Re: Reviving FootNotes?
On 02/06/2010 07:37 PM, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier wrote: Hi all, A few weeks ago I got access to publish content on FootNotes. Planet GNOME is good for folks who are heavily involved in GNOME, but probably not a great way to keep track of GNOME news for users. GNOME Journal is great for articles, but the pace of publication won't be great for news... so I'd like to revive FootNotes. If you have news that ought to go up on FootNotes, please let me know. Application releases, calls for papers, requests for help, etc. Any thoughts around reviving FootNotes would be appreciated. Maybe news about new, exciting GNOME applications? Like this [1], or maybe this [2] Also note that anything that gets published on Footnotes also gets syndicated on http://news.gnome.org/ so I guess there are plenty of visitors. 1. http://gnomefiles.org/app.php/Gnome_Photo_Frame 2. http://gnac.sourceforge.net/ - Andreas -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: New GNOME Website - Now ready for editors
Hi Claus, I pinged the Plone guys to send instructions to this mailing list about how to get accounts and edit content. Hopefully, they'll be doing that soon. Cheers! --lucasr 2010/1/14 Claus Schwarm clschw...@googlemail.com: Well, since you offered your help: How do I get an account to be able to start editing? There seems to be no way to do this under website-editors.gnome.org AFAICS. Thanks in advance, Claus On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 7:04 PM, David Bain david.b...@alteroo.com wrote: Glad to see that we've reached this far ;). @Content Editors if you have any how do I do this with Plone? questions, feel free to send them my way. On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Lucas Rocha luc...@gnome.org wrote: Hi all, Thanks for Alexandro and Carsten, we now have an instance of the new website ready to be used by content editors. It's available here: http://website-editors.gnome.org/ Carsten and CMS team, could you please give basic instructions on how people can create accounts and start editing content? Design team, please, have a look at the website and start suggesting fixes, etc. It would be nice if you work very closely to the Content team. We're very close to finish an initial version of the website. Cheers! --lucasr ___ gnome-web-list mailing list gnome-web-l...@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-web-list -- 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 -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Friends of GNOME December January Data
On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 1:12 PM, Jaap A. Haitsma j...@haitsma.org wrote: OK, but I see most of the data correctly. Starting from November 2009 it's not correct. Where do I need to change the date format or localization to get it to work? I don't know why the date doesn't work for just the dates I added this time ... I believe you just change the date format for the full date field for the rows that look like they are in 1899. I don't know ... they look fine to me. Dave Neary said he reformatted them for himself and then they worked. I don't know what I did differently this time than any previous time ... I can manually add the years and months from now unless I can figure out what caused this ... that would be a pain but would eliminate this problem. Stormy -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Friends of GNOME December January Data
On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 9:35 AM, Jaap A. Haitsma j...@haitsma.org wrote: Hi Stormy, I suggest you post these updates also to your blog as that probably leads to much more traffic to friends of GNOME instead of posting it here. I'd prefer that we had different people blog it every month. I don't really want to promote this every month on my personal blog. (I have lots of non-GNOME friends and people that read my blog and I think this is like asking them for money every month and I already feel like I do that. :) Volunteers? Maybe also nice if you can approach some friendly journalist that write an article about Friends of GNOME program etc. etc. I think we have a couple on this list ... all of us should talk about Friends of GNOME whenever we can. And help others in the community to do so as well. Stormy -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Reviving FootNotes?
Good on you! It's a good time to do it since we want to get GNOME 3 out there. However, it would be nice to do those GNOME summaries that I used to do before going on to GNOME Journal. It's a very hard job unfortunately and requires someone dedicated to reading a lot of mailing lists. sri On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier j...@zonker.netwrote: Hi all, A few weeks ago I got access to publish content on FootNotes. Planet GNOME is good for folks who are heavily involved in GNOME, but probably not a great way to keep track of GNOME news for users. GNOME Journal is great for articles, but the pace of publication won't be great for news... so I'd like to revive FootNotes. If you have news that ought to go up on FootNotes, please let me know. Application releases, calls for papers, requests for help, etc. Any thoughts around reviving FootNotes would be appreciated. Best, Zonker -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier j...@zonker.net About: http://www.dissociatedpress.net/about/ -- 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: Reviving FootNotes?
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 1:56 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.me wrote: Good on you! It's a good time to do it since we want to get GNOME 3 out there. However, it would be nice to do those GNOME summaries that I used to do before going on to GNOME Journal. It's a very hard job unfortunately and requires someone dedicated to reading a lot of mailing lists. Can you point me to a few examples? Any volunteers to help with GNOME summaries? Best, Zonker -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier j...@zonker.net About: http://www.dissociatedpress.net/about/ -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: What keywords would you use for GNOME?
