The ruler is a great success!

2010-03-23 Thread Stormy Peters
Hi Fellow GNOME Marketing team members, The ruler has been a great success. Thanks to everyone who worked on it and provided feedback. In the past 24 hours we've raised about $1,000 from individuals and had another $5,000 company match. I would like to keep the momentum going. I've blogged about

Re: Facebook GNOME page

2010-03-23 Thread Stormy Peters
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 4:26 PM, Diego Escalante Urrelo wrote: > > Not a contest but check EFF's page: > > http://www.facebook.com/eff?ref=nf&v=wall > > They have a swag tab and a join one. > > That's cool. Would someone be willing to look into how to add that for our page? We could do the Join on

Re: Friends of GNOME Ruler

2010-03-23 Thread Stormy Peters
FYI, since this has gone live we've gotten 10 donations for a total of $775 plus 2 new subscribers for an immediate donation of $20. So $795 since yesterday! We should update the ruler regularly as long as the pace is up. (This money plus the rest of March.) Lucas, should I send new numbers to yo

Re: Friends of GNOME Ruler

2010-03-22 Thread Stormy Peters
hed. Can you > do it today or tomorrow? > > --lucasr > > > > 2010/2/24 Stormy Peters : > > How about this? > > > > Stormy > > > > Subject: One step closer to a sys admin ... > > > > Last April we announced that we wanted to hire a sys

Re: Friends of GNOME and the new website

2010-03-22 Thread Stormy Peters
I like it as well. We're going to be adding Google Checkout as a payment option as well. I don't know if that should figure into the design now or if we can just figure it out later. Stormy On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 7:21 PM, Jason D. Clinton wrote: > On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 8:12 PM, Andreas Nilss

Re: Facebook GNOME page

2010-03-18 Thread Stormy Peters
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 7:35 AM, Paul Cutler wrote: > > How can we put a plan together with 2-3 updates a week to keep it > relevant? > > Off the top of my head, I think Netflix does a good job on Facebook > where they will post a couple times a week with an open ended question > about movies to

Re: Facebook GNOME page

2010-03-17 Thread Stormy Peters
acher ande this is what he/she > said > - we could definitely run some quiz (and give gnome shirts as prizes) - > maybe on a monthly basis > - seek feedback > > We can try to do the same on linkedin. > > My 2 cents > Bharat > > On 2010-03-17 3:31 PM, "Stormy Peter

Re: Update on Mobile Giving

2010-03-17 Thread Stormy Peters
Hi Bharat, Thanks for working on this. I added some comments and questions below. I think the idea is great and hopefully the questions help flesh out the plan or spark conversation. > *Use Case #1* Gnome members / friends who would want to contribute on a > monthly basis regularly. > I think we

You are invited to the 2010 GNOME Marketing Hackfest!

2010-03-16 Thread Stormy Peters
It's time to hold another marketing hackfest! This one will be focused primarily on launch plans for GNOME 3.0, including the video project. ASOLIF and CESLA have put us in touch with the Zaragoza Municipality and Aragon Regional Government in Spain who have offered to sponsor the hackfest. The Te

Re: Rescheduled: Emergency marketing team meeting

2010-03-15 Thread Stormy Peters
And I reminder to everyone (especially US folks who just went through daylight savings) to double check what time UTC time is in local time. Stormy On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 8:49 PM, Jason D. Clinton wrote: > On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 2:36 PM, Jason D. Clinton wrote: > >> In order to better get the p

Banner for the event boxes

2010-03-11 Thread Stormy Peters
We use the GNOME event boxes to set up tables (i.e. "booths") at free software events. The US event box does not have a banner! I think it would be great to have one that could be draped in front of the table, since often the booth is really a table. I'm thinking those plastic like ones that can

Re: Mobile Giving Marketing Plan Draft

2010-03-10 Thread Stormy Peters
rk. Its important for the finance person to control > the message we send out and at what times. Marketing team can definitely > help. > > > On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 10:06 PM, Stormy Peters wrote: > >> We should probably add some specifics, like ideas for text for twitter and

Re: Organizing the Marketing Team

2010-03-10 Thread Stormy Peters
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 6:59 AM, Paul Cutler wrote: > > Some of the groupings that jump out at me: > > * GNOME 3.0 promotion > * GNOME 3.0 video creation /promotion > * Fundraising (Friends of GNOME, GNOME Store, Mobile giving) (Jaap has > done a great job helping Stormy with the Friends of GNOME

Re: Article and photos from the Project:Possibility USC UCLA face off.

