Re: Fwd: Tanath9 sent you a message: Comments disabled?
I don't really care about comments being on or off - personally I'd keep it off too. Too much wasted time moderating them. As Olav said there are too many people with free time and I would not listen to someone's comment who does not have the courtesy to write 2 decent sentences. I don't see a reason for this kind of rant, and it is no way of writing to someone. My 2 cents, BK On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 7:51 AM, Allan Day allanp...@gmail.com wrote: Stormy Peters wrote: I didn't set comments to disabled No, I did. :) but I find I don't feel strongly one way or the other. Thoughts? The YouTube channel wasn't meant as a delivery platform. It was primarily intended as a hosting solution, with the videos then being embedded in our websites. I originally disabled the comments (Bryen helped, I think) because we were getting comments and we didn't have the capacity to effectively moderate. And I didn't want negative comments sitting below our videos. The problem with turning comments on is that we need to moderate reliably and consistently. It's an ongoing commitment. 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 -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: GNOME ad in Linux User and Developer Magazine
I should mention - motivation for the ad comes from July 26 issue of Fortune, Dow has a similar ad. On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Bharat Kapoor 3.kap...@gmail.com wrote: No sure if this is cool but here what i got - needs some art work clean up, but then I never claimed to be an artist ;). Source of content: Gnome 3 brochure Source of Image: http://news.softpedia.com/newsImage/GNOME-2-28-0-Release-Candidate-Awaiting-Public-Scrutiny-2.jpg/ Cheers Bharat On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 11:15 AM, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier j...@zonker.netwrote: On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 11:11 AM, Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org wrote: Linux User and Developer Magazine has offered us free ad space. Does anyone have some ideas for cool ads? I have the specs fro anyone that is interested in working on it. This is a great opportunity for us to take advantage of! I'm happy to help whoever works on it. I think I'd be most help thinking of topics and themes, not designing the actual ad. Not sure if they're on the GNOME Marketing list, but Jimmac and Máirín Duffy leap to mind as people who'd be good to enlist on this. What's the deadline for ad copy / material? 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: e-booklet, USB key
Send the material - based on the size I shall confirm by noon India time (early morning Europe) if I can pull it off. I am traveling so dont have a whole lot of time - but can spend 2 to 3 hrs. If you are looking for a fancy brochure - I cannot do it - am not an artist. A simple document with relevant info in a decent format is up mu alley. Am assuming the following: - Output is a regular Letter size or power point type document - Images text (material is ready) - I dont have to search anything. - Output will be PDF How many pages do you expect this to run into? Do we have a template? Is there any secondary / tertiary goal apart from giving a document with relevant info to participants? Is there any expectation of the sponsors that I need to be cognizant of? Cheers Bharat On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 3:46 AM, Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org wrote: Would anybody here be willing to help to turn the html schedule and sponsor ads into a booklet for the usb key? Stormy -- Forwarded message -- From: Reinout van Schouwen Date: Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 3:52 PM Subject: e-booklet, USB key To: guadec-planning guadec-plann...@gnome.org Cc: guadec-local list guadec-lo...@gnome.org Hi all, I need to provide the data to go on the giveaway USB key on the 16th. Currently, all I have is raw sponsor materials. Is there anyone who could put together a schedule booklet in electronic form to put on the USB key with the ads from the sponsors included? I can provide all necessary data. Thanks a lot! -- Reinout van Schouwen ___ guadec-planning mailing list guadec-plann...@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-planning -- 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 Ambassador Brochures
Will wait till wed for more feedback and update On 2010-06-21 10:17 AM, Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org wrote: On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 11:15 AM, Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.me wrote: This looks pretty g... Our mission is to make sure everyone has access to a free desktop. So instead of help you use your computer perhaps we could say to make sure everyone has access to free desktop technology. Although I would look for a better word than technology. 2. Need answer to the following question. What do I have to change? (i.e. when Gnome 3... Users will not need to change. They can continue to use GNOME 2. However, how things change for them is probably more up to the distribution they use than to us. We could mention here that you won't need to change anything. The new features in GNOME will make it easier for you to focus on the tasks you want to be working on. Your desktop will alert you of things you wanted to be notified of but it won't interrupt you. --- Gnome 3 for Sponsors 1. Recall the discussion which we had in th... Maybe you should add this to the thread about sponsorships. Or start a new thread if you think that's appropriate. You'll probably get more feedback that way. Gnome 3 for Sponsors, does not have the new roles info. 2. getgnome3.org site is not up y... We would have to ask. We have permission to use them on the website. I can help ask. 4. What do I do about: - Immendio? - OpenedHand? - Sun? since they got acqu... Please see the link above with the most recent logos. The brochure doesn't really talk about Gnome3 so I don't know how these questions relate to t... Is this supposed to be a GNOME 3 brochure or a general GNOME brochure? A couple of other comments. * Instead of a picture of me in the about Foundation, I think we should us a picture of several GNOME folks doing something together. * The list of company sponsors is outdated. The latest is always shown at the bottom of http://foundation.gnome.org/. Stormy -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Mobile Donations
Thanks Stormy I get your message, give me some time and I will try to work on strategy to go beyond our regular user base. Regards Bharat On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 9:49 AM, Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org wrote: Hi Bharat, I like the idea of mobile funding. I do think we need to know where we are going to advertise it though to reach past our current audience. Stormy On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 12:30 AM, Bharat Kapoor 3.kap...@gmail.comwrote: Dear All I propose we drop the Mobile funding initiative at least for the short term, till we have an Integrated marketing strategy for Gnome. Mobile funding may not work out so well in the short term because of the following reasons: - Our focus on existing users for Gnome 3 - most of them are close to computers - Does not work outside USA - We need to tap into various non-profit advertising modes like TV, radio, etc before we can leverage the Mobile part. If you have a different opinion please advise and I shall revisit. Lets revisit it again after the next Mktg hackfest. Best 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
Updated Ambassador Brochures
Hi Folks Sorry about the delay (but finally I managed to clean them up). Please check out the brochure text / layout (still pending Art work) @: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/ConferenceMaterial/Brochure Need the following feedback: --- Gnome 3 for Existing Users 1. In the message section we say that we had our last major release 7 years ago. Is that correct? 2. Need answer to the following question. What do I have to change? (i.e. when Gnome 3 comes out) --- Gnome 3 for Sponsors 1. Recall the discussion which we had in the recent past about creating multiple layers for sponsors (refer to thread -New donators roles) I have updated some of that info in this brochure Gnome 3 for Sponsors 2 - need feedback. (Its a strategic question - not sure if just creating it on a brochure is enough) Gnome 3 for Sponsors, does not have the new roles info. 2. getgnome3.org site is not up yet? Any update. 3. Are we allowed to use firm logos, what type of consent do we need? 4. What do I do about: - Immendio? - OpenedHand? - Sun? since they got acquired - what logos to use? 5. i...@gnome.org (is this email active)? 6. Any new apps for Gnome 3 that we should list: Currently we have: Tomboy, Deja Dup, Simple Scan --- Gnome 3 for Technical Users (folks we want to get) Most of the stuff above. Any other feedback you may have. Best Regards Bharat -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Mobile Donations
