Re: bad press in the G+ circles/press
On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Jason D. Clinton wrote: >> And how was I not constructive? > > Stop this. No, really - how was what I wrote non-constructive? I didn't flame anybody - I wasn't rude, I expressed my view of the situation currently. -- "Our brains just have one scale, and we resize our experiences to fit." ~ Randall Munroe (xkcd) Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier About: http://www.dissociatedpress.net/about/ -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: bad press in the G+ circles/press
On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 11:41 AM, Allan Day wrote: > I have no problem with criticism. All I ask is that it's done in a > constructive manner. And how was I not constructive? -- "Our brains just have one scale, and we resize our experiences to fit." ~ Randall Munroe (xkcd) Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier About: http://www.dissociatedpress.net/about/ -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: bad press in the G+ circles/press
On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 10:58 AM, pec...@gmail.com wrote: > If dissenting voices has nothing to offer than "it is all wrong, I > will go with product x", then it is not even worth to bother, because > all it does it creates flame wars like this. There is constructive > criticism (bug reports, written use cases which doesn't work), and > then there is just empty posturing, just because you disagree with > overall direction of platform. I didn't say "it is all wrong" or anything of the sort. I simply said that it might be instructive to note that few GNOME users are coming out to support GNOME 3 in the wake of Linus, Ted, and others criticizing it. I'm 100% certain that wouldn't have been the case three years ago. I talk to a lot of people, and I've found very few who genuinely like GNOME 3.0 - and I'm talking about people who've loved or at least liked GNOME 2.x. BTW, Linus and others, while ranting, have also pointed to specific things they do not like about GNOME 3. -- "Our brains just have one scale, and we resize our experiences to fit." ~ Randall Munroe (xkcd) Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier About: http://www.dissociatedpress.net/about/ -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: bad press in the G+ circles/press
On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 10:46 AM, Allan Day wrote: > Anywho, this isn't a helpful comment. This list is for marketing GNOME. So, marketing GNOME means hearing no dissenting voices. Got it. Thanks for being very clear on that point. -- "Our brains just have one scale, and we resize our experiences to fit." ~ Randall Munroe (xkcd) Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier About: http://www.dissociatedpress.net/about/ -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: bad press in the G+ circles/press
On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 10:18 AM, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > I'm not saying other Gnome people, but rather other Gnome users are not > chiming in and supporting it. That might tell you something right there. GNOME 3.0 might be awesomesauce for new users, but it doesn't seem to be striking a chord with existing GNOME users. So, what seems to be happening here is trading an established user base for a potential user base - with very little muscle to reach the potential user base. -- "Our brains just have one scale, and we resize our experiences to fit." ~ Randall Munroe (xkcd) Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier About: http://www.dissociatedpress.net/about/ -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Apply for revenue sharing for your video GNOME 3: Accessing Apps Quickly
I would vote no - but I wonder if there's a company that's GNOME-friendly that might sponsor the ads? That'd be a good thing for the executive director to pursue once there is one. ;-) On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Stormy Peters wrote: > FYI, I have gotten an email like this for each of our videos. > > Do we want to turn on ads? > > (My personal thought is no. Not unless we can control what gets advertised > next to us. I sit next to my kids while they watch YouTube videos and some > of the ads are highly inappropriate for kids in my opinion and I wouldn't > want GNOME associated with something like.) > > Stormy > > -- Forwarded message -- > From: YouTube > Date: Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 9:12 AM > Subject: Apply for revenue sharing for your video GNOME 3: Accessing Apps > Quickly > To: GNOMEDesktop > > >[image: YouTube] <http://www.youtube.com/> help > center<http://www.google.com/support/youtube/>| e-mail > options <http://www.youtube.com/account#notifications/events> | report > spam<http://www.youtube.com/email_spam?v=1a&c=NU-ndb5vwX2wgqceqG7H0pZ79eWXmuokdxHV5jt3M7betL3Jl3QuNQFCj3-0GDGYGDyfFl-Q1-WJfkpUKm-saXsDlKccXfmkD7UCekit_GyNoOc8GLLE8Dr1Aiguaz_W2Kbie9L8mb8Nz9GKtV1jrARyjbh8kJH-L56TDdk4adRU6u7hlSzLrw==> >Dear > GNOMEDesktop, > > Your video GNOME 3: Accessing Apps > Quickly<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4fhsgZbgKk>might be eligible for the > YouTube Partnership Program, which allows you to > make money from playbacks of your video. > > Making money from your video is easy. Here's