I definitely like your idea of listing concrete goals. I think we should list specific things we want funding for and we should follow up with what we spent it on, but we shouldn't actually earmark it. As a nonprofit, if you earmark it, if plans change, you can't use that money for anything else.
Stormy On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 7:19 PM, Brian Cameron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 > > -- Stormy Peters Executive Director GNOME Foundation 970-481-2076 -- marketing-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