Dear All I propose we drop the Mobile funding initiative at least for the short term, till we have an Integrated marketing strategy for Gnome. Mobile funding may not work out so well in the short term because of the following reasons: - Our focus on existing users for Gnome 3 - most of them are close to computers - Does not work outside USA - We need to tap into various non-profit advertising modes like TV, radio, etc before we can leverage the Mobile part. If you have a different opinion please advise and I shall revisit. Lets revisit it again after the next Mktg hackfest. Best Regards Bharat -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: New donators roles
Diego You bring up a very good point - from my perspective if distros want to use this tool for campaign contributions that is fine too and maybe be better as well as a single channel for fund raising for (all parties involved). This opens a challenge for us to develop a decent set of guidelines on how Gnome and Distros work on soliciting donations - so that we (Gnome Distros) dont look like spammers :) Any one from Distro side on this thread - can you comment? BR Bharat On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 5:10 AM, Jonh Wendell jwend...@gnome.org wrote: Em Qui, 2010-06-03 às 00:20 -0500, Diego Escalante Urrelo escreveu: El mié, 02-06-2010 a las 14:28 -0300, Jonh Wendell escribió: It *would* reside in a new About GNOME dialog. That's my proposal. Do you guys agree? That's quite interesting. One concern: what would hold distros from using this for their own donors? I mean, if distros also put their donors there, why would people want to pay us for space instead of distributors? Or what if a distributor patches the about dialog out? How can we preserve the integrity of the dialog? A guideline? Good will? I use Ubuntu and they do not patch gnome-about. They have another menu entry, called 'About Ubuntu'. I think if we talk to distributors our wish of having them not touching gnome-about they will respect that. 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: New donators roles
Ref. to the attached brochure in works (ignore the images they need to be updated - material is good to go) http://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/ConferenceMaterial/Brochure?action=AttachFiledo=viewtarget=GNOME3+for+Sponsors.odg OR Go to http://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/ConferenceMaterial/Brochure and scroll to the bottom section Draft Brochures. Based on this thread it seems prudent to make modifications to this Sponsor brochure. I cannot stress how much I like both the tiered levels and an About section that thanks all sponsors. I would like to incorporate this into our brochure. I will send an updated one in few hrs with sample info. while we hash out the final content. John: - Can the About section be updated once the person has installed the software? Can we push new data? e.g. Any new thank yous or Donation campaigns or messages? - Also where exactly will this section reside? Paul: Can we define what each level gets. (I am just taking a rough stab) Gold - 5K - 3 Guadec registrations - *will this impact our Guadec fund raising a lot?* - Large logo on the Sponsor page - First right of refusal to host a Gnome party in a city (We can make this a general affair - i.e. when Guadec starts or finishes we do a one hour webcast of key note) - *Do we like this?* - ??? Silver - 2.5K - 2 Guadec registrations - Medium logo on the Sponsor page - First right of refusal to host a Gnome party (We can make this a general affair - i.e. when Guadec starts or finishes we do a one hour webcast of key note) - ??? Bronze - 1K - 1 GUADEC registration - Small logo on the Sponsor page - First right of refusal to host a Gnome party (We can make this a general affair - i.e. when Guadec starts or finishes we do a one hour webcast of key note) - ??? (*First opportunity will be given based on membership level), + All the stuff listed below, What else for these levels? Reg non-profits: Do we bring this Non-profit info into the same sponsor brochure?** * On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 6:02 AM, Paul Cutler pcut...@gnome.org wrote: Hi Diego, On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 14:43 -0500, Diego Escalante Urrelo wrote: Hi everyone we have a long standing pending item to define how smaller companies and non-profit groups can associate to GNOME. This means re-thinking our donation options. Currently we offer Advisory Board fees or free range donations in FoG. This works fine for individuals and our heavily involved AB companies, however we are missing out smaller companies that might want to donate one time or regularly and get visibility for it. A possible layout of our options would be this: - (unchanged) AB members: + annual fee: 10K/20K + link in foundation.gnome.org + usual association and mentions + AB seat - (unchanged) FoG (individuals): + various fee options + souvenirs + listing in donors history page - (new) Company donations (companies' FoG): + various fee ranges or case-by-case discussion + logo in donors history page + logo in /friends/ footer and/or other sections of gnome.org - (new) Supporter (mostly non-profits?): + discussable fee or contribution (maybe some resource?) + logo in some 2nd level page in foundation.gnome.org + we keep an eye to work with you in the future The big questions: - what can we offer to companies? ideas: + logo on gnome.org/friends; + gnome.org/something to hold logos and links to our donors; + mention in all events organised by the Foundation; + Supporter sponsor level in the next N hackfests or events; + press release for the new relationship; + ask for spreading news about FoG (for example); Yes, we need a Commercial Supporter tier. I'd like us to possible do a Gold / Silver / Bronze level possible at $1,000, $2,500 and $5,000. - what should we expect from/give non-profits? ideas: + a small(er) fee?; + link exchange; + press release about the new relationship; + support from them for our campaigns, like links for FoG; + re-transmission of their press releases via Foundation blog?; Currently you don't get much credit for donating as a company unless you get to the AB and there's no defined position or role for groups like guifi.net to associate with us. Perhaps waiving the GUADEC registration fee for one or two members of the non-profit? (Maybe do something similar for the Commercial Supporters above as well) There was work done at the Marketing hackfest on new brochures, they should be included in that (or where the AdBoard is). Also past individual donors have a not very visible list on gnome.org/friends/, we could have a much better display for them. Maybe some other concept instead of a list, maybe a big mosaic like the GNOME is people one or something? Yes. I think celebrating our donors (who are usually users not developers) is important. Hope to hear from you! Diego Paul --
Re: New donators roles
Thanks John I am OK with both - just a suggestion - if its possible to push content into this About GNOME dialog that would be cool :) - can push any campaigns etc. (just a thought) Regards bharat On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 12:28 PM, Jonh Wendell jwend...@gnome.org wrote: Em Qua, 2010-06-02 às 11:52 -0500, Bharat Kapoor escreveu: John: * Can the About section be updated once the person has installed the software? Can we push new data? e.g. Any new thank yous or Donation campaigns or messages? My idea is to have data 'of this release': In GNOME 3.0 we would show names that contributed to 3.0 (in the 3.0 cycle). In 3.2 we would show the names of who donated in 3.2 cycle. Once a version X is release, who donate would appear in About dialog of X+1. * Also where exactly will this section reside? It *would* reside in a new About GNOME dialog. That's my proposal. Do you guys agree? 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: Traineeships at GNOME
