On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 10:04 PM, Stormy Peters<[email protected]> wrote: > The Linux Foundation is giving out linux.com email addresses in return for > donations. As an incentive. > > So the question I have to ask: > > Should we give Friends of GNOME, maybe monthly subscribers, gnome.org email > addresses?
On a related note, Ubuntu has a similar membership plan with the following process: 1. People that contribute substantially to Ubuntu can nominate themselves to become 'Ubuntu members'. There is a process where candidates are interviewed through IRC for their contributions. 2. There are currently a bit under 500 Ubuntu members, https://launchpad.net/~ubuntumembers 3. Members get substantial perks, https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Membership including complimentary subscription to LWN.net They also get a @ubuntu.com forwarding alias. 4. They also gain the right to print business cards with the Ubuntu logo. 5. The whole process is quite smart and helps retain experienced users to Ubuntu. Regarding the GNOME e-mail alias, I think it would be better to have something '@friend.gnome.org' instead of '@friendofgnome.org'. The latter disassociates a lot from gnome.org. Simos -- marketing-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
