Great idea, love it.
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 5:05 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <to...@tomeuvizoso.net> wrote: > On 15 November 2012 13:50, Alberto Ruiz <ar...@gnome.org> wrote: >> >> >> The one thing that was somewhat true is that we have less corporate >> support, back then IBM, Sun, Novell, Nokia and many other people were >> looking at GNOME as a platform to build products from. These days that's not >> the case. Market has changed, and sure, getting a job where you can do >> GNOMEy stuff is hard. > > > This and the blog post from Sony that is linked below made me think of what > could be a good marketing action: a GNOME appreciation day. > > http://developer.sonymobile.com/2012/10/31/linux-developers-join-forces-in-the-linaro-project/ > > The marketing team would coordinate with prominent users of GNOME the > release of blog posts and/or press releases that would explain how the > organization benefits from GNOME and how it participates in the community. > This could be used to raise awareness of what GNOME is and how it works, and > hopefully would bring more contributors. > > The participants in this campaign could be: > > - organizations doing derivatives such as Canonical, Bosch or Sugar > Labs/OLPC, > > - consultancy companies such as Codethink, Collabora, or Igalia, > > - deployments such as City of Largo, > > - the foundation's advisory board members, > > - maybe famous people (Cory Doctorow uses GNOME?). > > Regards, > > Tomeu > > -- > marketing-list mailing list > marketing-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list > -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list