I am on board with this idea - its pretty cool and when we go to Univs and try to get them to adopt Gnome. This could also possibly lead to some senior projects based on Gnome which could feed into small apps development for Mobile stacks like MeeGo. BR Bharat On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 2:42 AM, Sanne te Meerman sa...@opensourceadvies.nl wrote: Hi Jaap, Sounds like a good idea. I hope you can use GUADEC for this, as it seems now there will be a short session about education during the pre-conference. If you could organise something that could attract students to this, that would be great. During the pre-conference (Open Desktop Day - see http://www.guadec.org/index.php/guadec/2010/schedConf/overview#open-desktop-day). There will also be attention for the role of education. Your presence would be great, and if you have ideas about the strengthening the relations between education-community-business, that 'd be very interesting. Best, Sanne (GUADEC organisation team-NL). + 31 6 14829390 Jaap A. Haitsma schreef: Hi, In the Netherlands it's normal that computer science students need to do 6 month traineeship at a company working on a certain project. Outside the Google SOC program I've never really noticed (but I might have missed it) trainees working on GNOME. I thought it might be an idea to have a traineeships page at gnome.org where companies can propose possible traineeships. With the trainees we can get some love back that Bastien is missing [1]. Actually his email triggered this one. Has it ever been tried in the past to promote traineeships for GNOME outside of the SOC scope? Another related idea is to have a jobs page where companies can post GNOME related job ads. We could even opt to ask some donation for placing the ad ($100 ?). Or we could make it a perk for corporate sponsors of GNOME. If they pay x a year they get the job ads for free. What are your thoughts about this? Regards, Jaap [1] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2010-May/msg00039.html -- 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
That is cool I will send u updated docs in the next day or so - I am trying to incorporate John's feedback. U may want to source images for ur posters in the meantime Regards Bharat On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 9:38 AM, Andreas Nilsson nisses.m...@home.sewrote: On 05/18/2010 06:31 PM, Bharat Kapoor wrote: John Take a look at this - we started working on it at the hackfest. It still needs graphic work. Just a quick note that this is still on my todo, sorry for not getting to it yet. - Andreas -- 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
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
Re: Mobile Funding - Update
Cool - wow 1.20 sounds pretty low. Atleast we have 2 options - $5 and $10 On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 4:00 AM, Daniel Baeyens daniel.baey...@gmail.comwrote: Hi all, As far as I've seen, in Spain mobile donations are only possible if you make an agreement with network operators. There are no companies for this. During the first weeks of the Haiti disaster, Spanish Red Cross managed to get some donations through this channel. The negative side is that there is a law in Spain, to avoid scams, which limits the maximum donation to 1,20 €. Of course that is better than nothing, but considering both conditions I'm not sure if it worths spending too much effort on this (just talking about Spain) Best regards, On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 3:40 PM, Bharat Kapoor 3.kap...@gmail.com wrote: Dear All A gentle reminder - please comment on the Project Plan or provide your approval for me to move ahead. Once I have a go decision - I will work on conferences between end of May till the next 3 months and coordinate the mobile process. Regards Bharat On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 6:45 PM, Bharat Kapoor 3.kap...@gmail.com wrote: Dear All I have updated the Project plan for the Pilot, which I feel comfortable that we can achieve in the next 3 months. If successful will make a it a permanent feature and also investigate Europe and other high open source concentrations areas next? Please take a look at the Project Plan section towards the end @: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeFundRaising Feedback requested: Is this good enough to go? or do we need more planning or need to explore additional channels? Have we picked the right conferences - is there any conference that we missed between May end through Aug end? Should we list ourselves on: Qnation Wecaretoo? Do we have a booth the the conferences listed, if not does anyone have a contact at these conferences, if not I shall contact them. Best 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: Attending SELF?
Hi Paul I maybe able to volunteer i.e. if we cant find anyone else (will know by end of today about my travel schedule). I live in Chicago but if we can find someone local we can save on the travel expenses :) Cheers Bharat -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Mobile Funding - Update
Dear All A gentle reminder - please comment on the Project Plan or provide your approval for me to move ahead. Once I have a go decision - I will work on conferences between end of May till the next 3 months and coordinate the mobile process. Regards Bharat On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 6:45 PM, Bharat Kapoor 3.kap...@gmail.com wrote: Dear All I have updated the Project plan for the Pilot, which I feel comfortable that we can achieve in the next 3 months. If successful will make a it a permanent feature and also investigate Europe and other high open source concentrations areas next? Please take a look at the Project Plan section towards the end @: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeFundRaising Feedback requested: 1. Is this good enough to go? or do we need more planning or need to explore additional channels? 2. Have we picked the right conferences - is there any conference that we missed between May end through Aug end? 3. Should we list ourselves on: Qnation Wecaretoo? 4. Do we have a booth the the conferences listed, if not does anyone have a contact at these conferences, if not I shall contact them. Best Regards Bharat -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Mobile Funding - Update
Hi Stormy Its a valid concern. I can try to volunteer for some and hopefully will find others too :) Reg being at other hybrid conferences - where we have a mix e.g. the SELF one in SC: This is my logic (could be wrong) - At conf we'll find folks who contribute to Gnome and those who dont (assumption - if there is a booth people will come to it) - A contributor seeing this little card probably wont care - Any non-contributor will probably be encouraged to help - And when we hand out the CDs or cards - could always ask Would you help spread the message and that could be backed by a website stating how new users can adopt Gnome and related applications that one may need. Regards Bharat On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 9:38 AM, Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org wrote: My main concern is finding people that are going to conferences that aren't for developers, if the target isn't developers. Stormy On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 8:36 AM, Jason D. Clinton m...@jasonclinton.comwrote: I took a look at the plan sounds reasonable to me. I don't know about the radio aspect; that might be too much to bite off at once. Other than that, I'm just looking forward to finding out how effective it is at the end of the trial period. On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 8:40 AM, Bharat Kapoor 3.kap...@gmail.comwrote: Dear All A gentle reminder - please comment on the Project Plan or provide your approval for me to move ahead. Once I have a go decision - I will work on conferences between end of May till the next 3 months and coordinate the mobile process. Regards Bharat On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 6:45 PM, Bharat Kapoor 3.kap...@gmail.comwrote: Dear All I have updated the Project plan for the Pilot, which I feel comfortable that we can achieve in the next 3 months. If successful will make a it a permanent feature and also investigate Europe and other high open source concentrations areas next? Please take a look at the Project Plan section towards the end @: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeFundRaising Feedback requested: 1. Is this good enough to go? or do we need more planning or need to explore additional channels? 2. Have we picked the right conferences - is there any conference that we missed between May end through Aug end? 3. Should we list ourselves on: Qnation Wecaretoo? 4. Do we have a booth the the conferences listed, if not does anyone have a contact at these conferences, if not I shall contact them. Best 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 -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Mobile Funding - Update
