On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 5:15 PM, Bryen M Yunashko <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, 2012-06-02 at 13:19 -0700, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: >> The southwest is not particularly have a lot of free software people >> in desktop. We seem to be concentrated in Boston and Europe. >> Portland of course has some middleware people but the only number of >> GNOMErs is maybe Vancouver. > > With all due respect, I think this is not an effective way to market > GNOME. GNOME is a global effort and needs to be seen visibly in as many > places as it should. If we're only visible at places where it is > heavily-populated by GNOMEies, then we're just preaching to the choir. > > We shouldn't just give up on regions where we don't seem to have > presence, but rather increase our focus on such regions. > > If the Southeast is particularly quiet, that's all the more reason to go > to SELF and be visible. If we cannot set up a booth and send > ambassadors there, then perhaps what we can/should do is organize or > give tips on how to organize a GNOME Meetup at as many locations as > possible. How many other Jason Rowe's are going to SELF? > > I'll be at SELF, but working the openSUSE booth. And FYI, KDE will also > have a booth there. I assumed, wrongly, that GNOME was going to have a > booth there. :-/ > > Bryen > > -- > marketing-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
It's the SouthEast not West Sri :) I was thinking there actually might be some people there since the event is in Charlotte (and Red Hat is right up the road in Raleigh). If anyone *is* going be sure to ping me - I'd like to say hi. -- -jayson -- marketing-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
