2009/8/30 Jaap A. Haitsma <j...@haitsma.org>: > Hi, > > I think I now have the GNOME Amazon stores is such a shape that we can > start advertising them. > Please go to: > http://www.gnome.org/friends/amazon/ > and take a look or even better buy something. To make it easy every > store has a searchplugin which you can install in firefox. Just click > on the dropdown of the search engines and you can add it.
I wonder if it's worth publicizing so outdated books, buying those would be a total waste of time.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 related books. > > I've also released version 1.0 of GNOME Amazon Firefox add-on here > https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/13182/ > It's still needs to be reviewed by addons.mozilla.org but you can > already use it. > > That extension automatically puts in the friend of gnome referal code, > if there is none yet. So if you want to make sure that a percentage of > what you buy goes to the GNOME foundation you better check that > tag=friendofgnome-xx (where xx is 20, 21 or 22) is part of the URL or > just buy directly in the GNOME amazon store. > However I think the extension is something what you can install at > computers of family members or friends (with their permission of > course) who buy stuff at Amazon. For them nothing changes. They can > just shop as they do normally but 4-6% of what they buy goes to the > GNOME foundation > > > So that's the technical part. Now how are we going to market this? > > 1) Stormy asked me to write about it on my blog. I'm waiting to get > added to planet gnome. When that's the case I can write something > 2) We can add a logo plus some text in the sidebar of www.gnome.org/friends > 3) We could add something at the gnome homepage > 4) Maybe even a press release. > > Jaap > -- > marketing-list mailing list > marketing-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list > -- Un saludo, Alberto Ruiz -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list