Original email, it was sent privatly by mistake before response. I'm not sure why evolution stripped away the ml address when replying.
On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 11:44 +0000, Joachim Noreiko wrote: > I still wonder why > we need an external site to promote GNOME. To me it is > a symptom of a > GNOME and gnome.org failure. The wgo revamp tries to > solve failures like > this, and I don't see what GNOME marketing > spreadgnome.org could do that > gnome.org can't do. I think it's basically the name + the content + fans. The name gives a strong indication about what the site does. Fans, especially those who are not involved in the day to day development of gnome will be more drawn into a site where they feel it's actually about what they do: promote what they love, but not what they don't understand: development etc. Not sure if what I wanted to say got through :) keep in mind that "fan sites" are nothing new in the business world nor in the OSS world. eg http://www.walmartfoundation.org and the success of spreadfirefox, which should give us some lessons. Djihed -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list