how it works: First sign into > your YouTube account. Then, review and complete the steps outlined here: > http://www.youtube.com/ivp?v=t4fhsgZbgKk. > > If your video is approved, we'll start placing ads next to the video and > pay you a share of the revenue as long as you meet the program requirements. > > We look forward to adding your video to the YouTube Partnership Program. > > Thanks and good luck! > > The YouTube Team > © 2011 YouTube, LLC > 901 Cherry Ave, San Bruno, CA 94066 > > > -- > marketing-list mailing list > marketing-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list > > -- "Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." ~Ferris Bueller Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier About: http://www.dissociatedpress.net/about/ -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Media relations training at the Collaboration Summit
On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 2:22 PM, Bryen M. Yunashko wrote: > How does one get invited? The Linux Foundation will open registration soonish - then you can register, and the LF will review & approve (or not) attendees. I'm not aware of many people being rejected, but I think they do it as an "invite" event to make sure that attendees are going to be there to be productive, and not end users who mistake Collab as a typical FOSS event for just hanging out. Best, Zonker -- "Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." ~Ferris Bueller Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier About: http://www.dissociatedpress.net/about/ -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Software Freedom Day
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Stormy Peters wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 1:26 PM, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier > wrote: >> >> Hey Stormy, >> >> I think the online alpha is way more newsworthy than saying "some >> GNOME developers are taking part in this larger thing." >> >> We can tie it into SFD by saying GNOME is looking ahead to the next >> generations of services for software freedom, and then mention the >> other. > > Sounds good to me. > What do you need from me or the Tomboy Online team? Just the relevant details for the launch, how to sign up, etc. Best, Z -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier About: http://www.dissociatedpress.net/about/ -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Software Freedom Day
Hey Stormy, I think the online alpha is way more newsworthy than saying "some GNOME developers are taking part in this larger thing." We can tie it into SFD by saying GNOME is looking ahead to the next generations of services for software freedom, and then mention the other. Best, Zonker On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Stormy Peters wrote: > Zonker, ping? > Is it enough? Software Freedom Day is this Saturday. > Thanks, > Stormy > > On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Stormy Peters wrote: >> >> Hi Zonker, >> Is it enough to say that GNOME developers around the world are >> participating in Software Freedom Day and list the activities we know >> about? >> I think Tomboy Online Alpha is launching right about then ... we could use >> that to explain we are expanding software freedom to hosted services. Paul? >> Stormy >> >> On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 7:35 AM, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier >> wrote: >>> >>> On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 2:57 PM, Paul Cutler wrote: >>> > >>> > Anyone want to volunteer to organize the press release and >>> > participation? >>> >>> I'll happily write the release if we're doing anything. >>> >>> Best, >>> >>> Zonker >>> -- >>> Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier >>> About: http://www.dissociatedpress.net/about/ >>> -- >>> marketing-list mailing list >>> marketing-list@gnome.org >>> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list >> > > -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier About: http://www.dissociatedpress.net/about/ -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Software Freedom Day
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 2:57 PM, Paul Cutler wrote: > > Anyone want to volunteer to organize the press release and > participation? I'll happily write the release if we're doing anything. Best, Zonker -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier About: http://www.dissociatedpress.net/about/ -- 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
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 11:11 AM, Stormy Peters 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 About: http://www.dissociatedpress.net/about/ -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Friends of GNOME website copy
