Re: www.gnome3.org launch
Hi, Jason D. Clinton wrote: s/real/strong/ Well, I think the by-line is weak, and I'm not a particular fan of Made of Easy either. But the by-line is not the important thing. The important thing is: What does this new GNOME enable me to do? How will my computer experience be better? If you can come up with a by-line which conveys or evokes some answer to that, I'm all ears. Made of per^H^H^Hinspiration or Made to inspire don't really do that for me. 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: Goodies for GNOME 3.0 launch parties
Frederic Muller wrote: Dear marketing, Last foundation IRC meeting we touched on the Foundation approval of some budget for goodies to teams that will celebrate GNOME 3.0 on the release date. Great stuff! I'm looking forward to hearing the details of this (as well as trying to bag me some goodies)! How shall we announce this (and where)? Planet GNOME, Identica, Twitter, www.gnome.org... any others? (I'm interested in this too.) In fact I am also interested in a more generic question which is how do we usually use our channels to announce stuff? I tried to motivate people with the T-shirt contest but didn't receive much feedback except from the people I contacted personally. How do we actually usually promote stuff outside of the GNOME community? (I thought GUGs would be a good way, but they seem a little bit sleepy ;) ). Good question! I've been thinking for a while that GNOME needs an outward facing media channel. The Planet and GNOME News are primarily places where we talk to ourselves. www.gnome.org is outward facing and has a news section, but it isn't primarily a news site (you certainly can't subscribe to it)... A blog or news site where we talk to our partners and to GNOME enthusiasts would be a great way to promote GNOME and to keep people in tune with where the project is going. It'd need volunteers if it were to become an enduring reality, of course... Allan -- Blog: http://afaikblog.wordpress.com/ IRC: aday on irc.gnome.org -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: www.gnome3.org launch
On 01/18/2011 05:56 PM, Dave Neary wrote: Hi, Jason D. Clinton wrote: s/real/strong/ Well, I think the by-line is weak, and I'm not a particular fan of Made of Easy either. But the by-line is not the important thing. The important thing is: What does this new GNOME enable me to do? How will my computer experience be better? If you can come up with a by-line which conveys or evokes some answer to that, I'm all ears. Made of per^H^H^Hinspiration or Made to inspire don't really do that for me. Cheers, Dave. I kind of feel the same as Dave, but having nothing better to say I have kept quiet. I mean it's always easy to dislike something (for good or bad reasons), coming up with better however is another story. Fred -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: www.gnome3.org launch
On 01/18/2011 10:56 AM, Dave Neary wrote: Hi, Jason D. Clinton wrote: s/real/strong/ Well, I think the by-line is weak, and I'm not a particular fan of Made of Easy either. But the by-line is not the important thing. The important thing is: What does this new GNOME enable me to do? How will my computer experience be better? If you can come up with a by-line which conveys or evokes some answer to that, I'm all ears. Made of per^H^H^Hinspiration or Made to inspire don't really do that for me. Is it just me, or are we constantly coming up with reasons not to ship the website now? :) Whoever comes up with a better tagline (or want us to get rid of a tagline alltogether) can edit the image in the repository. I want to ship. - Andreas -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Goodies for GNOME 3.0 launch parties
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 7:18 AM, Allan Day allanp...@gmail.com wrote: How shall we announce this (and where)? Planet GNOME, Identica, Twitter, www.gnome.org... any others? (I'm interested in this too.) Facebook too. In fact I am also interested in a more generic question which is how do we usually use our channels to announce stuff? I tried to motivate people with the T-shirt contest but didn't receive much feedback except from the people I contacted personally. How do we actually usually promote stuff outside of the GNOME community? (I thought GUGs would be a good way, but they seem a little bit sleepy ;) ). Good question! I've been thinking for a while that GNOME needs an outward facing media channel. The Planet and GNOME News are primarily places where we talk to ourselves. www.gnome.org is outward facing and has a news section, but it isn't primarily a news site (you certainly can't subscribe to it)... A blog or news site where we talk to our partners and to GNOME enthusiasts would be a great way to promote GNOME and to keep people in tune with where the project is going. It'd need volunteers if it were to become an enduring reality, of course... There are people that have been helping with Facebook and Twitter. I think a blog would be hard but perhaps a blog that gives excerpts and points to other articles. That way someone could follow Planet GNOME, GNOME News and other channels, make a judgement call on what would be interesting to our users and add them to the feed. Stormy -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Goodies for GNOME 3.0 launch parties