Hi Claus, I put all the open source keyword terms in their own ad group with the new ad you created. We'll see how it does. FYI, I had $229/day in the Friends of GNOME category and we are now spending it all. It is not however translating to even $229/day in additional donations, so we might want to rethink our landing page. (Maybe we want to focus on awareness or other things as well.) Most ($226.63) of the hits come from the keyword free software. Yesterday we got 16,223 impressions, 296 clicks for a clickthrough rate of 1.82% (which is good.) We get an even better quality rating and click through rate (4.02%) for the keyword free software desktop. We had 323 impressions on that and 13 clicks. (I assume there are just that many fewer people searching on free software desktop or we'd have more.) The ad that is shown in both cases is: A Free Software Desktop Join us in Supporting GNOME, the Free Software Desktop Project. www.gnome.org/friends Ideas for a different landing page? It seems like we are driving a lot of traffic this way and we could use it better ... Maybe we could even ask them to sign a page showing their support. And sign up for a mailing list to hear our news in the future. What do people think? Stormy On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Claus Schwarm clschw...@googlemail.comwrote: Stormy, glad I could help. You may also like to consider to add a new ad group Open Source, link it to the friends page, and use the following copy: An Open Source Desktop Join us in Supporting GNOME, the Open Source Desktop Project. www.gnome.org/friends for all keywords including the term 'Open Source'. This may not only drive up the CTR for key phrases such as Open Source Foundation but also for the Free Software ad group, since it's going to be more targeted. Just an idea; maybe it works. Regards, Claus On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 10:07 PM, Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org wrote: Claus, Your idea had tremendous success! With the new ad displaying for the campaign group of free software users we immediately got more clicks from 20/day to 29 the day I added it to 85 so far today for a click through rate of .83%. (We also got an additional 43 clicks on the Join the Free Desktop for a click through rate of .37%. I'm going to pause that one. I already paused the Become a Friend of GNOME add for this campaign group.) Stormy On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 3:34 AM, Claus Schwarm clschw...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi! Provided the keywords are remotely related to the product being advertised, CTR is not so muched determined by the keywords, but by the copy and its interaction with the keywords. Example 1: Someone searching for debian gnome is really unlikely to click on an ad for a women outreach program. Example 2: The copy for the keyword free software doesn't repeat it in the header. Instead of writing: Join the Free Desktop Support GNOME, the Free Software Desktop Accessible to Everyone. www.gnome.org/friends you should test: A Free Software Desktop Join us in Supporting GNOME, the Free Software Desktop Project. www.gnome.org/friends Something similar holds for the other important keywords. However, you seem to be running tests right now, for I got different copy for the same keyword(s). Maybe you should post the report about the test results? Of course, if you still like to try other keywords, why not use Google Keyword Suggestion Tool [1]? Regards, Claus [1]: https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 9:53 PM, Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org wrote: I've attached the keyword report for our Google Adwords account. We could use some higher performing keywords! The goal is to have CTR of 1%. Ideas for other keywords? Stormy -- 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
Fwd: Fundraising / Donations
We got this offer today. I did a bit of research and XIPWIRE seem to be a startup that just launched so there's not a lot of history to check out. They have gotten a lot of good press from the local Philadelphia news[1]. The difference between this and the donation texts that most people are familiar with is that you have to login to the XIPWIRE website at least once to set up your account and connect it to a bank account or credit card. It doesn't pull from your cell phone bill. So regardless of what we do here, I think we should continue to pursue the other text options we have. Thoughts? Should we help market this? We'd be asking for GNOME donations and we'd also be encouraging people to set up XIPWIRE accounts. Stormy P.S. I removed Sharif's signature contact info as I'm forwarding to a public list. [1] http://technicallyphilly.com/2010/01/06/shop-talk-xipwire-mobile-payment-platform-lets-you-text-cash -- Forwarded message -- From: Sharif J. Alexandre Date: Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 3:13 PM Subject: Fundraising / Donations To: fundrais...