Re: [guadec-list] Linux Magazine Guadec ad
Hi Andreas, - Andreas Nilsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all! Here is the ad we're going to print in Linux Magazine. http://andreasn.se/diverse/temp/guadec2007-lm-poster.pdf Feedback is welcome! (and please point out any grammar errors, my first language is BorkBorkBork you know...;) ) Thanks for this, it's a great start; * Doc Searls will also be keynoting as well as Havoc Pennington and Bryan Clark * Stormy Peters doesn't work for HP anymore. Also I don't think we need include people's employers - we don't invite them because of who they work for but rather what they work on. * To my eyes the names of keynote speakers in orange next to black text de-emphasis that text (i.e. the black stuff stands out over the orange), whereas it's those names we want to stand out. (This could just be my wonky eyes though) * HP and Sun are Gold sponsors and so should be at same size / level as LF and maemo (Bastien, you might want to point out to whomever at RH that we're about to go to print and if they want the RH logo in there somewhere they'd better decide whether to sponsor or not). That's all I can think for now, Paul - Andreas ___ guadec-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list -- Paul Cooper| Tel: 0121 634 1620 Assistant Director | Fax: 0121 634 1630 OpenAdvantage | http://www.openadvantage.org -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Kiss this Gman when you meet him
Hi Quim, - Quim Gil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: See http://www.gnome.org/~gman/blog/31072006 Download http://www.gnome.org/~gman/gnome-update.pdf Enjoy! Glynn, can I ask how much time did you invest producing this presentation? At the end Murray is right. We can plan and discuss and plan a second iteration and discuss more... but a complementary strategy is: JFDI. Sure, Glynn's presentation doesn't really explain what is the GNOME software to the OSCON attendees. But it makes me feel part of it, and I can imagine others seeing it and wanting to know more and, perhaps, be part of it. Like the TV adverts that ring better our bells. I was there, and the presentation was great and it certainly got me thinking things for the Gnome-UK booth at Linuxworld UK. We'd already decided that our focus at LW-UK was to drive membership / involvement in Gnome-UK as opposed to pushing the usage of Gnome over any other type of desktop. I'm thinking, and I haven't proposed this to G-UK yet, that we should develop some posters based on these slides, other Guadec photos, and Luis' Gnome is people collage. Emphasise the fun and the community. The other thing is that, to me anyway, the presentation stood out because it was different to all the others - not simply a list of features X, Y, Z we have added this year. However the general 'project update in 5 mins' was good and it might be worth doing for Guadec with the various Gnome subprojects. BTW, did you get any feedback from non-GNOME people at OSCON or wherever? Can't speak for Glynn but I had a few people ask about AIGLX and Gimmie running on my laptop - while Xgl and AIGLX are great at generating interest, we then have the old problem of that there is never one answer to; how do I get that on my laptop, do I go with AIGLX or Xgl, etc, etc. People thought Gimmie as intersting but too experimental for usage at the moment. As Glynn said on his blog the conferece was dominated by OS X - there were a few Mac's running linux (and Gnome). Of the non-Mac hardware, sadly the majority were still running Windows. The majority of Linux machines were running Gnome, followed by a collection of plain old WM's (WindowMaker, mostly it seems). All of this is highly unscientific, based purely on me 'eyewigging' other people laptops, so I might just be seeing what I want to see. One other thing - nearly all of the talks, especially the keynotes were done on OS X. It would be good if we could get some more high profile converts (to follow the likes of Pilgrim, Doctorow, Bray - although he was still using OS X in his talk) using Gnome in their keynotes (no wonder Jobs used that name for their presentation app). Paul -- Quim Gil /// http://desdeamericaconamor.org | http://guadec.org -- Paul Cooper| Tel: 0121 634 1620 Assistant Director | Fax: 0121 634 1630 OpenAdvantage | http://www.openadvantage.org -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: On breaking the woohoo barrier...thoughts on how GNOME can get great
Hi, - Santiago Roza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/17/06, Havoc Pennington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] that's also a marketing angle: marketing is not just selling stuff. i suggest you read my rant :P in this same list, if you feel like: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/marketing-list/2005-December/msg00057.html The goal should not be get people to use Linux but to provide benefits to people. providing benefits is an important goal, but not the only one from a marketing point of view. you have to find out what they really want, give it to them, and then communicate it properly. At the risk provoking a further rant, I suggest having a look at the latest SuitWatch from Doc Searls, http://lists.ssc.com/pipermail/suitwatch/attachments/20060720/b35fd219/attachment.cc wherein amongst other things Doc questions whether traditional marketing is viable any more. I'm lucky enough to be going the tutorial he's giving at OSCON - I'll do my best to take notes, post them on my blog and share here if people are interested. Paul -- Santiago Roza Proyecto Tiny ERP Argentina Departamento I+D - Thymbra [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list -- Paul Cooper| Tel: 0121 634 1620 Assistant Director | Fax: 0121 634 1630 OpenAdvantage | http://www.openadvantage.org -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: [Fwd: Exhibitor Magazine Honors LinuxWorld San Francisco 2005 for its Attendee Traffic Density]