2010-03-10 Thread Stormy Peters
Thanks for the links! I was going to twitter them and couldn't fit it in 140 characters so I wrote a blog post: http://blogs.gnome.org/foundation/2010/03/10/gnome-projectpossibility/ Stormy On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 8:01 AM, Steve Lee wrote: > > http://www.dailybruin.com/articles/2010/3/5/bruins

Linux.com launches store

2010-03-09 Thread Stormy Peters
Worth checking out as we get ready to launch the GNOME store. http://ostatic.com/blog/wear-your-linux-pride-on-your-sleeve-linux-com-launches-new-store Stormy -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Re: Emergency marketing team meeting

2010-03-09 Thread Stormy Peters
Hi Jason, I know you said you put in all possible times but they are essentially the same times every day. Maybe you could also try very early morning or night to try to accommodate more people? Stormy On Mar 9, 2010 9:12 AM, "Dave Neary" wrote: Hi, Shane Fagan wrote: > So its looking like 2

Re: Mobile Giving Marketing Plan Draft

2010-03-08 Thread Stormy Peters
We should probably add some specifics, like ideas for text for twitter and banners, which event to target, etc. Stormy On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 5:41 PM, Bharat Kapoor <3.kap...@gmail.com> wrote: > Posted: > http://live.gnome.org/Gnome%20Fund%20Raising#preview > > Please jot ur thoughts. > > Best R

Re: Reboot: Strategic goals for GNOME

2010-03-05 Thread Stormy Peters
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 1:05 PM, Richard Stallman wrote: >Maemo/Moblin/MeeGo use GNOME and we are proud of that. Of course, we > always >encourage organizations and projects to use more free software but we > should >not ostracise them because they don't use 100% free software. > > It

Re: Mobile Giving Foundation

2010-03-04 Thread Stormy Peters
; Regards > Bharat > > > On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 8:34 PM, Paul Cutler wrote: > >> On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 08:53 -0700, Stormy Peters wrote: >> > >> > >> > On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 8:39 AM, Bharat Kapoor <3.kap...@gmail.com> >> > wro

Re: Reboot: Strategic goals for GNOME

2010-03-03 Thread Stormy Peters
(Sent it from the wrong address the first time ...) -- Forwarded message -- From: Stormy Peters To: r...@gnu.org Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 16:18:54 -0700 Subject: Re: Reboot: Strategic goals for GNOME On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Richard Stallman wrote: > >We pr

Re: Mobile Giving Foundation

2010-03-03 Thread Stormy Peters
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 1:52 PM, Diego Escalante Urrelo wrote: > > On a more wishful thinking note: can we create a WP plugin that gives us > this nice boxes for the sidebars? For example there's this flickr box > for the sidebar, we could have one for "GNOME campaigns" so when we > launch anything

Re: Mobile Giving Foundation

2010-03-03 Thread Stormy Peters
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 8:39 AM, Bharat Kapoor <3.kap...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Whats the process, when I know I have a go ahead to get the paperwork ready > for the vendor - they have sent it to me and I am just sitting on them > waiting for our team's approval. > How about putting together the la

Friends of GNOME February Data

2010-03-02 Thread Stormy Peters
The February Friends of GNOME data is posted.[1] Good news: * February was an outstanding month. We brought in $2,826. (Compare to $1,587 in January and $2,663 in December.) Challenge: * A large part of February's donation was do to one, one time $1500 donation from an individual. * We lost 12 su

Re: Mobile Giving Foundation

2010-03-02 Thread Stormy Peters
y did bring up the issue that we should have a plan for how we plan to > get out the word. I agree with that. How are we going to advertise the fact > that people can donate via text? > > So it's up to us, the marketing team, to decide if we want to do this and > if so, how. >

Re: Gnome Foundation Ad On FSF Endorsed Network

2010-03-01 Thread Stormy Peters
Awesome. Thanks for making this happen, Vinicius. Stormy On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 9:15 AM, Vinicius Depizzol wrote: > Hey all! > > Ad Bard system sent me an email about the end of the campaign. These > are the stats we got: > > On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 12:29, wrote: > > Hello vdepizzol, > > > > Th

