Re: A printed GNOME Journal for GUADEC?
I think we should probably re-arrange the question a bit. Can the Gnome Journal team plus others create a GUADEC brochure with interesting content that we can give out to conference attendees? We probably shouldn't use the GNOME Journal format but instead a design better suited for GUADEC. This way people won't approach the problem from a magazine perspective but more of interesting material to give out at GUADEC. That might help approach a little better. Just my two cents. sri On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 02:39:32AM +0200, Claus Schwarm wrote: > On Wed, 05 Apr 2006 21:42:19 +0200 > David Neary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > It's GUADEC, so 500 copies would probably do. The GUADEC program, in A5 > > format, is usually about 32 pages, bump that up to A3, and we're down to > > 8 or 12 pages for the conference schedule + sponsors, and (I'd say) 4 > > pages for articles. > > > > I guess, you mean A4, not A3. > > > > > What Quim's proposed is that the content for the programme get done in > > the normal way, that the ads get handled by him, and that the GNOME > > Journal provides articles (6 or 7) for a special edition. Reprinting a > > best-of the past year, if there aren't enough new articles, or perhaps > > doing interviews with keynotes for cheap column inches, is also an option. > > > > I just checked our archives. As I said in my frist answer, using the > content is legal but it will make the program look strange. > > I mean: Just imageing to open a conference program to find, dunno, an > opinon piece about marketing GNOME! Or an app review! Don't you think > that'll be strange? The most appropriate content are the deployment > stories. > > However. I just talked to Lucas Rocha. He's glad to help organizing and > coordinating new articles, dedicated to more appropriate topics around > GUADEC. > > He already submitted a paper for GUADEC about the GNOME Journal so that > fits very nicely. :-) > > But if we can't find writers, I suggest to simply use the GUADEC > web page header graphic for the program front page. It's probably made > in Inkscape anyway, and will fit perfectly. > > > Cheers, > Claus > -- > marketing-list mailing list > marketing-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list -- -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: [Fwd: [Foundations] Siggraph tradeshow]
On Thu, April 6, 2006 16:06, Dave Neary wrote: > > Hi, > > Is siggraph something we should be interested in? Projects like the GIMP > have participated before, and with the usage GNOME is getting in > Hollywood, perhaps it's something we should consider. I'm all for it. We need to go out of the usual Free Software events and let other people know about GNOME. Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: [Fwd: [Foundations] Siggraph tradeshow]
On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 16:27 +0200, Dave Neary wrote: > It would be cool to bunk in with Blender, though... Definitely. If we want to go on with the 10x10 plan we need to leave the catacombs. Corporate fairs is where the industry and the media meet. We need to be there and we need to be part of any free/open/linux effort, since these are the tags the industry and the media start to recognize (and eventually understand). -- Quim Gil /// http://desdeamericaconamor.org | http://guadec.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: [Fwd: [Foundations] Siggraph tradeshow]
Hi, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > >> Is siggraph something we should be interested in? Projects like the GIMP >> have participated before, and with the usage GNOME is getting in >> Hollywood, perhaps it's something we should consider. > > Perhaps we can ring in a favour from Dreamworks - I wonder if they have a > booth or whatever, and would be willing to give us a corner for a monitor > and poster? It would be cool to bunk in with Blender, though... Cheers, Dave. -- David Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: [Fwd: [Foundations] Siggraph tradeshow]
> Is siggraph something we should be interested in? Projects like the GIMP > have participated before, and with the usage GNOME is getting in > Hollywood, perhaps it's something we should consider. Perhaps we can ring in a favour from Dreamworks - I wonder if they have a booth or whatever, and would be willing to give us a corner for a monitor and poster? - Jeff -- Desktop Linux Summit 2006 http://www.desktoplinuxsummit.org/ He'd never undressed a woman with his eyes. Perhaps army boots, school uniform, or a nightie, but never undressed. -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
[Fwd: [Foundations] Siggraph tradeshow]
