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 fiscal year 2010!
Does this sound reasonable to everyone? If
FYI, there are 116 tweets on Twitter that point to the GNOME release notes.
http://topsy.com/tb/library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/2.28/
Stormy
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 4:57 AM, Lucas Rocha luc...@gnome.org wrote:
Hi,
2009/9/24 Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org:
Awesome!
I added some
FYI, I got feedback from two different people today (one journalist and one
a new Friends of GNOME subscriber) that we need to show which distros ship
with GNOME.
Our new website will address this.
Just wanted to pass on the feedback that confirms we're doing good work!
Keep it up!
Stormy
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members think?
Thanks,
Pockey
On Fri, 2009-09-18 at 21:12 -0600, Stormy Peters wrote:
Get Freedom with GNOME?
Stormy
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 8:07 PM, Pockey Lam
poc...@beijinglug.org wrote
I think we should do a press release.
Have you started one? Do you need my help? I've got some time ...
I'm sure between the quotes you got and the release notes you wrote we have
enough content. We can then send the release notes and the press release to
press.
How about the other folks on the
technologies provide a foundation for mobile
applications from tablets to cellular phones.
Media Enquiries
- GNOME Foundation Executive Director
Stormy Peters
Email: gnome-press-cont...@gnome.org gnome-press-contact%40gnome.org
Phone: +1-617-206-3947
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 3
I’m going to be in Tokyo around that time,
unfortunately.
On 9/17/09 9:16 AM, Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org 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
I like both ideas.
Snappy, funny phrases are not necessarily my strength, but here are
some to get people going: (Borrowing from the release notes ...)
* GNOME 2.28 - supported by Friends of GNOME
* GNOME has more friends than ever - join with GNOME 2.28
* Become unwired - Bluetooth in GNOME
The Get unwired theme from the release notes is good. Could we
expand that to include things from Empathy like the desktop sharing?
Stormy
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 10:08 AM, Paul Cutler pcut...@gnome.org wrote:
I would consider major themes for users to be:
* Bluetooth (first time module is
the Academia wiki page to the GnomeUni page. So my
question is what do I do next?
Regards
Shane Fagan
On Wed, 2009-09-16 at 14:15 -0600, Stormy Peters wrote:
Hi Shane,
Great. Thanks for getting this going!
I was thinking. Perhaps we could add some of the speakers from the
GNOME speakers page
I like Built to Share. (Sounds like built to last.)
Stormy
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Paul Cutler pcut...@gnome.org wrote:
Good point. Or Built for Sharing / Built to Share
Just one idea, let's hear some more!
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 1:43 PM, Andre Klapper ak...@gmx.net wrote:
page. So my
question is what do I do next?
Regards
Shane Fagan
On Wed, 2009-09-16 at 14:15 -0600, Stormy Peters wrote:
Hi Shane,
Great. Thanks for getting this going!
I was thinking. Perhaps we could add some of the speakers from the
GNOME speakers page and then send it out to some
, QA, and generally have fun
together.
Please join the GNOME community in celebrating the achievements the
free software world has made.
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 10:26 AM, Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org wrote:
Let's just drop the openSUSE part. That'll give us a nice round 3.
Fedora, Ubuntu
I don't like having the Amazon logo on our home page. We don't have
anyone else's logo there.
I am ok with the text and link.
Stormy
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 8:40 AM, Paul Cutler pcut...@gnome.org wrote:
+1 from me.
Let's get one more from the marketing team before making the change.
Paul
this has been on my radar was a blog post I read a year
ago that took us to task for not doing something like this.
Paul
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 8:34 AM, Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org wrote:
On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 9:27 AM, Paul Cutler pcut...@gnome.org wrote:
* Press Release for Software
I vote for Freedom with GNOME.
My second choice would be something with a subtitle. Discover GNOME:
Your Free Desktop. I'm not sure I'd use the word accessible in the
title. At least in English it's not an easy word to say.
And obviously I'd like to defer to people that know the local language
Let's just drop the openSUSE part. That'll give us a nice round 3.
Fedora, Ubuntu and OpenSolaris.
Stormy
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Alex Hudson h...@alexhudson.com wrote:
On 18/09/09 17:22, Lucas Rocha wrote:
Can we say it is the default desktop environment in openSUSE? Not sure.