Re: Friends of GNOME Ruler

2010-02-24 Thread Stormy Peters
[1] http://live.gnome.org/Sysadmin/AdvisoryMeeting/JobDescription [2] http://www.gnome.org/friends/promote.html On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 4:13 AM, Lucas Rocha wrote: > Hi, > > 2010/2/16 Stormy Peters : > > > > > > On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 4:10 AM, Lucas Rocha wrote: > >> &g

Re: CONTACTS GUADEC

2010-02-23 Thread Stormy Peters
And thanks very much! On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 2:15 PM, Stormy Peters wrote: > If you want to cc sponsonr...@guadec.org, we can help respond to people. > > Stormy > > > On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 11:49 AM, Nelson Marques <07...@ipam.pt> wrote: > >> >>

Re: CONTACTS GUADEC

2010-02-23 Thread Stormy Peters
hat are of no interest to us. > > I'm going to check other Benelux companies that suit this. > > How do you want to handle the contacts? Wanna take over on those > interested? I really would love to pass those interest to someone who is > directly involved on this event. &g

Re: Campaign Proposal

2010-02-23 Thread Stormy Peters
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Shaun McCance wrote: > > I'm totally in favor of Gnome 3.0, the "Spider Monkey" release. > I have never in my life witnessed the Gnome community pass up > a chance to name something after a primate. ;-) > > The Spider Monkey is also my favorite for much the same

Re: Campaign Proposal

2010-02-23 Thread Stormy Peters
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 9:47 AM, Claus Schwarm wrote: > > Nevertheless, a potential problem is confusion. People usually have > better things to do than carefully reading our ads. Mixing _two_ themes > -- namely GNOME's goal and that of another cause -- may result in people > thinking, the ads are

Re: Campaign Proposal

2010-02-23 Thread Stormy Peters
So I really don't think that naming releases after endangered species will make us look like an endangered species. And I think being associated with cute animals is almost always a good thing. But I do like the idea of picking a humanitarian cause more related to us. Is there something in the dev

Re: Facebook, just a thought

2010-02-22 Thread Stormy Peters
We have a Facebook page for GNOME and for Friends of GNOME. If you want to work on widgets and promoting them, that'd be great. Stormy On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 8:26 PM, Nelson Marques <07...@ipam.pt> wrote: > > Hi, > > Anyone has knowledge about those widgets that we can add to facebook > profi

Re: Mobile Giving Foundation

2010-02-18 Thread Stormy Peters
we plan to get out the word. I agree with that. How are we going to advertise the fact that people can donate via text? So it's up to us, the marketing team, to decide if we want to do this and if so, how. Stormy On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Stormy Peters wrote: > > > On Wed,

Re: Guadec and Dutch government plans for OSS and desktop

2010-02-17 Thread Stormy Peters
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 12:19 PM, Sanne te Meerman < sa...@opensourceadvies.nl> wrote: > > Marketing Team, who should work on the response? >> > > I can translate interesting parts tomorrow, and give my thoughts on what I > personally would think is important in a response. But especially about th

Re: Mobile Giving Foundation

2010-02-17 Thread Stormy Peters
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 10:14 AM, Bharat Kapoor <3.kap...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Stormy > > I will respond to this question in two steps. > > Part 1 > Breakeven - we need around 11 people giving 10 bucks for the 1st 3 months > to breakeven. > > Part 2 > I think we should treat this as a pilot as w

Re: Stickers

2010-02-17 Thread Stormy Peters
We ordered them from http://stickerrobot.com/templates/. We order rolls of stickers now instead of sheets. Rosanna could give you more info like the images we used and exact product we ordered. (I think Lucas worked on it with her.) Stormy On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Steve Lee wrote: > H

Re: Introductions

2010-02-17 Thread Stormy Peters
Great. I'll send the brochure to you offlist. Stormy On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 9:30 AM, Nelson Marques <07...@ipam.pt> wrote: > > > On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 09:15 -0700, Stormy Peters wrote: > > Hi Nelson, > > > > On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Ne

Re: Introductions

2010-02-17 Thread Stormy Peters
Hi Nelson, On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Nelson Marques <07...@ipam.pt> wrote: > About Guadec, have you contacted Vodafone? or any other big Mobile > operators? I would assume that pushing the right keys, they would tag > alongside with Guadec. Also try to have small local business present, >

