Re: We reached our FoG goal \o/

2013-07-22 Thread Stormy Peters
Whoo-hoo! Congrats!


On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 4:30 PM, Tobias Mueller wrote:

> Hi everyone!
>
> I blog-posted already but I haven't sent a mail yet.
> Our fundraiser is complete. We received 2 USD to make GNOME more
> secure and
> more privacy aware.
>
> We should think about the next steps. I.e. we should update the current
> banner
> to thank the donors. Andreas suggested something along the lines of
> "Thank you all generous donors for helping us reach our security and
> privacy
> campaign goal of $20.000". What do you think? Could anybody do it?
>
> We might also want to get some press release out. We have a good climate
> now to
> get good coverage.
>
> Cheers,
>   Tobi
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Re: Fwd: Action Required: Submit Your Google Grants Renewal Form

2013-07-21 Thread Stormy Peters
I submitted it today with Rosanna as the contact person!

They said they review them on a rolling basis so we should hear back in the
next couple of weeks.

Stormy


On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 6:22 PM, Karen Sandler  wrote:

> On Thu, July 18, 2013 2:34 pm, Stormy Peters wrote:
> > I have that number. I have no idea if it's a number that should be kept
> > private or not.
> >
> > When I fill out the form, I'd rather not be the contact person. Should I
> > put Karen's name or someone else?
>
> I suggest Rosanna, but I'm happy for it to be me too :)
>
> karen
>
> >
> > Stormy
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 3:52 PM, Ekaterina Gerasimova <
> > kittykat3...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On 17 July 2013 21:16, Karen Sandler  wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Wed, July 17, 2013 4:00 pm, Stormy Peters wrote:
> >>> > The forms are in the link in the original email below. No login
> >>> required.
> >>> > The only piece of info that people might not have handy is the
> >>> federal
> >>> id.
> >>>
> >>> Awesome! And I've got that and it's public info: the EIN is 04-3572618
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >> It also asks for the customer ID for the AdWords account.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>  karen
> >>>
> >>> >
> >>> > Stormy
> >>> >
> >>> >
> >>> > On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 1:09 PM, Karen Sandler 
> >>> wrote:
> >>> >
> >>> >> On Wed, July 17, 2013 1:05 pm, Ekaterina Gerasimova wrote:
> >>> >> > On 17 July 2013 17:07, Stormy Peters  wrote:
> >>> >> >
> >>> >> >> If we want to do it, I can fill out the form. It's very simple.
> >>> >> >>
> >>> >> >
> >>> >> >
> >>> >> > Is the information which is needed to fill this out recorded
> >>> somewhere
> >>> >> so
> >>> >> > that other people can do it?
> >>> >>
> >>> >> I just searched everything I have and I don't have it. Stormy tried
> >>> to
> >>> >> add
> >>> >> me as an admin to the account but that never went through (I never
> >>> >> received the email).
> >>> >>
> >>> >> Perhaps Rosanna or Stormy has it?
> >>> >> karen
> >>> >>
> >>> >> >
> >>> >> >
> >>> >> >> But then we should probably figure out what we want to do with it
> >>> ...
> >>> >> >>
> >>> >> >> Stormy
> >>> >> >>
> >>> >> >>
> >>> >> >> On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 9:23 AM, Sriram Ramkrishna
> >>> >> >> wrote:
> >>> >> >>
> >>> >> >>>
> >>> >> >>> -- Forwarded message --
> >>> >> >>> From: "Stormy Peters" 
> >>> >> >>> Date: Jul 16, 2013 11:08 AM
> >>> >> >>> Subject: Fwd: Action Required: Submit Your Google Grants Renewal
> >>> >> Form
> >>> >> >>> To: "GNOME Marketing List" 
> >>> >> >>> Cc:
> >>> >> >>>
> >>> >> >>> > We need to renew if we want to keep this.
> >>> >> >>> >
> >>> >> >>> > It took 6 months to get it the first time around ...
> >>> >> >>> >
> >>> >> >>> > Stormy
> >>> >> >>>
> >>> >> >>> Yeah we should do this. Anybody want to volunteer?
> >>> >> >>>
> >>> >> >>> >
> >>> >> >>> > -- Forwarded message --
> >>> >> >>> > From: “Google Grants” 
> >>> >> >>> > Date: Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 5:07 PM
> >>> >> >>> > Subject: Action Required: Submit Your Google Grants Renewal
> >>> Form
> >>> >> >>> > To: sto...@gnome.org
> >>> >> >>> >
> >>> >> >>> >
> >>> >> >>> > 

Re: Fwd: Action Required: Submit Your Google Grants Renewal Form

2013-07-18 Thread Stormy Peters
I have that number. I have no idea if it's a number that should be kept
private or not.

When I fill out the form, I'd rather not be the contact person. Should I
put Karen's name or someone else?

Stormy


On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 3:52 PM, Ekaterina Gerasimova <
kittykat3...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 17 July 2013 21:16, Karen Sandler  wrote:
>
>> On Wed, July 17, 2013 4:00 pm, Stormy Peters wrote:
>> > The forms are in the link in the original email below. No login
>> required.
>> > The only piece of info that people might not have handy is the federal
>> id.
>>
>> Awesome! And I've got that and it's public info: the EIN is 04-3572618
>>
>
>
> It also asks for the customer ID for the AdWords account.
>
>
>
>>  karen
>>
>> >
>> > Stormy
>> >
>> >
>> > On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 1:09 PM, Karen Sandler  wrote:
>> >
>> >> On Wed, July 17, 2013 1:05 pm, Ekaterina Gerasimova wrote:
>> >> > On 17 July 2013 17:07, Stormy Peters  wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> >> If we want to do it, I can fill out the form. It's very simple.
>> >> >>
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > Is the information which is needed to fill this out recorded
>> somewhere
>> >> so
>> >> > that other people can do it?
>> >>
>> >> I just searched everything I have and I don't have it. Stormy tried to
>> >> add
>> >> me as an admin to the account but that never went through (I never
>> >> received the email).
>> >>
>> >> Perhaps Rosanna or Stormy has it?
>> >> karen
>> >>
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >> But then we should probably figure out what we want to do with it
>> ...
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Stormy
>> >> >>
>> >> >>
>> >> >> On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 9:23 AM, Sriram Ramkrishna
>> >> >> wrote:
>> >> >>
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> -- Forwarded message --
>> >> >>> From: "Stormy Peters" 
>> >> >>> Date: Jul 16, 2013 11:08 AM
>> >> >>> Subject: Fwd: Action Required: Submit Your Google Grants Renewal
>> >> Form
>> >> >>> To: "GNOME Marketing List" 
>> >> >>> Cc:
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> > We need to renew if we want to keep this.
>> >> >>> >
>> >> >>> > It took 6 months to get it the first time around ...
>> >> >>> >
>> >> >>> > Stormy
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> Yeah we should do this. Anybody want to volunteer?
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> >
>> >> >>> > -- Forwarded message --
>> >> >>> > From: “Google Grants” 
>> >> >>> > Date: Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 5:07 PM
>> >> >>> > Subject: Action Required: Submit Your Google Grants Renewal Form
>> >> >>> > To: sto...@gnome.org
>> >> >>> >
>> >> >>> >
>> >> >>> > Action Required: Submit Your Google Grants Renewal Form
>> >> >>> >
>> >> >>> > Dear Google Grantee,
>> >> >>> >
>> >> >>> >
>> >> >>> > The Google Grants renewal window is now open. Our renewal policy
>> >> is
>> >> >>> in
>> >> >>> place to ensure that your organization is in fact still a
>> registered
>> >> >>> nonprofit, and that your AdWords account is compliant with the
>> >> Google
>> >> >>> Grants policies and guidelines. Any Google Grantee who has been in
>> >> the
>> >> >>> program six months or longer is required to renew their
>> eligibility.
>> >> >>> >
>> >> >>> >
>> >> >>> > Please complete the renewal form, located on the renewal FAQ
>> page,
>> >> >>> within the next three weeks:
>> >> >>> >
>> >> >>> >
>> >> >>> > Renewal FAQs and forms
>> >> >>> >
>> >> >>> >
>> >> >>> > We will review organizations on a rolling basis. As we have many
>> >> >>> Google
>> >> >>> Grants accounts to review, you may not receive your notification
>> >> >>> decision
>> >> >>> for several weeks. Your account will remain active and running
>> while
>> >> >>> you
>> >> >>> wait to hear back from us.
>> >> >>> >
>> >> >>> >
>> >> >>> > Please refer to the renewal FAQs for more information.
>> >> >>> >
>> >> >>> >
>> >> >>> > Sincerely,
>> >> >>> >
>> >> >>> >
>> >> >>> > The Google Grants Team
>> >> >>> >
>> >> >>> >
>> >> >>> >
>> >> >>> > Please note: this email acts as a notification only. Please do
>> not
>> >> >>> reply.
>> >> >>> >
>> >> >>> >
>> >> >>> > © 2013 Google Inc. 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA
>> >> 94043
>> >> >>> >
>> >> >>> > You've received this mandatory service announcement email to
>> >> update
>> >> >>> you
>> >> >>> about important changes to your Google Grants AdWords account.
>> >> >>> >
>> >> >>> >
>> >> >>> >
>> >> >>> > --
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>> >> >>> > marketing-list@gnome.org
>> >> >>> > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
>> >> >>> >
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>
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>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
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Re: Fwd: Action Required: Submit Your Google Grants Renewal Form

2013-07-17 Thread Stormy Peters
The forms are in the link in the original email below. No login required.
The only piece of info that people might not have handy is the federal id.

