Speaking of content on gnome.org ... I heard that there were people working on it but I'm not clear what's being worked on. I saw the new image (and liked it) but I think we could also use a site review. Is anything like that going on? If not, I will kick it off ... Stormy
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 12:48 AM, Thilo Pfennig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > 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 > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list >
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