Re: Contractor status update: last week & next steps
Hi, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: > Who are our liaisons with particular distributions? Do we have any such > liaisons? Ubuntu 11.04 is out on the 28th, OpenBSD on 1 May, Fedora 15 > on 24 May, Mandriva on 13 June (dates according to DistroWatch), and if > we can provide them our GNOME 3 materials (screenshots, videos, FAQs, > etc.). That way they can redistribute them to their users. If we don't > have any particular distro liaisons, then Allan and I should find their > marketing people and liaise. Hard to say for all of them! Here's some pointers to get you started: Ubuntu GNOME packagers: Robert Ancell, Seb Bacher Distribution manager: Rick Spencer CTO: Matt Zimmermann Fedora Project leader: Jared Smith, formerly Paul Frields Red Hat: Best person to get pointed in the right direction would be Jonathan Blandford. I think Matthias Clasen's taking a lot of the management role for the desktop team on now? Debian GNOME packager: Josselin Mouette Suse Linux/OpenSuse: I guess we still can't do much better than Vincent Untz for directions to who we should talk to. What other distros are you interested in? 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: Contractor status update: last week & next steps
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 5:58 AM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: > >>> >>> > By the way, Allan and I have started this here: > http://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/ThreePointZero/LessonsLearned > > Oh neat.. I'll have to peruse.. I know I certainly learned some things.. > > >>> * Get a couple of nice articles into external news sites. >> > > I think an under-appreciated aspect of GNOME 3 is the GObject > introspection, so that's something I've been telling reporters about. I > also contacted a Pacific Northwest reporter to let him know Sri will talk > about GNOME 3 at LinuxFest Northwest in a few weeks. > > I think definitely think that from a developer perspective GObject introspection hasn't gotten as much attention as it should. It was a pretty hot thing about a year ago that excited a lot of people within the GNOME community. Seed and Vala are prime examples of what can be done with GObject introspection. Reporters eh? Looks like I'm going to have spend a little more time on the platform.. and commit some things to memory :) > That all sounds good, Allan. I am especially a fan of cleaning up the > marketing wiki, consolidating material on fewer pages, and adding a > Reviews/What People Are Saying part on gnome3.org. > > Speaking of the wiki, I really wish that we had a "start here" type of home page that goes off into various places into live.gnome.org. Somtimes information is spread out over the wiki and you end up using searches to get what you want. > Who are our liaisons with particular distributions? Do we have any such > liaisons? Ubuntu 11.04 is out on the 28th, OpenBSD on 1 May, Fedora 15 on > 24 May, Mandriva on 13 June (dates according to DistroWatch), and if we can > provide them our GNOME 3 materials (screenshots, videos, FAQs, etc.). That > way they can redistribute them to their users. If we don't have any > particular distro liaisons, then Allan and I should find their marketing > people and liaise. I'm curious to know about the *BSD, I never hear about it and I haven't participated in their community in quite some time? Is there anybody involved with them at all? Just to add my two cents - I've recruited about three people so far, two for marketing and one for journal. Two are interested in doing video type stuff and the other is collaborating with me on gnome shell extensions. (if you guys are reading this, doing an intro would be great. :-) sri -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
distributions contacts - was(Re: Contractor status update: last week & next steps)
On 04/15/2011 08:58 PM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: Who are our liaisons with particular distributions? Do we have any such liaisons? Ubuntu 11.04 is out on the 28th, OpenBSD on 1 May, Fedora 15 on 24 May, Mandriva on 13 June (dates according to DistroWatch), and if we can provide them our GNOME 3 materials (screenshots, videos, FAQs, etc.). That way they can redistribute them to their users. If we don't have any particular distro liaisons, then Allan and I should find their marketing people and liaise. I suppose we have different contacts for different things. There is a distributor-list@gnome that comes to mind (though it's not quite popular - YET). I am in touch with some people but for mainly technical and packaging issues so I don't think they would be so relevant (apart from forwarding the information maybe). They are all on the distributor list now I believe. They might as well want to make their own branded materials. There was quite an active discussion on the fedora test list about the lack of Fedora branding on their current GNOME 3 version, with a people not so happy about it. And then there are the people on the advisory board representing distributions too. That's what I'm aware of on my end of the spectrum. Fred -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Contractor status update: last week & next steps
