Karen - perhaps Jakub Steiner would be a good person to interview (since you had suggested having a designer in there, he's a great place to start I think!)
-Brett On Dec 14, 2012 4:22 PM, "Karen Sandler" <ka...@gnome.org> wrote: > On Fri, December 14, 2012 1:57 pm, Allan Day wrote: > > Thanks again for the minutes, Emily. > > yes! :) > > > I was unable to attend the meeting, due to not being able to dial in > > again (this time I kept being told that the PIN was wrong). > > Very strange, but let me know if you want me to set up another test call > if you want to try and troubleshoot it. Also, as I was telling Flavia, I > can call one person and conference them in too. Maybe someone else on the > call can also do that next time so that we get everyone who's having > trouble. > > > Emily Gonyer <emilyyr...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Minutes from Marketing Tele-Conference, December 13, 2013 > >> Participants: Sririm Ramkrishna, Karen Sandler, Andreas Nilsson, Emily > Gonyer, Alan Day, Olav Vitters, Flavia Weisghizzi > > Oliver Propst was on the call (heavensmile), I don't think Olav was. > > >> Topic: Community Outreach/Development > >> Sri: Theres a common wisdom that GNOME will throw out features and are > > unfriendly. We've let others tell our story for us. As a result, most of > > the press we receive is negative, focusing on GNOME 3's failures and > > shortcomings. > > ... > > > > I don't think it's actually that hard to figure out what we need to do to > > improve the perception of GNOME and GNOME 3. There are lots of examples > > that run contrary to the negative discourse that has been circulating - > > you don't have to look far to find people who love GNOME 3, or to find > > developers and designers who are receptive to feedback or who are doing > > cool stuff. > > I love this - as I mentioned on a different thread, I'm working on putting > together a series of interviews of GNOME users, starting with greggKH and > Brett. Do you know of any other awesome folks we should feature? > > > It might be an obvious point, but GNOME contributors don't actually > > conform to the way that they are often described. Our task is to let the > > world know about the great side of GNOME that people don't often hear > > about, by sharing positive stories about GNOME 3 and our > > community. That can be through writing blog posts, talking to the press, > > sharing posts on social media channels (either personal > > accounts or the GNOME ones), or by participating in forums and mailing > > lists. We also need advocates who can liaise between our core > > contributors and the disparate communities that are interested in GNOME. > > > > The difficult part is finding people to take on all these tasks, and I > > actually think that growing and sustaining the GNOME marketing effort is > > the biggest challenge that we face: we need to focus on how we can grow > > the GNOME marketing effort. The telephone meetings are a > > fantastic start here, but we need to do more. > > Perhaps one thing we can do is put together a wish list of simple things > we'd like to see done, sort of a GNOME love approach to marketing. That > way when newcomers ask for things to do we have a whole list to choose > from. We'd have to make it all things that are not very time sensitive, > but even just listing articles or interviews we'd like to see written > could be a good start. > > > One thing we obviously need is critical mass - a few core contributors > > who can drive things forward by coordinating activity and by enabling and > > encouraging people to participate. We also need our contributors to feel > > motivated and valued. One possible way we could help with this would be > > to invite designers and developers to come and speak to the marketing > > crew as a part of regular meetings (I'd be happy to help organise that). > > Another thing we should think about is how to give exposure to marketing > > contributors. Things like having identifiable authors on gnome.org could > > really help. It could also be good to have regular activity reports on > > the list as a way to celebrate the work done by our marketing > > contributors. > > We talked at this meeting about inviting designers and developers to our > calls maybe on a monthly basis. If you wanted to help organize that it > would be awesome! > > > What do others think? What can we do to grow the GNOME outreach effort? > > Our actual outreach efforts (mostly around OPW and GSoC) have been really > successful, maybe we need to highlight that more too? I don't think we > ever really did anything with the materials that were prepared at GUADEC > even by the newcomers... > > karen > > > > > -- > marketing-list mailing list > marketing-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list >
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