I think campaigns that target the development of GNOME are often most successful. So I think hardware for GNOME OS might be a good one.
Stormy On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 4:23 PM, Juanjo Marín <juanjomari...@yahoo.es>wrote: > > > > > ----- Mensaje original ----- > > De: Oliver Propst <oliver.pro...@gmail.com> > > Para: ka...@gnome.org > > CC: marketing-list@gnome.org > > Enviado: Miércoles 18 de abril de 2012 1:22 > > Asunto: Re: Friends of GNOME campaign > > > > On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 5:32 AM, Karen Sandler <ka...@gnome.org> wrote: > >> hi all, > >> > >> We've had the accessibility campaign up for a while, and I'm going > > to post > >> a new item about it this week (pointing to Diego's story - > >> http://www-old.gnome.org/friends/a11y-testimonial-2.html) but I think > > it's > >> time to start looking ahead. > >> > >> What do we think the next campaign should be? And when should we > ideally > >> launch it? (While giving full consideration to running the current > >> campaign for the right amount of time.) > >> > >> karen > >> > >> -- > >> marketing-list mailing list > >> marketing-list@gnome.org > >> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list > > > > Maybe the current campaign should continue until GNOME ASIA in the > > beginning/middle of June. The next campaign could start in end of > > July/the beginning of August and continue through the fall to November > > and in December we can lunch a Christmas/New Year campaign. > > > > The end of July/ beginning of August are a good time to start a new > > campaign because the GNOME project usually get some press attention > > around that time because of > > GUADEC and the upcoming release in September. > > > > Here are a few suggestions of themes for a new campaign. > > > > Website/infrastructure campaign. > > One resource that many GNOME users and contributors take for granted > > are the websites and infrastructure that support the GNOME project in > > various way. In the marketing meeting we had back in October it was > > stated that the website/infrastructure was not in ideal shape > > (http://goo.gl/eB0um). I know that the past months great progress have > > been made with the websites (foundation website migration to new > > design). > > > > A campaign to raise money for website/infrastructure work could also > > be a good way to raise awareness about the GNOME infrastructure. The > > money collected could be used to improve the website/infrastructure > > and finish outstanding website projects (mention of > > the projects are in meeting minutes). > > > > > > Developer documentation campaign > > If the GNOME project are to succeed it is important that great apps > > are available and > > if want we want developers to write great apps for GNOME it is > > important that they have access to good developer documentation > > (including examples). While the developer documentation are not that > > bad today, I think it could be much better. When I look at the > > developer documentation I get the feeling that there are certain > > 'gaps' that need to be filled, certain topics needed to be explained > > in greater detail and we need to provide more code examples & > > tutorials. The money collected could be used to “fill the the gaps” > > and construct examples/tutorials. > > Tagline: "Help make great GNOME 3 apps possible" > > "Good developers want good documentation, help make it possible" > > > > Anjuta IDE campaign > > As well as it is important for developers to have access to good > > documentation it is important for all GNOME developers that do non > > trivial programming to have access to a great IDE. As I understand it, > > the official GNOME IDE Anjuta are missing features from a modern state > > of the art IDE, look a bit outdated and have old non trivial bugs that > > need to be resolved. A campaign could raise money to help fix these > > issues. > > Tagline: "Ease the life for GNOME developers" > > “Help make it easy and enjoyable to develop for GNOME” > > > > In general I think the upcoming campaign should aim at making the life > > easier for GNOME developers and thus make it easier to contribute to > > GNOME. > > > Hi ! > > > I think is time to retake this proposal. AFAIK, people who are working > in the "GNOME OS" proposal need some hardware for testing. This > could be another target for the FoG campaign. > > Cheers, > > -- Juanjo Marin > -- > marketing-list mailing list > marketing-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list >
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