, but any 1 word means the same? :)
Thanks,
Pockey
On Fri, 2009-09-18 at 10:24 -0600, Stormy Peters wrote:
I vote for Freedom with GNOME.
My second choice would be something with a subtitle. Discover GNOME:
Your Free Desktop. I'm not sure I'd use the word accessible in the
title. At least
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 pcut...@gnome.org wrote:
I would recommend calling out people in the new quarterly reports, maybe as
it's own
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 7:01 PM, Brian Cameron brian.came...@sun.comwrote:
Stormy:
How do we encourage people to write recommendations? Could we do some
sort of Pass it on campaign? A few of us could write
recommendations and then ask the people we recommended to pass it
on by
Hi Shane,
Great. Thanks for getting this going!
I was thinking. Perhaps we could add some of the speakers from the GNOME
speakers page and then send it out to some university folks. For example,
the HFOSS.org folks worked with GNOME last summer and they have a lot of
university contacts. Also
I really like this idea. More and more employers are looking for potential
employees on LinkedIn.
I wonder if we could do this by:
(1) Having people update their wiki page on live.gnome.org.
(2) Having other people vouch for that work on the wiki and also put that
voucher on LinkedIn.
If
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From:rohan.chan...@utoronto.ca
Date: Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 12:29 PM
Subject: U of T Computer Science Student Union
To: sto...@gnome.org
Hi Stormy Peters,
I am a representative of the Computer Science Student Union at the
University of Toronto. The CSSU is responsible
I was asked to submit a talk to ABLEConf[1] and was wondering if someone
from GNOME was planning (or interested) in representing GNOME.
It's in Arizona on October 24th.
Stormy
http://ableconf.com/node/30
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Hi Jaap,
That's really too bad. Did they give any more details?
Stormy
On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Jaap A. Haitsma j...@haitsma.org wrote:
Hi,
I was contacted by the people of iHeartMiro and they said that Amazon
disabled their account because according to Amazon it violated their
Welcome to the team!
If you have ideas, please feel free to bring them up. And jump in on
anything that looks interesting!
Stormy
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Shane Fagan shanepatrickfa...@ubuntu.comwrote:
Hi,
Im Shane Fagan and I want to help out with Gnome marketing. Well ill
start off
I met with Denise last week and she pointed out:
- It's very hard to tell what GNOME is from our web pages. If you don't
know when you land on gnome.org, you aren't likely to figure it out. An
easy to understand desktop doesn't really mean anything to non desktop/OS
developers. When
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Alberto Ruiz ar...@gnome.org wrote:
Good point, and I actually think that old users don't use
www.gnome.org that much, so we should prioritize the I know pretty
much nothing about GNOME user case. However, easy to reach pointers
for other possible audiences
Student Union
To: sto...@gnome.org
Hi Stormy Peters,
I am a representative of the Computer Science Student Union at the
University of Toronto. The CSSU is responsible for representing the greater
interests of the computer science student body at the University of Toronto.
As such we at the CSSU would
On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Jaap A. Haitsma j...@haitsma.org wrote:
I never worked on it, so I don't know
Stormy shall I change the check page to the amounts and levels as on
the index page?
That'd be great. Thanks for all your work on these pages.
Stormy
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posted some of the graphs on the Foundation blog:
http://blogs.gnome.org/foundation/2009/09/05/friends-of-gnome-august-2009-update/
Stormy
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 5:56 PM, Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org wrote:
The July data is posted:
http://live.gnome.org/action/AttachFile/GnomeMarketing/Tasks
On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 5:18 PM, Jaap A. Haitsma j...@haitsma.org wrote:
Done. The changes are live now
Awesome. Thanks.
Are you going to publish the august results of the donations soon
The results are on the wiki. I haven't blogged it yet on the Foundation.
Stormy
Jaap
On Thu, Sep
I think it's ok to leave the program at $10 or more and yet make the default
$25.
Stormy
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 2:25 AM, Jaap A. Haitsma j...@haitsma.org wrote:
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 19:50, Stormy Peterssto...@gnome.org wrote:
Guy, Jaap,
Thanks so much for enabling people to sign up
How goes it?
