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2012/11/19 Seif Lotfy <s...@lotfy.com> > 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 > -- Cheers, Alberto Ruiz
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