On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 9:27 PM, Paul Cutler wrote: > (Oops, must have hit a shortcut key for send, sorry about that) > > Anyone want to take a try at updating some of the copy on the Friends of > GNOME[1] website? > We should update that for 2009. Maybe talk about GCDS and some of the > hackfests[2]? Silly question - was GCDS funded by FoG at all? I thought that GCDS was pretty much funded by corporate sponsors. Also, why limit to 2009? We're mid-way through 2010, or close, and we already know FoG is going to allow us to hire a system administrator... we probably ought to mention that, even if that fiscal year isn't over. A quick crack, others have any points? Funds from the Friends of GNOME Program make it possible for the GNOME Project to: * Bring GNOME contributors to Zaragoza, Spain for a marketing hackfest and meeting with regional government about Free Software. * Send GNOME accessibility (a11y) team members to the San Diego a11y hackfest. * Raise enough funds to hire a system administrator for GNOME's infrastructure. * Conduct a GNOME usability hackfest in London. * Improve documentation with a Documentation Hackfest in Owen Sound. ### Other thoughts? AFAIK, and I might be wrong on this, event funding has mostly come from corporate donors. Is that separate from FoG? If so, we might not want to mix the two and suggest FoG is funding something that the corporate sponsors have funded. Best, Zonker -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier About: http://www.dissociatedpress.net/about/ -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: screen shot?
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Stormy Peters wrote: > Does anybody have a good GNOME screen shot to be used in an article about > GNOME? I can come up with some... which distro you want? :-) Any specifications? I can send directly... I doubt the list likes attachments... Best, Zonker -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier About: http://www.dissociatedpress.net/about/ -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Attending SELF?
Hi Bharat, On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 8:59 AM, Bharat Kapoor <3.kap...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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 :) What's the verdict? :-) If we don't have anyone else willing to go, I'll head up -- but I was hoping we'd have someone more local that would be interested. Best, Zonker -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier About: http://www.dissociatedpress.net/about/ -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: GNOME 3 launch plans & request for participation
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 12:36 AM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: > Is it right? Have I mistakenly said you own something that you don't? > Please also feel free to add items I've forgotten or add more details. Just confirming the AIs there should belong to me, and ACK'ing. Should be listed as JoeBrockmeier there, though. :-) Changed throughout. Best, Zonker -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier About: http://www.dissociatedpress.net/about/ -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Attending SELF?
Do we have anyone on the list thinking about attending SELF? They're looking for someone to work a GNOME booth, and it'd be good if we could field someone for the event. I might be going, but that's not definite so I'm hesitant to claim booth duty for the event. SELF will be June 11-13 in Spartanburg, SC. Best, Zonker -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier About: http://www.dissociatedpress.net/about/ -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Hello and suggestions
On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 9:07 AM, Marc Hanisch wrote: > I think it should be easy to provide a common Gnome environment for OS X > with a underlying Fink or MacPorts installation. So the non technical > enduser wouldn't notice all the powerfull unix tools behind but could use > it. Perhaps I'm not very well-versed with Fink/MacPorts, but don't these require a bit of command-line fu to get something up and running? IIRC, using MacPorts or Fink requires the user to: * Install Apple's dev tools so they have access to X11 and compilers, etc. * Install Fink/MacPorts * Then run things like "port install xxx" and so forth to get packages. Not trying to dissuade you at all from promoting GNOME tools on Mac OS X, but I'm not sure that those build steps are going to work well for "non-technical" users. We should *absolutely* be promoting GNOME packages that have native OS X installers. And we should have information about compiling GNOME packages for OS X for users who can be interested in digging a bit deeper, but I'd call those "pre-technical" users. :-) Best, Zonker -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier About: http://www.dissociatedpress.net/about/ -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Branding of GNOME-hosted Tomboy Online
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 10:06 AM, Sandy Armstrong wrote: > With the understanding that we could always rebrand before this > deployment is open to the public, does anyone take issue with using > the "Tomboy Online" brand as we begin alpha testing? I probably know the answer to this, but just figured it's worth asking: Is the Tomboy name trademarked, and is there any potential issue with the trademark for the Tomboy name / brand? I like Dave's suggestion of GNOME Notes too. Best, Zonker -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier About: http://www.dissociatedpress.net/about/ -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Website - News and Press Releases