On 01/18/2011 10:18 PM, Allan Day wrote: Frederic Muller wrote: Dear marketing, Last foundation IRC meeting we touched on the Foundation approval of some budget for goodies to teams that will celebrate GNOME 3.0 on the release date. Great stuff! I'm looking forward to hearing the details of this (as well as trying to bag me some goodies)! You can find the planing document here: http://live.gnome.org/ThreePointZero/EventSupport How shall we announce this (and where)? Planet GNOME, Identica, Twitter, www.gnome.org... any others? (I'm interested in this too.) In fact I am also interested in a more generic question which is how do we usually use our channels to announce stuff? I tried to motivate people with the T-shirt contest but didn't receive much feedback except from the people I contacted personally. How do we actually usually promote stuff outside of the GNOME community? (I thought GUGs would be a good way, but they seem a little bit sleepy ;) ). Good question! I've been thinking for a while that GNOME needs an outward facing media channel. The Planet and GNOME News are primarily places where we talk to ourselves. www.gnome.org is outward facing and has a news section, but it isn't primarily a news site (you certainly can't subscribe to it)... A blog or news site where we talk to our partners and to GNOME enthusiasts would be a great way to promote GNOME and to keep people in tune with where the project is going. It'd need volunteers if it were to become an enduring reality, of course... Allan Sorry I wasn't clear. In fact I was wondering if we had a list of contacts (as in LUGs, news sites, community sites, distributions sites) to who we were in touch with and pushing information to? as well as a 'tracking mechanism' to know for each communication item who had been contacted and not? If not I definitely don't mind starting a wiki page (though how safe is it to put a list of contacts?) and start to put the people I spam with my current GNOME information. It's probably best that the point of contact to the group we know well remains the same, but that at each 'communication item' we coordinate and spread the news outside of our gnome circle. Note that I am not sure a wiki page is the best way so please feel free to comment on the idea (if it's not already implemented in some ways). Thanks. Fred -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Goodies for GNOME 3.0 launch parties
Ter, 2011-01-18 às 08:41 -0700, Stormy Peters escreveu: On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 7:18 AM, Allan Day allanp...@gmail.com wrote: How shall we announce this (and where)? Planet GNOME, Identica, Twitter, www.gnome.org... any others? (I'm interested in this too.) Facebook too. I will announce on FB as usual... and also upload some current screenshots. Maybe i can add Jason video there too. We have lot's of marketing to add to FB now. Cheers Luis -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Q4 Updates Due
On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 18:53 +0100, Dave Neary wrote: Hi, Bastien Nocera wrote: I'd be happy to do so. What exactly do you expect me to write here? I'll be making the choice of bidder public as soon as they've contacted me back. Perhaps just that? We selected the successful candidate for the Maemo GNOME maintenance work and there will be an announcement soon. They will be doing X, Y and Z over the next few months, and input, guidance and patches from community members interested are welcome The GNOME Foundation Board selected Igalia as providers for the GTK +/MeeGo handset integration work. Carlos García Campos and Claudio Saavedra will be working from 31st January on integrating GTK+ upstream as a viable toolkit for use on the MeeGo Handset platform. The full announcement is available on the GNOME Foundation blog http://blogs.gnome.org/foundation/2011/01/17/gtk-meego-handset-bidders-selected/ Good? Cheers -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: www.gnome3.org launch
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 1:56 AM, Dave Neary dne...@gnome.org wrote: Hi, Jason D. Clinton wrote: s/real/strong/ Well, I think the by-line is weak, and I'm not a particular fan of Made of Easy either. But the by-line is not the important thing. The important thing is: What does this new GNOME enable me to do? How will my computer experience be better? If you can come up with a by-line which conveys or evokes some answer to that, I'm all ears. Made of per^H^H^Hinspiration or Made to inspire don't really do that for me. Since I like the inspirational part of it, how about: GNOME-3 - The inspirational desktop for the rest of us GNOME-3 - The utilitarian desktop for the rest of us GNOME-3 - Where utility and inspiration merge GNOME-3 - Free, utilitarian, inspiring GNOME-3 - Free, simple, elegant - the desktop for the rest of us GNOME-3 - Designed for utility, elegance, and freedom GNOME-3 - So easy a caveman can do it heh sri -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Goodies for GNOME 3.0 launch parties
