I looked at the home page. The sponsors get more screen area than GNOME. This seems like an event to promote them more than an event to promote GNOME.
The top line uses the word "monetize" -- a word that carries the worst fashion of today's usual mercenary attitude -- but says nothing about freedom. It does say "free software", but in that context people are likely to suppose that "free" means "gratis", and there is nothing on the home page to tell them otherwise. There needs to be something on the home page that clearly refers to freedom and shows that "free" means "freedom". The way that I can think of is to have a graphic with various words for free: ziyou, jiyuu-na, tu do, swatantra, mukt, etc., as well as "free" itself. (This method is somewhat trite, so it would be nice to think of something more creative.) I looked at Who Should Attend page. It mentions 5 goals, and all those goals are good, but the most important goal -- freedom on your computer -- is missing. The page says "FLOSS" a few times, and "free and open source" once. To fully promote free software, it should always say "free/libre" or "free/swatantra". Mentioning open source is a distraction here, so that term shouldn't be present. I looked at the speakers page. I was glad to see that you're giving a talk about software freedom. However, for each person who attends your talk, a thousand will view the home page. We need to get the message of freedom into the home page so that thousands will see it. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org, www.gnu.org Skype: Don't use Skype, it's proprietary software! -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list