Are you waiting for info? Can we run with what's available online?
Stormy
On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Roberto Galoppini
roberto.galopp...@gmail.com wrote:
2009/8/28 Paul Cutler pcut...@gnome.org:
Yes, we are on the public marketing list. :)
Thanks Andre for the
On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 15:29 -0600, Stormy Peters wrote:
Anybody like to take this on? Maybe when you click on monthly,
there's
a link that says different amounts and that takes you to a
page with
different amounts. (I'm not the ui designer though!)
Thanks
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
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
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 8:53 AM, Paul Cutler pcut...@gnome.org wrote:
There was a question regarding installation for CRM - are we set on
SugarCRM as the solution, or has there been discussion about other solutions
such as CivicCRM? I don't know if we've discussed CRM requirements or not.
,,,Thank you for all, continue!
If I have an idea
well, it should be to continue pushing one new GNOME-software for each release. I find this great to prove that GNOME is moving! We have seen cheese, empathy, now brasero
what's the next?
Again thanks a
2009/04/24,I am happy to see Stormy Peters
and the GNOME desktop.
Thanks in advance for supporting our 2010 initiatives.
Best,
Stormy
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 3:42 AM, Claus Schwarm clschw...@googlemail.comwrote:
On Tue, 2009-08-11 at 18:38 -0600, Stormy Peters wrote:
Hi GNOME Marketing Team,
At the Advisory Board meeting
http://www.fsf.org/news/summit-on-women-in-free-software
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Hi GNOME Marketing Team,
At the Advisory Board meeting at GUADEC we discussed raising advisory board
fees. I took the action item to discuss it with this list and to come up
with some messaging for existing advisory board members.
I'd welcome any and all feedback on how best to explain and
! Be an official GNOME speaker.
Stormy
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org wrote:
Don't forget to add any talks you are giving to the GNOME calendar and
events page:
- http://live.gnome.org/GnomeEvents
- *
http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src
GNOME Marketing team,
I'd like to introduce a new member to the group.
Denise Walters is a friend of mine who worked with me at HP. She worked on
the Linux and Open Source Marketing team there and before that she wrote
technical documentation. She has 10 years of experience documenting Debian
Anne brought up the idea of having customer success stories at the marketing
BOF and Guy made an awesome offer, if we could come up with two, he'd offer
two from Novell.
Denise has agreed to work on them. So we need to figure out what our other
two should be. (We can do more than 4, we should
Don't forget to add any talks you are giving to the GNOME calendar and
events page:
- http://live.gnome.org/GnomeEvents
- *
The Linux Foundation now has a credit card with a penguin picture that earns
them $50 when it's set up and then a percentage of all spending after that.
http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=4577
I don't think we should necessarily get a GNOME credit card. I'm sending
this around because I think
It's done!
I applied for Google Grants this morning. The confirmation page said it
might take six months to hear back. I'll keep you all posted.
Stormy
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 9:07 AM, Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org wrote:
Thanks, Claus!
I think that looks really good. I'll review again
Cat told me it'd take 6 months ...
Stormy
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 9:29 AM, Behdad Esfahbod beh...@behdad.org wrote:
Nice!
Time to ping Leslie now :P
behdad
On 07/30/2009 11:20 AM, Stormy Peters wrote:
It's done!
I applied for Google Grants this morning. The confirmation page said
, Jul 30, 2009 at 9:14 AM
Subject: Re: Friends of GNOME
To: Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org
Hi Stormy,
Nice touch with the e-mail actually. It is nice to see a human behind all
of this instead of the automated beast that is PayPal. It really took a bit
to find out how to cancel the subscriptions
are so important - that's the
only number that held steady.
I think we could use a Friends of GNOME campaign to encourage people to sign
up and to get their friends to sign up ...
Stormy
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org wrote:
Ignore this for now.
Numbers
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 7:13 AM, Paul Cutler pcut...@gnome.org wrote:
June data is out, and subscriptions went way down:
http://blogs.gnome.org/foundation/2009/07/21/friends-of-gnome-update-3/
I thought it was interesting that subscriptions was the same (100) for May
and June.
In addition
Can we call it GNOME laptops? Are you ready for me to push this via
twitter or do you want me to hold off?
