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
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