On 04/12/2011 05:54 AM, Allan Day wrote: Hi all, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: [snip] Now that we've launched, I talked with Allan about how to best use the rest of our contracts (we're booked to work on GNOME till the end of April). We think our priorities for the rest of April are: (a) reach out to not-so-news-driven (more in-depth-reporting) journalists about aspects of the release that didn't get covered on launch day -- once we get some bites, prep developers who have volunteered, and get them interviewed Trying, not having much success. (b) write up lessons learned& ideas for next time By the way, Allan and I have started this here: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/ThreePointZero/LessonsLearned (c) infrastructure building& maintenance: update the wiki, consolidate audiovisual and textual resources, and otherwise help prep for future marketing, including press releases, talking points, etc. for the launches of GNOME 3 within distributions that will come out in the next weeks& months So I'm going to make some progress on each of those this week. Specifically, I aim to reach out to two reporters, braindump a few lessons learned privately, and confer with Allan and Vincent about resource consolidation. And I'm planning on pushing GNOME Journal's next issue forward, in collaboration with Paul Cutler, but that's not part of my contract since it's not GNOME 3-specific. :-) Looks good to me! I'll be writing a report on my recent activities in my blog. Some of the things I want to do in the upcoming weeks (apologies if this overlaps with above): Allan, there's no need to apologize for any overlap; I was anticipating that the priorities mentioned above would be things we both worked on. * Get a couple of nice articles into external news sites. I think an under-appreciated aspect of GNOME 3 is the GObject introspection, so that's something I've been telling reporters about. I also contacted a Pacific Northwest reporter to let him know Sri will talk about GNOME 3 at LinuxFest Northwest in a few weeks. * Finish up the release parties photo competition and do what I can to get the photos on gnome3.org. * Improve the content that's on gnome.org and maybe produce a bit more (I'm working with the design crew to produce a nice printable GNOME 3 cheat sheet). * Clean up the marketing wiki pages, particularly the marketing materials, and elaborate our brand guidelines so that they cover GNOME 3 patterns (stripes, Canterall, etc). Can anybody think of anything else?! Best wishes, Allan That all sounds good, Allan. I am especially a fan of cleaning up the marketing wiki, consolidating material on fewer pages, and adding a Reviews/What People Are Saying part on gnome3.org. Who are our liaisons with particular distributions? Do we have any such liaisons? Ubuntu 11.04 is out on the 28th, OpenBSD on 1 May, Fedora 15 on 24 May, Mandriva on 13 June (dates according to DistroWatch), and if we can provide them our GNOME 3 materials (screenshots, videos, FAQs, etc.). That way they can redistribute them to their users. If we don't have any particular distro liaisons, then Allan and I should find their marketing people and liaise. -Sumana -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Fwd: Re: Longtime KDE user, excited by Gnome 3
On Thu, 2011-04-14 at 10:37 -0400, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: > I love this quote (below). Andreas, Allan, et al. -- is there a place > for this on gnome3.org? Perhaps "what people are saying"? No, but there should be! If anyone can help with this, it would be appreciated. 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: Longtime KDE user, excited by Gnome 3
El vie, 15-04-2011 a las 08:56 +0200, Dave Neary escribió: > Hi, > > Better still just pick one phrase that stands out. How about: > > "I am very impressed and excited by a number of the new things you've > done, particularly towards usability and efficiency. It feels like you > have stepped it up a notch. Workspaces finally feel like they're > reaching their potential and usefulness with Gnome 3!" > +1 I think is more elegant and fair not to mention comparisons with other environments -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
