Re: GNOME at events
Running a booth is getting the GNOME event box, setting up the booth (pretty quick process) and then making sure there is someone at the booth when the exhibits are open. So how much time it would take would depend on how many other volunteers you find there. Maybe others who have organized a booth could chime in with their opinions. Best, Stormy On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Shaun McCance sha...@gnome.org wrote: On Wed, 2010-04-28 at 11:33 -0600, Stormy Peters wrote: There's a few events where I'm sure GNOME could have a booth. Is anybody interested in representing GNOME at: Southeast Linux Fest Ohio Linux Fest ... It's really time to start getting the word about GNOME 3 out there! I'm planning on going to Ohio Linux Fest. What's involved in running a booth? I've never done it before. I did submit a talk proposal, and I'd like to see others' talks. Would the booth take me away from the conference? -- Shaun -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Gnome swag for event
What would you want? Stormy On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Shane Fagan shanepatrickfa...@ubuntu.comwrote: It seems a little bit of overkill. Hmmm maybe there should be a smaller pack available? -fagan On Wed, 2010-04-28 at 20:24 +0200, Andre Klapper wrote: Hi, Am Mittwoch, den 28.04.2010, 19:15 +0100 schrieb Shane Fagan: Over here in Ireland we have an event called OSS Barcamp. Its been around a while and for the next one they are going to have stands with stands. I was wondering if we could put a nice Gnome stand at it. Ill man the stand myself but it would be nice if we could have some swag like some t-shirts pens..etc. It gets a nice crowd (300 people ish) so it could be nice to have a Gnome presence at it. Stormy could Gnome give a marketing pack of some sort for it? GNOME Event box, if you don't think that it's overkill? See http://live.gnome.org/GnomeEventsBox andre -- mailto:ak...@gmx.net | failed http://www.iomc.de/ | http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Gnome swag for event
Hey Stormy, Just a few t-shirts and stickers. The big box is seriously over kill for small events like this. --fagan On Tue, 2010-05-18 at 09:22 -0600, Stormy Peters wrote: What would you want? Stormy On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Shane Fagan shanepatrickfa...@ubuntu.com wrote: It seems a little bit of overkill. Hmmm maybe there should be a smaller pack available? -fagan On Wed, 2010-04-28 at 20:24 +0200, Andre Klapper wrote: Hi, Am Mittwoch, den 28.04.2010, 19:15 +0100 schrieb Shane Fagan: Over here in Ireland we have an event called OSS Barcamp. Its been around a while and for the next one they are going to have stands with stands. I was wondering if we could put a nice Gnome stand at it. Ill man the stand myself but it would be nice if we could have some swag like some t-shirts pens..etc. It gets a nice crowd (300 people ish) so it could be nice to have a Gnome presence at it. Stormy could Gnome give a marketing pack of some sort for it? GNOME Event box, if you don't think that it's overkill? See http://live.gnome.org/GnomeEventsBox andre -- mailto:ak...@gmx.net | failed http://www.iomc.de/ | http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Updated data for Foundation's brochure
Jonh, Has anyone helped? If not, I can help this week. Stormy On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 6:48 AM, Jonh Wendell jwend...@gnome.org wrote: Hi, folks. It'd be interesting if we could update our brochure[1] of GNOME Foundation. It currently contains information about 2008 and future actions for 2009. We could update it to reflect actions we did in 2009 and future actions for 2010. Can someone write here updated topics? I volunteer to update the brochure. [1]- http://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/MarketingMaterial?action=AttachFiledo=viewtarget=foundation-sponsor-folder.pdf Thanks, -- Jonh Wendell http://www.bani.com.br -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: GNOME at events
