Marketing Team:
One thing that I think the GNOME Foundation is not very good about doing is promoting those people who volunteer their time to the project. I think it would help encourage people to participate in the GNOME project if the GNOME community was better able to promote Foundation members and make sure that the good work they do is recognized. To improve this, the GNOME Foundation could do a better job of providing information about who in the community has what responsibilities and perhaps some evaluation of each person's work. This could be useful to volunteers who have an interest in using such references when seeking a job, for example. Perhaps a way to manage this would be to make better use of social networking sites like LinkedIn. Perhaps the GNOME community could have a better process for ensuring that volunteers are recognized in such sites for the work they do by making sure that people have official titles for their responsibilities that they can list on such websites. Some roles in the community, such as that of board members, members of teams like the release team, and module maintainers have some degree of an "official title", but I'd think this could be more formalized and there are probably many roles within the community that haven't been given any official title. If we encouraged people in the community, especially people who have official titles to provide "Recommendations" for others when they do volunteer work, this would be one way that the community could make sure that people get such recognition. But this is just a suggestion, I'm sure that we could find many ways to do more to ensure that people involved in our community are recognized for their efforts. I think it is especially important to ensure that those who volunteer their time are recognized in this sort of way. Thoughts? Brian -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list