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 6:18 AM, Allan Day allanp...@gmail.com wrote: Frederic Muller wrote: Dear marketing, Last foundation IRC meeting we touched on the Foundation approval of some budget for goodies to teams that will celebrate GNOME 3.0 on the release date. Great stuff! I'm looking forward to hearing the details of this (as well as trying to bag me some goodies)! Yeah, same here. It is possible I could throw one in Portland. This is after all open source central here. I need to figure out how to do the logistics of it. I should probably see if I can get some help with organizing from the local Linux community. How shall we announce this (and where)? Planet GNOME, Identica, Twitter, www.gnome.org... any others? (I'm interested in this too.) Someone already mentioned facebook. But there seems to be one or two others. What about Orkut? I believe that is still fairly popular in latin countries. In fact I am also interested in a more generic question which is how do we usually use our channels to announce stuff? I tried to motivate people with the T-shirt contest but didn't receive much feedback except from the people I contacted personally. How do we actually usually promote stuff outside of the GNOME community? (I thought GUGs would be a good way, but they seem a little bit sleepy ;) ). Good question! I've been thinking for a while that GNOME needs an outward facing media channel. The Planet and GNOME News are primarily Well, GNOME Journal had the design of doing that since the articles were geared for both inside and outside of our community. I'm not quite sure what a media channel like that is supposed to look like? Sure, Planet and GNOME assume a particular set of knowlede/idioms and what not. Would you have enough content to constantly use that channel that isn't release information on GNOME modules and what not? I think that's what you're trying to say here, right? places where we talk to ourselves. www.gnome.org is outward facing and has a news section, but it isn't primarily a news site (you certainly can't subscribe to it)... A blog or news site where we talk to our partners and to GNOME enthusiasts would be a great way to promote GNOME and to keep people in tune with where the project is going. It'd need volunteers if it were to become an enduring reality, of course... By partners I assume you mean distros like Ubuntu and Fedora? Yes, it will require quite a bit of work. Generating content is a lot of work with a set of volunteers. Especially when apps for instance tend to be similar in scope. You have a lot of mail clients, a lot of panel replacements and so forth they aren't particularly interesting for a working family, a family with kids and so forth. The apps tend to reflect a demographic in GNOME that isn't quite in tune with families. Perhaps I'm just being cynical. As I grow older I'm not as enamored of panel replacements or funky widgets like I used to be. I am interested in how GNOME will make my life easier by generating recipes for dinner, providing me with a list of news in the morning to read, keeping in touch with relatives and friends, reminding me that I have a doctors appt today (I really do have one), or the latest sports scores in the teams I'm interested in. I want those apps. If you want to market to GNOME enthusiasts, it's not just the desktop itself which we want to fade in the background as much as possible, but the apps it generates. Food for thought. sri -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Q4 Updates Due
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 8:45 AM, Bastien Nocera had...@hadess.net wrote: On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 18:53 +0100, Dave Neary wrote: Hi, Bastien Nocera wrote: I'd be happy to do so. What exactly do you expect me to write here? I'll be making the choice of bidder public as soon as they've contacted me back. Perhaps just that? We selected the successful candidate for the Maemo GNOME maintenance work and there will be an announcement soon. They will be doing X, Y and Z over the next few months, and input, guidance and patches from community members interested are welcome The GNOME Foundation Board selected Igalia as providers for the GTK +/MeeGo handset integration work. Carlos García Campos and Claudio Saavedra will be working from 31st January on integrating GTK+ upstream as a viable toolkit for use on the MeeGo Handset platform. The full announcement is available on the GNOME Foundation blog http://blogs.gnome.org/foundation/2011/01/17/gtk-meego-handset-bidders-selected/ Good? Out of curiosity, will Meego do a joint announcement as well? To keep this focused: For immediate release, the GNOME Foundation has selected Igalia to integrate the GTK+ toolkit as part of the MeeGo handset platform. Carlos Garcia Campos and Claudio Saavedra will lead the effort starting the 31st of January to make GTK+ a viable toolkit for use in the MeeGo Handset platform. The full announcement is available on GNOME Foundation blog http://blogs.gnome.org/foundation/2011/01/17/gtk-meego-handset-bidders-selected/ I'm hoping that when people scan the press release they see in order Igalia integrate GTK+ MeeGo Handset Platform. sri -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: www.gnome3.org launch
