On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 5:45 AM, Karen Sandler <ka...@gnome.org> 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?
>
>
Certainly.  June should be okay.  But I have a cousin who is threatening to
visit but he hasn't told me which dates. (or whether it happens at all)
But schedule it and he can work around it I'm sure.

July is also fine.  I don't think I have anything scheduled at all.



> > 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
> >
>

Alright, sounds good.


> > 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
>

How about some community managers from other groups like say Mozilla or
Yocto?  Both are full time positions.


> 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?
>
>
I don't have anyone that comes to mind at the moment.

sri
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