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 6:55 PM, Lucas Rocha wrote: > I started importing the existing press releases to our CMS. So far, > I've migrated all press releases from 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010. Need > volunteers to finish this as there still quite many press releases to > import. Anyone? I'll raise my hand. I should have some time Wednesday if you can get me access to edit the site. Best, Zonker -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier About: http://www.dissociatedpress.net/about/ -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Guadec and Dutch government plans for OSS and desktop
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 9:35 AM, Sanne te Meerman wrote: > You decide, here it is. It's in dutch. If you think this could be > interesting, let me know, so we might have someone translate it. > http://wiki.noiv.nl/xwiki/bin/download/OpenDWR/WebHome/RealisatielijnOpenDWRv0.93februari.pdf Yes, please do have it translated! :-) Best, Joe -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier About: http://www.dissociatedpress.net/about/ -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Paul Cutler as Editor 'n Chief
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 9:54 AM, Jim Hodapp wrote: > > So please congratulate Paul on this position and give him your help and > support. > The GJ community isn't very large, but it's a loyal group that produces a > very valuable > thing for GNOME! I look forward to seeing GJ grow under Paul and seeing where > he leads things. Nice to see a smooth transition of power. ;-) Congrats Paul! I think this is going to be a great year for GNOME Journal! Best, Zonker -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier About: http://www.dissociatedpress.net/about/ -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Friends of GNOME December & January Data
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 8:56 PM, Paul Cutler wrote: > Is Piwik able to measure feed readers? Generally no. Piwik uses JS to count up visitors, so it's not going to "see" most people hitting the feeds. It *might* count some people pulling a feed in a client like Thunderbird if it loads the actual page. I use Piwik and AWstats on my personal site. AWstats shows *far higher traffic than Piwik. Best, Zonker -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier About: http://www.dissociatedpress.net/about/ -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Marketing Materials in git
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 2:03 PM, Michael Hasselmann wrote: > Technically, Alfresco is likely to scale better (KT is implemented in > PHP IIRC). But I found KT to be more newcomer-friendly. Both are OK to > set up, though it might take a while if you have no Tomcat server > already. Does Alfresco provide a hosted solution? Maybe one of the free software CMS/ECM providers would want to support the project by giving us a turnkey hosted solution? Seeing as we wouldn't be hammering the hell out of the servers, it would probably give them more exposure than it would cost in resources. Best, Zonker -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier About: http://www.dissociatedpress.net/about/ -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Marketing Materials in git
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 8:37 AM, Dave Neary wrote: > Alfresco/Jahia/Nuxeo/KnowledgeTree, maybe? But adding more > infrastructure seems like a pain. In any case, wiki attachments sucks > for collaboratively working on anything, esp. documents. More pain on our side, less pain on the side of the contributors who aren't developer tool friendly. You outlined 6 steps that a new contributor would go through in order to participate. Some may be that motivated, others are likely to quietly decide that another project might be better suited to their free time. Not disagreeing that wiki attachments are sub-optimal, but I'm not sure git is any better for sharing something like an OpenOffice.org document. Best, Zonker -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier About: http://www.dissociatedpress.net/about/ -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Marketing Materials in git
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 7:26 PM, Paul Cutler wrote: > Thoughts? I don't know if we need an answer right away, or if we'll > have a quorum in the meeting Saturday, but I'd be curious to hear what > people think. I'm not sure i"ll be able to make the meeting Saturday, but I do want to chime in on this. Having some form of central repository and/or some kind of revision control is a great idea. But I think git is just a wee bit too developer focused to be comfortable for a lot of people we might hope to attract to the marketing team. I'm sure some folks on this list have strong tech skills and strong marketing skills, but that's not the norm. What can we use that would be better suited for a non-technical audience that might meet the same goals? It's tempting to say to newcomers, "these are the tools everybody else in the project uses, so here you go" but I think that's the wrong approach to expand our reach. We need tools that are a bit less scary for people who don't usually work with command line tools and so on. Maybe we should be looking at Alfresco or some other CMS/ECM? Best, Zonker -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier About: http://www.dissociatedpress.net/about/ -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Reviving FootNotes?