Thanks Jason Agreed radio maybe too much right away - but will investigate. Regards Bharat On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 9:36 AM, Jason D. Clinton m...@jasonclinton.comwrote: I took a look at the plan sounds reasonable to me. I don't know about the radio aspect; that might be too much to bite off at once. Other than that, I'm just looking forward to finding out how effective it is at the end of the trial period. On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 8:40 AM, Bharat Kapoor 3.kap...@gmail.com wrote: Dear All A gentle reminder - please comment on the Project Plan or provide your approval for me to move ahead. Once I have a go decision - I will work on conferences between end of May till the next 3 months and coordinate the mobile process. Regards Bharat On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 6:45 PM, Bharat Kapoor 3.kap...@gmail.com wrote: Dear All I have updated the Project plan for the Pilot, which I feel comfortable that we can achieve in the next 3 months. If successful will make a it a permanent feature and also investigate Europe and other high open source concentrations areas next? Please take a look at the Project Plan section towards the end @: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeFundRaising Feedback requested: 1. Is this good enough to go? or do we need more planning or need to explore additional channels? 2. Have we picked the right conferences - is there any conference that we missed between May end through Aug end? 3. Should we list ourselves on: Qnation Wecaretoo? 4. Do we have a booth the the conferences listed, if not does anyone have a contact at these conferences, if not I shall contact them. Best 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: Mobile Funding - Update
Hmmm - not a bad idea - I think we were planning on sending people to gnone3.org - but now we can send them to a special page. Ok now since u suggested something that is cool - u have to help too :) or for that matter whoever can please advise: 1. Where can I find backgrounds - that we can edit with some nice message (although once we do this - we may have to do it for other friends of gnome too) 2. How do I find info on creating a new webpage Cheers Bharat On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Brian Cameron brian.came...@oracle.comwrote: Bharat: Perhaps to encourage people to donate via Mobile, we could give away some special thing to people who donate. Perhaps people who donate via mobile is given a special URL where they can download a GNOME background that looks nice and advertises that the person supports GNOME in a special way, or something. If we provide something nice, but free, in exchange for donating via mobile that might encourage people to donate in this way. Brian On 05/12/10 08:40 AM, Bharat Kapoor wrote: Dear All A gentle reminder - please comment on the Project Plan or provide your approval for me to move ahead. Once I have a go decision - I will work on conferences between end of May till the next 3 months and coordinate the mobile process. Regards Bharat On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 6:45 PM, Bharat Kapoor 3.kap...@gmail.com mailto:3.kap...@gmail.com wrote: Dear All I have updated the Project plan for the Pilot, which I feel comfortable that we can achieve in the next 3 months. If successful will make a it a permanent feature and also investigate Europe and other high open source concentrations areas next? Please take a look at the Project Plan section towards the end @: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeFundRaising Feedback requested: 1. Is this good enough to go? or do we need more planning or need to explore additional channels? 2. Have we picked the right conferences - is there any conference that we missed between May end through Aug end? 3. Should we list ourselves on: Qnation Wecaretoo? 4. Do we have a booth the the conferences listed, if not does anyone have a contact at these conferences, if not I shall contact them. Best Regards Bharat -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Feedback requested on Marketing brochures for Gnome booth at conferences
Dear All We decided upon developing 6 different brochures: - Developers - Existing Users - http://live.gnome.org/Hackfests/Marketing-2010-05?action=AttachFiledo=viewtarget=GNOME3+for+Technical+User.odg - New Users - Sponsors - http://live.gnome.org/Hackfests/Marketing-2010-05?action=AttachFiledo=viewtarget=GNOME3+for+Sponsors.odg - Educators - Businesses Please take a look at them and provide feedback. The Existing user brochure could use some feedback from developers, thought leaders and evangelists. Most of the images are place-holders that Andreas will update when he designs them. Thanks to Andreas for laying out the brochure. We will send out new brochures later in the week. Thanks in advance Andreas, Ryan Bharat -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Mobile Funding - Update
Dear All I have updated the Project plan for the Pilot, which I feel comfortable that we can achieve in the next 3 months. If successful will make a it a permanent feature and also investigate Europe and other high open source concentrations areas next? Please take a look at the Project Plan section towards the end @: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeFundRaising Feedback requested: 1. Is this good enough to go? or do we need more planning or need to explore additional channels? 2. Have we picked the right conferences - is there any conference that we missed between May end through Aug end? 3. Should we list ourselves on: Qnation Wecaretoo? 4. Do we have a booth the the conferences listed, if not does anyone have a contact at these conferences, if not I shall contact them. Best Regards Bharat -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Mobile Funding Plan - Please comment
My comments below. On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 5:57 PM, Brian Cameron brian.came...@oracle.comwrote: Bharat: The mobile funding plan is posted at: http://live.gnome.org/Gnome Fund Raising Please comment either in mail or embed your comments in the wiki itself. Also please sign up for what you can help with. While I agree that handing out cards at events and encouraging people to donate is a good way to advertise, I would like to see more ways of advertising the various mobile campaigns. Bharat I completely agree. One idea came up was to somehow get on radio - I do not understand radio too well so if anyone has ideas please suggest. (Of course I mean I want to get Gnome on for FREE) http://www.fallsradio.com/Free_Advertising_Policy.html I will chase this one. Shouldn't we have banner ads on popular GNOME websites (like planet, the GNOME Amazon/Google websites, etc.), send emails to various GNOME users groups, and reach out to people who might not be attending conferences? Bharat This is one thing we have struggled - the question is if someone is at a PC why would we need Mobile. I will setup a poll and send it to everyone and see what everyone thinks. Bharat Is there any other means of reaching folks not in conferences - apart from radio and away from PCs, Ads in magazines, article sin newspape4rs etc could definitely help. BUT HOW do we get there - anyone any ideas. Since the GNOME Foundation is a not-for-profit charity, I would think that we would be able to find lots of ways to advertise for free or inexpensively. There are many opportunities for non-for-profits to get free advertising. For example: http://techcrunch.com/2009/03/27/special-youtube-ads-earn-nonprofit-1-in-a-single-day/ BK This is sweet - I think we should pursue irrespective of Mobile funding effort. Any volunteers. I think this needs to be a seperate project. Can we get any volunteers to setup the account and develops ads for Gnome? I can open a seperate thread for this. http://www.wecaretoo.com/ BK Neat - dosent even need anything from us. Can we list Gnome store as well as donate section on this site? I can do ti if that is OK with all, will open a new thread. http://qnation.com/index.php?contentID=778 BK Do we have a volunteer to chase this account. http://www.fallsradio.com/Free_Advertising_Policy.html BK. I will chase it. Brain, u rock dude And many many more... I would think a mobile campaign would be more successful if we did more to get the word out. Just telling people at conference is preaching to the converted. BK Brian - Based on the case study from the firm providing this service, they use a lot of SMS, I am not a big fan as it pisses off people who have to pay for receiving SMS. I will look into Radio and see if other places do that too. Now the question arises: What do we advertise - I say Gnome 3 is coming... till the release and then next 6 months can we try Gnome 3. I will run a poll and send it to the team. I am moving these ideas to the wiki. -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Mobile Funding Plan - Please comment