Stormy


On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 1:09 PM, Karen Sandler  wrote:

> On Wed, July 17, 2013 1:05 pm, Ekaterina Gerasimova wrote:
> > On 17 July 2013 17:07, Stormy Peters  wrote:
> >
> >> If we want to do it, I can fill out the form. It's very simple.
> >>
> >
> >
> > Is the information which is needed to fill this out recorded somewhere so
> > that other people can do it?
>
> I just searched everything I have and I don't have it. Stormy tried to add
> me as an admin to the account but that never went through (I never
> received the email).
>
> Perhaps Rosanna or Stormy has it?
> karen
>
> >
> >
> >> But then we should probably figure out what we want to do with it ...
> >>
> >> Stormy
> >>
> >>
> >> On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 9:23 AM, Sriram Ramkrishna
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>> -- Forwarded message --
> >>> From: "Stormy Peters" 
> >>> Date: Jul 16, 2013 11:08 AM
> >>> Subject: Fwd: Action Required: Submit Your Google Grants Renewal Form
> >>> To: "GNOME Marketing List" 
> >>> Cc:
> >>>
> >>> > We need to renew if we want to keep this.
> >>> >
> >>> > It took 6 months to get it the first time around ...
> >>> >
> >>> > Stormy
> >>>
> >>> Yeah we should do this. Anybody want to volunteer?
> >>>
> >>> >
> >>> > -- Forwarded message --
> >>> > From: “Google Grants” 
> >>> > Date: Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 5:07 PM
> >>> > Subject: Action Required: Submit Your Google Grants Renewal Form
> >>> > To: sto...@gnome.org
> >>> >
> >>> >
> >>> > Action Required: Submit Your Google Grants Renewal Form
> >>> >
> >>> > Dear Google Grantee,
> >>> >
> >>> >
> >>> > The Google Grants renewal window is now open. Our renewal policy is
> >>> in
> >>> place to ensure that your organization is in fact still a registered
> >>> nonprofit, and that your AdWords account is compliant with the Google
> >>> Grants policies and guidelines. Any Google Grantee who has been in the
> >>> program six months or longer is required to renew their eligibility.
> >>> >
> >>> >
> >>> > Please complete the renewal form, located on the renewal FAQ page,
> >>> within the next three weeks:
> >>> >
> >>> >
> >>> > Renewal FAQs and forms
> >>> >
> >>> >
> >>> > We will review organizations on a rolling basis. As we have many
> >>> Google
> >>> Grants accounts to review, you may not receive your notification
> >>> decision
> >>> for several weeks. Your account will remain active and running while
> >>> you
> >>> wait to hear back from us.
> >>> >
> >>> >
> >>> > Please refer to the renewal FAQs for more information.
> >>> >
> >>> >
> >>> > Sincerely,
> >>> >
> >>> >
> >>> > The Google Grants Team
> >>> >
> >>> >
> >>> >
> >>> > Please note: this email acts as a notification only. Please do not
> >>> reply.
> >>> >
> >>> >
> >>> > © 2013 Google Inc. 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043
> >>> >
> >>> > You've received this mandatory service announcement email to update
> >>> you
> >>> about important changes to your Google Grants AdWords account.
> >>> >
> >>> >
> >>> >
> >>> > --
> >>> > marketing-list mailing list
> >>> > marketing-list@gnome.org
> >>> > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
> >>> >
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
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Re: Fwd: Action Required: Submit Your Google Grants Renewal Form

2013-07-17 Thread Stormy Peters
If we want to do it, I can fill out the form. It's very simple.

But then we should probably figure out what we want to do with it ...

Stormy


On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 9:23 AM, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:

>
> -- Forwarded message --
> From: "Stormy Peters" 
> Date: Jul 16, 2013 11:08 AM
> Subject: Fwd: Action Required: Submit Your Google Grants Renewal Form
> To: "GNOME Marketing List" 
> Cc:
>
> > We need to renew if we want to keep this.
> >
> > It took 6 months to get it the first time around ...
> >
> > Stormy
>
> Yeah we should do this. Anybody want to volunteer?
>
> >
> > -- Forwarded message --
> > From: “Google Grants” 
> > Date: Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 5:07 PM
> > Subject: Action Required: Submit Your Google Grants Renewal Form
> > To: sto...@gnome.org
> >
> >
> > Action Required: Submit Your Google Grants Renewal Form
> >
> > Dear Google Grantee,
> >
> >
> > The Google Grants renewal window is now open. Our renewal policy is in
> place to ensure that your organization is in fact still a registered
> nonprofit, and that your AdWords account is compliant with the Google
> Grants policies and guidelines. Any Google Grantee who has been in the
> program six months or longer is required to renew their eligibility.
> >
> >
> > Please complete the renewal form, located on the renewal FAQ page,
> within the next three weeks:
> >
> >
> > Renewal FAQs and forms
> >
> >
> > We will review organizations on a rolling basis. As we have many Google
> Grants accounts to review, you may not receive your notification decision
> for several weeks. Your account will remain active and running while you
> wait to hear back from us.
> >
> >
> > Please refer to the renewal FAQs for more information.
> >
> >
> > Sincerely,
> >
> >
> > The Google Grants Team
> >
> >
> >
> > Please note: this email acts as a notification only. Please do not reply.
> >
> >
> > © 2013 Google Inc. 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043
> >
> > You've received this mandatory service announcement email to update you
> about important changes to your Google Grants AdWords account.
> >
> >
> >
> > --
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> > marketing-list@gnome.org
> > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
> >
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Fwd: Action Required: Submit Your Google Grants Renewal Form

2013-07-16 Thread Stormy Peters
We need to renew if we want to keep this.

It took 6 months to get it the first time around ...

Stormy

-- Forwarded message --
From: “Google Grants” 
Date: Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 5:07 PM
Subject: Action Required: Submit Your Google Grants Renewal Form
To: sto...@gnome.org


 [image: Google Grants] Action Required: Submit Your Google Grants Renewal
Form

* *

* *

*Dear Google Grantee,*
*

The Google Grants renewal window is now open. Our renewal policy is in
place to ensure that your organization is in fact still a registered
nonprofit, and that your AdWords account is compliant with the Google
Grants policies and
guidelines.
Any Google Grantee who has been in the program six months or longer is
required to renew their eligibility.

Please complete the renewal form, located on the renewal FAQ page, within
the next three weeks:

Renewal FAQs and
forms

We will review organizations on a rolling basis. As we have many Google
Grants accounts to review, you may not receive your notification decision
for several weeks. Your account will remain active and running while you
wait to hear back from us.

Please refer to the renewal
FAQsfor
more information.

Sincerely,

The Google Grants Team


Please note: this email acts as a notification only. Please do not reply.

*

 © 2013 Google Inc. 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043

You've received this mandatory service announcement email to update you
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Fwd: Must Read: Google Grants Renewal Required

2013-07-01 Thread Stormy Peters
Are we using our Google Grants account anymore? (I am not doing anything
with it.)

The two main advantages that I remember are:
* Getting donations though Google checkout without having to pay a fee.
* Free Google ads

Stormy

-- Forwarded message --
From: “Google Grants” 
Date: Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 10:42 AM
Subject: Must Read: Google Grants Renewal Required
To: sto...@gnome.org


 [image: Google Grants] Must Read: Google Grants Renewal Required

*Google loves to give grants to nonprofits! But every now and again, we
need to make sure you are in fact still a registered nonprofit, and that
your AdWords account is compliant with Google Grants guidelines. Our Google
Grants renewal policy will require Google Grantees who have been in the
program longer than six months to submit updated nonprofit status
documentation, along with their AdWords Customer ID, for review. Google
Grants will continue to be available, and we'll likely request you renew
your eligible status every year **going forward. *

*What Next?*

*You don’t have to do anything yet! We wanted to give you a heads up that
the renewal policy is coming so that you can have your nonprofit status
documentation ready and you can review the Google Grants
guidelines to
ensure your AdWords account is compliant. We plan to launch the renewal
policy in July 2013. We will provide a three week window for Google
Grantees to submit a renewal form at that time, so please be on the lookout
for an email in July.*
*

New URL Policy

We recently sent an email announcing a change to our URL policy. Google
Grantees are now only allowed to advertise the one URL associated with the
registered nonprofit listed in their original application. Please remove
extra URLs from your account before the renewal policy to avoid suspension
from the program.