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 1:56 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > Good on you! It's a good time to do it since we want to get GNOME 3 out > there. However, it would be nice to do those GNOME summaries that I used to > do before going on to GNOME Journal. It's a very hard job unfortunately and > requires someone dedicated to reading a lot of mailing lists. Can you point me to a few examples? Any volunteers to help with GNOME summaries? Best, Zonker -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier About: http://www.dissociatedpress.net/about/ -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Reviving FootNotes?
Hi all, A few weeks ago I got access to publish content on FootNotes. Planet GNOME is good for folks who are heavily involved in GNOME, but probably not a great way to keep track of GNOME news for users. GNOME Journal is great for articles, but the pace of publication won't be great for news... so I'd like to revive FootNotes. If you have news that ought to go up on FootNotes, please let me know. Application releases, calls for papers, requests for help, etc. Any thoughts around reviving FootNotes would be appreciated. Best, Zonker -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier About: http://www.dissociatedpress.net/about/ -- 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
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 9:30 PM, Bharat Kapoor <3.kap...@gmail.com> wrote: > BK>> Should we add CSUN's website in the press release (reciprocity - > hopefully we'll get links in their PR releases) The release that goes out to press will be plain text - so no links in that. Right now we're just getting the text right. :-) Thanks! Zonker -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier About: http://www.dissociatedpress.net/about/ -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Mozilla draft press release: Deadline for input Friday 16:00 UTC
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. "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." 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 About: http://www.dissociatedpress.net/about/ -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: GNOME Marketing Team Meeting Today
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 11:43 AM, Andre Klapper wrote: > Am Donnerstag, den 14.01.2010, 17:33 +0100 schrieb Dave Neary: >> I did see that, but didn't see (in the doodle) a timezone. I see you >> followed up with a mail saying that these times were UTC-6 (presumably, >> your timezone? ;)) > > Doodle supports timezones - could be used next time to avoid confusion. If we can get to regular dates, one thing to do might be to alternate time zones. With openSUSE we've done meetings at 12:00 and 16:00 UTC pretty regularly. Those times still aren't optimal for participants outside Europe and the Americas but most of our participants are in one or the other. Long-term, what tools (aside from the mailing list) can we use for more efficient collaboration? The more we can do that doesn't require real-time meetings, the better. (We should have occasional real-time meetings, but the times will never work for everyone.) Best, Zonker -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier About: http://www.dissociatedpress.net/about/ -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: New Press Team Lead!
