Re: Promoting the GNOME amazon store

2009-09-17 Thread Shane Fagan
I didnt know about the gnome amazon store until I heard about it on this list. Its just not visable on the main page of Gnome.org so id say the reason why its not being used is really lack of visability. Shane On Thu, 2009-09-17 at 16:09 -0500, Brian Cameron wrote: > Jaap: > > > Sofar we made th

Re: Promoting the GNOME amazon store

2009-09-17 Thread Brian Cameron
Jaap: Sofar we made this month the following in the GNOME amazon store http://www.gnome.org/friends/amazon/ $5 in the US 1.4 euro in Germany 618 yen in Japan and nothing in Canada and the UK We need some more marketing such that people in the community that buy at amazon will use the store or

Promoting the GNOME amazon store

2009-09-17 Thread Jaap A. Haitsma
Hi, Sofar we made this month the following in the GNOME amazon store http://www.gnome.org/friends/amazon/ $5 in the US 1.4 euro in Germany 618 yen in Japan and nothing in Canada and the UK We need some more marketing such that people in the community that buy at amazon will use the store or inst

Re: CRM recommendation: CiviCRM

2009-09-17 Thread Jaap A. Haitsma
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 21:58, Stormy Peters wrote: > GNOME Marketing Folks & Membership Committe, > > We'd like to use a CRM system to track finances, donors, sponsors, members, > etc. > > I'm recommending that we use CiviCRM, http://civicrm.org, and I'd like your > feedback. (Note that one way t

CRM recommendation: CiviCRM

2009-09-17 Thread Stormy Peters
GNOME Marketing Folks & Membership Committe, We'd like to use a CRM system to track finances, donors, sponsors, members, etc. I'm recommending that we use CiviCRM, http://civicrm.org, and I'd like your feedback. (Note that one way to do this would have been to install all the CRM systems or to ge

Re: marketing hackfest?

2009-09-17 Thread Paul Cutler
I think this is an excellent idea. Hackfests are especially helpful, not only for the energy they create, but the opportunity to plan your writing in a group environment. This was one of the big takeaways we learned at the Documentation hackfest earlier this year, and there was a presentation on

Re: marketing hackfest?

2009-09-17 Thread Lefty (石鏡 )
It¹s looking like I¹m going to be in Tokyo around that time, unfortunately. On 9/17/09 9:16 AM, "Stormy Peters" wrote: > There might be an opportunity to have a marketing hackfest around the Boston > Summit time frame. If so, who would be interested in coming? Would you be able > to make it to

Re: event box marketing materials

2009-09-17 Thread Stormy Peters
Hi Rosanna, What about what's in the box? Are you replacing it with the same things? Everyone, Are there people on the list who have used the event box? Do you have feedback on the contents? Did you use everything in it? What was most useful? What didn't you use? Stormy On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at

marketing hackfest?

2009-09-17 Thread Stormy Peters
There might be an opportunity to have a marketing hackfest around the Boston Summit time frame. If so, who would be interested in coming? Would you be able to make it to the Boston Summit? I think it would be an excellent opportunity to kick off a lot of the projects we've been talking about from

GNOME on Slashdot

2009-09-17 Thread Stormy Peters
Linux Magazine wrote an article about the Q2 report and finances and it got slashdotted: http://www.linux-magazine.com/content/view/full/40042 http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/09/17/148207/How-GNOME-and-KDE-Spend-Their-Money?from=rss I don't know if there's anything we should do. I think the Q3

Re: Suggestion about providing more value to Foundation members

2009-09-17 Thread Stormy Peters
So where do we put out a call for thank you's? Maybe create a wiki page and then put out a call on the GNOME Foundation list? Stormy On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Paul Cutler wrote: > I would recommend calling out people in the new quarterly reports, maybe as > it's own section, rather than