Thanks Juanjo I have been a fan of Nokia's program too (kinda ironic after having spent over 9 years at Motorola) . I will try to move this info into wiki too. On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 5:37 PM, Juanjo Marin juanjomari...@yahoo.eswrote: On Mon, 2010-04-26 at 17:24 -0500, Bharat Kapoor wrote: BK Can u talk a bit more on Cool videos and demos - shed some light on something u have in mind or have done before. I am all for demos and videos - we can even play them on a laptop at conferences. What type of content do u suggest? I don't have any experience on videos, just watching :). This is just my very personal opinion. PD: off topic, I remember my friends and I were amazed with the Nokia N900/Maemo5 launch video. I'd like to see a sort-of video like this of GNOME 3.0 :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhTtsZATwBQ I like very much the Nokia video because it shows something pretty similar to GNOME shell but on the mobile area. It's a presentation of a new interface (and a new device) and it give you an idea about how you must interact with the new interface. It's a very well done video. It's professional. I love the music. I don't know if we have the resources for producing such as good qualitity video, though I'm sure we have talented people :). I think this is a sort-of teaser video. People got shocked by this video. After that, people want to know more and they did a presentation video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Az8VE1NtY8feature=related And after that, they did several 30 seconds mini-tutorial videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_bx3GY_gfkplaynext_from=TLvideos=J_X7m7LuC_4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDsse8nNnp0feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAY-xlfKyeIfeature=related and more like that I think they did a very good marketing job. We can take some ideas about how to plan GNOME 3 marketing. Cheers, -- Juanjo Marin -- 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
Mobile Funding Plan - Please comment
Hi Guys The mobile funding plan is posted at: http://live.gnome.org/Gnome Fund Raising Please comment either in mail or embed your comments in the wiki itself. Also please sign up for what you can help with. Regards Bharat -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Mobile Funding Plan - Please comment
Juanjo Ignore the %20 stuff - I fixed it to be GnomeFundRaising -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Mobile Funding Plan - Please comment
Sorry Try this: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeFundRaising -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Mobile Funding Plan - Please comment
My comments below On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 5:19 PM, Juanjo Marin juanjomari...@yahoo.es wrote: On Mon, 2010-04-26 at 23:45 +0200, Juanjo Marin wrote: On Mon, 2010-04-26 at 23:43 +0200, Juanjo Marin wrote: On Mon, 2010-04-26 at 15:52 -0500, Bharat Kapoor wrote: http://live.gnome.org/Gnome Fund Raising The uri is wrong :( Sorry, it turns that http://live.gnome.org/Gnome%20Fund%20Raising works OK Bharat kindly fixed the url: now http://live.gnome.org/GnomeFundRaisingworks perfect :) Thanks !!! I don't have an clear opinion about the mobile donation. In my country I think it won't work. On small hackfests, there are few people for this and in big events in Spain, people are used to get free gifts more than the opposite and the audience is usually students with not to much money. Only fan-boys/girls will make a donation. BK Completely agree - its same here in USA at least that is my impression. Wont work at hackfests. My target is big conferences where people who are not developers attend and have some affinity for OSS and Gnome. Anyway, surely this is different in the USA. However, I think people should be feel excited about GNOME project even for making a small donation IMHO. Cool videos and demos will help on this I think. BK Can u talk a bit more on Cool videos and demos - shed some light on something u have in mind or have done before. I am all for demos and videos - we can even play them on a laptop at conferences. What type of content do u suggest? Thanks a lot Just my 2 cents, -- Juanjo Marin PD: off topic, I remember my friends and I were amazed with the Nokia N900/Maemo5 launch video. I'd like to see a sort-of video like this of GNOME 3.0 :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhTtsZATwBQ -- 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 Hackfest feedback
Hi Guys I may be a little late with my post but I think we still have time to act on a few things I feel maybe important. If you guys want I can post them in wiki - but it would help if some decision were made on the mail list. *Goals: * Meet with local government to create long term partnership *My comments:* - I see the agenda more in terms of presentations, will this lead to a long term engagement - What is our goal from this engagement - do we want a long term one and if so how do we convey that. - Can we dig a little into their motivations before we even show up in Spain - happy to take the lead if you can put me in touch with the right contact (or I can dig) - Do they want Gnome - *where, how and why* Meet with local users - Should we use this opportunity to develop these users (not developers) into our cheerleaders - And then this pilot can be scaled to other hackfests conferences - I feel this could enhance your vision of getting users involved (from donations to any other engagement) - *How - I have no clue?* - *Is this even our goal or am I on a different tangent? * Gnome 3 Videos: (its very possible - its already been discussed - I did not show up for some of the meetings) - I was looking at: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeThreeBrainstorming - Would it be worth spending some time and writing down our: ( I can help with this and that is what I call Integrated Marketing Strategy) - Strategy for Gnome 3 - yes its cool and nice - then what do we want to achieve with the campaign surrounding it? - then what is our marketing strategy - then we make a list of videos we need GNOME Message - We have a lot of them on http://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/CoreMessage - and yes they are all relevant - I'd suggest we develop our USP - Unique Selling proposition Success: Established relationships with local government - Can we define it further - have specific goals e.g. get Zaragoza govt to install Ubuntu with Gnome on 1000 PCs by end of 2010 (I am just saying) - OR give away CDs in schools Attendance from our downstream partners - Can we define it Please comment Regards Bharat -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: GNOME - Gnome
Hi Guys At least now I know what GNOME is an acronym for :) - thanks Hylke. I am working on our mobile fund raising plan and many a times the question came up: Who are we? Why are we in this business? What's our grand vision? At least I could not find a consistent answer (I think I understand the essence) - maybe its ignorance on my part - but anyway. Now why do I bring all this up in this thread? The talk is about name or rename (if our mission is consistent with) GNU Network Object Model Environment - then stick with Gnome or GNOME (I dont have a preference) BUT if our mission / vision / goals are a little different now - maybe we want to think of renaming. But before we go that route would it be worth everyone spelling their view/vision in a couple of sentences. What we should DO and what we should NOT? I agree with Dave too - we dont have a huge brand equity maybe starting fresh may not be such a bad idea (assuming we have a strong reason tod o so) This should give us a clear direction if we need a name change or not. My 2 cents Regards Bharat On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 4:35 AM, Dave Neary dne...@gnome.org wrote: Hi, Hylke Bons wrote: I am very much against this. Gnome reminds of the the imaginary tiny creatures. I agree with Hylke. GNOME is better than Gnome. Something completely different might be better again... we don't have a huge amount of brand equity worldwide for GNOME, perhaps it's time to consider a rename? Although I can live with GNOME... 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-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Update on Mobile Giving