I've setup the GNOME booth at OSCON several times. Over there it didn't take a long time because we had a fairly minimal setup. You'll need at least 2 people especially if you have computers / laptop there. It was about 25 minute setup time wtih one poster, handouts, and setting up computer. Lugging the computer, getting the stuff printed out and other pre-prep stuff I'm not sure. It depends. sri On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 8:16 AM, Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org wrote: Running a booth is getting the GNOME event box, setting up the booth (pretty quick process) and then making sure there is someone at the booth when the exhibits are open. So how much time it would take would depend on how many other volunteers you find there. Maybe others who have organized a booth could chime in with their opinions. Best, Stormy On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Shaun McCance sha...@gnome.org wrote: On Wed, 2010-04-28 at 11:33 -0600, Stormy Peters wrote: There's a few events where I'm sure GNOME could have a booth. Is anybody interested in representing GNOME at: Southeast Linux Fest Ohio Linux Fest ... It's really time to start getting the word about GNOME 3 out there! I'm planning on going to Ohio Linux Fest. What's involved in running a booth? I've never done it before. I did submit a talk proposal, and I'd like to see others' talks. Would the booth take me away from the conference? -- Shaun -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Updated data for Foundation's brochure
Em Ter, 2010-05-18 às 10:17 -0600, Stormy Peters escreveu: Jonh, Has anyone helped? If not, I can help this week. Stormy Hi, Stormy, not yet... On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 6:48 AM, Jonh Wendell jwend...@gnome.org wrote: Hi, folks. It'd be interesting if we could update our brochure[1] of GNOME Foundation. It currently contains information about 2008 and future actions for 2009. We could update it to reflect actions we did in 2009 and future actions for 2010. Can someone write here updated topics? I volunteer to update the brochure. [1]-http://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/MarketingMaterial?action=AttachFiledo=viewtarget=foundation-sponsor-folder.pdf Thanks, -- Jonh Wendell http://www.bani.com.br -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list -- Jonh Wendell http://www.bani.com.br -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Updated data for Foundation's brochure
Em Ter, 2010-05-18 às 11:31 -0500, Bharat Kapoor escreveu: John Take a look at this - we started working on it at the hackfest. It still needs graphic work. How soon do u need it Hi, Bharat. Actually I don't need it with urgency. If the Marketing team is working on a new, updated brochure focused in GNOME 3.0, I'd love to wait until it's ready. Do you have any idea on when it will be final? Here in Brazil we will have two main events. One of them is in July (FISL, will happen the week before GUADEC). The other one is the main GNOME event here, called GNOME Forum. It will happen in November, 1 month after GNOME 3.0 release. So, my idea is to print some brochures and take to these 2 events. In my talks I'm already talking about the GNOME Foundation and why is important people to donate. So, having these brochures to give to companies/people interested in GNOME would be a plus! Cheers, -- Jonh Wendell http://www.bani.com.br -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Updated data for Foundation's brochure
Hi John We'll have it in time for ur requirements - Can u take a look at the attached doc and make any suggestions. Regards Bharat On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 11:42 AM, Jonh Wendell jwend...@gnome.org wrote: Em Ter, 2010-05-18 às 11:31 -0500, Bharat Kapoor escreveu: John Take a look at this - we started working on it at the hackfest. It still needs graphic work. How soon do u need it Hi, Bharat. Actually I don't need it with urgency. If the Marketing team is working on a new, updated brochure focused in GNOME 3.0, I'd love to wait until it's ready. Do you have any idea on when it will be final? Here in Brazil we will have two main events. One of them is in July (FISL, will happen the week before GUADEC). The other one is the main GNOME event here, called GNOME Forum. It will happen in November, 1 month after GNOME 3.0 release. So, my idea is to print some brochures and take to these 2 events. In my talks I'm already talking about the GNOME Foundation and why is important people to donate. So, having these brochures to give to companies/people interested in GNOME would be a plus! Cheers, -- Jonh Wendell http://www.bani.com.br -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
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Re: Fwd: Gnome swag for event
The event is on the 25th and the 26th of September. Should get about 300 ish people. --fagan -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: GNOME Free Agent T-shirt Proposal
