Hi, Quim Gil wrote: > El dj 01 de 06 del 2006 a les 16:40 +0200, en/na Dave Neary va escriure: > >> 1. I move the BOF into Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday (without being in >> the printed schedule, of course), and get the interested parties >> together during a time when there's no major clash > > My vote for this option.
How about 10am - noon Tuesday? It's always going to be tough to find a good slot, and there will always be clashes, but given that I'd like to have a 2 hour slot, and see Lucas's presentation on the journal on Monday afternoon, the two best slots I can see are 10 - 12 Tuesday or 10 - 12 Wednesday. A flip of a coin gave it to Tuesday. I'm sure that we're all more or less tired of discussing target markets over and over - I'd like to propose that we organise a strategy for attacking 3 major markets - * third party developers - will need co-ordination with platform developers - Preparation of material showing the benefits of developing on the GNOME platform - Laying out and printing the platform overview that Shaun wrote - Setting up a decent feedback loop from third parties (the board can help here, we're in contact with the advisory board on this issue) - Co-ordinate participation in future OSDW sessions * Public administrations - Spanish, French, German and Asian organisers needed - Collect addresses of public officials inquiring about free software or planning migrations - Contacting people responsible for announcements of free software adoption to offer help and get feedback - Feedback loop - working with the development community to address concerns we hear about from administrations - Focus on South America, India, China and Europe - Set up reporting so that everyone knows who's talking to who (shared address book and contact management solution - Drupal?) * Hobbyists - Early adopters - synthesising feedback and pushing it back into the system - Hobbyists - working with computer magazines to get free software on the cover disks and get articles published (article writers needed here!) - Trade shows - organising the event boxes, working on budget for stand rental/construction and getting volunteers for trade show stands - Getting promotional material printed and delivered in a timely fashion - Merchandising - let's leverage the passion! - Working with people like Canonical to co-ordinate presence at trade shows - University outreach - contacting local university user groups - see Jono Bacon's UK tour, or the BadgerBadgerBadger tour as good examples of possibilities - encourage your local LUG to have open door sessions, and get a "big name" to come & present - University outreach 2 - contact teaching heads of local colleges and push open formats and free software for college exercises and training - Co-ordinate all these contacts and events - Drupal maybe? This is a *huge* amount of work, but luckily, it's broken down into small chunks, which can have bite-sized micro-tasks - for instance one person can organise a GNOME presentation at the local university and get a GNOME developer to come & present. One person can contact the Sao Paolo government. One person can organise trade show presence. If we do this stuff well, it will make a massive difference to our marketing. Even if we do one category really well, it will rock GNOME's world. Even if we do half of each category well, we change everything. Let's get moving in the right direction. I will not be surprised when we change course during the voyage, but let's haul anchor, hoist the mainsail and drift off into the sunset. Cheers, Dave. -- David Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list