Stormy
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Jaap A. Haitsma j...@haitsma.org wrote:
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 13:04, Stormy Peterssto...@gnome.org wrote:
Very cool, Jaap. I like it. (And it
Thanks!
Can I suggest a minor word change? We should include the word Donate
prominently since that's what people might be looking for.
Donate to help support the GNOME Foundation's goal to provide a free
desktop for all users - become a Friend of GNOME
or
Donate - help support the GNOME
things. :)
Paul
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 4:52 PM, Andreas Nilsson nisses.m...@home.se
wrote:
On 07/21/2009 11:31 PM, Stormy Peters wrote:
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Andre Klapper ak...@gmx.net wrote:
Am Dienstag, den 21.07.2009, 14:47 -0600 schrieb Stormy Peters:
Donate
The latest Friends of GNOME numbers are on the wiki,
http://live.gnome.org/action/AttachFile/GnomeMarketing/Tasks/FriendsOfGNOME?action=AttachFile
As you can see, while we had a good April and a terrific May, June numbers
are way down. It underscores why subscriptions are so important - that's
I think Lucas and Vincent maintain Planet GNOME. I assume that means they
can install extensions for blogs.gnome.org.
Stormy
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 12:45 AM, Jaap A. Haitsma j...@haitsma.org wrote:
Hi,
By installing the following extension on your blog you can make sure
that all links to
amazon.com it's already useful.
Cheers,
Dave.
Stormy Peters wrote:
Thanks, Jaap!
On amazon.com http://amazon.com we have friendofgnome-20
https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/gp/associates/network/your-account/manage-tracking-ids.html?ie=UTF8idbox%5Ftracking%5Fid=friendofgnome
I can provide our tax id and address to anyone who can help.
Stormy
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Dave Neary dne...@gnome.org wrote:
Hi,
Stormy Peters wrote:
I created accounts in:
http://affiliate-program.amazon.co.uk, friendofgnome-21
http://associates.amazon.ca, friendofgnome06
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 4:45 PM, Jaap A. Haitsma j...@haitsma.org wrote:
Number 1 we can over come by asking people to install an amazon gnome
search engine and remove the other search engine, but I think that's
cumbersome for most users.
I think we should tell people how though on the
I'd like to send a note to the advisory board that lists all the relevant
Desktop Summit blog posts and in particular calls out those that highlight
KDE/GNOME cooperation, like this one:
FYI, a nice summary of crossdesktop BoFs can also be found in
Thanks! Very nice work.
Can you make sure it gets circulated among GUADEC-ES attendees and other
Spanish speaking GNOME groups?
Thanks!
Stormy
On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Alberto Ruiz ar...@gnome.org wrote:
Hello marketing list,
greetings from the art contribution workshop on
Thanks, Jaap!
On amazon.com we have
friendofgnome-20https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/gp/associates/network/your-account/manage-tracking-ids.html?ie=UTF8idbox%5Ftracking%5Fid=friendofgnome-20tracking%5Fid%5Fsearchterm=(in
addition to others). I'll work on the other accounts the week after
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 5:00 AM, Dave Neary dne...@gnome.org wrote:
*
*Releases* - roadmapping http://live.gnome.org/RoadMap, release
notes http://live.gnome.org/ReleaseNotes and coordination with
the Release Team
What about fundraising campaigns, like Friends of GNOME?
Stormy
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 9:24 PM, Paul Cutler pcut...@gnome.org wrote:
Hi Marketing Team!
Did you know we have a Mission page for the Marketing team? (We definitely
need to re-organize these wiki pages, there are some gems
* Call for artwork
* Review and approve artwork for merchandise
* Pick merchandise for sale
* Launch store (and market it)
Paul
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org wrote:
We're good to move forward with the Zazzle store (from a board perspective
and a legal
Where's the draft that we should review?
Stormy
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 8:23 AM, Claus Schwarm clschw...@googlemail.comwrote:
Short status report: I think, I imported most of the available
information from old drafts and www.gnome.org (wgo) by now. Now we'd
need to fill the gaps and fix
Paul, thanks for putting all this together!
Additional goals I think we should add for 2009:
- Talking points for the current release for people working a GNOME
booth. (This could be part of the press kit.)