GNOME Marketing Team: On April 6th, I proposed a GNOME Free Agent t-shirt which would highlight the humanitarian aspects of being a GNOME volunteer. I have been working with Mike (Dongyun) Lee and Diki Niwatori to put together a t-shirt mock-up. Refer here: http://www.sheepfiends.com/gngt-olpc.png After discussion, we decided to make the image mono-color. While a bit less exciting than the full-color version, it is less busy and will be easier and less expensive to print. Does this look good to people? Does anyone have any comments about the design or how to improve things further? Thoughts? Brian On 04/06/10 15:08, Brian Cameron wrote: GNOME Marketing Team Over the past several months, I have been trading emails with the OLPC and SugarLabs folks about an opportunity to create a t-shirt to promote that GNOME free software benefits humanitarian projects like OLPC and Sugar Labs, and to provide a nice reward for volunteers within the GNOME community. Based on my rough textual design ideas I have gotten permission from both OLPC and SugarLabs to go ahead with using their logos in this way, though they obviously want to review a final mock-up of what the t-shirt will look like before giving a formal go-ahead. So, I have been thinking of creating a GNOME Free Agent t-shirt. I like this name since Free Agent is a fun play on words and can be interpreted in different ways including being an independent GNOME volunteer. Dongyun Lee (http://dongyunlee.com/) does artwork for OLPC and has volunteered to provide artwork to use on the t-shirt for no charge (though he does want 2 free t-shirts for himself and his wife which seems reasonable). Rather than a photograph of children using OLPC units (photographs are hard to make look nice on tshirts), he suggested using some of his OLPC line art. For example, you can see some work he did for OLPC here: http://www.sugarlabs.org/index.php?template=pagepage=learners Both Dongyun and myself think this particular image would work nicely on a t-shirt: http://dongyunlee.com/imgsrc/il/il24_11.jpg Dongyun has volunteered to create some custom artwork for this t-shirt if we can provide direction. Some people I have shown this image to think it is a bit too busy, so perhaps something a bit toned down would be better. Thoughts? With the photo would appear the following text: [GNOME Logo] Free Software - Powering [OLPC logo] [Sugar Labs logo] Perhaps some additional text under the photograph or under the logo would be nice like Helping previously marginalized children throughout the developing world learn, achieve and begin to transform their communities I was thinking that we could make two versions of the t-shirt. One version to sell for $20 that has nothing on the back. A second version will have the following text on the back and would be given away for no-charge to volunteers who work on GNOME but do not work for a company that works on GNOME. People who work on GNOME for a company would pay $25 for the second version of the tshirt with this text on the back: Free Agent GNOME Free Software Volunteer I am hoping that people on the marketing-list can help with: 1) What do people think of this proposal? Any ideas on how to further improve it? 2) As I mention above, Dongyun is agreeable to creating an image that is more focused on the relationship between GNOME, SugarLabs, and OLPC. Any ideas or direction that we could give to Dongyun would be helpful. 3) Perhaps the proposed image above is a bit too busy. Do people have suggestions on whether the image created for this t-shirt should be changed? Should less colors be used for an image intended for a t-shirt, for example? 4) I need someone with graphic design skills to put together a mock up image of the t-shirt to help facilitate moving this forward. Can anyone help? Thanks, Brian -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: GNOME Free Agent T-shirt Proposal
On Tue, 2010-05-18 at 21:06 -0500, Brian Cameron wrote: GNOME Marketing Team: On April 6th, I proposed a GNOME Free Agent t-shirt which would highlight the humanitarian aspects of being a GNOME volunteer. I have been working with Mike (Dongyun) Lee and Diki Niwatori to put together a t-shirt mock-up. Refer here: http://www.sheepfiends.com/gngt-olpc.png After discussion, we decided to make the image mono-color. While a bit less exciting than the full-color version, it is less busy and will be easier and less expensive to print. Does this look good to people? Does anyone have any comments about the design or how to improve things further? Thoughts? Brian I think the wording is a bit much and can be simplified and made more powerful. Perhaps something like: GNOME - SugarLabs - OLPC Education - Community Empowering children the world over Bryen -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
