Fw: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Karen Sandler <ka...@gnome.org> Date: 21 April 2013 14:42 Subject: Re: marketing hackfest? To: Fabiana Simões <fabianapsim...@gmail.com>
On Sun, April 21, 2013 12:21 pm, Fabiana Simões wrote: >> 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? >> > > June 24-25 would be a bit hard for me. I leave Copenhagen early on the > 23rd, arriving in Rio 20h55 on that same day. In order to be in NY on > the 24th, I'd need to catch a flight right after landing here (and, > still, I'd only make it to JFK mid-afternoon). > > Besides that, if Allan indeed needs to be back to the UK on the 26th, I > guess it would be hard for him to be at the Hackfest and also get on a > flight home on the 25th. > > Would July 1-2 work, perhaps? Ah, that is too bad. I'm flying back from a wedding in LA on the 1, but I could move it to Sunday if it's the only day that works. karen > Fabiana > > On 04/21/2013 09:45 AM, Karen Sandler wrote: >> 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 >>> >> >
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