Please refer to the renewal
FAQson the what, why,
when and how of the renewal policy.

Sincerely,

The Google Grants Team


Please note: this email acts as a notification only. Please do not reply.

© 2013 Google Inc. 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043

You've received this mandatory service announcement email to update you
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Re: Marketing Marketing

2013-06-06 Thread Stormy Peters
I don't have a preference but agree that the term marketing is misleading.

As a reference point, at Mozilla it's "Engagement". Then within Engagement
there is user & contributor engagement, developer engagement, websites,
product marketing and brand.

I think most people equate marketing to product marketing.

Stormy


On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 1:35 PM, Allan Day  wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> "Marketing" is associated with corporations, and is done by marketing
> professionals. I've often felt that the term isn't a good fit for what
> we do in GNOME, and I suspect that it puts some people off
> contributing.
>
> We discussed this during the recent hackfest, and it seems that
> there's support for changing "GNOME Marketing" to a different term.
> Ideas that we discussed include "promotion",  "outreach",
> "engagement" and "advocacy".
>
> What do people think of this? Do you have a preference for the name?
>
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Re: Revisiting rewards for the FoG campaigns

2013-04-17 Thread Stormy Peters
I found the best way to get the data and collate it was through the emails
that paypal sends out.

CiviCRM handles donors and gifts really well too.

Stormy


On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 5:53 PM, Tobias Mueller  wrote:

> Hola,
>
> On 09.04.2013 03:53, Karen Sandler wrote:
> > I'm not sure if zana is on the marketing-list, so I'm ccing her. I think
> > she may be able to shed some light on the history...
> Maybe stormy knows, too?
>
> > I think people who "adopt a hacker" are really excited about
> > the postcard part. I think this happening within a month or two at most
> is
> > really important to keep them from feeling disappointed.
> Okay. That makes things easier anyway.
>
> > We've seen
> > people get confused (and upset) when they notice that the donation
> > continues indefinitely, perhaps because the standard is just a year.
> FWIW: We have 121 subscriptions, 50 of which are younger than a year,
> leaving 71 which are older than a year. I interpret that as the people
> being happy with the non-expiring subscriptions.
>
> It's a big pain to get hold of that data though. And Paypal doesn't give
> me the details used when the donors was checking out, like who she wants
> to receive a postcard from.
>
> > That said, I'd love to send a gift to all of our subscribers that have
> > been with us for two years or more. Perhaps ebassi and muelli, together
> > with gpoo might be able to pool all the data to do this?
> >
> hm. As far as I've found out it's not possible to get the data straight
> from Paypal (see above). And to only get the address, I'd have to click
> at least twice for each subscription in Paypal's webinterface. I'm not
> going to do that. In the special case of donors sticking for more than
> two years, it might be feasible though as it's ~35 donors. I can send
> you their details, if you want.
>
> If we wanted to send postcards to everyone staying for longer than a
> year, getting hold of the emails that Paypal sent and parsing them might
> be an option. Rosanna might have an archive.
>
> Cheers,
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Re: Friends of GNOME donation methods

2013-02-16 Thread Stormy Peters
We are set up with a Google nonprofits account.
On Feb 16, 2013 8:49 AM, "Andreas Nilsson"  wrote:

> Right now we only support Paypal as a payment method for FoG, and that is
> less than ideal.
> Looking into some other payment methods:
>
> Amazon Payments:
> https://payments.amazon.com/**sdui/sdui/nonprofit
>
> Google checkouts:
> http://checkout.google.com/**seller/npo/
>
> We pay:
> https://www.wepay.com/
>
> Any other good tips for non-profits that people know of?
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Re: Revisiting rewards for the FoG campaigns

2013-02-14 Thread Stormy Peters
I haven't gotten any requests either in well over a year. I know that
sending out the requests is a manual process. I think Emmanuele owns it
right now.

I went to see if there was still a way to select a person to send a
postcard (there is) and I have a few other pieces of feedback.

* There's no "donate" button on this page: http://www.gnome.org/friends/.
You have to choose "Become a Friend" or pick a level. I don't think that's
obvious.
* If I pick the "Donate Now" button at the top of the page, it takes me to
the same page.

I think if we do away with the levels, we can do away with the "adopt a
hacker"/postcard idea. It's only relevant to developers or people who know
the community, not to all donors.

Stormy

On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 3:30 PM, Andreas Nilsson  wrote:

> On 2013-02-12 12:38, Andre Klapper wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 2013-02-11 at 13:58 -0700, Stormy Peters wrote:
>>
>>> Also, given our current, rather manual, process for tracking and
>>> shipping and handling, it takes (Rosanna's) time to manage and ship
>>> too.
>>>
>> On a related note, how are "Adopt a hacker" postcard requests tracked
>> and handled currently? My inbox has been empty & I have ego problems to
>> accept the fact that people out there don't like me anymore. Oh yeah.
>>
> I haven't gotten to write any postcards in a while either. Maybe we should
> revisit this system and just send them out centrally from "GNOME" to
> whoever donates on a continuing basis (like say, you've donated once a year
> for more that 3 years in a row or something)?
> - Andreas
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Re: Revisiting rewards for the FoG campaigns

2013-02-11 Thread Stormy Peters
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 1:04 PM, Dave Neary  wrote:

>
>>>  What is our lowest price point before we make a loss?
>>
>
> While it's goog to be aware of this, I think it's important to underline
> that people aren't buying a t-shirt - not even a special edition t-shirt
> they can't get anywhere else. They're helping the foundation, and we set
> the price points not to make a margin of 10% or 20% or whatever, we set the
> price points to raise money for the foundation.
>
> Incidentally, typical margin for garments on the internet is somewhere
> between 100% and 150% of cost. Excl. delivery costs.
>

Also, given our current, rather manual, process for tracking and shipping
and handling, it takes (Rosanna's) time to manage and ship too.

I'm sure there's data out there if someone wants to study the optimum level.
Papers like this on suggested donation amounts:
http://faculty.haas.berkeley.edu/rjmorgan/Silence%20is%20Golden.pdf
Decreasing donor choices raised donations:
http://economics.ucr.edu/winter11/Barbieri%20paper%20for%202%2011%2011%20seminar.pdf
Not suggesting levels might be the best thing:
http://googlecheckout.blogspot.com/2009/12/google-checkout-for-non-profits-in-2010.html

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Re: PROPOSED Marketing Meeting: January 9th 20:00 UTC

2013-01-08 Thread Stormy Peters
What time are these and how often do the happen? (So I can put them in my
calendar and try to hold the time ...)

Thanks,

Stormy

On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 3:40 AM, Flavia Weisghizzi wrote:

>  I'll be there
>
> :)
>
> Cheers
>
> Flavia
>
>
> Il 07/01/2013 21:09, Fabiana Simões ha scritto:
>
> Works for me too. I'll be there :)
>
>
> On 7 January 2013 17:15, Karen Sandler  wrote:
>
>> And the dial-in info will be:
>>
>> PSTN: +1-718-247-9666
>> SIP:  sip:c...@sfconservancy.onsip.com
>> PIN: 8602
>>
>> looking forward to talking to you then!
>> karen
>>
>> On Wed, January 2, 2013 6:17 pm, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:
>> > Same time as usual.  Topics:
>> >
>> > 1) managing classic experience expectations
>> > 2) 2.8 marketing message and materials
>> > 3) FoG
>> > 4) follow up on action items from the last meeting
>> >
>> > Please propose any other topics for discussion as well.
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > sri
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Re: GNOME legacy

2013-01-02 Thread Stormy Peters
On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 3:21 AM, Allan Day  wrote:

>
>
> We don't actually know what "legacy mode" is going to look like, nor
> do we know how good it will be. It might well be worth us thinking
> about doing some expectation management prior to the 3.8 release. This
> thing might well blow up in our faces.
>

+1.

I think all the info written about so far has come from this one post:
http://blogs.gnome.org/mclasen/2012/12/05/gnome-3-7-what-is-happening-now/

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Re: GNOME Presence at SCALE 11x

2012-12-17 Thread Stormy Peters
Or ask Jeff if there is someone he recommends?