Re: Guadec and Dutch government plans for OSS and desktop

2010-02-17 Thread Stormy Peters
Hi Sanne, I think that's a great idea. If at all possible, we should reply back with comment within the comment period. Then I think there are many technical publications/magazines that we could work with to publish a public response. Marketing Team, who should work on the response? Stormy On

Re: Friends of GNOME Ruler

2010-02-16 Thread Stormy Peters
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 4:10 AM, Lucas Rocha wrote: > Hi all, > > So, I have the Friends of GNOME ruler ready to be published in three > of our sites: > > GNOME (https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1187037/wgo-ruler.png) > Planet (https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1187037/planet-ruler.png) > Friends of GNOME (https:

Re: What keywords would you use for GNOME?

2010-02-10 Thread Stormy Peters
the friends page? All > this is covered on other pages. It is not relevant to visitors of > Friends of GNOME. > > > Regards, > Claus > > > On Wed, 2010-02-10 at 07:45 -0700, Stormy Peters wrote: > > I think the new landing page should cover: > > > > * GN

Re: Marketing Materials in git

2010-02-10 Thread Stormy Peters
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 4:11 AM, Dave Neary wrote: > > For info, SugarCRM offered us complimentary licences for a hosted > sugarcrm account, but for a reason I don't know, that never got used. > These companies are in general willing to provide a hosted solution for > free to community projects.

Re: What keywords would you use for GNOME?

2010-02-10 Thread Stormy Peters
I think the new landing page should cover: * GNOME's mission * How you can support GNOME * Use GNOME (with a link to how to get it) * Spread the word * Contribute (code, docs, etc) * Donate Can we test multiple versions? Stormy On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 12:53 AM, Claus Schwarm wrote: > O

Re: Friends of GNOME December & January Data

2010-02-10 Thread Stormy Peters
; experience is that these things don't work well if multiple people > > have to to it > > > > If I were you I'd post the weekly updates you do also on that blog. > > > > I believe that that blog is not on planet GNOME for some weird reason. > > > >

Re: Friends of GNOME December & January Data

2010-02-09 Thread Stormy Peters
iple people > have to to it > > If I were you I'd post the weekly updates you do also on that blog. > > I believe that that blog is not on planet GNOME for some weird reason. > > Jaap > > On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 19:58, Stormy Peters wrote: > > >

Re: GIMP Project

2010-02-09 Thread Stormy Peters
We do work very closely with GIMP. The GNOME Foundation handles all their monetary donations and payments for them, for example. I did notice GIMP ads on Google and I was wondering if they have a separate Google Grants account. Anyone know? Stormy On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 10:56 AM, Nelson Marques

Re: back to the survey topic

2010-02-09 Thread Stormy Peters
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 12:12 PM, Nelson Marques <07...@ipam.pt> wrote: > > > I'm a openSuSE user (I know GNOME is sponsored mainly by Red Hat, but I > don't like Fedora). Red Hat and Novell are both advisory board members and both give $20,000 a year to the GNOME Foundation. They also both contr

Re: Marketing Materials in git

2010-02-09 Thread Stormy Peters
I agree with Zonker. Everybody I've tried to talk into joining the marketing list would have been discouraged or intimidated by the git process. Stormy On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 6:44 AM, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier wrote: > On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 8:37 AM, Dave Neary wrote: > > Alfresco/Jahia/Nuxeo/Kn

Re: Fwd: Fundraising / Donations

2010-02-08 Thread Stormy Peters
I think it's an excellent offer and I definitely plan on saying thanks. The question is, do we want to promote? I think we should ... Stormy On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Dave Neary wrote: > Hi, > > Stormy Peters wrote: > > Thoughts? Should we help market this? We&#

Re: Mobile Giving Foundation

2010-02-08 Thread Stormy Peters
Thanks for the update, Bharat. If you could also figure out how many donations we'd need to break even, that would probably help with the decision. I found some good info in this article[1] about what companies usually charge nonprofits for this type of service. Stormy [1] http://mobileactive.o

Fwd: Fundraising / Donations

2010-02-08 Thread Stormy Peters
We got this offer today. I did a bit of research and XIPWIRE seem to be a startup that just launched so there's not a lot of history to check out. They have gotten a lot of good press from the local Philadelphia news[1]. The difference between this and the donation texts that most people are fami

Re: What keywords would you use for GNOME?

