On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 7:18 AM, Allan Day <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> > How shall we announce this (and where)?
>
> Planet GNOME, Identica, Twitter, www.gnome.org... any others? (I'm
> interested in this too.)
>

Facebook too.

>
> > In fact I am also interested in a more generic question which is how do
> > we usually use our channels to announce stuff? I tried to motivate
> > people with the T-shirt contest but didn't receive much feedback except
> > from the people I contacted personally. How do we actually usually
> > promote stuff outside of the GNOME community? (I thought GUGs would be a
> > good way, but they seem a little bit sleepy ;) ).
>
> Good question! I've been thinking for a while that GNOME needs an
> outward facing media channel. The Planet and GNOME News are primarily
> places where we talk to ourselves. www.gnome.org is outward facing and
> has a news section, but it isn't primarily a news site (you certainly
> can't subscribe to it)... A blog or news site where we talk to our
> partners and to GNOME enthusiasts would be a great way to promote GNOME
> and to keep people in tune with where the project is going. It'd need
> volunteers if it were to become an enduring reality, of course...
>
> There are people that have been helping with Facebook and Twitter.

I think a blog would be hard but perhaps a blog that gives excerpts and
points to other articles. That way someone could follow Planet GNOME, GNOME
News and other channels, make a judgement call on what would be interesting
to our users and add them to the feed.

Stormy
-- 
marketing-list mailing list
[email protected]
http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Reply via email to