll do

Re: Brochure for potential sponsors: need help!

2009-03-21 Thread Andreas Nilsson
Jonh Wendell wrote: Em Sáb, 2009-03-21 às 14:07 +0100, Andreas Nilsson escreveu: http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/184285/foundation-folder.pdf http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/184285/foundation-folder.sla (source) How can I do that? Which program should I install to edit the source? I created it using

Re: Brochure for potential sponsors: need help!

2009-03-10 Thread Stormy Peters
I think we should go with what we have. However, I think Claus has some good points. I don't necessarily agree that more information/text is better. I think people are more likely to read what you have, if you have less. However, I liked the title calling out more to the audience and less about

Re: Brochure for potential sponsors: need help!

2009-03-02 Thread Andreas Nilsson
Claus Schwarm wrote: Hi, since the objection of the flyer is to reach potential sponsors, maybe we should consider telling them what benefits they'll get, not what features GNOME has. I had some free time today and tried to make a draft so it's hopefully easier to see what I mean. The draft

Re: Brochure for potential sponsors: need help!

2009-03-02 Thread Claus Schwarm
Hi, On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 12:03 PM, Andreas Nilsson nisses.m...@home.sewrote: Oh, I just finished the layout on Friday, just need to figure out the best tint of green left basically. Should have let you know earlier. http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/184285/foundation-folder.pdf Andreas, this is

Re: Brochure for potential sponsors: need help!

2009-02-25 Thread Andreas Nilsson
Stormy Peters wrote: Ok, I updated and chopped text. If I was going to add any back, it'd be in the plans for 2009. If I was going to cut more text it'd be in the about sections. Looks great! Sweet work on this. Still says the same things, but in a much more straight forward way. (We could

Re: Brochure for potential sponsors: need help!

2009-02-25 Thread Stormy Peters
   * Continue to provide a place for our sponsors to discuss their GNOME-related plans. I'm running a bit short on size on the back (as I'm able to use bigger size of the text now). Is it ok if I cut this paragraph out? It sounds like a odd thing to accomplish and something I would trust

Re: Brochure for potential sponsors: need help!

2009-02-25 Thread Stormy Peters
Andreas, I was going through my action items and I had Roberto's idea to get quotes from existing sponsors. I haven't done that yet. Is there room to put them on the brochure if I get them? Stormy On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 6:31 AM, Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org wrote: * Continue to

Re: Brochure for potential sponsors: need help!

2009-02-25 Thread Stormy Peters
Hmm. Maybe we should change the front quote to Become a GNOME Foundation associate, support free and open source software (mobile and desktop?) solutions or something like that. Stormy On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 8:04 AM, Andreas Nilsson nisses.m...@home.sewrote: Stormy Peters wrote: I was going

Re: Brochure for potential sponsors: need help!

2009-02-25 Thread Dave Neary
Stormy Peters wrote: Hmm. Maybe we should change the front quote to Become a GNOME Foundation associate, support free and open source software (mobile and desktop?) solutions or something like that. Do we have to say solutions? It's such a hackneyed word... How about Become a GNOME

Re: Brochure for potential sponsors: need help!

2009-02-25 Thread Stormy Peters
Sounds good. We could remove a community dedicated to if the wording is long. And the word computer as we're talking user interfaces for computers, desktops, netbooks, phones, gps, ... So that'd be Become a GNOME Foundation associate, support free software user interfaces. Although I'd vote for:

Re: Brochure for potential sponsors: need help!

2009-02-25 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Stormy Peters wrote: So that'd be Become a GNOME Foundation associate, support free software user interfaces. Although I'd vote for: Become a GNOME Foundation associate, support a community dedicated to free software user interfaces Agreed. After all, who wants to support a user

Re: Brochure for potential sponsors: need help!

2009-02-24 Thread Andreas Nilsson
Shaun McCance wrote: On Sat, 2009-02-21 at 12:35 +0100, Andreas Nilsson wrote: Stormy Peters wrote: Let me know what you need from me. I think I have all the text below unless someone has feedback or suggestions on it. Kalle Persson and myself spent some time on this last night

Re: Brochure for potential sponsors: need help!

2009-02-24 Thread Brian Cameron
Some thoughts... - Note that the text on the back of the brochure is old text from the Friends of GNOME page: http://www.gnome.org/friends/about-foundation.html The text in the above website has been updated and contains improvements that should also be reflected in the brochure.

Re: Brochure for potential sponsors: need help!

2009-02-24 Thread Shaun McCance
On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 15:53 -0600, Brian Cameron wrote: - The text says The Foundation has over 400 members, all contributors to GNOME, who vote once a year. Actually we now vote every 18 months We had a single 18-month period to put the new board elections closer to GUADEC so that the

Re: Brochure for potential sponsors: need help!

2009-02-24 Thread Stormy Peters
Ok, I updated and chopped text. If I was going to add any back, it'd be in the plans for 2009. If I was going to cut more text it'd be in the about sections. (We could also cut some text from the about-foundation page in the friends page. Or at least bold the parts I didn't cut.) GNOME The

Re: Brochure for potential sponsors: need help!

2009-02-21 Thread Andreas Nilsson
Stormy Peters wrote: Let me know what you need from me. I think I have all the text below unless someone has feedback or suggestions on it. Kalle Persson and myself spent some time on this last night and here is a sketch. Front and back:

Re: Brochure for potential sponsors: need help!

2009-02-21 Thread Vincent Untz
Le samedi 21 février 2009, à 12:35 +0100, Andreas Nilsson a écrit : Stormy Peters wrote: Let me know what you need from me. I think I have all the text below unless someone has feedback or suggestions on it. Kalle Persson and myself spent some time on this last night and here is a sketch.

Re: Brochure for potential sponsors: need help!

2009-02-21 Thread Shaun McCance
On Sat, 2009-02-21 at 12:35 +0100, Andreas Nilsson wrote: Stormy Peters wrote: Let me know what you need from me. I think I have all the text below unless someone has feedback or suggestions on it. Kalle Persson and myself spent some time on this last night and here is a sketch. Front

Re: Brochure for potential sponsors: need help!

2009-01-20 Thread Andreas Nilsson
Hi! I would like to help out with this. - Andreas Stormy Peters wrote: As I work to recruit companies as GNOME Foundation sponsors, it would be really helpful to have a brochure that describes what GNOME is, the GNOME Foundation, why they should sponsor and what is entailed. It should be

Re: Brochure for potential sponsors: need help!

2009-01-20 Thread Stormy Peters
Awesome! Let me know what you need from me. I think I have all the text below unless someone has feedback or suggestions on it. Thanks, Stormy On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 4:24 PM, Andreas Nilsson nisses.m...@home.sewrote: Hi! I would like to help out with this. - Andreas Stormy Peters wrote:

Re: Brochure for potential sponsors: need help!

2009-01-20 Thread Roberto Galoppini
2009/1/21 Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org: Awesome! Let me know what you need from me. I think I have all the text below unless someone has feedback or suggestions on it. What about adding some quotes from present sponsors? Reason number 5) is an area that I would highlight to let potential