Hi Allan, Thanks for kicking off this discussion.
Andreas and I did some work on GNOME3.org which can be found on Github: https://github.com/andreasn/gnome3-website We were pretty close - the design is done and some of the copy needs to be updated. We were waiting for some videos and screenshots and then we wanted to launch it, but it's a bit stalled. I don't see any reason we couldn't take it, update the screenshots and copy, and launch it fairly quickly. I strongly agree with you that it would be beneficial to get some positive marketing out there sooner rather than later. Paul On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 6:35 AM, Allan Day <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 2011-01-05 at 09:05 +0000, Allan Day wrote: >> On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 13:50 -0800, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: >> > >> > >> > On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 12:34 PM, Jason D. Clinton >> > <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Since it was supposed to be almost entirely video thumbnails >> > on the front page, the videos need to go up there. And since >> > we don't have a UI freeze for a few more months, it wasn't in >> > the plan to have it up until then. >> > >> > >> > But I think there is a value in making this a kind of >> > process-marketing. I think we could launch the site with a >> > "Beta" decal and post the unfinished videos with the time >> > codes in them so that no one gets any ideas about posting them >> > as the final marketing assets. >> >> Apologies if this is a discussion which has already taken place, but can >> I ask: are there any plans to put out positive stories and messages >> about GNOME Shell and GNOME 3 in the run up to the release? (And if so, >> what are they?!) I can see this being highly beneficial. It doesn't have >> to involve the gnome3 site - we could focus on getting positive stories >> about GNOME Shell into the press, for example. Just a handful of such >> stories would be immensely beneficial. > > I just had a little look at what other projects are doing in this > regard... > > * The Firefox 4 site [1] has some really nice details on the upcoming > release. > > * The Unity pages [2] are upbeat and they look nice, though rather > lacking on detail. (Jono has been getting positive articles [3] into > circulation, though.) > > * The OS X Lion page [4] describes upcoming features and explains their > benefits. > > What are the chances of throwing together a preview page of this ilk? I > could chip in with some copy... > > Allan > > [1] http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/beta/features/ > [2] http://unity.ubuntu.com/about/ > [3] > http://www.techradar.com/news/software/operating-systems/the-evolution-of-the-linux-desktop-914736 > [4] http://www.apple.com/macosx/lion/ > > -- > Blog: http://afaikblog.wordpress.com/ > IRC: aday on irc.gnome.org > > -- > marketing-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list > -- marketing-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