2010-02-08 Thread Stormy Peters
hrases such as "Open Source Foundation" but > also for the "Free Software" ad group, since it's going to be more > targeted. > > Just an idea; maybe it works. > > > Regards, > Claus > > > On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 10:07 PM, Stormy

Re: Friends of GNOME December & January Data

2010-02-08 Thread Stormy Peters
On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 9:35 AM, Jaap A. Haitsma wrote: > Hi Stormy, > > I suggest you post these updates also to your blog as that probably > leads to much more traffic to friends of GNOME instead of posting it > here. > I'd prefer that we had different people blog it every month. I don't really

Re: Friends of GNOME December & January Data

2010-02-08 Thread Stormy Peters
On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 1:12 PM, Jaap A. Haitsma wrote: > OK, but I see most of the data correctly. Starting from November 2009 > it's not correct. Where do I need to change the date format or > localization to get it to work? > I don't know why the date doesn't work for just the dates I added th

Re: Friends of GNOME December & January Data

2010-02-06 Thread Stormy Peters
ith the spreadsheet. The donations data tab > contains many rows of the year 1899. And in December revenue is only > 137$ in November only 19$. I think the error is in the donation data > tab. Can you have a look at it? > > Jaap > > On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 20:15, Stormy Peters w

Re: GNOME Presentations

2010-02-04 Thread Stormy Peters
Thanks, Dave. I've used bits of this presentation in presentations I've given before. On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Dave Neary wrote: > > > The main criticism which I would make of this presentation is that it > starts with heartstring-pulling stuff (babies & grannies) and doesn't > finish wi

Re: What keywords would you use for GNOME?

2010-02-03 Thread Stormy Peters
, for I got different > copy for the same keyword(s). Maybe you should post the report about > the test results? > > Of course, if you still like to try other keywords, why not use Google > Keyword Suggestion Tool [1]? > > > Regards, > Claus > > [1]: https://adwor

Friends of GNOME December & January Data

2010-02-02 Thread Stormy Peters
The December and January Friends of GNOME data is posted.[1] We had a stellar 2009! In 2009, Friends of GNOME raised $29,578 for GNOME! That is the same amount raised by 3 large companies. From community contributions. It's enough for several hackfests and close to the amount needed annually for a

Re: Friends of GNOME

2010-02-01 Thread Stormy Peters
The code is to find out people's preferences and then direct them to the right Paypal link. Jaap wrote most of it. Stormy On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 5:14 AM, Gil Forcada wrote: > Hi, > > In guifi.net we want to have something like Friends of GNOME and I was > wondering which license has de code [

Re: What keywords would you use for GNOME?

2010-02-01 Thread Stormy Peters
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 11:15 AM, Nelson Marques <07...@ipam.pt> wrote: > > Stormy, > > Related to the advertising of GNOME, I would like to point: > www.twitter.com > > Nike, Adidas and many other predominant brands in their marketing are > turning > into twitter and facebook for marketing pur

Fwd: What keywords would you use for GNOME?

2010-02-01 Thread Stormy Peters
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 3:34 AM, Claus Schwarm wrote: > Hi! > > Provided the keywords are remotely related to the product being > advertised, CTR is not so muched determined by the keywords, but by > the copy and its interaction with the keywords. > Very good point. I've attached the ads in each c

Re: What keywords would you use for GNOME?

2010-02-01 Thread Stormy Peters
Nelson, On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 9:34 AM, <07...@ipam.pt> wrote: > > I would suggest that we should prioritize the development of tools to > allow us > to build a database with the most information we can retrieve from GNOME > Users, > and just like in normal corporate marketing build and segment

adword ads

2010-01-26 Thread Stormy Peters
I'm setting up our Google Adwords and I need 2 ads per adgroup before I can submit the account for activation. Here's what I have. If you don't like one, please suggest another! (Note that we will be able to see which ads do better once they've been running for a little while.) (I'm also willing t

Re: GNOME track at Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit

2010-01-25 Thread Stormy Peters
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 11:24 AM, Dave Neary wrote: > Hi, > > Stormy Peters wrote: > > The Linux Foundation has offered to host a GNOME track at the > > Collaboration Summit. Is anyone interested in coordinating that? > > I'm interested in attending, but what wo

