This is great, I always love it when people are forced to question their assumptions. :-)
sri On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 2:02 PM, Jayson Rowe <jayson.r...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >
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