- Glynn Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: Personally, it's probably more effective to walk around with a shoulder bag filled with GNOME CD's and schmooze at OSCON which is really the kind of conference where I find booths to be of limited effectiveness. Sounds like a good plan - I'll be up at OSCON too this year. Maybe there's some spare tshirts from GUADEC that we can hand out? Another thing we could do is hold a BOF / impromptu event. Haven't been to OSCON at it's new venue but they alway used to provide rooms for BOFS. With at least Glynn, JDub and me there we should have enough people to do something (if nothing else talk about Guadec 2007). And along the lines of this Kathy Sierra piece http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2006/07/changing_the_us.html we might want to show of hidden / unkown / useful / upcoming features in Gnome. I'm running AIGLX and gimmie so can show off that stuff. Or we could grab the latest Jokosher, Pitivi, Diva (anything else) releases and walk through those. Paul Glynn -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list -- Paul Cooper| Tel: 0121 634 1620 Assistant Director | Fax: 0121 634 1630 OpenAdvantage | http://www.openadvantage.org -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: OSCON was Re: [Fwd: blah blah LinuxWorld San Francisco 2005 blah blah]
- David Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Paul Cooper wrote: Another thing we could do is hold a BOF / impromptu event. Haven't been to OSCON at it's new venue but they alway used to provide rooms for BOFS. With at least Glynn, JDub and me there we should have enough people to do something (if nothing else talk about Guadec 2007). I'll see about the possibility of a stand, if people are available to man it. I would tend to agree with Sriram that a booth may not be the most productive use of our time at OSCON. I've just found out that they are also doing a BarCamp style unconference in parallel with OSCON called (wait for it.) OSCAMP. See http://oscamp.org - in particular http://oscamp.org/Call_for_Speakers - although BarCamps are usually unstructured plan-it-on-the-day kind of events. Perhaps we can think of some things to present there? Paul Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lyon, France -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list -- Paul Cooper| Tel: 0121 634 1620 Assistant Director | Fax: 0121 634 1630 OpenAdvantage | http://www.openadvantage.org -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: LWE volunteers?
Hi Luis, I can help out - not sure what times yet as I haven't looked at the program, I'll let you know nearer the time. I could bring the flashy but mostly useless OQO running Breezy if you think it will have a booth babe like magnetic quality. Paul On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 16:11 -0500, Luis Villa wrote: Hey, all- Anyone interested in being an LWE booth babe^Wjock? It's a lot of fun to take a morning or afternoon off and swing by the booth, explaining GNOME to the folks who come by. The dates are the 4rd-6th; floor hours are 10-5. Please email me and let me know your interest and times you can cover. Thanks! Luis -- Paul Cooper| Tel: 0121 634 1620 Assistant Director | Fax: 0121 634 1630 OpenAdvantage | http://www.openadvantage.org -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: LinuxWorld 2005 London
On Tue, 2005-10-04 at 15:44 +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote: On Tue, 2005-10-04 at 21:30 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Thomas Wood LinuxWorld Expo in London is in a couple of days, and things are in place for an excellent GNOME stand this year. In addition to the normal marketing, I was wondering if the marketing team had any specific requests for things we could be doing, like questions to ask users, or data to collect that might be useful. Basically, is there anything else we could do over the period of the expo that would be of use to the marketing team? Suggestion: Get a GNOME LiveCD image on the Freedom Toaster that the Ubuntu folks will be hosting. Talk to Scott James Remnant, Cced. Can you swing by Nairobi and pick it up? :p Or Holland, or Luxembourg ... or whatever country they think it's in right now. :-( The machine that we are loaning to the Gnome stand has a cd/dvd burner and the LiveCD iso on the desktop, so all that we need when the first 100 discs run out is a bit of patience and some more blank discs. Paul Scott -- Paul Cooper| Tel: 0121 634 1620 Assistant Director | Fax: 0121 634 1630 OpenAdvantage | http://www.openadvantage.org -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: LinuxWorld Expo 2005 .Org Village London
On Mon, 2005-06-27 at 21:21 +0100, Thomas Wood wrote: Since there has been no response to this I presume there is no interest in organising a GNOME stand for the LinuxWorld Expo in London this year. If anyone is interested in helping out and is available on either October the 5th or 6th (or both) then please reply as soon as possible so we can let the organiser know we will be able to host a stand. I'll be at the Expo on our stand and giving a talk so I will be able to help out a bit. We can also loan some equipment (desktop + tft), like we did for the last one. I'm also happy to burn some live CD's - we have a duplicator so it's dead easy. I'm sure Jono will be willing to help out a bit as well. Paul -Thomas -- Paul Cooper| Tel: 0121 634 1620 Assistant Director | Fax: 0121 634 1630 OpenAdvantage | http://www.openadvantage.org -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
