Dave Neary schrieb: > 1. A set of ideas on low-pmaintenance stuff we can do for this type of thing > 2. A list of people with the skills to do these things > 3. someone/a small group to be aware of upcoming things, and co-ordinate > volunteers > This sounds like a good task for marketing crew. We could make a list on a wiki page where people can add events, too. The somebody could send a list of upcoming events to some lists like marketing and the foundation board some weeks before an event so there would be enough time to veto and/or prepair things.
As I am writing this, I read the renewed http://live.gnome.org/UserGroups page. So you already have a calendar. Do you think adding more general events would be finde. As I think GNOME user groups is maybe the right slot for those events - then spreading to the general GNOME page. This list should contain worldwide events that GNOME supports wholeheartedly and likes its users to know about or maybe use as a local action. This would/could be: * Software Freedom Day * Stop Software Patents world Day (which is today) * Document Freedom Day (promotes open document standards, which is what GNOME also supports I guess) * Anniversaries of GNOME, GNU, Linux kernel, X11, ... * New GNOME releases, thats already happening. Maybe we could add a countdown like "Only XX days till the release of GNOME 2.24" ? * I would also consider releases of distros to be mentioned as this means that GNOME users get a new GNOME (much more than the release of a new GNOME does). So one could announce like: "A new Ubuntu is out. With that Ubuntu users get the new GNOME 2.24", same for Fedora and others. BTW - maybe we could have a simple solution for www.gnome.org also that includes a kind calendar . If wgo would have a space for something like announcement banners and one could plan what is in that banner - one could work very early on what will appear. Those banners could also like to live.gnome.org/DocumentFreedomDay which again could explain what that is and how GNOME users can get involved. Another thing that strikes me on WGO: I do not see any link to an "Events" page. But there are still two links to Support page. I could create this page - everybody could review - and I also could send a list of events to this list. Those could be discussed here also and maybe adding those to the calendar would also be a nice idea. For local events I would suggest that the national GNOME organizations do such stuff - so like Linuxtag in Germany is something the german team should work on. regards, Thilo -- Thilo Pfennig - PfennigSolutions IT-Beratung- Wiki-Systeme Sandkrug 28 - 24143 Kiel (Germany) http://www.pfennigsolutions.de/ XING: https://www.xing.com/profile/Thilo_Pfennig - LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/tpfennig -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list