Hi All I had the training yesterday and here is what I found: 1. Mobile Cause can only cater to US careers only (and that is a a limitation because of career locations). 2. There is no such service at least thru partnership with the current providers for Europe or Asia 3. Following are the tools: 4. Text2Give - We can setup ONE keyword and then donations will come in by texting that word - amounts option 5 or 10 only, at one given time we can only use one keyword, for additional keywords - we need to sign up for additional ones - cost 99/month 5. Text2Broadcast - allows people to signup to receive SMS mailers (wont work with google voice sms) 6. Text2Screen - Polling via mobile Item 5 6 have a 10K messages per month or we can buy additional ones - 50 bucks for another 15K msgs 7. uGive - is a iPhone app - where we can setup our own Gnome area - a video, msgs, etc. I need to know the critical events for Gnome that are coming up in US to chalk out a plan for Mobile fund raising. Let me know what u think, Regards Bharat -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Mobile Cause / Fund raising - Training
Hi Guys Mobile cause will do a quick 30 min training for me tomorrow. If anyone is interested please let me know and I will request invites for you too. Why: By learning a bit about the tools available - we will develop our *Mobile *Fund raising plan for the *pilot *that we plan to run for 3 months. Regards Bharat -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Facebook GNOME page
Stormy How abt using this as an avenue to further ur idea abt engaging users. How about we create a plan for facebook and we could do the following: - Contests (what I don't know) - how I use gnome - what's cool abt gnome - I showed gnome to my mother/friend/teacher ande this is what he/she said - we could definitely run some quiz (and give gnome shirts as prizes) - maybe on a monthly basis - seek feedback We can try to do the same on linkedin. My 2 cents Bharat On 2010-03-17 3:31 PM, Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org wrote: Hi GNOME Marketing folks, I think we are missing an opportunity to reach out to our users via Facebook - see the stats below. 6,464 fans!!! I also attached a couple of screenshots of our insights. It was interesting to see how the interactive fans compared to all the fans as a whole. I don't think we should immediately go on Facebook and ask for money. I do think we should figure out how to more actively engage these folks. At the very least we should monitor the page and comment on people's posts. We could also test out marketing campaigns, myths and myth busters for GNOME 3. So if you aren't on the page[1], go join. Especially if you are an active Facebook member. Then take a few minutes to read through, comment on people's posts, and think about how we can actively engage with these folks. Stormy [1] http://www.facebook.com/pages/GNOME/5758174322 -- Here is this week's summary for the Facebook Page: GNOME +66 Fans this week (6,464 total Fans) 15 Wall Posts, Comments, and Likes this week (10 last week) 478 Visits to your page this week (485 Visits last week) Update your Fans: http://www.facebook.com/n/?pages%2FGNOME%2F5758174322v=wallmid=20b3694G2dd261G0G66n_m=stormy%40alumni.rice.edu Visit your Insights Page: http://www.facebook.com/n/?business%2Finsights%2Fpagesi=5758174322mid=20b3694G2dd261G0G66n_m=stormy%40alumni.rice.edu Get more Fans with Facebook Ads: http://www.facebook.com/n/?ads%2Fcreate%2Fsrc=pg_editfbid=5758174322mid=20b3694G2dd261G0G66n_m=stormy%40alumni.rice.edu Thanks, The Facebook Team == = -- 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
Update on Mobile Giving
Hi Folks I have updated the Mobile Giving wiki: http://live.gnome.org/Gnome%20Fund%20Raising Please provide feedback and comments. Regards Bharat -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: You are invited to the 2010 GNOME Marketing Hackfest!
Since its on a campus Can we do a couple of competitions that will attract non-Gnome crowd and we can use this opportunity to showcase our product? Just a thought. On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 9:49 AM, Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org wrote: It's time to hold another marketing hackfest! This one will be focused primarily on launch plans for GNOME 3.0, including the video project. ASOLIF and CESLA have put us in touch with the Zaragoza Municipality and Aragon Regional Government in Spain who have offered to sponsor the hackfest. The Technological Institute of Aragon (ITA) will host the event in Zaragoza May 5-7. During the event there will also be a chance to meet with the media and local organizations that are either already using GNOME or are in the process of migrating to GNOME. This is an excellent opportunity to see real users in action and to hear their needs and concerns. We thought the marketing team would be a good match for this! For goals, we propose: * Meet with local government groups to create long term partnership * GNOME 3.0 launch plan * GNOME 3.0 videos * Meet with local users to better understand their needs and use cases Any others? I've created a wiki page for us to discuss details and plans: http://live.gnome.org/Hackfests/Marketing-2010-05 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
Who knows about TV Radio advertising
Hello All I am looking for someone to seek advice on radio TV ads, does anyone has had prior experience with that or knows someone in the industry who does or has used these services. We are looking at getting some time for our marketing campaign - targeted at our Mobile Giving effort (i.e donate via Cell Phone) Please advise Regards Bharat -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Update on Mobile Giving
Hi Guys Here is a quick update on the status of Mobile Giving: - We have a 3 month period to run pilot and validate if this tool works for us - Cost $300 Campaigns: - Get read to go by end of Month - Use Gnome 2.3 release as the launching pad for this campaign - Focus on users not just developers to donate - Make a list of conferences that we can target - BUT - We dont always want to solicit evelopesr - How can we get our developers to spread the message - get ur folks to TRY Gnome or friends to TRY Gnome - What other options do we have Marketing in General: - We can hire some Business School interns (I can supervise Univ of Chicago North Western interns) - and they can be had for Free to develop Marketing strategy as well as campaigns. - Get some creative idea - Someone to do the work What Next: - Need volunteer(s) - who can help with any aspect of this project esp: - Coming up with catchy phrases for campaigns - Developing banners places to post them - Any one with a wild idea :) Take a look at the product, make any wild suggestions. http://www.mobilecause.com/ Best Regards Bharat -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Mobile Giving Marketing Plan Draft
Posted: http://live.gnome.org/Gnome%20Fund%20Raising#preview Please jot ur thoughts. Best Regards Bharat -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Mobile Giving Foundation
Brain Your suggestion makes perfect sense and I would have takena first stab at the plan once we had an approval from the team. Also along with all the things you suggested we should launch this mobile giving campaign at some significant Gnome event (or atleast Gnome related event) - Boston event may be too far but we should be able to find something sooner. This will give us a decent captive audience allowing this campaign to go viral (I am an optimist :). Also we would engage the vendor and solicit their best practices - as they give us a few more tools than just mobile payments (and we should leverage all of them). Paul/Brain/Stormy (since I am new - I will keep using this excuse as long as you guys allow me to). Whats the process, when I know I have a go ahead to get the paperwork ready for the vendor - they have sent it to me and I am just sitting on them waiting for our team's approval. Best Regards Bharat On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 9:25 AM, Brian Cameron brian.came...@sun.com wrote: Paul: I think we should do this and use the $300 to try taking donations via text message. The board also thought this was a good opportunity. However, in order for such a mobile campaign to work well, there needs to be some plan to make the public aware that they can donate via this mechanism. I can imagine that social networking tools such as Facebook, MySpace, and LinkedIn could be used to get the message out. Also, making use of things like our Amazon Store. But, I could imagine that we could do more than even this (press releases, ads, etc.). While $300 is not a lot to spend, it does seem that if the GNOME marketing team plans to make use of this sort of tool that we need some sort of plan in place about how we will get the word out. Shouldn't the GNOME marketing team put together at least a skeleton of a plan together before we spend the money? Otherwise, I worry we will just spend the $300 and it will just go unused. Brian Combined with your message about the declining Friends of GNOME donations (taking out the one time donation we had last month) this might help kickstart it again. In a perfect world, I'd like us to to wrap up the Sysadmin banner and get that launched and do this at the same time. I know Lucas had volunteered to try and finish that, but with the birth of his child, I'm assuming he'll be away for a bit. (I'll send a separate email on this to try and get this finished). Paul On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org mailto:sto...@gnome.org wrote: 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 sto...@gnome.org mailto:sto...@gnome.org 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 sto...@gnome.org mailto:sto...@gnome.org wrote: On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 10:14 AM, Bharat Kapoor 3.kap...@gmail.com mailto: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