@gnome.org Hi, I'm with XIPWIRE, a Mobile Payment startup based in Philadelphia, and wanted to reach out regarding fundraising and our offering to the Open Source community. As I'm sure you're aware the recent crisis in Haiti has put a spotlight on text pledges and the opportunity it represents for organizations to quickly and easily solicit donations for their respective causes. Since I'm an avid supporter of Open Source generally and your work in particular, and as my personal way of saying Thank You to the thousands of developers and supporters who have indirectly made XIPWIRE possible, I'm offering the Text Pledging functionality of XIPWIRE completely free of charge. I've created an oss campaign where people can simply text oss to 56624 (XIPWIRE's commercial shortcode number) to pledge a default amount of $10 to one of the following organizations: - *apache* - Apache Software Foundation - *eff* - Electronic Frontier Foundation - *fsf* - Free Software Foundation - *gnome* - GNOME Foundation - *kde* - KDE e.V. - *linux* - Linux Foundation More details about the campaign can be found at: https://xipwire.com/pledges/oss As I mentioned, we are waiving all of our fees so each organization will receive 100% of the funds directed to it. Since GNOME Foundation is one of the foundations listed, I wanted to reach out in advance of our announcement of this campaign to solicit any feedback or comments you might have. It is my sincere hope that the money generated through this program will continue to fund the excellent work you have done over the years. Regards, Sharif -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Mobile Giving Foundation
Thanks for the update, Bharat. If you could also figure out how many donations we'd need to break even, that would probably help with the decision. I found some good info in this article[1] about what companies usually charge nonprofits for this type of service. Stormy [1] http://mobileactive.org/mobile-giving-and-haiti-earthquake-relief-efforts On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Bharat Kapoor 3.kap...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry folks - was a little sick for the last week or so. I pinged all of the ASPs and have heard back from quite a few. The fees/costs are all over the place. The best that I have found till now is as follows: Services offered (I think there is more than just donation collection via mobile.) Messaging broadcast, iPhone app, All services, text in Votes, Text to Phone bill or Credit card. (I am expecting detailed docs today) No setup, No startup Host Plan: (Saves us all the application work) $99/mo - 50cents per transaction, 90 day cancellation. Discounts (This is the best I was able to negotiate), per transaction fee stays same 3mo - 10% on monthly fee 1yr - 10 mo (pay 10 months of fee instead of 12) Once we reach a critical mass, where paying a higher monthly fee is viable and transaction fees start hurting us we can renegotiate (already discussed) I am still waiting to hear from a couple of more folks - but thi sounds the best deal - lets discuss in Feb 13th meeting. Regards Bharat -- 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: Fwd: Fundraising / Donations
Hi, Stormy Peters wrote: Thoughts? Should we help market this? We'd be asking for GNOME donations and we'd also be encouraging people to set up XIPWIRE accounts. It sounds like there's not much being aked in return - it's up to us whether we promote the service or not :) At the very leats, it sounds like something to say thank you for. I'm all for the perfect not being the enemy of the good. If there are other options which might be more convenient which arrive later, we can always change then. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member dne...@gnome.org -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Fwd: Fundraising / Donations
I think it's an excellent offer and I definitely plan on saying thanks. The question is, do we want to promote? I think we should ... Stormy On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Dave Neary dne...@gnome.org wrote: Hi, Stormy Peters wrote: Thoughts? Should we help market this? We'd be asking for GNOME donations and we'd also be encouraging people to set up XIPWIRE accounts. It sounds like there's not much being aked in return - it's up to us whether we promote the service or not :) At the very leats, it sounds like something to say thank you for. I'm all for the perfect not being the enemy of the good. If there are other options which might be more convenient which arrive later, we can always change then. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member dne...@gnome.org -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Fwd: Fundraising / Donations
Sounds good. They run Red Hat based server with Apache. Good stuff (attach). Best of luck, NM On Mon, 2010-02-08 at 15:40 -0700, Stormy Peters wrote: We got this offer today. I did a bit of research and XIPWIRE seem to be a startup that just launched so there's not a lot of history to check out. They have gotten a lot of good press from the local Philadelphia news[1]. The difference between this and the donation texts that most people are familiar with is that you have to login to the XIPWIRE website at least once to set up your account and connect it to a bank account or credit card. It doesn't pull from your cell phone bill. So regardless of what we do here, I think we should continue to pursue the other text options we have. Thoughts? Should we help market this? We'd be asking for GNOME donations and we'd also be encouraging people to set up XIPWIRE accounts. Stormy P.S. I removed Sharif's signature contact info as I'm forwarding to a public list. [1] http://technicallyphilly.com/2010/01/06/shop-talk-xipwire-mobile-payment-platform-lets-you-text-cash -- Forwarded message -- From: Sharif J. Alexandre Date: Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 3:13 PM Subject: Fundraising / Donations To: fundrais...