On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 2:55 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna  wrote:

> I think we would love to be there, but I don't know of any GNOME folks
> that reside in SoCal.  I could write a call for volunteers on planet and
> ask?
>
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Gareth J. Greenaway <
> gar...@socallinuxexpo.org> wrote:
>
>> Greetings all,
>>
>> A quick introduction, I'm Gareth Greenaway, one of the organizers for
>> the Southern California Linux Expo.  An annual free & open source
>> conference held in Southern California.  I've been lurking on the list
>> for awhile, just observing :)
>>
>> The last few years we've had an awesome GNOME presence at SCALE.
>> spearheaded by Jeff Schroeder.  Unfortunately for us, Jeff has relocated
>> and is no longer local to SoCal, so he'll be unable to represent GNOME
>> at the show.  My hope is that there is someone whose willing to step in
>> and fill this role.
>>
>> Any questions at all, please don't hesitate to ask.
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Gareth
>>
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Re: scheduling FoG campaign call

2012-11-20 Thread Stormy Peters
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 8:39 PM, Andre Klapper  wrote:
>
>
> On a related note: Have the issues mentioned in
> https://mail.gnome.org/archives/marketing-list/2012-November/msg0.html
> https://mail.gnome.org/archives/marketing-list/2012-June/msg00084.html
> https://mail.gnome.org/archives/marketing-list/2012-June/msg00069.html
> https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2012-October/msg00102.html
> been sorted out?
>
> I don't feel comfortable to launch a campaign if we end up with
> disappointed people because our processes don't work out well.
>

+1

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Re: Subscription status

2012-11-05 Thread Stormy Peters
Hi Misha,

Rosanna Yuen should be able to help you. If not, the Board of Directors
would be the right place to go.

Thanks for donating to GNOME!

Stormy


On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 2:50 AM, Misha Shnurapet  wrote:

> Hello.
>
> I contacted frie...@gnome.org and the Foundation mailing list, noone
> responded to my emails. I'd really like to receive the promotional t-shirt.
> Thanks!
>
>  Пересылаемое сообщение  
> 31.10.2012, 13:09, "Misha Shnurapet" :
>
> Hi.
>
> I "adopded a hacker" a year ago. My subscription #S-4HA33164WY7445946 was
> dropped by PayPal along the way and I continued to send monthly donations
> manually. I donated in the name of Andreas Nilssen. The year is over.
> What's next?
>
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Re: push back on negative articles

2012-08-20 Thread Stormy Peters
Hi Bruce,

Thanks for reaching out!

We'd definitely like to take you up on your and talk to you. Maybe Karen or
Sri would be the right person? (Karen, Sri?) Or Allan Day?

Stormy

On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 12:10 PM, Bruce Byfield  wrote:

> **
>
> Negative articles? Are you kidding?
>
>
>
> Because I mention what many people in the community are saying? What some
> GNOME developers are saying?
>
>
>
> If I didn't care what was happening in the free software community, I
> wouldn't have written the article in the first place. I would be doing a
> poor job as a journalist, and doing nothing for the community if I only
> reported on the happy things and ignored the problems.
>
>
>
> That said, if anyone cares to engage in a responsible conversation about
> GNOME's current state and how the project is being received, you're welcome
> to get in touch. I can't guarantee publication of the result -- that is
> ultimately up to my editors -- but I would certainly be interested in
> writing an article that accurately reflects opposing views. I don't have to
> agree with a position to think that it's worth letting other people hear.
>
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Re: push back on negative articles

2012-08-20 Thread Stormy Peters
I think we could arrange some media training if people want to attend.
Sally Dhudairi works with Apache and lives in Boston. She has expressed
interest in helping us in the past. Maybe she'd be willing to host a
session at the Boston Summit.

If she can't, I know a few other people who would be good and might be
willing to help.

Here are my basic takeaways from the several media trainings I've done:
1) Know your story. Know what you want the other person to take away from
the conversation. Write those 3 things down.
2) No matter what the question, try to tell your story. Or how that relates
to your story. See #1.
3) If someone asks you a tough question, you don't have to say "no, but
..." Try to get back to #1.
4) Practice how you'll answer the tough questions ahead of time. (You
probably know what they are.) Most companies put out FAQs for their
spokespeople when there's big news. Included in that is how to answer the
difficult questions.

While a few reporters only want the controversy, most of them are very nice
and also want the story you are passionate about. :)

Stormy

On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 8:08 PM, Karen Sandler  wrote:

> I love that we're re-evaluating the ways that we handle press and that
> we're looking for opportunities to improve.
>
> I think we should focus on ways to get positive press, as others have
> said, and I think one of the best ways to do that right now is probably to
> talk about the 3.6 release. Maybe we should systematically look at the
> negative articles and make sure that we address the substantive points in
> our press about the new release? I think a free software community run
> project is different than a company's product in that we'll always be a
> work in progress. It's ok to talk about areas that can be improved for
> future, for example. I do think there's a lot of great stuff happening
> that I gets overlooked in an effort to zone in on juicy disagreement and
> we can probably help with that by making sure we take opportunities to
> talk about the good things.
>
> We've still got a good amount of time to work on it too.
>
> On Sun, August 19, 2012 6:43 pm, Olav Vitters wrote:
>
> > Briefly, any politician or anyone dealing with the press is media
> > trained. Any big company will have spoke persons (either someone
> > external, or some high up manager). For anyone reading along, the idea
> > is not that they (spoke person or anyone media trained) lie; it is to
> > avoid any spins. Say exactly one thing, nothing more.
>
> I think it would be a good idea to get media training, and I'd be up for
> being the one to do it, of course! I am a little skeptical about how
> overall effective it will be (I've had small amounts of training in the
> past that would have been helpful if I'd want to be more like a television
> personality for example with tips on wardrobe, and I've had other media
> experts tell me that everything we do is too "inside baseball"). Depending
> on the price, it couldn't hurt!
>
> I have a few friends who have had some media training and I'll ask them
> who to contact. Anyone else have any ideas where to start? Let's find out
> what kind of options there are and see if we can maybe find some group
> sessions that would be helpful. I think we're a handful of people that are
> generating most of our marketing content right now, and it would be great
> to spread the knowledge around.
>
> I realize that I should remind everyone that I'm probably going to be out
> of contact for a lot of September on maternity leave so we should come up
> with a game plan for 3.6 release related press at any rate!
>
> karen
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Re: push back on negative articles

2012-08-20 Thread Stormy Peters
On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 9:39 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:

>
>
> On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 7:08 PM, Karen Sandler  wrote:
>
>> I love that we're re-evaluating the ways that we handle press and that
>> we're looking for opportunities to improve.
>>
>
> I can accept that.  But I won't allow gross mis-characterizations to go
> unchallenged.  I can use my own plus page for that... although I might also
> use the comment section to gently explain our side.
>

I would not create any new pages that link to the article, but I think
commenting on the article in a very positive, fact based way, could be
good. As we see from Olav and Larry's conversation, it's one we all feel
strongly about so we need to be careful.

I think it's also worth reaching out to Bruce. I'm happy to do intros. I
think the right person to talk to him is someone who is passionate about
GNOME 3, very patient and a good listener. :)

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Re: push back on negative articles

2012-08-20 Thread Stormy Peters
On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 12:36 AM, Olav Vitters  wrote:

>
>
>
>
> As stated before: you can disagree what you want. But do so nicely.
> You've given no arguments, just focussed on trying to rile emotions.
> Such behaviour is not acceptable here. So bye.
>

Olav, I respectively disagree with you. I think Larry's emails were fine.

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Re: Friends of GNOME campaign

2012-08-16 Thread Stormy Peters
I think campaigns that target the development of GNOME are often most
successful. So I think hardware for GNOME OS might be a good one.

Stormy

On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 4:23 PM, Juanjo Marín wrote:

>
>
>
>
> - Mensaje original -
> > De: Oliver Propst 
> > Para: ka...@gnome.org
> > CC: marketing-list@gnome.org
> > Enviado: Miércoles 18 de abril de 2012 1:22
> > Asunto: Re: Friends of GNOME campaign
> >
> > On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 5:32 AM, Karen Sandler  wrote:
> >>  hi all,
> >>
> >>  We've had the accessibility campaign up for a while, and I'm going
> > to post
> >>  a new item about it this week (pointing to Diego's story -
> >>  http://www-old.gnome.org/friends/a11y-testimonial-2.html) but I think
> > it's
> >>  time to start looking ahead.
> >>
> >>  What do we think the next campaign should be? And when should we
> ideally
> >>  launch it? (While giving full consideration to running the current
> >>  campaign for the right amount of time.)
> >>
> >>  karen
> >>
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> > Maybe the current campaign should continue until GNOME ASIA in the
> > beginning/middle of June. The next campaign could start in end of
> > July/the beginning of August and continue through the fall to November
> > and in December we can lunch a Christmas/New Year campaign.
> >
> > The end of July/ beginning of August are a good time to start a new
> > campaign because the GNOME project usually get some press attention
> > around that time because of
> > GUADEC and the upcoming release in September.
> >
> > Here are a few suggestions of themes for a new campaign.
> >
> > Website/infrastructure campaign.
> > One resource that many GNOME users and contributors take for granted
> > are the websites and infrastructure that support the GNOME project in
> > various way. In the marketing meeting we had back in October it was
> > stated that the website/infrastructure was not in ideal shape
> > (http://goo.gl/eB0um). I know that the past months great progress have
> > been made with the websites (foundation website migration to new
> > design).
> >
> > A campaign to raise money for website/infrastructure work could also
> > be a good way to raise awareness about the GNOME infrastructure. The
> > money collected could be used to improve the website/infrastructure
> > and finish outstanding website projects (mention of
> > the projects are in meeting minutes).
> >
> >
> > Developer documentation campaign
> > If the GNOME project are to succeed it is important that great apps
> > are available and
> > if want we want developers to write great apps for GNOME it is
> > important that they have access to good developer documentation
> > (including examples). While the developer documentation are not that
> > bad today, I think it could be much better. When I look at the
> > developer documentation I get the feeling that there are certain
> > 'gaps' that need to be filled, certain topics needed to be explained
> > in greater detail and we need to provide more code examples &
> > tutorials. The money collected could be used to “fill the the gaps”
> > and construct examples/tutorials.
> > Tagline: "Help make great GNOME 3 apps possible"
> > "Good developers want good documentation, help make it possible"
> >
> > Anjuta IDE campaign
> > As well as it is important for developers to have access to good
> > documentation it is important for all GNOME developers that do non
> > trivial programming to have access to a great IDE. As I understand it,
> > the official GNOME IDE Anjuta are missing features from a modern state
> > of the art IDE, look a bit outdated and have old non trivial bugs that
> > need to be resolved. A campaign could raise money to help fix these
> > issues.
> > Tagline: "Ease the life for GNOME developers"
> > “Help make it easy and enjoyable to develop for GNOME”
> >
> > In general I think the upcoming campaign should aim at making the life
> > easier for GNOME developers and thus make it easier to contribute to
> > GNOME.
>
>
> Hi !
>
>
> I think is time to retake this proposal. AFAIK, people who are working
> in the "GNOME OS" proposal need some hardware for testing. This
> could be another target for the FoG campaign.
>
> Cheers,
>
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Re: Any chance to move your MLs to Google Groups?