Re: Mobile Giving Foundation
Definitely its doable - let me go into the docs tonight and I will send them to Stormy for signature and will call the vendor tomm and get it going. Regards Bharat On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 8:34 PM, Paul Cutler pcut...@gnome.org wrote: On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 08:53 -0700, Stormy Peters wrote: On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 8:39 AM, Bharat Kapoor 3.kap...@gmail.com wrote: Whats the process, when I know I have a go ahead to get the paperwork ready for the vendor - they have sent it to me and I am just sitting on them waiting for our team's approval. How about putting together the launch plan first? Stormy Bharat, Is there any chance we could launch this by the end of the month? I know it's aggressive, but we could use the 2.30 release notes to announce it - there's already a section in the release notes talking about Friends of GNOME, and that section could use an update. How can I help? Paul -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Mobile Giving Foundation
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. I looked at XIPWIRE - its cool - only issue one additional step (and dont know their setup fee). Apart from that we can use Mobile causes's other tools to market our stuff and that can be used for buzz around Boston summit and Gnome 3 rel. Sorry I could not join the Mktg mtg on 13th. Let me know what u guys think. Regards Bbarat On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org wrote: 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
Mobile Giving Foundation
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
Re: GNOME track at Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit
Hi What is involved from our side. I can definitely look into it (was involved with CELF for 5 years - while I was at Mot) Cheers Bharat On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org wrote: The Linux Foundation has offered to host a GNOME track at the Collaboration Summit. Is anyone interested in coordinating that? Stormy Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit Held in conjunction with the CELF Embedded Linux Conference and hosted by platinum sponsors IBM and Intel. Additional sponsors include Google, Intel, and Nokia. April 14 - 16, 2010 San Francisco, Calif. This event is an exclusive, invitation-only summit where key Linux stakeholders meet face-to-face to advance and create initiatives that address the most pressing opportunities for Linux today. http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/collaboration-summit/ -- 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: Accepting donations from mobile phones
Hi Stomry I looked at their site and to get the application material we need to mail one of the ASPs g8wave Inc. Jeff Ostiguy j...@g8wave.com Give by Cell Dave Asheim d...@givebycell.com Give on the Go, LLC. Albert J. Angel a...@giveonthego.com iLoop Mobile, Inc. Shannon Burgess shannon.burg...@iloopmobile.com Mobile Cause George Morales supp...@mobilecause.com Mobile Commons Jed Alpert j...@mcommons.com MPower Giving Don Feuer d...@mpowergiving.com Russ Reid, Inc. Tom Hooper thoo...@russreid.com Wireless Factory Melody Page m...@wirelessfactory.com Once contacted we need to send a mail to: supp...@mobilegiving.org. Happy to do so, but it would help if the email went thru someone whit a Gnome email address (I dont have one). If you think that will not be an issue I'd be happy to send the mail and followup on this process. Best Regards Bharat On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 12:15 PM, Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org wrote: Today I saw this article: http://www.frogloop.com/care2blog/2010/1/15/nonprofits-time-to-get-mobile.html Which points to this nonprofit service that covers the fees and passes on 100% of the donations: (no fees!) http://www.mobilegiving.org/ From their FAQ and guidelines, it looks like GNOME more than qualifies. Anyone willing to fill out their application and see if we can get GNOME in the program? 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
Re: Mozilla draft press release: Deadline for input Friday 16:00 UTC
My Comments On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 11:31 AM, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier j...@zonker.netwrote: Hi all, Draft release attached / included. Rough draft. Looking for input and corrections. Thanks! Mozilla Sponsors GNOME Accessibility Efforts BOSTON, Mass -- January 19, 2020 -- The GNOME Foundation is happy to announce a substantial donation from the Mozilla Corporation to benefit the GNOME Project's accessibility efforts. The donation will help continue the collaborative efforts between GNOME and Mozilla on Accessibility. The Mozilla Corporation is granting the GNOME Foundation $10,000 for 2010. The funds will be used in part to send GNOME developers to the CSUN Conference. CSUN is one of the premier technology conferences for people with disabilities, and by funding an accessibility hackfest at the conference can ensure a diverse group of GNOME developers are immersed in the accessibility space. BK Should we add CSUN's website in the press release (reciprocity - hopefully we'll get links in their PR releases) The direct impact of the Mozilla funding has allowed GNOME to add Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA) support to the Orca screen reader and other accessibility enhancements in GNOME, said William Walker of the GNOME Accessibility Team. All these helped make GNOME/Orca a compelling free alternative to commercial products for the visually impaired. As a result, we're seeing users around the world using GNOME as their every day solution. BK Should we add Orca link here. GNOME has had great success integrating internationalization (i18n) into the core platform, as a part of shared responsibility for all developers. Accessibility is also taking its place as a core value of the platform. Sending GNOME developers to CSUN will help to ensure that developers working on all areas of GNOME are well-educated on accessibility issues and continue to build accessibility features and functions into GNOME rather than bolted-on features. As the leading free software desktop, the GNOME Project's work is particularly important to Mozilla, said Frank Hecker of Mozilla Corporation. The work so far has improved accessibility not only for Firefox, but the entire GNOME platform. The GNOME Foundation and Mozilla are committed to open source, open standards, and open formats. Both organizations and their contributors contribute to numerous projects to ensure an open Web and open desktop platform for all users. Part of that effort is working hard to ensure users with physical disabilities are able to make use of a free desktop and Web browser. About GNOME and the GNOME Foundation GNOME is a free-software project whose goal is to develop a complete, accessible and easy to use desktop for Linux and Unix-based operating systems. GNOME also includes a complete development environment to create new applications. It is released twice a year on a regular schedule. The GNOME desktop is used by millions of people around the world. GNOME is a standard part of all leading GNU/Linux and Unix distributions, and is popular with both large existing corporate deployments and millions of small business and home users worldwide. Composed of hundreds of volunteer developers and industry-leading companies, the GNOME Foundation is an organization committed to supporting the advancement of GNOME. The Foundation is a member directed, non-profit organization that provides financial, organizational and legal support to the GNOME project and helps determine its vision and roadmap. More information about GNOME and the GNOME Foundation can be found at www.gnome.org and foundation.gnome.org. Media Enquiries GNOME Foundation Executive Director Stormy Peters Email: gnome-press-cont...@gnome.org Phone: +1 617-206-3947 -- 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: GNOME Store Update?
