Just wanted to follow-up by saying that the Fedora booth (where I hung out a bit) had quite a few different GNOME stickers to give out, and I talked about GNOME with as many folks as I could. There was also an awesome moment in the evening keynote Saturday when Steven J Vaughn-Nichols was "shocked" when so many GNOME users raised their hands when he asked how many users of each DE was there (this was after he touted KDE as the #1 desktop currently based on some survey he found). We had the strongest showing among the hand-raisers ;-)
On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 3:06 AM, Dave Neary <dne...@gnome.org> wrote: > Hi Bryen, > > > On 06/02/2012 11:15 PM, Bryen M Yunashko wrote: >> >> I'll be at SELF, but working the openSUSE booth. And FYI, KDE will also >> have a booth there. I assumed, wrongly, that GNOME was going to have a >> booth there. :-/ > > > This is, I think, part of the problem. Every conference I've been to has had > a decent number of GNOME people there manning stands - the OpenSUSE stand, > the Ubuntu stand, the Fedora stand, the Mozilla stand, the Collabora > stand... When Sri says that "we don't have many people in the Sounth West", > I may be wrong, but I'm betting he's thinking of corporate offices. > > Somehow, GNOME users & developers self-identify more strongly with other > groups than with GNOME now. Or at least, it seems that way to me. Is that a > legacy of having more paid developers, and the unpaid contributors not > feeling the ownership/authority to represent the brand? > > I don't know if my analysis is correct, and if it is, I don't know how to > help fix it. > > All I can say is, there are a *lot* of GNOME people in the South East. > Especially in North Carolina (there is a Red Hat office in Raleigh). But I > don't know many of them. I know Ken Van Dine ived in that part of the world > though - perhaps he knows more people specifically? > > Cheers, > Dave. > > PS. In Europe, it is the local chapters who request stand space for GNOME - > and the GNOME Foundation is often unaware of either the conference or the > stand. Is it a requirement to be effective that these requests come through > us centrally? I know I've regretted that we don't have regional GNOME groups > in the US in the past. > > -- > Dave Neary > GNOME Foundation member > dne...@gnome.org > Jabber: nea...@gmail.com > > -- > marketing-list mailing list > marketing-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list -- -jayson -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