- Brochure on what GNOME is, how to get it and how to participate. (This
just picked the pieces
he needed.
Maybe we should (or could) do more. However, Lucas asked for feasible
goals. If we find the resources to do more goals, we can still add them
later. Better safe then sorry.
Best regards,
Claus
On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 11:11 -0600, Stormy Peters wrote:
What
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 8:30 AM, Patrick Fey ins...@nachtarbeiter.netwrote:
while it would be ideal to be notified by the various groups beforehand,
it will not always happen, because people tend to forget these things. A
more proactive approach would be for the marketing team to monitor the
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 10:32 AM, Patrick Fey ins...@nachtarbeiter.netwrote:
Of course, we would also need to work on compiling a set of flyers and
marketing materials for FoG and GNOME in general as Stormy suggested.
Stormy, is there some kind of overview about the various marketing
Hi David,
Welcome to the team!
There's quite a few tasks that could use owners or just contributions.
If you like helping with merchandising, we'd like to set up a GNOME store on
Zazzle.
If you like creating material, we need a press kit, brochures to hand out at
conferences, talking points,
The Google page should be ignored at this point.
Stormy
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Olav Vitters o...@bkor.dhs.org wrote:
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 07:22:04AM +0200, Jaap A. Haitsma wrote:
I guess that is disabled on live.gnome.org or the version on
live.gnome.org is too old. You could
I agree that blog posts should be mandatory. If we didn't require it before
we approved, we should strongly encourage.
At least one of the sponsors specifically asked me to encourage people to
blog the event. (In particular, they wanted to see the benefit of the
co-located Akademy/GUADEC.)
What did we sent to him?
I think we can and should do much more than we do for typical releases. (I
think we should do more for typical releases too.)
Stormy
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 6:35 AM, Claus Schwarm clschw...@googlemail.comwrote:
Well, there's not much to say about it, really. My
I think we should talk about the role of open source software (and GNOME) on
new types of devices like netbooks, phones, GPSes, etc.
Stormy
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Dave Neary dne...@gnome.org wrote:
Hi all,
There is a call for content currently open for the Open World Forum, which
On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 11:35 AM, Simos Xenitellis
simos.li...@googlemail.com wrote:
Regarding the GNOME e-mail alias, I think it would be better to have
something '@friend.gnome.org' instead of '@friendofgnome.org'. The
latter disassociates a lot from gnome.org.
I like @friend.gnome.org a
There was no active moderator on the marketing list and I think the sys
admin team just corrected that. (Yeah!)
Stormy
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Brian Cameron brian.came...@sun.comwrote:
Paul:
Brian, I show this as sent May, 15th:
Ah, yes, I see that now. Sorry for the noise.
We should do press releases on things like this:
http://blogs.gnome.org/mr/2009/06/19/lanedo-sponsors-gnome-at-linuxtag/
Any idea how best to find out about them before hand?
Stormy
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I'd be happy to help but I need to be added.
Thanks,
Stormy
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 8:20 AM, Vincent Untz vu...@gnome.org wrote:
Le lundi 14 juillet 2008, à 13:00 +0200, Olav Vitters a écrit :
On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 10:37:06PM +0200, Vincent Untz wrote:
Yeah, we discussed this with
.
Take care,
nicholas
On May 11, 2009, at 9:54 AM, Stormy Peters wrote:
Hi Nicholas,
The Linux Foundation recently did a Linux video contest and the GNOME
Foundation is talking about creating a series of videos and maybe doing a
contest. We had a long debate about formats, publishing
Anybody have any feedback for Jay on whether or not the following tutorials
will be useful to us? (I assume the tutorials will be viewable remotely.)
On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 8:29 PM, Jay dedman jay.ded...@gmail.com wrote:
Hey Stormy--
Just following up to see if you had any further ideas on
I'm not sure the marketing list is the right place for this but I thought of
it because it looks like a great marketing to new developers tool ...
I wonder if we could work with some of our partner companies to offer a 3
month online course on GNOME technologies. We could have different guest
I think this is a problem that will have to be solved with all the distros
in a room. Unless we come up with a solution that is so elegant end-users
just use it.