Hi all, On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 9:34 PM, Stormy Peters wrote: > I'm excited to announce that Joe 'Zonker" Brockmeier is our new GNOME press > team lead! I'm excited to be the new press team lead! :-) > Please welcome Zonker (officially) to the press team. I'm sure he'd welcome > any help and be happy to share what he knows or mentor those that are > looking to learn more about press relations. Absolutely. In addition to re-establishing our list of regional press contacts, we could use a few folks to help with writing releases and helping plan and execute the PR plan for 2010. There's a lot of work to be done to make GNOME 3.0 as successful as possible. Great stuff going on in the development side, but we need to make sure that as many people as possible actually are exposed to GNOME 3.0. Best, Zonker -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier About: http://www.dissociatedpress.net/about/ -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Friends of GNOME goals (& IRC meeting)
On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 12:59 PM, Stormy Peters wrote: > We haven't made much progress on our goal of 10 subscribers a month. > (Although we continue to get donations, just not new subscribers.) > > Paul, can we add this to the IRC meeting agenda? Do we have a new time for > that? Would you like me to help organize it? First observation, this page needs to be updated: http://www.gnome.org/friends/ Says 2008, obviously we're looking at 2009 donations now. (Sidebar) 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.) 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. 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? Given GNOME's user base, it should be possible to bring in more than 10 people per month. 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? Best, Zonker -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier About: http://www.dissociatedpress.net/about/ -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Foundation Spokespeople (was FW: "Private Foundation-List" Petition for referendum)
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 6:17 AM, Frederic Peters wrote: > > I cited Evolution as it is the program to send emails (and more) > developed in the GNOME project; and this shows in email headers. > Just like I wouldn't like us to send press releases in Microsoft > Word format. Uses the GNOME desktop, yes, uses Evolution to send mail... not so much. We may have very credible spokespersons who use Thunderbird or Mutt, for instance, and I'd hate to get excludy because of something like that. I, for one, wouldn't see a credibility gap for a spokesperson using a "non-standard" application for something. Not using GNOME, yes, that would be a stretch. Best, Zonker -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier openSUSE Community Manager Get openSUSE 11.2! http://bit.ly/EOV8a Twitter: jzb | Identica: jzb About: http://www.dissociatedpress.net/about/ -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Foundation Spokespeople (was FW: "Private Foundation-List" Petition for referendum)
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 6:13 AM, Lefty (石鏡 ) wrote: > >>> I could _possibly_ put together a quick media training session, on the order >>> of 90 minutes or so, but--for better or worse--it's the kind of thing that >>> needs to be done face-to-face: I can't do it either on the phone or via >>> email. Maybe at GUADEC this summer? >> >> Also volunteering for this. I have a bit of experience in this area as >> well. :-) > > Cool. We should get on the program. =D How many GNOME folks plan to be at SCALE? I'd be open to pitching a Media Training BoF or something there. Could be fun! Best, Zonker -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier openSUSE Community Manager Get openSUSE 11.2! http://bit.ly/EOV8a Twitter: jzb | Identica: jzb About: http://www.dissociatedpress.net/about/ -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Foundation Spokespeople (was FW: "Private Foundation-List" Petition for referendum)
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 5:06 AM, Lefty (石鏡 ) wrote: > On the vaguely related note of "stuff we discussed at GUADEC but haven't > done much about", the point was raised on the foundation-list by Miguel that > we don't have a line-up of representatives to respond to press stories such > as the recent coverage of the set-to on that list over Planet GNOME. I think there's a page on the GNOME site with a list of PR contacts here: http://www.gnome.org/press/ It does need to be updated, I passed some info on to Stormy and I think she's passed that on to the right parties. We should also verify that the people on the page are still current with GNOME & ready to answer typical questions. > I could _possibly_ put together a quick media training session, on the order > of 90 minutes or so, but--for better or worse--it's the kind of thing that > needs to be done face-to-face: I can't do it either on the phone or via > email. Maybe at GUADEC this summer? Also volunteering for this. I have a bit of experience in this area as well. :-) > Relatedly, we need a list of media contacts, and a plan for cultivating more > of them. Yep. Since we seem to be putting in a CRM system already, it would be good to start putting people in there, I think. Press lists do tend to go out of date quickly. I'm