Re: Your Weekly Facebook Page Update
What about 'connecting' the Cause FB page with this? Maybe we could use the cause page also to let people know about funds we're raising for a sys admin (and updating it making it more visible). Roberto 2010/3/25 Stormy Peters sto...@alumni.rice.edu: -- Forwarded message -- From: Facebook notification+fldvg...@facebookmail.com Date: Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 1:18 PM Subject: Your Weekly Facebook Page Update Hi Stormy, Here is this week's summary for the Facebook Page: GNOME +385 Fans this week (6,854 total Fans) 115 Wall Posts, Comments, and Likes this week (15 last week) 1,586 Visits to your page this week (480 Visits last week) -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: The ruler is a great success!
2010/3/23 Luis Medinas lmedi...@gnome.org: On Tue, 2010-03-23 at 15:37 -0600, Stormy Peters wrote: Hi Fellow GNOME Marketing team members, The ruler has been a great success. Thanks to everyone who worked on it and provided feedback. In the past 24 hours we've raised about $1,000 from individuals and had another $5,000 company match. I would like to keep the momentum going. I've blogged about it. Are others willing to blog about it over the next couple of days? Count on me... in 24h i'll blog about it. Thanks everyone! I just covered it on my blog (http://robertogaloppini.net), very cool! Best, Roberto -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Communicating to users what GNOME 3.0 is
2010/1/13 Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org: I've heard quite a few concerns from very happy users that GNOME 3.0 is all about GNOME Shell and will force them to use GNOME Shell. For example, see this thread that a Friend of GNOME sent me: http://gnomesupport.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=13782. I think we need to counter this with a What is GNOME 3.0 message. We are working on this with the material from the marketing hackfest but perhaps we could all start tagging GNOME 3.0 blogs and interviews that we do in del.ico.us or sharing them here so we can all expand on it. While change happens, and we can't stay the same forever, we need to make sure we listen to our existing happy users, make them feel listened to and address their needs as much as possible. I think it would be beneficial if the release team and the marketing team started coming out with blog posts and articles about what GNOME 3.0 is. If people are willing to write those articles, I can help find publications willing to host them. In case we might report about them also on the GNOME Cause page on FaceBook too. Happy to report about it also on my blog. Best, Roberto -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Do-Gooders and Other Free License Recipients...
Balsamiq would be open, maybe if this makes sense we might consider to let people know GNOME uses their product, and get free licenses from them. Let me know if you want me to help with this, I know the company. Best, Roberto 2009/10/11 Guy Lunardi gluna...@novell.com: All, While I realize that their software doesn't use any GNOME technologies, it is still a very useful tool that I personally use often for projects. I was wondering if anyone thought that contacting Balsamiq and asking them to consider donating licenses to GNOME Foundation members would be useful? http://www.balsamiq.com/products/mockups Having used their software for quite some time, I know that the projects we used it for had a much great user experience focus during the early development cycles because of it. It might be a great opportunity for GNOME to increase its emphasis on user experience. We could for example use this software as part of some of our outreach programs (collect feedback earlier on designs). Please let me know what you think. Best regards, -Guy -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Spreading the word about 2.28
2009/9/22 Diego Escalante Urrelo die...@gnome.org: On Mon, 2009-09-21 at 14:08 -0600, Stormy Peters wrote: I like Built to Share. (Sounds like built to last.) Freedom to share? Sharing freedom? What about GNOME 2.28: Forged to Share? Roberto -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Exploiting the Nokia N900 release
2009/9/5 Juanjo Marin juanjomari...@gmail.com: El sáb, 05-09-2009 a las 11:32 +0200, Andre Klapper escribió: Am Freitag, den 04.09.2009, 19:20 +0200 schrieb Juanjo Marin: Meanwhile we're waiting for Quim reply/help You didn't ask any questions. What do you expect as an answer? Well, I was asking for help. He is a Gnome Foundation member, so I think he could help By now, I know of some Gnomers who have worked on Maemo (mainly because what I've read from their blogs) and we can ask some questions if you want. Again: Questions. Where are they? Maybe I was not explicity enough, I was asking to the marketing list for questions. I said I don't know a shit about marketing. I only was trying to help pointing out who is the right person to ask. I think that I can't help more :( Actually you helped a lot, indeed. I wrote an email to Quim asking if he could help to understand how GNOME stuff became part of their open source strategy, and how they are profiting from using it, but I had no reply yet. Same thing with other contacts suggested by Stormy privately. If I don't get any feedback I'll write a draft PR without quotes, eventually. Best, Roberto -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Exploiting the Nokia N900 release