@gnome.org Hi, I'm with XIPWIRE, a Mobile Payment startup based in Philadelphia, and wanted to reach out regarding fundraising and our offering to the Open Source community. As I'm sure you're aware the recent crisis in Haiti has put a spotlight on text pledges and the opportunity it represents for organizations to quickly and easily solicit donations for their respective causes. Since I'm an avid supporter of Open Source generally and your work in particular, and as my personal way of saying Thank You to the thousands of developers and supporters who have indirectly made XIPWIRE possible, I'm offering the Text Pledging functionality of XIPWIRE completely free of charge. I've created an oss campaign where people can simply text oss to 56624 (XIPWIRE's commercial shortcode number) to pledge a default amount of $10 to one of the following organizations: * apache - Apache Software Foundation * eff - Electronic Frontier Foundation * fsf - Free Software Foundation * gnome - GNOME Foundation * kde - KDE e.V. * linux - Linux Foundation More details about the campaign can be found at: https://xipwire.com/pledges/oss As I mentioned, we are waiving all of our fees so each organization will receive 100% of the funds directed to it. Since GNOME Foundation is one of the foundations listed, I wanted to reach out in advance of our announcement of this campaign to solicit any feedback or comments you might have. It is my sincere hope that the money generated through this program will continue to fund the excellent work you have done over the years. Regards, Sharif attachment: xipwire.png-- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Fwd: Fundraising / Donations
Stormy, Keep in mind this, when you make ur decision: https://xipwire.com/company/privacy my 2 cents. NM On Mon, 2010-02-08 at 16:15 -0700, Stormy Peters wrote: I think it's an excellent offer and I definitely plan on saying thanks. The question is, do we want to promote? I think we should ... Stormy On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Dave Neary dne...@gnome.org wrote: Hi, Stormy Peters wrote: Thoughts? Should we help market this? We'd be asking for GNOME donations and we'd also be encouraging people to set up XIPWIRE accounts. It sounds like there's not much being aked in return - it's up to us whether we promote the service or not :) At the very leats, it sounds like something to say thank you for. I'm all for the perfect not being the enemy of the good. If there are other options which might be more convenient which arrive later, we can always change then. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member dne...@gnome.org -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Marketing Materials in git
Hi Marketing Team! One of the topics I'd like to discuss in Saturday's team meeting is: Do we want to use GNOME's git repository for marketing materials? What made me think of it is I was working on the FAQ for volunteers hosting a GNOME booth[1] that we started at the hackfest last Nov. It looks pretty enough in the wiki, but it's really not ready for someone to just print and go with. There are a number of advantages and dis-advantages to using git that I can think of off the top of my head: Pro's: * Easier to keep marketing materials up to date (multiple editors, revision control) * Can have multiple copies (OpenOffice.org, PDF, etc) * Better formatting than the wiki * Personal opinion: easier than managing on the wiki / live.gnome.org (we have attachments in a few different places) Cons: * Might need to learn git (though we can document how to do a git clone on the wiki) * Storing all marketing materials in one git repo could be a large download the first time as the user would get all materials, not just one * Volunteer would need to have git installed Thoughts? I don't know if we need an answer right away, or if we'll have a quorum in the meeting Saturday, but I'd be curious to hear what people think. Paul [1] http://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/ConferenceMaterial/BoothFAQ -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Reviving FootNotes?
Le lundi 08 février 2010, à 10:56 -0800, Sriram Ramkrishna a écrit : Good on you! It's a good time to do it since we want to get GNOME 3 out there. However, it would be nice to do those GNOME summaries that I used to do before going on to GNOME Journal. It's a very hard job unfortunately and requires someone dedicated to reading a lot of mailing lists. Note that the commit digest blog is a good basis: http://blogs.gnome.org/commitdigest/ Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Marketing Materials in git
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 7:26 PM, Paul Cutler pcut...@gnome.org wrote: Thoughts? I don't know if we need an answer right away, or if we'll have a quorum in the meeting Saturday, but I'd be curious to hear what people think. I'm not sure ill be able to make the meeting Saturday, but I do want to chime in on this. Having some form of central repository and/or some kind of revision control is a great idea. But I think git is just a wee bit too developer focused to be comfortable for a lot of people we might hope to attract to the marketing team. I'm sure some folks on this list have strong tech skills and strong marketing skills, but that's not the norm. What can we use that would be better suited for a non-technical audience that might meet the same goals? It's tempting to say to newcomers, these are the tools everybody else in the project uses, so here you go but I think that's the wrong approach to expand our reach. We need tools that are a bit less scary for people who don't usually work with command line tools and so on. Maybe we should be looking at Alfresco or some other CMS/ECM? Best, Zonker -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier j...@zonker.net About: http://www.dissociatedpress.net/about/ -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