Fwd: [Usability] Announce - GNOME 3 Usability Hackfest: Topic GNOME Shell

2010-01-25 Thread Stormy Peters
Sounds like some things to address in our GNOME 3 myth page. Stormy -- Forwarded message -- From: Tim McConnell Date: Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 9:57 AM Subject: Re: [Usability] Announce - GNOME 3 Usability Hackfest: Topic GNOME Shell To: usabil...@gnome.org Hi All, I would like to s

Re: Communicating to users what GNOME 3.0 is

2010-01-20 Thread Stormy Peters
I think we need an official GNOME 3.0 web page. It can then point to other blog posts and places for discussion. I think we have a lot of excellent content from the blog posts, an interview Vincent did a while back, etc. Is someone willing to pull that together and edit it into a GNOME 3.0 page?

Re: Volunteering for Texas Linux Fest

2010-01-20 Thread Stormy Peters
Hi Chuck, Sorry for the delayed reply. On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 9:00 PM, Chuck Payne wrote: > Hello Stormy, > > I am writing this e-mail to volunteer for helping out at the Gnome > Table at Texas Linux Fest on April 10th, in Austin, Texas. > Awesome. We really need someone to coordinate the who

Re: Accepting donations from mobile phones

2010-01-20 Thread Stormy Peters
Bharat, Have you followed up with them to explain that we were directed to them as part of the http://www.mobilegiving.org/ application process? Stormy On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 1:04 PM, Stormy Peters wrote: > My understanding was that the nonprofit - the second link in the email I >

GNOME track at Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit

2010-01-20 Thread Stormy Peters
The Linux Foundation has offered to host a GNOME track at the Collaboration Summit. Is anyone interested in coordinating that? Stormy Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit Held in conjunction with the CELF Embedded Linux Conference and hosted by platinum sponsors IBM and Intel. Additional sponsor

GNOME Presentations

2010-01-17 Thread Stormy Peters
At the GNOME Marketing Hackfest we talked about creating GNOME presentation materials[1] that everyone can use. The idea is to create 5-10 minute segments on different topics. We want to make them all with the same slideset template so they can be easily combined. Here's the list of segments. Fee

Re: Accepting donations from mobile phones

2010-01-15 Thread Stormy Peters
> Bharat Kapoor > > > > > > > > *From:* stormy.pet...@gmail.com [mailto:stormy.pet...@gmail.com] *On > Behalf Of *Stormy Peters > *Sent:* Friday, January 15, 2010 12:49 PM > *To:* Bharat Kapoor > *Cc:* GNOME Marketing List > *Subject:* Re: Accepting donati

Re: Accepting donations from mobile phones

2010-01-15 Thread Stormy Peters
went thru someone whit > a Gnome email address (I dont have one). If you think that will not be > an issue I'd be happy to send the mail and followup on this process. > > Best Regards > Bharat > > > On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 12:15 PM, Stormy Peters wrote: > >

Accepting donations from mobile phones

2010-01-15 Thread Stormy Peters
Today I saw this article: http://www.frogloop.com/care2blog/2010/1/15/nonprofits-time-to-get-mobile.html Which points to this nonprofit service that covers the fees and passes on 100% of the donations: (no fees!) http://www.mobilegiving.org/ >From their FAQ and guidelines, it looks like GNOME mo

Re: Communicating to users what GNOME 3.0 is

2010-01-15 Thread Stormy Peters
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 6:30 AM, Paul Cutler wrote: > On 01/15/2010 06:50 AM, Diego Escalante Urrelo wrote: > > El vie, 15-01-2010 a las 13:44 +0100, Andre Klapper escribió: > >> > >> As with every change, there's a lot of confusion and sometimes wrong > >> press about it (after reading some comm

Re: Communicating to users what GNOME 3.0 is

2010-01-15 Thread Stormy Peters
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 4:24 AM, Vincent Untz wrote: > Hi Stormy, > > Le mercredi 13 janvier 2010, à 10:28 -0700, Stormy Peters a écrit : > > I've heard quite a few concerns from very happy users that GNOME 3.0 is > all > > about GNOME Shell and will force them to

Re: GNOME Store Update?

