Re: GNOME : Get involved
--- Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Catching up late in the game is sometimes unsettling. So here I was trying to grasp the spread of the tasks and FIXMEs and ToDo when I chanced upon this subtask: Spread GNOME -- is this an existing endeavour or something we're starting? Ask the Marketing team in http://live.gnome.org/GnomeWeb/WgoGetInvolved and I was stuck. - From a read of the archives and some more reading (there is more to read that I can ever complete) on the l.g.o it seems (to me at least) that the Spread GNOME is an existing effort. So what is the current scope of this effort: o LUGs o Corporates o Banners o Stickers o Logo placements Good question! Prompted by your email, I've typed spread gnome into google, and found this: http://www.spreadgnome.org/ ... which claims to be restructuring. Look at blog posts and this list's archive, the site was launch in August of this year. I don't remember if the site ever had any content, but it certainly doesn't now. I rather agree with what Quim said at the time: -- I still wonder why we need an external site to promote GNOME. To me it is a symptom of a GNOME and gnome.org failure. The wgo revamp tries to solve failures like this, and I don't see what GNOME marketing spreadgnome.org could do that gnome.org can't do. http://mail.gnome.org/archives/marketing-list/2006-August/msg00225.html So basically: Let's plan a spread gnome page in our section, that stands on its own. See what that does. Then think about whether we want to expand it to a whole site. That basically means it's up to us what we suggest people can do to help market gnome: as you say, LUGs, corporates, public organizations etc. One thing we'll have to remember is to ask the guy who owns http://www.spreadgnome.org/ to change his links once WGO is up. PS. Does anyone feel like updating the image we have on http://live.gnome.org/MarketingTeam, or doing a new one? I don't want to offend whoever's hard work that is, but it looks like the guy's being screamed at... ___ Inbox full of spam? Get leading spam protection and 1GB storage with All New Yahoo! Mail. http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: GNOME : Get involved
--- Djihed Afifi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 11:44 +, Joachim Noreiko wrote: I still wonder why we need an external site to promote GNOME. To me it is a symptom of a GNOME and gnome.org failure. The wgo revamp tries to solve failures like this, and I don't see what GNOME marketing spreadgnome.org could do that gnome.org can't do. I think it's basically the name + the content + fans. The name gives a strong indication about what the site does. Fans, especially those who are not involved in the day to day development of gnome will be more drawn into a site where they feel it's actually about what they do: promote what they love, but not what they don't understand: development etc. Not sure if what I wanted to say got through :) (re-ccing the list) Right. Then let's make WGO's 'Get Involved' section speak to fans, not just developers. There's no reason why WGO can't address the needs you describe, and in fact I think it *should*. WGO should be everybody who has any sort of connection to gnome. PS. Could someone check whether our list of use cases has I'm a fanboy and I want to promote GNOME tirelessly on it? PPS. The wiki is being really slow lately. ___ Inbox full of spam? Get leading spam protection and 1GB storage with All New Yahoo! Mail. http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: GNOME : Get involved
Original email, it was sent privatly by mistake before response. I'm not sure why evolution stripped away the ml address when replying. On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 11:44 +, Joachim Noreiko wrote: I still wonder why we need an external site to promote GNOME. To me it is a symptom of a GNOME and gnome.org failure. The wgo revamp tries to solve failures like this, and I don't see what GNOME marketing spreadgnome.org could do that gnome.org can't do. I think it's basically the name + the content + fans. The name gives a strong indication about what the site does. Fans, especially those who are not involved in the day to day development of gnome will be more drawn into a site where they feel it's actually about what they do: promote what they love, but not what they don't understand: development etc. Not sure if what I wanted to say got through :) keep in mind that fan sites are nothing new in the business world nor in the OSS world. eg http://www.walmartfoundation.org and the success of spreadfirefox, which should give us some lessons. Djihed -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
