Re: real marketing or just catchy slogans?

2005-12-06 Thread Dave Neary
Hi Claus, Claus Schwarm wrote: * No 'exclusive' influence on developers or product decisions. Even the board is unable to do that. Ahem. The board *shouldn't* do that. Not the same thing. We are a sub-group of the GNOME project. If we have some suggestions for Nautilus, backed up

Re: real marketing or just catchy slogans?

2005-12-06 Thread Quim Gil
En/na Dave Neary ha escrit: Activity on mailing lists and bugzilla is the best way to do that. And getting to know the developers involved :) Right, but mailings lists and bugzilla are not the best interface for newcomers. And non mailinglistsandbugzilla channels are not the best interface

Re: real marketing or just catchy slogans?

2005-12-06 Thread Claus Schwarm
Hi, Dave! Unlike wikipedia, GNOME favours credentials over consensus. Gaining a reputation for making good product suggestions will come from (guess what?) making good product suggestions. Sorry but that was not what I meant. ;-) Of course, a series of 'good' suggestions will gain you a

Re: real marketing or just catchy slogans?

2005-12-06 Thread Murray Cumming
I agree that we have a problem empowering people. People on the list seem to be waiting for direction (from you, me or Luis...). I think both John and Santiago are ideal candidates for developing and leading a strategy of merket analysis - getting information from our target markets, and

Re: real marketing or just catchy slogans?

2005-12-06 Thread Murray Cumming
Should we be doing DesktopUseCases to help us along ? I think both our development and marketing would be helped (to have organisational focus) by having Personas. A university was working on them a couple of years ago, but that effort seems to have failed.

Re: real marketing or just catchy slogans?

2005-12-06 Thread Tom Chance
Ahoy, On Tuesday 06 December 2005 11:44, Murray Cumming wrote: Should we be doing DesktopUseCases to help us along ? I think both our development and marketing would be helped (to have organisational focus) by having Personas. A university was working on them a couple of years ago, but that

Re: real marketing or just catchy slogans?

2005-12-06 Thread Alex Hudson
On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 12:24 +0100, Murray Cumming wrote: There were criticisms in there of Nautilus, the menu editor, performance and usage of GNOME VFS (without specifics, it has to be said). Did those ever get sent back to the Nautilus developers? How about a proposal to include SMEG in

Re: real marketing or just catchy slogans?

2005-12-06 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Murray Cumming wrote: getting information is the start - when their information retrieval contributes to technical decisions in a project, our marketing will begin to be more successful. Fine. But when that getting information is obviously stalled then it can't be allowed to stop us.

Re: real marketing or just catchy slogans?

2005-12-06 Thread Murray Cumming
Hi, Murray Cumming wrote: getting information is the start - when their information retrieval contributes to technical decisions in a project, our marketing will begin to be more successful. Fine. But when that getting information is obviously stalled then it can't be allowed to stop us.

Re: real marketing or just catchy slogans?

2005-12-06 Thread Santiago Roza
hi again, and thanks to all for replying. i'll try to answer some of your comments, at least from my point of view. The selling/advertising does not stop you from doing marketing. Should we stop going to trade fairs, close down our website, and stop announcing releases while we wait for the

Re: real marketing or just catchy slogans?

2005-12-06 Thread Quim Gil
En/na Dave Neary ha escrit: I forgot spreadgnome.org (although I think we should choose another name). A community promotion site is essential for all this. Why the GNOME promotion can't fit in gnome.org? In my opinion gnome.org without prefixes should be mainly a GNOME promotion site:

Re: real marketing or just catchy slogans?

2005-12-06 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Santiago Roza wrote: it's not me, it's us. we are supposed to be a marketing team, so we're supposed to be focused in pretty much the same direction (not 100% the same, but at least the basics). that's why i'm trying to gather some consensus, instead of starting yet another individual

Re: real marketing or just catchy slogans?

2005-12-06 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Murray Cumming wrote: I think both our development and marketing would be helped (to have organisational focus) by having Personas. A university was working on them a couple of years ago, but that effort seems to have failed.

Re: real marketing or just catchy slogans?

2005-12-06 Thread Santiago Roza
Consensus might not be desirable for the marketing team. On some things, sure - but we will need people acting as individuals, with all their quirks, as long as we're on the same page and all working. i meant consensus on objectives, basic strategy, and a couple more things, not killing

Re: real marketing or just catchy slogans?

2005-12-06 Thread Santiago Roza
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2002-December/msg00482.html So - who wants to take this on? (don't be shy) this sounds interesting, but it also sounds like dozens of hours of work... and unluckily i can't afford to waste that kind of time until we have decent channels of

Re: real marketing or just catchy slogans?

2005-12-06 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 09:21:17PM -0300, Santiago Roza wrote: Well said, and I concur. cool! one reply, and it wasn't an insult! :P Well, I hope our community isn't so bad as that one would expect insults and ridicule when giving critical feedback! :P :) sri -- marketing-list mailing

Re: real marketing or just catchy slogans?

2005-12-06 Thread Santiago Roza
Well, I hope our community isn't so bad as that one would expect insults and ridicule when giving critical feedback! :P no not at all, it was just a joke. -- Santiago Roza Departamento I+D - Thymbra [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org

Re: real marketing or just catchy slogans?

2005-12-06 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 03:44:20PM -0300, Santiago Roza wrote: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2002-December/msg00482.html So - who wants to take this on? (don't be shy) this sounds interesting, but it also sounds like dozens of hours of work... and unluckily i can't

Re: real marketing or just catchy slogans?

2005-12-06 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 11:37:24AM +0100, Dave Neary wrote: Claus Schwarm wrote: * No 'exclusive' influence on developers or product decisions. Even the board is unable to do that. Ahem. The board *shouldn't* do that. Not the same thing. We are a sub-group of the GNOME project. If

Re: real marketing or just catchy slogans?

2005-12-06 Thread David Neary
Hi, Santiago Roza wrote: not particularly. It's beautiful to a very strange niche. a very strange niche... that seems to be a bigger userbase than ours :( anyway, i wasn't saying kde looks good (cause it doesn't imho), but it does focus on pretty with no other purpose, while we don't. so

Desktop personas (draft)

2005-12-06 Thread Marcus Bauer
Le mardi 06 décembre 2005 à 18:08 +0100, Dave Neary a écrit : Hi, Murray Cumming wrote: I think both our development and marketing would be helped (to have organisational focus) by having Personas. A university was working on them a couple of years ago, but that effort seems to have

Re: real marketing or just catchy slogans?

2005-12-06 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
I don't really want to start a thread on VCS here. But see this thread: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-hackers/2005-May/msg1.html My long ass post about it is in: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-hackers/2005-May/msg00036.html Hope that helps. sri -- marketing-list mailing

Re: Desktop personas (draft)

2005-12-06 Thread Santiago Roza
cool... could you throw it in the wiki so we can build on it? i'd do it myself, but i don't think i should appear as the original author :) -- Santiago Roza Departamento I+D - Thymbra [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org