2012-08-16 Thread Stormy Peters
Mozilla uses an odd combination of Mailman and Google Groups. So most
Mozilla lists can be subscribed to via Mailman *or* Google Groups. I wasn't
around when the decision was made but I believe the driving force was to
provide a Mailman interface for those who work best with that and a web
interface for people who liked the newsgroup format. While it doesn't
always work perfectly, it seems to work for a lot of people.

On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 6:16 AM, Tobias Mueller  wrote:

>
> Right now, I can download the mboxes, index, search and share all *I*
> want.
>

And this is a huge feature.

The problem with the Mozilla hybrid, from my Mailman biased perspective, is
that the archives are in Google Groups. So when I join a list, I can't
download the mbox to search and read the archives effectively given the way
I work.

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Re: GNOME Rollup Display

2012-05-30 Thread Stormy Peters
Nice job! Thank for making this happen.

On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 3:58 AM, Allan Day  wrote:

> Andreas Nilsson  wrote:
> > On 05/27/2012 01:41 PM, Tobias Mueller wrote:
> >>
> >> Hey folks :)
> >>
> >> I got the rollup-display. You can see it in action here:
> >> http://people.gnome.org/~tobiasmue/blog/2012-LinuxTag/20120524_001.jpg
> >
> > That looks great, cool to see it in action!
>
> I agree - excellent stuff.
>
> It might even look better without the other posters you've
> got there.
>
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Re: Microblogging Workflow

2012-05-29 Thread Stormy Peters
I've heard lots of good things about CoTweet and groups of people tweeting
on the same account. However, it doesn't do Identica.

Stormy

On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 3:54 PM, Allan Day  wrote:

> On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 10:50 PM, Allan Day  wrote:
> > Anthony Papillion  wrote:
> > ...
> >> Tweetdeck is great except it's not really for group microblogging. I'm
> >> part of a crisis mappers group and we use a service called "Timely" to
> >> coordinate tweeting as a team. It's great and it lets people
> >> collaborate on the tweets sent out, track metrics, reach, etc.
> >>
> >> I believe the site is www.time.ly but if that's not it let me know and
> >> I'll dig it up.
> >
> > Thanks for the suggestion, Anthony! It looks like Timely [1] does
> > automatic scheduling of posts rather than allowing you to schedule
> > them for a specific time in the future... is that right?
> ...
>
> Could it be that Buffer [1] is what we need?
>
> Allan
>
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Re: GNOME Rollup Display

2012-05-07 Thread Stormy Peters
+1 to just going for whatever you think is best so that you can get it in
time for LinuxTag and then, if you have feedback, we can re-evaluate.

I'd suggest a self standing banner, even if it were a bit more. That and a
table cloth.

Stormy

On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 3:17 PM, Tobias Mueller wrote:

> Heya :)
>
> I'm picking up this old discussion so that we can eventually get roll-up
> displays.
>
> I am aware of the fact that they won't fit in the EventBox, but well, we
> can probably find someone to store them somewhere and with the displays
> costing ~50 Euro it's probably not worth sending them around Europe anyway.
>
> On 06.02.2012 16:48, Stormy Peters wrote:
> > I 100% support having a table cloth and a roll up self-standing banner
> Andreas provided a mockup here:
> https://live.gnome.org/GnomeArt/ArtRequests/rollup-display-ad
>
> I'd like to receive comments on that. Ideally, until next week or so, so
> that we might even be able to get the thing for LinuxTag.
>
>
> The cheapest offer I found is 52 Euro incl. everything (VAT and
> shipping) <http://www.wir-machen-druck.de/category.htm?c=14136>. Does
> anybody have a cheaper offer?
>
> Cheers,
>  Tobi
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Re: Marketing Calendar

2012-05-02 Thread Stormy Peters
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 3:28 PM, Allan Day  wrote:

> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 11:18 AM, Stormy Peters  wrote:
> > We have a GNOME community calendar in Google. Maybe we could use that?
>
> Thanks Stormy, this does exactly what we need in terms of
> functionality. Nice to pick something up that already has people
> signed up to it, too.
>
> I'd like to add events to the calendar (hackfests, conferences,
> release dates) as well as marketing planning dates (when to start
> preparing release materials, when to post news stories, etc). I hope
> that's OK.
>
>
Sounds great!

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Re: Marketing Calendar

2012-05-01 Thread Stormy Peters
We have a GNOME community calendar in Google. Maybe we could use that?

I don't know how the find the public url for a Google calendar and I'm in
meetings for the rest of the day (but can try later ...), but I invited you
to it ...

Stormy

On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 3:00 AM, Allan Day  wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> A little while ago we spoke about setting up a calendar for GNOME
> marketing. I think this is really needed. (The key requirement for the
> calendar is that different people can subscribe to it and receive
> updates as events are added and modified.)
>
> We've been testing a Wordpress plugin on the gnome.org test site but
> I'm not getting the behaviour we need (indeed, I can't subscribe to it
> from my Google Calendar at all).
>
> Does anyone have any bright ideas for how to set up a shared calendar?
>
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Re: Friends of GNOME campaign

2012-04-18 Thread Stormy Peters
On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 7:32 PM, Bryen M Yunashko wrote:

>  >
> > Website/infrastructure campaign.
> > One resource that many GNOME users and contributors take for granted
> > are the websites and infrastructure that support the GNOME project in
> > various way. In the marketing meeting we had back in October it was
> > stated that the website/infrastructure was not in ideal shape
> > (http://goo.gl/eB0um). I know that the past months great progress have
> > been made with the websites (foundation website migration to new
> > design).
> >
>
> I'm not sure this would be effective for a campaign.  Yes you raise
> valid points about why we could use additional funds to cover
> infrastructure, but from a human-appeal POV, I don't think a campaign
> about web infrastructure is going to make someone dig into their pockets
> to donate, unless they happen to be close to GNOME already.  This
> campaign would leave out those who might donate out of a basic human
> appeal.
>
>
A few years ago when I ran a survey, most donors were close to the project
and wanted to contribute but did not have either time or skills. The sys
admin campaign was definitely a success.

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Re: marketing meeting Tuesday 20th, 2012 - 8am - 9:15am PST (16:00 -17:15 GMT)

2012-03-19 Thread Stormy Peters
FYI, that's at the same time as the board meeting.

On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 5:00 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:

> I don't know if anybody saw this or not.. it seems that nobody did.. I
> sent it three days ago :(
>
> sri
>
> -- Forwarded message --
> From: Sriram Ramkrishna 
> Date: Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 2:11 PM
> Subject: marketing meeting Tuesday 20th, 2012 - 8am - 9:15am PST (16:00
> -17:15 GMT)
> To: marketing-list-requ...@gnome.org
>
>
> Greetings, Marketing Meeting is set for Tuesaday at 16:00 GMT (8am PST,
> 9am MST, 11am EST) etc etc.
>
> We'll use google hangouts unless there is strong objection in which case
> we can degrade to IRC.
>
> We'll need someone to volunteeer as note taker.
>
> sri
>
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Re: Marketing Meeting next week.

2012-03-16 Thread Stormy Peters
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 12:10 PM, Bryen M Yunashko wrote:

>
> The meetbot can be useful that someone can volunteer to make a
> human-friendly minutes without even being present at the meeting because
> of transcripts etc.  How do you get a transcript of a video conference?
> That seems to only be useful for those who are present at the meeting,
> but not for those who are unable to attend the meeting but still want to
> read the meeting transcript?
>

You take good minutes. Etherpad is a good tool for that.

