Hi Marketing Folks, We're working on revamping Friends of GNOME. The technology is in place to allow for monthly donations but we haven't launched it yet. (Note that the FSF's associate membership program encourages people to donate $120/year in automated monthly installments: http://www.fsf.org/associate/dues.html.)
On the Friends of GNOME web page I'd like to: - encourage people to donate monthly - target more than just GNOME Foundation members - show them what they're money is being used for I originally thought an "adopt a hacker" program would be cool where we highlighted developers that had received travel sponsorship but Brian Cameron pointed out that that would probably appeal to the current set of contributors but not branch out much. All that said, I could use some text for the actual page. The current page is here:http://www.gnome.org/friends/. I'd like to have a couple of sections: - Top intro that summarizes what this is all about: "Show your support for GNOME. Become a Friend of GNOME and " - List of things that GNOME does well. I'd like to list quite a few but maybe we could also have an "ad space" at the right that highlights things like "GNOME technology used by half a million kids worldwide in OLPCs", "GNOME on school kids desktops in Spain", ... In the general list we could list (with links) all the current stories we have in the marketing web site plus: - accessibility - localization - functionality: multimedia, mail, etc. - List of things we use money for directly: - developer travel, - printing and marketing materials, - ... - Levels of sponsorship and gifts (probably should go towards the top of the page) - A link to all the current Friends of GNOME. Thoughts? Anyone willing to help with the web page? Thanks, Stormy -- marketing-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