2010-01-14 Thread Stormy Peters
ed, Jan 13, 2010 at 4:01 PM, Andreas Nilsson wrote: > Hi Stormy! > They are on the frontpage of http://www.zazzle.com/gnome > - Andreas > > On 01/13/2010 11:56 PM, Stormy Peters wrote: > > I can help with something like product names. Do you have a picture of them > or a

Re: GNOME Store Update?

2010-01-14 Thread Stormy Peters
t; On 01/13/2010 11:56 PM, Stormy Peters wrote: > > I can help with something like product names. Do you have a picture of them > or a url? > > Stormy > > On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 3:52 PM, Andreas Nilsson wrote: > >> On 01/12/2010 02:39 AM, Paul Cutler wrote: >> >

Re: GNOME Store Update?

2010-01-13 Thread Stormy Peters
I can help with something like product names. Do you have a picture of them or a url? Stormy On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 3:52 PM, Andreas Nilsson wrote: > On 01/12/2010 02:39 AM, Paul Cutler wrote: > >> Can you give us an update on the GNOME Store and what's left to be done? >> Are there any speci

Welcome to Google Grants!

2010-01-13 Thread Stormy Peters
Whoo-hoo! Our Google Grants application was approved! As a reminder, Google Grants allows us to advertise through Google AdWords. It's basically like a grant of advertising money. Thanks to Claus Schwarm for his help in filling out the application. I will work on the next steps later this week or

Fwd: Gnome Community Invited to FOSS Nigeria 2010

2010-01-13 Thread Stormy Peters
If you are interested in representing GNOME, please speak up! One of our goals this year is to work more closely with developing nations to bring the benefits of a free desktop to their citizens, so I think it's important we participate in these types of events. Stormy -- Forwarded messa

Re: Message of support following the earthquake in Haiti

2010-01-13 Thread Stormy Peters
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 1:59 PM, Andre Klapper wrote: > Am Mittwoch, den 13.01.2010, 12:25 -0700 schrieb Guy Lunardi: > > Should the foundation consider sending a brief message of support > > regarding the earthquake in Haiti? > > Playing the bad cop here: If we started doing this, what is the >

Communicating to users what GNOME 3.0 is

2010-01-13 Thread Stormy Peters
I've heard quite a few concerns from very happy users that GNOME 3.0 is all about GNOME Shell and will force them to use GNOME Shell. For example, see this thread that a Friend of GNOME sent me: http://gnomesupport.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=13782. I think we need to counter this with a "What is G

Fwd: Invitation for GNOME to Texas Linux Fest

2010-01-12 Thread Stormy Peters
Anybody willing to host the GNOME booth at the Texas Linux Fest? Anybody know a GNOME supporter in the Texas area that they'd be willing to nominate for this? Anybody want to see Austin and take this one? Stormy -- Forwarded message -- From: Nathan Willis Date: Mon, Jan 11, 201

Fwd: Educational Technology Day 2010 at Ithaca College

2010-01-12 Thread Stormy Peters
Ithaca College is having an Educational Technology Day. If someone from GNOME was interested in representing GNOME there with a booth, I'd be happy to approach them about getting a nonprofit discount on the vendor price ... Stormy Original Message Subject: Educational Technol

Re: Friends Gnome: thanks in the code

2010-01-12 Thread Stormy Peters
We talked about something similar to this in the marketing hackfest. It'd display thanks in the about dialogs of the different pieces of GNOME. The Miro project has a program where you can adopt a line of code: https://www.getmiro.com/adopt/ Stormy On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 10:19 PM, Valessio Brito

New Press Team Lead!

2010-01-07 Thread Stormy Peters
I'm excited to announce that Joe 'Zonker" Brockmeier is our new GNOME press team lead! Zonker has a lot of experience working with the press (and being the press :). He's also already been doing the role of press team lead - he coordinated and wrote the GUADEC 2010 press release and is working on

Re: Friends of GNOME goals (& IRC meeting)

2010-01-06 Thread Stormy Peters
HI Bharat, On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 5:31 PM, Bharat Kapoor <3.kap...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Can we make it easy for people to signup for monthly deduction thru > their credit card or checking acct and they can remove themselves from > their profile page whenever they feel. > Through Friends of GNOM

