Friends of GNOME February Data
The February Friends of GNOME data is posted.[1] Good news: * February was an outstanding month. We brought in $2,826. (Compare to $1,587 in January and $2,663 in December.) Challenge: * A large part of February's donation was do to one, one time $1500 donation from an individual. * We lost 12 subscribers. I asked them all why they cancelled. Few have responded but I imagine that it's because they finished their year and they are getting a tshirt. Corrections: * The monthly subscribers was calculated wrong from September to January. We had between 100-107 subscribers each of those months. (More than we reported previously.) The total donation amounts were calculated correctly. (I'm really hoping that CiviCRM will help fix this manual process for reporting.) * These reports don't include $100 a month that we receive in donations via checks. I will blog about this as well. Stormy [1] http://live.gnome .org/action/AttachFile/GnomeMarketing/Tasks/FriendsOfGNOME?action=AttachFile -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Mobile Giving Foundation
Marketing list folks, How should I interpret the absolute silence in response to this proposal? a) We don't want $300. b) Let's use the $300 to try taking donations via text message for 3 months. c) I'd rather we spent the $300 on __. Stormy On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 2:26 PM, Stormy Peters wrote: > We discussed this in the GNOME board meeting. > > The board thinks it's a good idea to explore new opportunities like this > and there's $300 the marketing team can use for this. (Or any other > activities that are appropriate.) > > They did bring up the issue that we should have a plan for how we plan to > get out the word. I agree with that. How are we going to advertise the fact > that people can donate via text? > > So it's up to us, the marketing team, to decide if we want to do this and > if so, how. > > Stormy > > > On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Stormy Peters wrote: > >> >> >> On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 10:14 AM, Bharat Kapoor <3.kap...@gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> Hi Stormy >>> >>> I will respond to this question in two steps. >>> >>> Part 1 >>> Breakeven - we need around 11 people giving 10 bucks for the 1st 3 months >>> to breakeven. >>> >>> Part 2 >>> I think we should treat this as a pilot as we dont even know how our >>> members will respond there will be an acceptance period and we should take >>> the 300 bucks we pay them over 3 months as Capital Expense. At the end of 3 >>> month we should be in a position to decide further if this works or not - my >>> assumption is that if we have around 20 folks giving we should be in good >>> shape and since this is Tax free donation - we should send them receipts so >>> technically it willo cost them between $7 and $7.50 to make a donation of >>> $10 to Gnome. >>> >> >> +1 to investing $300 to see if it works. We'll have to make sure everyone >> is ready to advertise it on Planet/Identica/Twitter/Facebook, etc. >> >> What do others think? >> >> Stormy >> >> > -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Campaign Proposal
Hi I've been away from a couple of days due to final exams, presentations and lately some problems with natural issues, mainly a couple of storms and national wide red alert. I'm also a Volunteer Firefighter in Murtosa, therefore I was forced to be off for some time. Back to the subject. I'd recon for now that the "wild life" might be a sensible issue. My proposal: Open a Wiki page for discussion of possible themes for a new release to be opened to community discussion. Once the theme has been decided by whoever has the power to do such, according to the community feedback, we can propose another stage for the process to decide name's etc. Would this be reliable and we can abandon my approach on the subject regarding the endangered species? I'm willing to make this happen. nelson On Tue, 2010-02-16 at 21:27 +, Nelson Marques wrote: > > > Hi all, > > In attachment there is a proposal for a new campaign and it's goals. To > unravel this a bit, it aims to position GNOME brand as an ecological > supporting brand alongside with some things we can do to promote this. > > Another aspect interesting is that through this campaign we are also > trying to mobilize new artists to cooperate with GNOME Project. > > There are other concerns, and this campaign was designed to be a generic > campaign that would allow other campaigns to brew from this one, mainly > to support GNOME through art. > > I am proposing with this campaign the following: > > 1. Give names to GNOME Releases based on endangered species which share > strong points with the main features of GNOME. This is appealing to > users and at some point allows the usage of a more catchy name for every > release, thus we promote a social responsible cause and broaden our > contributors to a new standard, including organizations which promote > several endangered species through the donation of art and media such as > high resolution pictures, movies, etc. > This is also a great opportunity to advocate the usage of Free > Standards. > > 2. Support the existing GNOME artistic community through the > availability of donated media. > > 3. Stimulate Open Desktop standard through following up campaigns and > "call for help" campaigns that are aimed to introducing GNOME to more > people and thus increase our artists. > > 4. Provide grounds that can improve the concept people have around > GNOME, and earn more muscle. > > > > I would deeply like that everyone could advance with suggestions for > this campaign and place in personal comments so I can work to make it an > attractive campaign and take it from paper into implementation. > > Despite I don't need help to make this happen, as I am willing to offer > my time to gather for support between other organizations, to work in > the wiki campaign page, and whatever is necessary, I would like to have > someone that can speak in the name of GNOME Foundation to follow this so > that it complies with the vision behind GNOME. > > Please flame at will... > > Nelson -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