2009/9/2 Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org: How goes it? Ciao Stormy Are you waiting for info? Can we run with what's available online? Yes, I'm awaiting for more info, I had a look at the deck of slides but I definitely need more, plus (possibly) a contact at Nokia to get a couple of quotes. Roberto Stormy On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Roberto Galoppini roberto.galopp...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/8/28 Paul Cutler pcut...@gnome.org: Yes, we are on the public marketing list. :) Thanks Andre for the additional information - based on that, I would highly recommend we issue a GNOME Press Release. Do we have any volunteers who could turn around writing one fairly quickly? Paul I'd be happy to work on it, I'm also in the position to talk about that at the Open Source in Mobile conference that will be held on the 15-16th of September in Amsterdam. Who can help me with to gather more information about it? Roberto On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Behdad Esfahbod beh...@behdad.org wrote: On 08/28/2009 02:38 PM, Brian Cameron wrote: Behdad: Unless this is confidential information, why not raise this issue on the GNOME marketing list. They are probably the best at thinking of ways to exploit news. Humm, aren't we on marketing-list already? behdad Perhaps this would be good to hype on: http://www.gnome.org/mobile/ for example. Brian Behdad Esfahbod wrote: On 08/28/2009 01:58 AM, Jaap A. Haitsma wrote: Hi, With the imminent release of the Nokia N900 GNOME technologies will be deployed widely in the mobile arena. Maybe the GNOME foundation should issue a press release. Or we should think of other ways to exploit the news. Maybe show an article + image on the front page of the GNOME website? Also like new releases of Ubuntu, Fedora etc with new GNOME releases could be listed. Or maybe computer vendors such as system76 release a new notebook with GNOME on it. Now I think of it we could maybe have some section called Powered by GNOME Technologies Feedback, more ideas? Would be good to figure out how much GNOME it is before doing that? behdad Jaap -- 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 -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Exploiting the Nokia N900 release
2009/9/3 Andre Klapper ak...@gmx.net: Am Donnerstag, den 03.09.2009, 10:21 +0200 schrieb Roberto Galoppini: Are you waiting for info? Can we run with what's available online? Yes, I'm awaiting for more info, I had a look at the deck of slides but I definitely need more, plus (possibly) a contact at Nokia to get a couple of quotes. Roberto It's still unclear to me what is blocking this. Roberto, who exactly should provide more info I don't know if any of you know more about it, all I know is that I read in the slide you forwarded, it looks like if you know a lot about it, maybe you can help? , and what exact questions do you have in mind for a potential Nokia contact? Or do you just want some nice quotes for the text? I think that asking Anssi Vanjoki (Executive Vice President, Markets, Nokia) to add also GNOME in a new quote like the one you see in the original press release http://www.nokia.com/press/press-releases/showpressrelease?newsid=1337594 maybe a good thing. Are we in touch with these people? Roberto andre -- mailto:ak...@gmx.net | failed http://www.iomc.de/ | http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: [Fwd: Stolen Gnome Logo.]
2009/6/24 Luis Villa l...@tieguy.org: On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Andre Klapperak...@gmx.net wrote: Another heads-up to the legal list about unappropriate usage of the GNOME logo at http://barefootcomputer.com . Acting welcome. I'll shoot them a note. I did a trial just yesterday, no answer so far. I'll keep you updated. Best, Roberto -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Viadeo/LinkedIn/Facebook/Plaxo fundraising
2009/2/25 Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org: Sounds like a great idea. Was the custom page a Facebook page? Stormy P.S. My birthday's not until May. Anybody willing to jump in sooner and try this out? P.S. II. If it was a Facebook page, you can go check and see how successful it was but I'm sure it depends on large part on the person, their friends and how they normally celebrate their birthdays. I like Dave's idea, and I think you're right saying that it depends a lot on the person. I think that GNOME's heroes are more likely to make it works, though. If the first experiment works we should report about it in the Support GNOME cause, I think. Roberto On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 7:27 AM, Dave Neary dne...@gnome.org wrote: Hi all, This week, something happened to me for the first time. And like most things that happened to me for the first time, it made me stand up take notice. I thought it was a really nice, simple idea, executed well. And while I can't testify to its success, I'm sure it had some. The email I got was from someone I know and am connected to on Facebook. I've enclosed it here in full. Subject: Want to celebrate my birthday? --- It's my birthday on March 3. This year, instead of gifts, I'm asking my friends to donate $30 to my favorite cause, Free Software Foundation. $30 from each of you would make a big impact on this cause I really care about. Anything you can contribute will help and, not only will Free Software Foundation, Inc. really appreciate it, but so will I! --- Grant .'s Birthday Wish [link to custom FSF Cause page with 's fundraising goal and total so far] or Learn More [link] Since we are more more in a social network world, we get more more reminders about people we know. I know that Plaxo Facebook remind me regularly when people's birthdays are coming up, and I usually get a few emails, wall posts and the like from people I know. It's a low-cost, low-maintenance way for people to let me know I'm in their thoughts. Anyway - I saw this feature on causes, and thought it was interesting enough to share, before we start getting 5 of these a week, perhaps GNOME can get a foot up off this Purple Cow. 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 -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Quick/small Friends of GNOME change