willing to help curate this a bit. Best, Zonker > -- Forwarded Message >> From: David Schlesinger >> Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 03:19:52 -0800 >> To: Miguel de Icaza , Behdad Esfahbod >> Cc: foundation-list >> Conversation: "Private Foundation-List" Petition for referendum >> Subject: Re: "Private Foundation-List" Petition for referendum >> >> On 12/15/09 1:25 PM, "Miguel de Icaza" wrote: >>> >>> Perhaps what we do need is for the board to have a stronger >>> connection to mass media and be ready to articulate public responses >>> properly framing discussions and correcting any incorrect reporting. >> >> Actually, this is something I'd suggested in the Marketing BoF at the last >> GUADEC: GNOME needs people who (ideally) have been media trained, have >> appropriate contacts, and are willing and able to talk to press >> representatives when needed. I volunteered to be one, I don't know whether >> that are others, but we haven't followed up on it so far... > > -- End of Forwarded Message > > > -- > marketing-list mailing list > marketing-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list > -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier openSUSE Community Manager Get openSUSE 11.2! http://bit.ly/EOV8a Twitter: jzb | Identica: jzb About: http://www.dissociatedpress.net/about/ -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: GNOME Store
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 8:53 AM, Paul Cutler wrote: > > What I need the marketing team's help with is: What products and merchandise > should we offer with the GNOME logo? We have 6 t-shirt designs up, and can > also add products such as coffee mugs, tote bags, hats, sweatshirts and > more. I'd keep it relatively simple -- so no more than three or four things aside from the t-shirts. (I suspect there's some study that would show that choice overload results in fewer sales...) But definitely a mug, hat, and sweatshirt. Best, Zonker -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier openSUSE Community Manager Get openSUSE 11.2! http://bit.ly/EOV8a Twitter: jzb | Identica: jzb About: http://www.dissociatedpress.net/about/ -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Marketing Team IRC Meetings
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 1:21 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > I created a doodle account... btw what do we use for collab? gobby? I'd > like to try out the new abiword thing.. (we should be talking this stuff > up!) Are they compatible? I've had my head buried in the launch stuff for 11.2 and haven't had a chance to check out Abiword yet. Please tell me Abiword has re-used some of the Gobby stuff. :-) Best, Zonker -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier openSUSE Community Manager Get openSUSE 11.2! http://bit.ly/EOV8a Twitter: jzb | Identica: jzb About: http://www.dissociatedpress.net/about/ -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Marketing Team IRC Meetings
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 5:53 PM, Paul Cutler wrote: > 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. Do we have a link for everyone to specify their availability? Thanks, Zonker -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier openSUSE Community Manager Get openSUSE 11.2! http://bit.ly/EOV8a Twitter: jzb | Identica: jzb About: http://www.dissociatedpress.net/about/ -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Marketing Team IRC Meetings
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 5:53 PM, Paul Cutler wrote: > 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. It depends entirely on how well run the IRC meetings are. :-) Well-run, well-moderated meetings with a clear agenda are great. Let's give it a shot! Best, Zonker -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier openSUSE Community Manager Twitter: jzb | Identica: jzb About: http://www.dissociatedpress.net/about/ -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Marketing Hackfest Details
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 4:31 PM, John Williams wrote: > Sorry for the rant. Sometimes us folks who are not in the USA, UK or EU feel > a bit left out ... :-) And sometimes those of us who do attend all the events physically wish we could get the virtual stuff ironed out as well! :-) My partner and her kids would like to see way more of me than they do. :-) The physical meetings are, IMHO, very important... but if we had a system that was a real replacement for physical meetings, that would be fantastic. Best, Zonker -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier openSUSE Community Manager Twitter: jzb | Identica: jzb About: http://www.dissociatedpress.net/about/ -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Marketing Hackfest
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Paul Cutler wrote: > If you're interested in attending please let us know as soon as possible. I'm tentatively planning on attending, barring any other commitments. Would like to see an agenda before I book the flight. :-) Best, Zonker -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier openSUSE Community Manager: http://zonker.opensuse.org Blogs: http://blogs.zdnet.com/community | http://www.dissociatedpress.net Twitter: jzb | Identica: jzb http://identi.ca/group/opensuse/members -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