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Re: Marketing Meeting next week.

2012-03-16 Thread Stormy Peters
Regardless of whether it's Google services or not, I'd like to put in a
word for video calls.

In the past year and a half, I've come to really appreciate video calls. In
my experience, meetings held via video are universally more on track and
productive. I much prefer them over phone only calls now.

They do tend to have more technical difficulties and they often get started
more slowly as people figure out technical difficulties. IRC, etherpad, and
even phone, don't seem to have that problem. They also require a good
internet connection and the right hardware.

Stormy

On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 10:54 AM, Karen Sandler  wrote:

> On Fri, March 16, 2012 6:59 am, Allan Day wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 10:11 PM, Bryen M Yunashko 
> > wrote:
> >> On Mon, 2012-03-12 at 16:00 -0700, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:
> >>> I have setup a doodle for a marketing meeting using google hangouts.
> >>> Please RSVP what would be the best time.  If I'm missing a convenient
> >>> time zone, please let me know.  All the times are London times, (GMT
> >>> -7 for west coast, -6 for mountain, etc)
> >>>
> >> How come the meeting has to be in some Google service instead of our own
> >> marketing IRC channel?
> >
> > Google Hangouts are really nice for video conferencing. I find them
> > more effective than IRC for meetings, plus it's more personal.
> >
> > But we can use IRC if anyone has a serious objection.
> >
>
> FWIW, I'd much rather use IRC than google services :)
>
> Karen
>
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Re: GNOME Donations only through PayPal?

2012-02-15 Thread Stormy Peters
You can make donations via Google Checkout. We just need someone to add the
option to the donations page ...

Stormy

On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 10:52 AM, Karen Sandler  wrote:

> On Wed, February 15, 2012 12:44 pm, Emily Gonyer wrote:
> > Hi there, I just donated to the Friends of GNOME Campaign and was
> > dissapointed to have to make a PayPal account. Is there a way we could
> > allow donations through Google Checkout or at least as a guest via
> paypal,
> > rather than forcing everyone to have have an actual paypal account? I
> > deleted mine a while ago in response to the wikileaks fiasco, and would
> > have much rather not had to use PayPal at all, and I suspect I am not
> > alone.
> >
> > Just a thought!
>
> A great thought too! And one that's my fault - it's been on my to do list
> to get google checkout sorted (and Stormy did all of the hard work when
> she was Executive Director). I will bump it up priority-wise and look at
> it in the next day or two :)
>
> karen
>
> >
> > Emily
> >
> > --
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> > power
> > and magic in it. -  Goethe
> >
> > Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter
> > and those who matter don't mind. - Dr.Seuss
> >
> > Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts
> > can be counted. - Albert Einstein
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Join Mozilla ideas for Friends of GNOME

2012-02-13 Thread Stormy Peters
I thought the Join Mozilla numbers might be interesting to those of us
working on Friends of GNOME.
 Join Mozilla update: 2/10/12
webmaker ,
webmakers

Following up our successful end-of-year fundraising
campaign,
January and February have been pretty good so far from a fundraising
perspective, despite no aggressive pushes (other than the PS in aSOPA/PIPA
email we sent in
January).
Here’s where we are so far:

2012 online donations to Mozilla: 3,723
2012 online revenue: $78,657.80
Current 
@Mozilla
followers:
4,880
Current email subscribers : 292,263




More at the post:
http://engagingopenly.wordpress.com/2012/02/10/join-mozilla-update-21012/


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Re: "We are GNOME" movie

2012-02-10 Thread Stormy Peters
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 8:48 AM, Bryen M Yunashko wrote:

>
>
> We need captions at all times, not just at conferences.  :-)


I think with Universal Subtitles[1] it's relatively easy for a group of
people to add captions and localize them.

They've offered to work with us before[2].

Stormy

[1] http://www.universalsubtitles.org/
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Re: GNOME FOSDEM Stand

2012-02-06 Thread Stormy Peters
I 100% support having a table cloth and a roll up self-standing banner in
both of the event boxes.

Stormy

On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 8:05 AM, Allan Day  wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Thanks to everyone who staffed the GNOME stand at FOSDEM! It was great
> to have so many enthusiastic volunteers. If you were there - how did
> you think the stand worked, and what could we improve for next time?
>
> I thought our visual presence was pretty good, and the videos we
> showed on the demo machine were good. It was also really great to have
> information posted up about upcoming GNOME talks - that was a great
> idea.
>
> As was brought up on the list recently, I also thought it would be
> good to organise the stand around a more engaging activity. Friends of
> GNOME sign up was one idea there. Technical demonstrations was
> another. We could also do things like a GNOME Love/Hate board or a
> suggestions box or even a game that people can play at the stand. Any
> other ideas?
>
> The other thing I thought was that the stand would be better if we had
> more in the way of merchandise (pens, mugs, keyrings, usb sticks, a
> greater range of stickers, etc etc). We also need new banners (some of
> which are looking like they have seen better days) and a big GNOME
> tablecloth (I was also envious of the roll-up vertical banners that
> the other stands had).
>
> Do we know if there is room in the box for those things? Who has the
> box at the moment? Perhaps we could organise for it to be restocked?
>
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Nonprofits, communicating & building community

2012-01-23 Thread Stormy Peters
Some free webinars and posts around nonprofits, grant seeking and social
media that someone at Mozilla forwarded to me.
http://www.idealist.org/blog/**en/take-professional-**
development-into-your-own-**hands-this-year/

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Re: speaker schedules for conference

2011-12-23 Thread Stormy Peters
We should think about who we are trying to reach ... existing end users,
potential end users, developers, community members, distros, downstream
partners, ...

All 3 of those events are very technical events and the reach would be to
existing fans and community members, I think.

Stormy

On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 8:03 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna <
sriram.ramkris...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I think we need to start scoping out conferences for the next year and
> figure out how we are going to talk about GNOME 3.4.
>
> There are a number of talks I'm thinking of presenting:
>
> 1) Open Source Bridge 2nd quarter 2012
> 2) Northwest Linuxfest 2nd quarte 2012
> 3) Linuxcon - wherever - 3rd quarter 2012
>
> We should definitely talk about our marketing plans.
>
> sri
>
>
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Re: GNOME Press Team: usage of gnome-press-team list

2011-12-06 Thread Stormy Peters
I've never understood the difference between marketing private and press
... I think I'd stick with the press alias over the marketing private
though as it makes more sense for people trying to contact us.

Stormy

On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 2:01 PM, karen  wrote:

> On Thu, December 1, 2011 1:54 pm, Marina Zhurakhinskaya wrote:
> > Sure, we can see if Stormy thinks there is any particular use for this
> > list. As I mentioned, few of the people who are really part of the
> GNOME's
> > press team are on it and it seems that the public discussion can be
> > happening in a single place on the marketing list, and the sub-team
> > discussion can be happening on the marketing private list.
>
> Stormy's on vacation now and off of email for the week, but we can ask her
> when she gets back!
>
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Re: draft for Friends of GNOME campaign

2011-12-06 Thread Stormy Peters
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 12:22 PM, Dave Neary  wrote:

>
>
> Do we have some examples of GNOME users whose lives were made measurably
> better because of the a11y work we've done? Show-cases work wonders.
>

I agree with Dave that a quote or a case study would make it more real.
People are much more willing to donate to save a particular kid ("Joey")
who is sick than they are to donate to an organization that helps vaccinate
1000s of kids.

Also, I think we should end with a call to action. What do we want them to
do? ex: "Donate $25 now and help us reach another person."

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Re: Storing marketing materials

2011-11-11 Thread Stormy Peters
I agree the wiki is not the best way to store documents. However, git seems
like a big barrier to entry for people that might have a marketing
background but not a coding background ...

Could we make one wiki page just be doc storage? Can we do a web interface
to git?

Stormy

On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 2:18 AM, Allan Day  wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Our marketing resources are currently stored on the wiki. This isn't
> great, since things get fragmented across different pages and it's
> hard work to maintain. I'd really like for us to have a single shared
> repository for all our marketing materials, including assets (such as
> photos, graphics), presentation materials, screenshots and so on.
>
> I've asked around and it seems like a Git repository could be the best
> option for us right now. We could host it on Gitorious or Github, both
> of which allow you to download a tarball of the entire repository if
> you want its contents on a one off basis. You could also access the
> repository using Sparkleshare [1].
>
> What do people think? Any other ideas?
>
> Allan
>
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Re: Words about GNOME in 2011

2011-11-08 Thread Stormy Peters
Awesome. Thanks for putting this together, Juanjo!

+1 to including it in the annual report.

It'd be even cooler if we could get good pictures of these folks and spread
the pictures with the quotes out through the report.