2009/2/4 Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org: Actually, I would be changing the definition of philanthropist to be anyone who gives anything. I don't think it's a good idea, all in all you're giving philantropists a public recognition and a gift. They are special to us, therefore they are special for us. And I think we need some option that has no minimum. People gave $1 amounts. I think depending on where you live, that might be a significant donation. We shouldn't turn it away. Yes, and we might give GNOME stick ads for 1$ or more, to invite people to make small donations. R Stormy On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Brian Cameron brian.came...@sun.com wrote: I am not opposed to lowering the Philanthropist amount if we are finding that few people donate $1200 or more, and if we think lowering the amount would encourage more people to donate larger amounts of money. However, I think there should be a minimum amount. Just saying Name your amount seems like it would create confusion about what it means to be a GNOME community philanthropist. Brian Stormy Peters wrote: Rosanna pointed out that we removed the option to donate less than $25 and we had people that donated small amounts. On the other hand, in the last six months we've had two large donations, one for $1000 and one for $750. So, I was thinking we could change the Philanthropist option from: Philanthropist $1200 or more *You get:* A framed print of GNOME foot signed by the GNOME Board of Directors and recognition of your contribution. To: Philanthropist: Name your amount *You get:* Recognition of your contribution. Thoughts? Stormy -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Quick/small Friends of GNOME change
2009/2/4 Dave Neary dne...@gnome.org: Hi, Roberto Galoppini wrote: I don't think it's a good idea, all in all you're giving philantropists a public recognition and a gift. They are special to us, therefore they are special for us. Stormy is saying that Philanthropist shouldn't be Rich moneybags who gives us an annual $1M grant but Anyone who gives a little. I got it, and I don't think it's a good idea. For two reasons: we are actually redefining the meaning of a word, we are not encouraging people to be philantropists (actual meaning). That's certainly a valid change to make, but might surprise people - it's not like there are a lot of people lining up to give Philanthropist level donations, but you'd at least like people who are considering it to know that it's an option ;) Right. I think we shouldn't lower to much our expectation, only set them at a resonable level. That said, I suspect that all personal donations over $10,000 will come through sollicitations rather than unsollicited donations. I bet you're right! R Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member dne...@gnome.org -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: GNOME Cause on Facebook
2009/1/20 Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org: (I changed the subject because I think while this is a fundraising activity, it's not necessarily part of Friends of GNOME. I did create a Facebook group for Friends of GNOME. What Roberto is creating is a Cause not a group - Causes are meant for disseminating information and collect donations for non-profits.) Roberto is creating a GNOME Cause on Facebook like the Debian Cause: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Debian/9801962186. It will be a place to find out information about GNOME, the GNOME Foundation and to show support for GNOME. We can fill in the information section with whatever we want - Roberto has filled in information from our website and our 2009 goals from the Friends of GNOME page. We can also start discussions and post to the wall. It also has the option to allow people to donate to the GNOME Foundation directly from the Facebook Cause page. (Roberto, does this go to Paypal?) Donations to U.S. nonprofits are processed by our nonprofit partner Network for Good, an industry leader in processing online donations. Their 4.75% fee is used to pay banks, credit card companies, to distribute funds to nonprofits, and for other associated costs of donations through Causes on Facebook. For a $100 donation, $95.25 goes to the nonprofit and $4.75 goes to Network for Good. Network for Good does not profit from this fee. (source: http://apps.facebook.com/causes/help) I think this is good as it's a way to reach a new audience with information about what GNOME is. Thoughts? A blue version of the logo would probably suite better, I think. Are there any out there or does anyone want to help? Roberto Stormy On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 6:58 AM, Roberto Galoppini roberto.galopp...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/1/13 Roberto Galoppini roberto.galopp...@gmail.com: 2009/1/13 Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org: Awesome, Andreas. Thanks. I was thinking we could show these on the screen after people have donated, saying here's a badge for your website. Maybe the support GNOME one could be used by users who want to help just spreading the word? Debian has launched a Debian cause on FB, we might run similar initiatives and use it. I created a draft of the Support GNOME Cause on FB using the Causes application.I asked Stormy some hints and feedback and I am sure it still needs some tweaking (maybe a different logo, or the text, etc). Thoughts? -- Roberto Galoppini http://robertogaloppini.net skype: r.galoppini -- 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: Launching New Friends of GNOME: need review for two sentences for gnome.org
2009/1/13 Roberto Galoppini roberto.galopp...@gmail.com: 2009/1/13 Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org: Awesome, Andreas. Thanks. I was thinking we could show these on the screen after people have donated, saying here's a badge for your website. Maybe the support GNOME one could be used by users who want to help just spreading the word? Debian has launched a Debian cause on FB, we might run similar initiatives and use it. I created a draft of the Support GNOME Cause on FB using the Causes application.I asked Stormy some hints and feedback and I am sure it still needs some tweaking (maybe a different logo, or the text, etc). Thoughts? -- Roberto Galoppini http://robertogaloppini.net skype: r.galoppini -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Brochure for potential sponsors: need help!
