Stormy:
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.
I think an "Adopt a Hacker" program is great. I just think that we also need to highlight some ways that the Foundation benefits end users, developers, translators, etc. Some people may not make the connection of how supporting a hacker to attend a conference benefits them in any tangible way. The Foundation has sponsored two Outreach programs, The GOPA is an example of how the Foundation has done a more tangible thing which benefits end users. I'm sure other "success stories" could be highlighted. If, as you suggest, we were to encourage people to donate money and earmark it for certain projects (a11y, localization into 3rd world languages, or whatever), then the Foundation could get even more involved with collecting money and making use of it for tasks that would more clearly benefit end users, and thus encourage more people to donate. Brian
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
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