Saying we shouldn't do an installer because each distro is different, is
ignoring a user problem. apt-get and yum are beyond the
I think we need an installer - for Linux and for Windows.
And I think there's interest from several distributions to have an
application install solution so if we were willing to create one (or a plan
for one), I think we might be able to find resources to put behind it.
Stormy
On Sun, Jun 14,
I will work at dividing all the benefits into different levels of
sponsorship on a wiki page when I get back from vacation. (I will be back on
the 24th.)
I'll try to have it on the wiki by GUADEC so we can point people at it and
get feedback and have conversations in person with existing or
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 4:09 AM, Dave Neary dne...@gnome.org wrote:
I am proposing that we in no way create any appearance of a link between
sponsoring the GNOME Foundation and being on the advisory board. They're not
the same thing.
A note. It's quite common for nonprofits to require that
Thanks, Claus!
I think that looks really good. I'll review again and apply when I get back
from vacation. (I get back the 24th.)
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 9:01 AM, Claus Schwarm clschw...@googlemail.comwrote:
* Waiting 6 months for feedback is a long time, during which we may
change the
I'm not sure the marketing list is the right place for this but I thought of
it because it looks like a great marketing to new developers tool ...
I wonder if we could work with some of our partner companies to offer a 3
month online course on GNOME technologies. We could have different guest
regards,
Claus
On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 16:54 -0600, Stormy Peters wrote:
I'm happy to hold off if someone will have time to work on this later.
But if not, I'll just wordsmith and cut it down and submit it. I have
to admit I fall much closer to the just get it done side
On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Jaap A. Haitsma j...@haitsma.org wrote:
Hi Stormy,
I like this idea of having Premium GNOME Foundations sponsorship
In my opinion it would be best to have this as an extra option for
companies
I'd start with revising the standard sponsorship fees by having
On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Brian Cameron brian.came...@sun.com wrote:
Jaap:
* travel vouchers for x number of employees to attend GUADEC or hackfests
I don't see why we would ask them for sponsoring if afterwards we give
the money (or at least a signifcant part of it) back
I get the Paypal notifications. (As does Rosanna.) I'll let everyone know as
soon as we get a taker!
Stormy
On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 2:21 AM, Jaap A. Haitsma j...@haitsma.org wrote:
Hi,
I've just pushed a change to http://www.gnome.org/friends that says
that there is a special prize for the
I wrote an article about how the GNOME Foundation works in OSBR:
http://www.osbr.ca/ojs/index.php/osbr/article/view/883/853
It can be reprinte/reuse elsewhere as long as we include a link to the
original article on OSBR. (I don't know if you'd want to use it or a version
of it in GNOME Journal,
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From: Germán Póo-Caamaño g...@gnome.org
To: marketing-list@gnome.org
Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:29:18 -0400
Subject: Promoting Gnome Foundation trough sponsored people
Just two ideas:
Besides the sponsorship given (travel airfare and/or accommodation), we
should in my opinion have a Support GNOME
badge
Good idea. I'll add that to my list for next week. (Or as soon as I
have a decent network connection.)
Thanks again for reviewing the spreadsheet and catching all this.
Stormy
On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 18:24, Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org wrote
I think the ad offer will be attractive to large companies looking to hire
OSS developers or influence their purchasing decisions.
I'm interested to see how much goes to the website owners.
I think they'll be able to attract plenty of OSS developers blogs to
advertise on.
Behdad, are you
Here's the mail where Dave Neary did a back of the napkin calculation about
how many users we have:
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/marketing-list/2008-September/msg00086.html
Stormz
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 12:14 AM, Claus Schwarm clschw...@googlemail.comwrote:
Sort of.
I collect data for
I ordered a polo shirt from them on May 4th and it arrived at its
destination last week. The order process was terrible but the polo shirt is
reportedly very nice.
Stormy
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 8:35 PM, Behdad Esfahbod beh...@behdad.org wrote:
Hi,
I tried ordering GNOME stuff from
Thanks, Paul!
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 4:31 PM, Paul Cutler pcut...@foresightlinux.orgwrote:
Thanks to everyone on the marketing list, but especially Stormy, Lucas and
Claus for helping with this, and helping me bring it together.
The original pages to be included in the wgo revamp can be
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