2009/1/21 Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org: Awesome! Let me know what you need from me. I think I have all the text below unless someone has feedback or suggestions on it. What about adding some quotes from present sponsors? Reason number 5) is an area that I would highlight to let potential sponsors know about the meaning of coopetition at the GNOME Foundation. Roberto -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Launching New Friends of GNOME: need review for two sentences for gnome.org
2009/1/13 Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org: Awesome, Andreas. Thanks. I was thinking we could show these on the screen after people have donated, saying here's a badge for your website. Maybe the support GNOME one could be used by users who want to help just spreading the word? Debian has launched a Debian cause on FB, we might run similar initiatives and use it. Roberto -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Launching New Friends of GNOME: need review for two sentences for gnome.org
2009/1/12 Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org: skip I think that transparency about how this money is used is necessary. What about anticipating donors - if this is the case - that you will be publishing detailed financial yearly reports? Everything's public right now. We should put a link to it ... I just checked http://foundation.gnome.org/finance/ and it seems not updated. skip What about publicly state next year goals and objectives? That is on the new website and I think it's obvious. At http://foundation.gnome.org/about/ only 2006 annual report is available. Maybe the new website is another one? Roberto -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Launching New Friends of GNOME: need review for two sentences for gnome.org
2009/1/12 Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org: Hi Marketing folks, We're launching the New Friends of GNOME page and we need a couple of sentences for gnome.org and a small paragraph to go out in an email to press. Why is it cool? - GNOME is supported by volunteers with time and money - We get a lot of unsolicited donations - We want to make sure they are recognized and make it easy - Introducing micro-payments, small, monthly donations via credit card or paypal. (Not sure $10/month qualifies as micro!) Question/suggestion: are you considering student rate, à la FSF? http://tinyurl.com/ywsfmj Sentences for front page of gnome.org: New Friends of GNOME program launched! A big thanks to all our supporters for their love over 2008 - here's to GNOME's success creating free and open source software for all! Come support free software in 2009 with our new $10/month program ... and a postcard from your favorite hacker! What about allowing donors to leave a message (à la wikipedia)? http://tinyurl.com/8xlnso Paragraph for email: We are excited to tell you that today we launch our new Friends of GNOME program. Now supporters can sign up to help the GNOME Foundation with recurring $10/month donations. I think that transparency about how this money is used is necessary. What about anticipating donors - if this is the case - that you will be publishing detailed financial yearly reports? Friends of GNOME is a way for individuals to support the GNOME project's mission of providing a free and open source desktop for everyone regardless of ability. With no advertising or outreach, we've raised anywhere from $6,000 to $20,000 a year from generous individuals. Would it be possible to put a link to such generous donors? That money has contributed to the funds for hackfests, local events and programs which in turn have enabled the GNOME project to create an internationalized, accessible and easy to use desktop software for both traditional desktops and for mobile devices. People have requested an easier, more consistent way to donate and we hope our $10/month program will fill that need. We will use the additional funds raised to continue to support our volunteer community in accomplishing our mission of a free and open source desktop for everyone regardless of abilities. What about publicly state next year goals and objectives? The GNOME project depends on volunteer support from corporations and individuals. Support of both time and money. Please consider signing up for Friends of GNOME today! http://www.gnome.org/friends. Thoughts welcome! We'll be launching later today. I hope it helps, Roberto -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
