On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 3:04 AM, Fabiana Simões <fabianapsim...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi there, > > On 4 March 2014 09:47, Sriram Ramkrishna <s...@ramkrishna.me> wrote: >> I was planning on doing 1:1 correspondance. I had actually looked >> into buying cookies with teh GNOME logo on it as an ice breaker. I >> got that idea from a gal who works at a bakery and was waiting at an >> airport heading back to Portland. > > That sounds like a lovely idea :) I guess we won't have time to put it > in practice for SXSW, but maybe next time?
Yeah, I did try to do it early but the lady didn't come back to me. It would ahve cost me $78 dollars to have 24 cookies with the GNOME logo on it (minimum). > >> Karen thought that getting some fliers printed out is a good first >> step and give them out at concerts and what not. > > Is this sorted out? Do you need any help? > I'm working on it, Karen and I had a call yesterday and we worked out some action items: * Poster for the event * we decided not to do business cards, and isntead we will try to get people's contact addresses and follow up * I'm two minds for the fliers, but I think I might print if I have time. Otherwise, I'll try to do something in Austin to print them out. * We need the engagement team to start tweeting about GNOME's presence at SXSW, definitely try to tweet about Karen's talk at SXSW. I'll be doing some of that as well. * I created an account at SXSW, and tried to plugin to the social scene, but I didn't really get anywhere. Everything required some amount of money. You can easily blow about 5K on this conference * Attending like minded talks on Saturday (Sri), and also try to find other communities that know about community management, outreach, and/or marketing >> Maybe we could get the engagement team to do some twitter >> stuff using the #sxsw hashtag? > > What do you have in mind exactly? Would be happy to give a hand with that! > So on Friday, let's start tweeting about GNOME at #sxsw, and also talk about Karen's talk as well. We can all try to re-tweet as many times as we can. Tweet about the GNOME event on Saturday at the Muddys(?) which is near the conference center. Get people to retweet that. > Are there any talks or events should keep an idea on? I'm not really > familiar with the schedule. > There are some good talks, and Karen and suggest one other talk from the EFF I believe I can't remember. http://sxsw.com/schedule http://schedule.sxsw.com/?conference=interactive The sheer number of talks will boggle your mind! We must plan for next year and talk about UX, GNOME, and Free Software. This will be a great place to do that kind of outreach. >> But honestly, the outreach to get GNOME's name out is not the only >> driver. We are also looking to see how other orthogonal >> organizations do community outreach, or work with others. I'm looking >> for ideas that we could apply to our community that has worked >> successfully in others. Something different. Something fresh. > > Yeah, SXSW definitely sounds like a good field for some research. > Looking forward to hear your insights when you're both back :) > It sure is! :) sri > - Fabiana _______________________________________________ engagement-list mailing list engagement-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/engagement-list