I learnt something the hard way. Thought I should share. Some of my sites dont work on Android browser. Not sure if we care about testing on Android and iPhone but just a thought maybe we should include them in the list too. On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Paul Cutler pcut...@gnome.org wrote: Hi, On 01/13/2010 04:52 PM, Andreas Nilsson wrote: snip * Take a look at the css, make sure it works in more browsers than just Firefox on Linux :) (I'm more than happy to have it not work in ie6 though, because there is more work than payoff for that version of ie) and that it's not dirty junk css left in there. * Some spacing and make sure that the sidebar looks proper. Then I think we can launch. Please help now everyone, if just with one of the things on the list! - Andreas I loaded the store in the following browsers, and did not see any issues: * Epiphany 2.28 * Google Chrome (Linux) * Safari (Mac OS X 10.6) * Internet Explorer 8 (Windows) * Firefox 3.5 (Linux and Windows) I don't have access to IE 6 or 7, and I don't think we should support IE 6 anyway. Paul -- 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 goals ( IRC meeting)
Sorry if this has been discussed before Are we considered Tax Deduction organization like a 501 (c) 3 - at least in US, If we organize ourselves or at least some part of us that could easily help some people who donate to charities for tax purposes. Can we make it easy for people to signup for monthly deduction thru their credit card or checking acct and they can remove themselves from their profile page whenever they feel. Regards Bharat On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org wrote: On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 11:15 AM, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier j...@zonker.net wrote: First observation, this page needs to be updated: http://www.gnome.org/friends/ Says 2008, obviously we're looking at 2009 donations now. (Sidebar) Jaap, can you help us? We're asking people to give $10 or more per month. What's the incentive? (Aside from supporting GNOME, of course -- but this is like public television, everybody assumes someone else will donate.) What should we give at the different levels? Also, one of the problems we have is that we don't want a gazillion options ... or at least not all on the same page. Can we do different tshirts with different levels of recognition? Or should we give out polo shirts or different types of goods at the different levels? A comparable program would be the Electronic Frontier Foundation. They do a pretty good job of 1) telling people what they support with newsletters, campaigns, etc. and 2) they give swag yearly. I see there's a t-shirt but maybe that's not very compelling for $120 (or more) a year. We talked about having people optin to a newsletter. We still need to add that option to the web page. What do people think about adding a Do you want to sign up for our newsletter? option? We can now track and send out emails through CiviCRM so it'll be relatively easy to keep track of. What could we put in place that would encourage people to not only sign up, but also try to persuade others? Is there any way to have a referral code? Extra recognition for people who bring in more people? This is a great idea. FSF is offering travel sponsorship as a reward for people that recruit the most donations. We could offer travel money to a conference of their choice, recognition on gnome.org or gnome.org/friends, ... If we move our Friends of GNOME sign up page from its current system to CiviCRM, it's easy for people to set up goals for themselves and track who brings in what. (At least it's supposed to be easy. :) But moving to CiviCRM would probably require Jaap and the art team's help. Given GNOME's user base, it should be possible to bring in more than 10 people per month. Agreed. And I think right now we are mostly talking to our developers, not our end users. Yet most of our Friends (95%) are users not developers. Another consideration: Some people might feel nickle and dimed. Not by GNOME specifically, but it seems like everybody has a hand out. If I donated at the $10 a month level to all the organizations I support I'd probably be looking at $50 - $100 per month. Any way to bundle this with other orgs/related businesses? An example: What about doing a revenue share with Linux Weekly News and giving each person a membership to LWN + FoG? Or a triple play with the Linux Foundation? LWN was willing. I talked to them and we had a thread going on the mailing list. We talked about how it could be an incentive for higher sponsorship too. $10/month is the regular, $12/month includes LWN. What do you think? (Thanks for all the ideas!) 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
Re: Friends of GNOME mailing list
Agreed On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 7:32 AM, Paul Cutler pcut...@gnome.org wrote: Yes, I strongly agree. Even if we just email them twice a year when a new GNOME version is released, I think it's important to get their sign off on opt-in / opt-out. Paul On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 12:51 AM, Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org wrote: When we created the new Friends of GNOME web pages we decided not to ask people if they wanted to sign up for a mailing list and instead direct them to the Foundation list. I think we should at least ask them if it's ok to contact them in the future. We may want to contact them about surveys, campaigns, petitions, ... While nobody wrote back to opt out when I sent out the survey, I'd feel better if they'd said it was ok to email them. Also, given that 97% of them are not GNOME contributors, it may make more sense to have a list for them that's more GNOME fan based than GNOME announce. Yeah/neah? 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 -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Marketing Team IRC Meetings
That sounds fine. Regards Bharat On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 4:53 PM, Paul Cutler pcut...@gnome.org wrote: Hello Marketing team! We are just wrapping up our 2 day hackfest and we have lots of stuff to share. But first, one hot topic here has been around community outreach, marketing team goals and how we accomplish those goals. I'd like to ask the question if people on the list would be interested in having a monthly team meeting on IRC, similar to what other teams do, such as Docs, Accessibility and Bug Squad. Short term, discussion topics can include a recap of the hackfest, some of the goals and tasks coming out of the hackfest that we want to accomplish (and those who want to sign up and help!), status updates around ongoing projects such as Friends of GNOME or the website revamp and more. Any feedback is good - if yes, you'd like to see them, please respond back with a Yes, and potential days of the week and times that might work. From there, I'd probably recommend using Doodle (http://www.doodle.com/) to help find a time that works for the majority. If you don't think regular IRC meetings would be helpful, that would also be good to know, and maybe why if you'd like to share. And if you don't want to say so on a public mailing list, I can understand as well, and would appreciate a personal email that would stay confidential. If you could respond by Sunday so we could work on scheduling a time next week for a couple weeks out, that would be helpful. Thanks! Paul -- 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
