Stormy Peters wrote: > > 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.
I fully agree. We don't have the capacity to produce original content. Linking to existing material is a good way to go for the time being [1]. One way we can do this is through our microblogging channels. I've been doing a bit of work to develop these in recent times... if we want to take this further, there are a couple of things we can do: First, get more people involved. Right now, our bus-factor [2] is extremely high. If microblogging is going to be a proper part of our communications strategy, it needs to be stable and reliable. Any volunteers?! Second, we could tie our microblogging feeds into other channels, both as a way to get more people following them and as a means to get that content to people who don't use a microblogging service. Displaying our feeds on our web-sites is one obvious possibility here. I'm sure there are others though. Best, Allan [1] The difficulty with this is that much of the content that we currently generate is written for people who already know GNOME. The reason for a channel of the kind that I described in my previous mail is to explain how GNOME works to external audiences. [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor -- 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
