Re: GNOME Amazon stores up and running
On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 5:10 PM, Alberto Ruiz ar...@gnome.org wrote: I wonder if it's worth publicizing so outdated books, buying those would be a total waste of time. Most of the technologies explained on those books are deprecated, with the exception of Foundations of Gtk+ and the distro related books. We can add whatever we want to the store. Do you have some suggestions? Stormy -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: GNOME Amazon stores up and running
Am Montag, den 31.08.2009, 00:10 +0100 schrieb Alberto Ruiz: 2009/8/30 Jaap A. Haitsma j...@haitsma.org: http://www.gnome.org/friends/amazon/ I wonder if it's worth publicizing so outdated books, buying those would be a total waste of time. +1. Also, when I go to http://www.gnome.org/friends/amazon/ and click all available 8 items, I get the following message for 5 of them: This item is not available for purchase from this store. Click here to go to Amazon to see other purchasing options. Is that intended? andre -- mailto:ak...@gmx.net | failed http://www.iomc.de/ | http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: GNOME Amazon stores up and running
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Andre Klapperak...@gmx.net wrote: Am Montag, den 31.08.2009, 00:10 +0100 schrieb Alberto Ruiz: 2009/8/30 Jaap A. Haitsma j...@haitsma.org: http://www.gnome.org/friends/amazon/ I wonder if it's worth publicizing so outdated books, buying those would be a total waste of time. +1. Also, when I go to http://www.gnome.org/friends/amazon/ and click all available 8 items, I get the following message for 5 of them: This item is not available for purchase from this store. Click here to go to Amazon to see other purchasing options. Is that intended? I would dare to guess that the 'GNOME Books' and 'GNOME Laptops' are merely categories that we created of selected products. I really like the 'GNOME Laptops' category. So, indeed, we need a call for more books related to GNOME, and more laptops that come with GNOME software. 1. Create a wiki page such as http://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/GNOMEProductsAtAmazon I created the page and added initial text. 2. We need to go through the books and check a. they are not out of print b. they are relevant to GNOME (could be peripheral to GNOME), such as http://live.gnome.org/RecommendedReading It would make sense to follow the format at http://live.gnome.org/RecommendedReading which has the name of the person promoting the book, and a rational why it is relevant to GNOME. 3. Regarding the laptops, we want Linux laptops. What is missing is to investigate whether we can call GNOME laptops those laptops that come with Linpus Linux or Xandros Linux. Are there based on core GNOME technologies? At least GTK+ apps? 4. I can also see other products apart from books, laptops. If someone knows something, they might fit as well. Simos -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: GNOME Amazon stores up and running
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Simos Xenitellis simos.li...@googlemail.com wrote: 4. I can also see other products apart from books, laptops. If someone knows something, they might fit as well. There are other products that have GNOME technologies in them like the Garmin Nuvo and the new Nokia phone. I don't know whether they are sold on Amazon or not but there might be some products that both have GNOME in them and are sold on Amazon. Stormy -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: GNOME Amazon stores up and running
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Stormy Peterssto...@gnome.org wrote: On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Simos Xenitellis simos.li...@googlemail.com wrote: 4. I can also see other products apart from books, laptops. If someone knows something, they might fit as well. There are other products that have GNOME technologies in them like the Garmin Nuvo and the new Nokia phone. I don't know whether they are sold on Amazon or not but there might be some products that both have GNOME in them and are sold on Amazon. The Garmin nüvi is at http://www.amazon.com/Garmin-3-5-Inch-Bluetooth-Portable-Navigator/dp/B000EXS1BS The Nokia N900 is not yet available on Amazon. The Nokia N810 is still on sale, at http://www.amazon.com/Nokia-N810-Portable-Internet-Tablet/dp/B000Y4AH3C/ Simos -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: GNOME Amazon stores up and running
Great work, Jaap! The plugin is a good start! sri On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Jaap A. Haitsma j...@haitsma.org wrote: Hi, I think I now have the GNOME Amazon stores is such a shape that we can start advertising them. Please go to: http://www.gnome.org/friends/amazon/ and take a look or even better buy something. To make it easy every store has a searchplugin which you can install in firefox. Just click on the dropdown of the search engines and you can add it. I've also released version 1.0 of GNOME Amazon Firefox add-on here https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/13182/ It's still needs to be reviewed by addons.mozilla.org but you can already use it. That extension automatically puts in the friend of gnome referal code, if there is none yet. So if you want to make sure that a percentage of what you buy goes to the GNOME foundation you better check that tag=friendofgnome-xx (where xx is 20, 21 or 22) is part of the URL or just buy directly in the GNOME amazon store. However I think the extension is something what you can install at computers of family members or friends (with their permission of course) who buy stuff at Amazon. For them nothing changes. They can just shop as they do normally but 4-6% of what they buy goes to the GNOME foundation So that's the technical part. Now how are we going to market this? 1) Stormy asked me to write about it on my blog. I'm waiting to get added to planet gnome. When that's the case I can write something 2) We can add a logo plus some text in the sidebar of www.gnome.org/friends 3) We could add something at the gnome homepage 4) Maybe even a press release. Jaap -- 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
