My comments below. On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 5:57 PM, Brian Cameron <brian.came...@oracle.com>wrote:
> > Bharat: > > > The mobile funding plan is posted at: >> http://live.gnome.org/Gnome Fund Raising >> >> Please comment either in mail or embed your comments in the wiki itself. >> >> Also please sign up for what you can help with. >> > > While I agree that handing out cards at events and encouraging people > to donate is a good way to advertise, I would like to see more ways of > advertising the various mobile campaigns. > Bharat>> I completely agree. One idea came up was to somehow get on radio - I do not understand radio too well so if anyone has ideas please suggest. (Of course I mean I want to get Gnome on for FREE) http://www.fallsradio.com/Free_Advertising_Policy.html I will chase this one. > > Shouldn't we have banner ads on popular GNOME websites (like planet, > the GNOME Amazon/Google websites, etc.), send emails to various GNOME > users groups, and reach out to people who might not be attending > conferences? > Bharat>> This is one thing we have struggled - the question is if someone is at a PC why would we need Mobile. I will setup a poll and send it to everyone and see what everyone thinks. Bharat>> Is there any other means of reaching folks not in conferences - apart from radio and away from PCs, Ads in magazines, article sin newspape4rs etc could definitely help. BUT HOW do we get there - anyone any ideas. > > Since the GNOME Foundation is a not-for-profit charity, I would think > that we would be able to find lots of ways to advertise for free or > inexpensively. There are many opportunities for non-for-profits to get > free advertising. For example: > > > http://techcrunch.com/2009/03/27/special-youtube-ads-earn-nonprofit-10000-in-a-single-day/ > BK>> This is sweet - I think we should pursue irrespective of Mobile funding effort. Any volunteers. I think this needs to be a seperate project. Can we get any volunteers to setup the account and develops ads for Gnome? I can open a seperate thread for this. > http://www.wecaretoo.com/ > BK>> Neat - dosent even need anything from us. Can we list Gnome store as well as donate section on this site? I can do ti if that is OK with all, will open a new thread. > http://qnation.com/index.php?contentID=778 > BK>> Do we have a volunteer to chase this account. > http://www.fallsradio.com/Free_Advertising_Policy.html > > BK>. I will chase it. Brain, u rock dude > And many many more... > > I would think a mobile campaign would be more successful if we did more > to get the word out. Just telling people at conference is preaching > to the converted. > BK>> Brian - Based on the case study from the firm providing this service, they use a lot of SMS, I am not a big fan as it pisses off people who have to pay for receiving SMS. I will look into Radio and see if other places do that too. Now the question arises: What do we advertise - I say "Gnome 3 is coming..............." till the release and then next 6 months can we try Gnome 3. I will run a poll and send it to the team. I am moving these ideas to the wiki.
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