Re: Suggestion about providing more value to Foundation members

2009-09-16 Thread Stormy Peters
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 7:01 PM, Brian Cameron brian.came...@sun.comwrote: Stormy: How do we encourage people to write recommendations? Could we do some sort of Pass it on campaign? A few of us could write recommendations and then ask the people we recommended to pass it on by

Re: Suggestion about providing more value to Foundation members

2009-09-16 Thread Brian Cameron
Stormy: What if we had a thank you GNOME mailing list or page. People could send in their thanks for specific features or work and we could match it up with the right person. Yes, I think the GNOME community really needs more forums for making sure that people get recognition for the work

Re: Suggestion about providing more value to Foundation members

2009-09-16 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Brian Cameron brian.came...@sun.comwrote: For example, we get three people writing in to say the new bugzilla is awesome and it saves them 30 minutes a day finding bugs to work on, so the board writes a recommendation on Max/Olav/sys admin team member page

Re: Suggestion about providing more value to Foundation members

2009-09-16 Thread Paul Cutler
I would recommend calling out people in the new quarterly reports, maybe as it's own section, rather than GNOME Journal or the release notes. Paul On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 1:23 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.mewrote: On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Brian Cameron

Re: Material for GNOME Events

2009-09-16 Thread Brian Cameron
It would be nice if there were some resource on the Marketing Wiki page where people could find and download posters, brochures, etc. that people could print out and use if they needed for their booth. Also, presentations might be useful to help give people ideas of what they could show off.

Re: Gnome Uni

2009-09-16 Thread Stormy Peters
Hi Shane, Great. Thanks for getting this going! I was thinking. Perhaps we could add some of the speakers from the GNOME speakers page and then send it out to some university folks. For example, the HFOSS.org folks worked with GNOME last summer and they have a lot of university contacts. Also

Re: Material for GNOME Events

2009-09-16 Thread Paul Cutler
There is, it's the second bullet on the wiki: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/MarketingMaterial It could use some better sorting / organization (especially to archive some of the older stuff) but we do have a place on the GNOME wiki for it. The big to-do, as Stormy points out, is to create

Gnome Uni

2009-09-16 Thread Shane Fagan
Hi, Stormy and I came up with an idea for marketing and awareness about Gnome in colleges. The idea is to have Gnome contacts for each college and speakers to do talks at the colleges. I made a wiki on http://live.gnome.org/GnomeUni you can put your ideas there and discuss them here. Its still