On 18 Jan 2011, at 17:09, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: Since I like the inspirational part of it, how about: GNOME-3 - The inspirational desktop for the rest of us GNOME-3 - The utilitarian desktop for the rest of us GNOME-3 - Where utility and inspiration merge GNOME-3 - Free, utilitarian, inspiring A pity that Inspiration is Free already seems to have been taken... although by what, exactly, I'm not sure: http://inspirationisfree.com/ Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Interaction Designer Oracle Corporation Ireland Ltd. mailto:calum.ben...@oracle.com Solaris Desktop Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Oracle Corp. -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: www.gnome3.org launch
gnome3.org has been setup by Christer Edwards. Some typos were found, so created a repos for the website called gnome3-web. It'll auto-update the site within 5min from cron. Just clone, commit and push the changes. -- Regards, Olav -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: www.gnome3.org launch
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 6:48 AM, Andreas Nilsson nisses.m...@home.sewrote: On 01/18/2011 10:56 AM, Dave Neary wrote: Hi, Jason D. Clinton wrote: s/real/strong/ Well, I think the by-line is weak, and I'm not a particular fan of Made of Easy either. But the by-line is not the important thing. The important thing is: What does this new GNOME enable me to do? How will my computer experience be better? If you can come up with a by-line which conveys or evokes some answer to that, I'm all ears. Made of per^H^H^Hinspiration or Made to inspire don't really do that for me. Is it just me, or are we constantly coming up with reasons not to ship the website now? :) Whoever comes up with a better tagline (or want us to get rid of a tagline alltogether) can edit the image in the repository. I want to ship. Yeah, I agree, let's just not add any tagline for now and just put it out there. We can always add it later I think. sri -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
GNOME Hackfest and GNOME.Asia Summit announcements
Dear all, Here is a draft announcement of the 2 major upcoming events that will happen right before the GNOME 3.0 release. I hereby submit the text for your review and comments, and once we're all ok with the content, grammar and web links (I think there should be more and they should probably point to gnome.asia once it's launched - 1/2 more days). These 2 announcements should appear on gnome.org upcoming event section and on gnome.asia website. announcement start - *GNOME 3.0 Bangalore Hackfest 2011* /March 28 - April 1 2011, Bangalore, India/ We are hosting a 5 days hackfest (March 28 - April 1) for the release, documentation and marketing teams focusing on GNOME 3.0 release. This will ensure some heavy testing of the code during the last week before the official release of GNOME 3.0, as well as preparing the release to happen in an optimal way. And at the same time, it will help the marketing team to clarify messaging when needed and finalize the launch details. It is not primarily aimed at users or new contributors but we may organize some training and hands on sessions during the last 3 days of the hackfest (March 30 to April 1). Apart from that any contributor involved in the release process is strongly encourage to join. Please let us know you are coming by registering on the Bangalore Hackfest 2011 page http://live.gnome.org/Hackfests/GNOME.Asia2011. *GNOME.Asia Summit 2011* /April 2 2011, Bangalore, India/ Right after the GNOME 3.0 Bangalore Hackfest, we will jump on the opportunity of having a lot of the GNOME developers already on site to aim for the greatest GNOME.Asia Summit of all time. Now in its forth year, GNOME.Asia Summit will have the pleasure to continue to bring GNOME to users and developers in Asia and more specifically India this year, but also to celebrate the release of GNOME 3.0 with the people who actually write the software! The event will bring the light on the GNOME desktop both from a applications and a development platform point of view, as well as strengthen the GNOME community across borders. Visitors should expect great insights into how GNOME 3.0 will transform their desktop experience, the changes and improvements under the hood and how to make the best out of this new desktop environment both from a developer and user perspective. The call for papers is already out at http://live.gnome.org/GnomeAsia/CallForPaper and we hope to receive a lot of submissions from the Hackfest participants. We are also finalizing our call for sponsors and, depending on the momentum, planning for an extra conference day to cover all the topics (based on available budget and paper submissions). So stay tuned and visit Gnome.asia for the latest information! announcement end - Thanks a lot. Fred -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: GCI: Update Gnome Usergroup Info, Introduction
On 01/14/2011 05:57 AM, Jason Lo wrote: I got some more info from China, and I received some really good contact info updates from Bangalore. I will update the wiki page accordingly. Hi! I'm curious as to what feedback you got from the Bangalore group: we're currently preparing for both a GNOME 3.0 hackfest and the 4th edition of GNOME.Asia summit, their website has been down for quite some time and when asking 'around' it seems they have nothing going on. We also discovered a 'GNOME India' at http://gnome-in.sarovar.org/, so I believe all in all it's a great opportunity to wake up all those people and inject them with fresh blood. Please let us know if you know more than we do. Thanks. Fred -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