Stormy

2011/11/7 Juanjo Marín 

> Hi,
>
> As a mentioned in my email about the content of the annual report, I think
> it could be cool to have a "Words about GNOME in 2011" section. These are
> the quotations I think we could include:
>
> Words about GNOME in 2011
> =
>
> "The developers behind the GNOME project have announced the official
> release of GNOME 3.0, a significant redesign of the open source desktop
> environment. The update introduces a new desktop shell that offers a
> streamlined window management workflow and a more modern look and feel. The
> new version also represents a major architectural overhaul, with many
> important enhancements to the GNOME platform's technical
> underpinnings.[...] The solid technical work that has been done under the
> hood really complements the new user experience features in GNOME 3.0.
> Despite some of the gaps in the feature set, I think that the environment
> and the new shell is a good starting point for building something even
> better. The GNOME contributors will be able to iterate on the design and
> move it forward in future updates."
>
> Ryan Paul, Ars Technica
>
> http://arstechnica.com/open-source/reviews/2011/04/ars-reviews-gnome-30-a-shiny-new-ornament-for-your-linux-lawn.ars
>
> ---
>
> "Five years in the making, the newly released version 3 of the GNOME Linux
> desktop interface has been radically redesigned. [...] For this release,
> the boxy look and feel has been replaced with a more aerodynamic,
> clutter-free visage. All the icons were redesigned, and new default font
> Cantarell was adopted. Applications can be called up by simply typing the
> first few letters of a program name. Frequently used applications can be
> pinned to a desktop dashboard. Previous versions of GNOME allowed for
> multiple workspaces, or windows. The new version allows users to create
> workspaces on the fly, and to drag and drop applications into a workspace.
> It also includes a unified messaging feature, in which e-mail and instant
> messages can be responded to directly from a messaging tray. Also new is a
> search function that can be accessed by hitting the Windows key on the
> keyboard."
>
> Joab Jackson, IDG News, PC World
> http://www.pcworld.com/article/224573/new_gnome_cuts_the_clutter.html
>
> ---
>
> "Gnome 3 (code-named ToPaZ for “Three Point Zero”) marks the beginning of
> a completely new desktop experience. The developers took a long time
> to develop and test the new release. In fact, almost all components were
> ready a year ago, but the Foundation delayed the release to double-check
> and improve the new desktop [...] Gnome is quite stable; I didn’t encounter
> any crashes or bugs whatsoever. The missing features aside, Gnome 3 still
> provides a good user experience [...] Gnome 3 is indeed a step ahead. I am
> glad developers finally came up with a bold and radical release"
>
> Shashwat Pant, Linux Magazine
> http://www.linux-magazine.com/w3/issue/128/044-047_Gnome.pdf
>
> ---
>
> "The most important remark for Gnome 3 came from a non-techie. A user who
> doesn't much care about kernels and mutters; someone who uses computer to
> do her job. My wife was sitting right behind me when the machine booted.
> "Wow...what's that!" I heard someone from behind. I turned and found her
> looking at my machine. "Is it a new OS? It looks cool! [...] The moral of
> the story is – we, the so called tech-savvy users, may fight, argue, and
> create mountain out of mole, ordinary users don't care. They just need
> something that works. And when you hear "wow, that's cool" from an ordinary
> user, it means a lot."
>
> Swapnil Bhartiya, Muktware.com
> http://www.muktware.com/b/14/2011/832/my-wife-loves-gnome-3
>
> ---
>
> "Back when I first reported on GNOME 3 I was proclaiming it to be the
> future of the desktop. I still feel that way…very much so. Although it may
> take some time to get used to the cleaner look and feel of the desktop,
> GNOME 3 should make many user levels very happy. It is a drastic departure
> from the standard, but one that is long overdue and will make using the
> desktop (especially in the touch-screen happy world) much easier."
>
> Jack Wallen, Tech Republic
>
> http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/opensource/linux-shakedown-testing-both-gnome-3-and-fedora-15/
>
> ---
> "Mit GNOME 3.0 verpasst sich der Desktop beinahe schon so etwas wie einen
> Neustart, die User Experience unterscheidet sich in zentralen Bereichen
> recht deutlich vom bisherigen GNOME. Das heißt auch: Wer auf die neue
> Version wechselt, braucht zunächst einmal etwas, um die neuen Konzepte zu
> erkunden. Es lohnt sich aber durchaus, diese Zeit zu investieren, hat man
> sich einmal eingearbeitet - und den eigenen Widerwillen 

Re: tasks for Google's code-in!

2011-10-28 Thread Stormy Peters
I like all the ideas so far.

We could ask for help on the 2011 annual report ...

We could ask someone to make a website that shows where all the GNOME talks
are and have been with links to any videos or slides.

Stormy

On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 3:32 AM, Allan Day  wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 1:00 AM, Karen Sandler  wrote:
> > Hey marketing team,
> >
> > Hopefully you saw André Klapper's email to desktop-devel about the Google
> > Code-in:
> >
> >
> https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2011-October/msg00175.html
> >
> > We only have a few days to add tasks, and at least 5 of them should be in
> > the Community Outreach/marketing category.
> >
> > I think the program is a bit late to ask for help on our annual report,
> > but I think there are a lot of other things we could use help with. For
> > example:
> >
> > * we could ask for nice promotional videos be made about some aspects of
> > GNOME 3.2 along the lines of Jason Clinton's excellent ones for the GNOME
> > 3 release, or about other GNOME initiatives like a11y.
> >
> > * we could ask for help with GNOME Journal, including asking for specific
> > articles to be written.
> >
> > * we can also ask a student to go through our whole website and identify
> > out of date sections, broken links and other areas that can be improved
> or
> > updated.
> >
> > We need easy, medium and hard tasks, so there's really a wide opportunity
> > here. As others have pointed out, we should focus on tasks that will be
> > cool and interesting to students and that will probably look good on a
> > college application.
> >
> > What do you think? What tasks should we add?
> > karen
>
> A few more ideas:
>
>  * Write a history of the GNOME project
>
>  * Create a presentation to promote GNOME
>
>  * Design a template for one page release notes [1]
>
> Allan
>
> [1]
> http://mairin.wordpress.com/2009/11/13/fedora-12-one-page-release-notes-pdf/
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Re: Interview members of the advisory board for the GNOME Journal.

2011-10-25 Thread Stormy Peters
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 4:05 PM, Oliver Propst wrote:

>
> I'm not opposed to have specific questions
> but it will make things a bit more
> complicated. Can we ask one or two specific
> questions in every interview or is that to weird?
>

I think that would be good.

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Re: Interview members of the advisory board for the GNOME Journal.

2011-10-24 Thread Stormy Peters
I like the idea.

Just as an FYI, I did interview advisory board members for GNOME Journal
articles for a while. I interviewed Leslie Hawthorne/Google, Quim Gil/Nokia,
Bradley Kuhn/FSF and Juan José Sánchez Penas/Igalia.

http://gnomejournal.org/article/105/interview-with-bradley-kuhn-of-the-gnome-advisory-board
http://gnomejournal.org/article/98/interview-with-quim-gil-of-the-gnome-advisory-board
http://gnomejournal.org/article/97/interview-with-juan-jos233-s225nchez-penas-of-the-gnome-advisory-board
http://gnomejournal.org/article/81/an-interview-with-leslie-hawthorn

I like the idea of asking them the same questions. At the same time, I think
we should be sure to ask a few questions that are specific to the person or
company being interviewed.

Stormy

On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 8:26 PM, Karen Sandler  wrote:

> On Sun, October 23, 2011 1:19 pm, Oliver Propst wrote:
> > On the last meeting we briefly discussed an idea to
> > interview the members of the GNOME Foundation advisory board
> > and publish one interview every month in the GNOME Journal.
> > I propose we use 5 standard questions for the interviews.
> > It would be great if Karen could email the questions to one
> > representative of each company/organization on the board
> > and collect the answers. I suggest that we wait to publish any
> > interview before the future of GNOME Journal has been decided.
>
> Thanks for writing this up, Oliver! I really like this idea of
> interviewing advisory board members. These questions are a good start, I
> think, but we should also ask questions that are more targeted at the
> particular advisory board member and how that company uses GNOME and
> participates in our community.The more focused the questions we can ask,
> the better the interview will read. That said, we've got to start from
> somewhere, and it will be really helpful to have a list of general
> question to start from.
>
> > The questions are just suggestions.
> > x=company/organization name
> >
> > The email could look something like this
> > (rough draft)
> >
> > [name], the GNOME marketing team are conducting an
> > interview serie with the members of the GNOME foundation advisory board.
> > We would appreciate if you as a representative for x could
> > answer the following questions.
> >
> > *How long have x been a member of the
> > Gnome Foundation advisory board?
>
> We may have better access to this kind of information than the advisory
> board rep, if they weren't the company's rep from the beginning. We could
> probably add information like this ourselves in the intro to the
> interview.
> Maybe instead we could ask how that member started using GNOME?
>
> > *How would you describe x relationship with the GNOME foundation today?
> >
> > *How are x using GNOME/GNOME technology?
>
> How about adding some questions like:
>
> * What do you hope will be incorporated into GNOME in the future?
>
> * What do you think GNOME's biggest challenge is?
>
> >
> > *Do x support the GNOME project in any other way then being a member
> > of the advisory board, if so how?
> >
> > *Anything else you want to add?
> >
> > We plan to publish the interview in a
> > future edition of the GNOME Journal.
> >
>
> Does anyone else have any other basic questions to add? I think this is a
> good thing to pick up along with revitalizing the GNOME Journal.
>
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Re: The GNOME Annual Report

2011-10-10 Thread Stormy Peters
I second what Brian says - when I was ED, our advisory board members often
told me the annual report was important for them to show people who helped
make the funding for the GNOME Foundation possible.