Hi, Is siggraph something we should be interested in? Projects like the GIMP have participated before, and with the usage GNOME is getting in Hollywood, perhaps it's something we should consider. Cheers, Dave. -- David Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Begin Message --- Hi all, I know there's not many foundations here with direct interest in the CG business, but nevertheless. :) Already since Blender became opened up 4 years ago, I try to get Siggraph (the main conference for computer graphics) to do more for open source projects. This typically with mixed results, in general we're banned to the periphery areas away from the center hotspots. Since last year Siggraph offers the opportunity for non-profits and universities to rent floorspace on the tradeshow, for about 25% of the normal price. I'm seriously considering this, also because we can partner up with a EU consortium for it. Floorspace per 10x10 feet unit is 1500 USD, additional costs for furniture rental etc is unknown, something between 1000-2000 USD max. Things would go much smoother though if I could combine it with more organizations. I'm thinking of a nice 20x30 island booth, which could host up to six projects then. The Blender Foundation can do all organization/producing work for this, and finance it up to 50% max. Question; are there organizations on this list interested to participate? Or; is there an organization with a budget available to sponsor us? Visual presence of FOSS projects on the tradeshow in Siggraph would really be a cool happening. :) Needless to say, with our Open Movie (creative commons) "Elephants Dream" we already got a great eyecatcher! http://www.siggraph.org/s2006/ -Ton- -- Ton Roosendaal Blender Foundation [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blender.org ___ foundations mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/foundations --- End Message --- -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: A printed GNOME Journal for GUADEC?
I invite you (plural) to think first the printed "GNOME Journal - GUADEC Special Edition" of your dreams. How many pages, size, quality paper, cover, color/B&W... Then the GUADEC Committee will measure the budget for this dream and we will tell if this is feasible or not. About contributors, GUADEC 2006 has got 100 presentations submitted in a couple of weeks, and something tells me we could get some help from here to produce quality content in a couple of months. You also have the contributors from Stuttgart until Vilanova, I'm sure that if you pick the very best and ask the authors to updated/adapt them for a printed edition to be delivered in GUADEC 2006 they will accept. About human resources for producing the Journal (design, copy, etc) I think it is possible to get more help if we announce the project. It can be a good opportunity to get new contributors with a non-usual-suspects profile, as it has happened with the GUADEC website. Like Dave says, we can have a budget for these tasks if needed, too. Don't get me wrong if, in marketing terms, I say we are getting a decent income from corporate sponsorship and we are getting also a decent awareness of potential GUADEC participants; we need to satisfy both and we need to satisfy/enforce as well the GNOME marketing strategy. A cool and professional-looking printed GNOME Journal delivered to all GUADEC participants is an asset that helps achieving all these goals. We produce so many things, but most of them are digital, online... untouchable. And then we all meet in Vilanova, and we give away a tanbgible jewel: a printed GNOME Journal with useful GUADEC info, great GNOME articles (why not the very best reedited as well), a good selection of pictures with real people, nice colorful graphics (tangos + art.gnome.org stuff), marketing materials shown off (all these loving posters and banners we have) and sponsors ads (other conferences and projects would die to have). I'll tell you one thing. Considering that the presentations submitted by the potential speakers are already mostly published online (and this is different from previous editions), maybe we don't need to repeat all this in a printed program. What is useful is to have a schedule you can have in your pocket and check all the time (the inner sheet of the GNOME Journal, easy to detach). The rest can be a pure GNOME Journal interesting for GUADEC but in fact interesting for GNOME 2006. If we achieve this I'd be happy finding the resources for printing 2.000 and letting people take them to spread them in their own groups etc. We know that by doing this our sponsors and our local groups would be happier. And the GNOME Journal team, and the contributors, and the MarketingTeam, etc. So: why to stop this way of happiness? ;) Claus, I understand your concerns but think big: a printed GNOME Journal - GUADEC Special Edition may get much more contributors than the average online journal. And this project may push the journal itself to a next level after GUADEC. On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 21:40 +0200, Claus Schwarm wrote: > Is there any background info? Is there a max. number of pages, for > example? How many copies we are talking about? 500? 1.000? 5.000? > > What about color? 4c completely or just the outside pages? DIN A4 or > DIN A5? > > Please don't get me wrong: I do like the idea. -- Quim Gil /// http://desdeamericaconamor.org | http://guadec.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
