On Tue, 2010-04-06 at 08:08 -0500, Bharat Kapoor wrote: > Hi Guys > > I am working on our mobile fund raising plan and many a times the > question came up: > Who are we? > Why are we in this business? > What's our grand vision? > At least I could not find a consistent answer (I think I understand > the essence) - maybe its ignorance on my part - but anyway. > > Now why do I bring all this up in this thread? > The talk is about name or rename (if our mission is consistent with) > GNU Network Object Model Environment - then stick with Gnome or GNOME > (I dont have a preference) BUT if our mission / vision / goals are a > little different now - maybe we want to think of renaming. > > But before we go that route would it be worth everyone spelling their > view/vision in a couple of sentences. > What we should DO and what we should NOT? > > I agree with Dave too - we dont have a huge brand equity maybe > starting fresh may not be such a bad idea (assuming we have a strong > reason tod o so) > > This should give us a clear direction if we need a name change or not.
I agree with the mission statement [1] must be changed/updated. There are some points about this on the GNOME SWOT analysis [2] and Claus Schwarm had made some comments recently [3]. I think this a topic worth a new thread :) However, GNOME is evolving all the time so IMHO we don't need a new brand because of that. regards, -- Juanjo [1] http://www.gnome.org/about/ [2] http://live.gnome.org/SWOT [3] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/marketing-list/2010-April/msg00001.html -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list