On Thu, April 4, 2013 10:20 am, Allan Day wrote: > Karen Sandler <ka...@gnome.org> wrote: >>>>>> As per Tobi's email, we should consider again whether to organize a >>>>>> marketing hackfest! Shaun has suggested co-locating with the docs >>>>>> sprint >>>>>> in Cincinatti June 17-19. >>> ... >>>>>> What do people think? Would it be workable this time and if so would >>>>>> having it in June make sense?
I'd love to get this scheduled! It's looking like scheduling around theJune 24-25 makes sense from looking at people's preferences. Allan do you know if you're unavailable from the 26th? Sri, could you add your availability? > As for things that we could work on, there are a number of priority > areas for me: > > * Marketing materials - we could use the opportunity to move our > existing content over to OwnCloud and fill in any blanks > * Updating the brand guidelines and move them to a restricted > location (this would include elaborating them to cover things like > visual style, colour schemes, etc) > * Writing a GNOME mission statement > > For some of these items, particularly the last one, we will need more > expertise than the marketing team has. If we are going to tackle these > tasks - and I think that a hackfest would be a good opportunity to do > so - we should think about getting other people to the event, either > from the GNOME community and/or specialists who can help us to > articulate our message. These are the people we identified before as good people to help contribute: * Allan * Andreas * Emmanuele * Karen * Garrett * Jon McCann * Lucas Rocha * Vincent * Stormy * Sri * Jim Nelson (Yorba) * Guy Lunardi (Collabora) * John Sullivan (FSF) * Alex (Skud) Bayley * Nick Richards (formerly Intel) * Karl Fogel * Havoc Pennington If we get the date settled, I can invite them, or we can even set up a call to discuss it, with some people in person. Anyone else to add? karen > > (And if we do want to get other members of the community involved, New > York might be a better location.) > > Allan > -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