Re: Gnome Foundation Ad On FSF Endorsed Network

2010-01-06 Thread Stormy Peters
or an ad in January, but if > you can get me something in the next week or two we can put it in the > queue to be displayed in February... > > Thanks, > -Jeremy > > On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 12:06 -0700, Stormy Peters wrote: > > Marketing list folks, > > > > Can

Re: Friends of GNOME goals (& IRC meeting)

2010-01-05 Thread Stormy Peters
On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 11:15 AM, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier wrote: > > First observation, this page needs to be updated: > http://www.gnome.org/friends/ > > Says 2008, obviously we're looking at 2009 donations now. (Sidebar) > Jaap, can you help us? > > We're asking people to give $10 or more per m

Re: Friends of GNOME goals (& IRC meeting)

2010-01-05 Thread Stormy Peters
09 at 2:13 PM, Stormy Peters wrote: > While putting together the 2010 budget with German (which will be made > public after a period of review by the advisory board), we put in a > goal of 10 new monthly subscribers a month. That would be 120 new > subscribers by the end of the

Re: CRM setup: need your review

2010-01-04 Thread Stormy Peters
On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 8:56 AM, Jeff Schroeder wrote: > On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 7:33 AM, Stormy Peters wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 4:02 AM, Dave Neary wrote: > >> > >> At least in my mind, the data in Mango would be useful for our CRM, but

Re: CRM setup: need your review

2010-01-04 Thread Stormy Peters
Help needed! I am working on setting this up in CiviCRM but I could really use some help. If anybody knows how to use CiviCRM or would like to learn more or is just willing to help, I would very much appreciate it. Thanks, Stormy On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 12:54 PM, Stormy Peters wrote: >

Re: CRM setup: need your review

2010-01-04 Thread Stormy Peters
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 4:02 AM, Dave Neary wrote: > > At least in my mind, the data in Mango would be useful for our CRM, but > would only be part of the data we need. Other people going into the CRM > include representatives of other organisations, companies, partners and > potential partners w

Fwd: [Womeninfreesoftware] LibrePlanet Conference scheduled for March 19th-21st!

2009-12-22 Thread Stormy Peters
FYI, another fundraising tactic. FSF is providing travel sponsorship to the person who brings in the most donations. Stormy -- Forwarded message -- From: Deborah Nicholson Date: Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 12:35 PM Subject: [Womeninfreesoftware] LibrePlanet Conference scheduled for Mar

Re: Gnome Foundation Ad On FSF Endorsed Network

2009-12-18 Thread Stormy Peters
2.2009 14:46, schrieb Stormy Peters: > > That's a very good point. They are our target audience. We could do > > something simple like "Become a Friend of GNOME" or "Support GNOME". > > > > What type of offer were you thinking? Stickers and tshirts are the

Re: Friends of Eclipse

2009-12-18 Thread Stormy Peters
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 6:21 AM, sankarshan wrote: > > I am sorry I could not comprehend the question. What I intended to > convey that perhaps the Marketing team could create a 10 USD > contribution aimed at students. The usual question that crops up is > "how do we know that they are students",

Re: Gnome Foundation Ad On FSF Endorsed Network

2009-12-18 Thread Stormy Peters
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 6:41 AM, Patrick Fey wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > . Wouldn't it be a better idea, if we did a Friends of > GNOME ad? The community that AdBard serves seems to be exactly our > target audience for FoG. We could maybe combine that with a special > offer for n

Re: Gnome Foundation Ad On FSF Endorsed Network

2009-12-17 Thread Stormy Peters
e time if we we want this banner to >> incorporate that idea. >> >> >> >> On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 1:06 PM, Stormy Peters wrote: >> >>> Marketing list folks, >>> >>> Can somebody help put together the ad? >>> >>> I believ

Re: Gnome Foundation Ad On FSF Endorsed Network

2009-12-17 Thread Stormy Peters
Marketing list folks, Can somebody help put together the ad? I believe we have some slogans from the marketing hackfest and I'm happy to work with someone but I need some art team/design help! Stormy On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 12:51 AM, Jeremy Andrews wrote: > On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 23:49 -0800, Sr

Re: Braille printing for conferences - connection with Guadec?

2009-12-17 Thread Stormy Peters
ot;built in" versus >>>>>> "bolted on", the GNOME Accessibility project has helped lead the >>>>>> industry in accessible design. From the accessibility infrastructure, >>>>>> to >>>>>> the graphical toolkit,

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