I'd like to also point people to Mozilla's annual report that just came out.
It's a website (or at least a set of web pages) with video, text and photos.
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/annualreport/2010/
I'm not sure a web site would be as helpful to the advisory board members.
But it does seem like it might be seen by a lot more people.

Stormy

On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 11:08 AM, Brian Cameron wrote:

>
> Allan/Tobias:
>
> Great question.  The value of the Annual Report is that we provide it
> to current and existing advisory board members and sponsors to
> communicate the value of The GNOME Foundation, and GNOME Foundation
> membership.  After reading the Advisory Report, we hope that sponsors
> feel encouraged to participate and contribute to our efforts.
>
> So, if you have made use of GNOME travel sponsorship, found a hackfest
> productive, think the GNOME Women's Outreach program is great, then
> you should be think about the fact that the Annual Report is an
> important part of raising the funds to make these sorts of things
> possible.  It is our main communication vehicle to sponsors.
>
> Past Annual Reports have done a pretty good job of communicating this
> value.  We have been talking a lot about how the foundation.gnome.org
> website really lacks at communicating the values that we find in the
> reports.  So, we can think of the Annual Report as a part of a larger
> project focused on better communicating these values.
>
> With GNOME 3 released, now is probably the right time to evaluate how
> we need to update the GNOME Foundation image as well.  This is why I
> have suggested doing a one-off Biannual Report, and then return back
> to doing annual ones for future years.  This would allow us to go to
> press with a report that communicates the exciting GNOME 3 work the
> GNOME community has been focused on lately.
>
> In the past, the board has done most of the work printing and
> distributing the report and provides digital copies online.  I think we
> could do a much more effective job of identifying potential sponsors and
> sending them printed copies.  But Advisory Board members have told us
> that the reports help them to justify AdBoard membership and event
> sponsorship.
>
> I think there is a lot of room for the marketing team to help in many of
> these areas.
>
> Brian
>
>
>
> On 10/10/11 04:10 AM, Allan Day wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 6:58 PM, Tobias Mueller
>>  wrote:
>>
>>> Hey Brian,
>>>
>>> On 27.09.2011 04:46, Brian Cameron wrote:
>>>
 Is the
 reason this task keeps falling to the wayside because it has become too
 much work?

>>> Maybe. But I can imagine that the motivation to create such a report is
>>> not too high, because it lacks a reason, i.e. why should we create such
>>> a report in first place.
>>>
>>
>> Indeed. Explaining the role and benefits of the report might help to
>> encourage people to work on it.
>>
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Re: GNOME Journal

2011-10-09 Thread Stormy Peters
Thanks for working on this, Emily.

I thought we would install Wordpress and continue to use gnomejournal.org.
We can do a lot more with our own hosted copy of Wordpress than we can on
wordpress.com. Did we change plans or did I not understand?

Stormy

On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Emily  wrote:

> Hi there, I'm in the process of moving gnomejournal.org to
> thegnomejournal.wordpress.com as requested, and was wondering if anyone
> was interested in helping with prettying it up via CSS/logo design/etc - I
> freely admit that my skills with GIMP are extremely limited, and I only know
> very basic HTML... though I suppose I could use this as an excuse to learn
> both in more indepth if need be... anyhow, just thought I'd put it out there
> :)
>
> Emily
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Re: marketing list round up

2011-09-28 Thread Stormy Peters
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 10:51 AM, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:

>
> Blog posts, G+ are hard to compete against.  Especially G+ where some of
> you might have hundreds or even thousands of followers.
>
>
We could post in the Journal format and also post to our Identica account,
Facebook page, Twitter account, highlight on gnome.org, etc.

Did we get GNOME Journal moved to Wordpress? I think that would help a lot.

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Re: marketing list round up

2011-09-27 Thread Stormy Peters
I think regular meetings would be a great idea.
On Sep 27, 2011 7:41 PM, "Karen Sandler"  wrote:
> Hello marketing team!
>
> There have been a few things that seem to have fallen by the wayside here
> and I was wondering if maybe it would help to have monthly or bi-weekly
> IRC meetings? If there was a time that worked for everyone, it would be
> nice to have a place to review some of our medium and long term goals.
>
> Some things off the cuff that we have to discuss are:
> * writing Q3 and annual reports
> * the website
> - Friends of Gnome program
> - adding a sponsorship page
> - promoting our merch store and those of preferred vendors
> * creating a press list
>
> Plus, folks tend to have new ideas when there's a meeting to attend :)
>
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Re: Custom Tablecloth Proof for GNOME Event Box

2011-08-31 Thread Stormy Peters
2011/8/31 Juanjo Marín 

>
>
> So what's the status of the custom tablecloths ? Were they made and stored
> in the event boxes ?
> If not, we should because the design it's cool and a tablecloth is very
> convenient :-)
>
>
I agree we should order one. The one we ordered for Kids on Computers turned
out really well.

When's the next event? Perhaps we could order and ship there? The Boston
Summit? SuSE conference?

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Re: Press list

2011-08-15 Thread Stormy Peters
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 6:53 AM, Jos Poortvliet  wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I'd like to propose setting up a 'press list' which we can use for
> embargoed
> pre-release information on announcements and cool stuff going on in GNOME.
> The
> list would only be for selected journalists and low-traffic. I volunteer
> for
> managing and I'm sure a few others would be able to help with that too.
>

I think that's a great idea. I can invite a bunch of journalists to sign up.



>
> I've seen this used in both KDE and openSUSE and it is a very effective way
> of
> ensuring extra attention to announcements. Workflow is a bit like this:
>
> - write announcement
> - send draft of announcement + some extra info & quotes to the press list
> 2-3
> days before the announcement. Mention it's under embargo and tell the press
> when to release it.
> - on the day of the announcement you can count on a few articles by press
> on
> the ML they otherwise might not have written...
>
> The ML would be one-way, max 2 mails/week and closely moderated. Anyone (so
> all GNOME marketeers) will be able to send an info mail for the press to
> the
> list but the moderators would have to let it go through. Obviously, spam on
> that list is VERY BAD...
>
> If the marketing heads on this list agree it's a good idea I would like to
> know who to ask to set it up and who wants to help moderate it ;-)
>

To get it set up, I think you can file a bug or ask one of the sys admins on
IRC.

Stormy

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> Cheers,
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Re: Marketing update at AGM

2011-08-08 Thread Stormy Peters
Here's what I have so far ...

https://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=GNOMEMarketing2011.pdf
https://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=GNOMEMarketing2011.odp

Note that the release parties, www.gnome.org and maybe the photo competition
will also be covered under other presentations, but I think we should
mention them. We only have 5 minutes so I won't be going into detail on any
one slide but I will probably show the video.

Thanks!

Stormy

On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 4:52 PM, Stormy Peters  wrote:

> Thanks so much!
>
> Will try to do you and the others justice for all the great work you've
> done.
>
> Stormy
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 10:47 AM, Allan Day  wrote:
>
>> Stormy Peters  wrote:
>> > Hi GNOME Marketing folks,
>> >
>> > We have been asked to give a 5 minute update at the AGM tomorrow
>> afternoon.
>> >
>> > If there is someone on the list that is here at the Desktop Summit that
>> > would like to do it, please speak up, otherwise I am happy to do it.
>>
>> Looks like that might be best. Thanks Stormy. :)
>>
>> > I could use all your help in calling out what was important and why it
>> was
>> > so cool.
>> > * GNOME 3
>> >  * Launch parties
>> >  * press
>> >  * all the work Allan and Sumanah did
>> > ...
>> >
>> > Thoughts? I will be working on this later tonight ...
>>
>> The Q2 report I wrote might come in handy:
>>
>> https://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/QuarterlyReports/2011/Q2#Marketing
>>
>> As might the debrief that me and Sumanah wrote:
>>
>> https://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/ThreePointZero/LessonsLearned
>>
>> Best,
>>
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Re: Marketing update at AGM

2011-08-08 Thread Stormy Peters
Thanks so much!

Will try to do you and the others justice for all the great work you've
done.

Stormy

On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 10:47 AM, Allan Day  wrote:

> Stormy Peters  wrote:
> > Hi GNOME Marketing folks,
> >
> > We have been asked to give a 5 minute update at the AGM tomorrow
> afternoon.
> >
> > If there is someone on the list that is here at the Desktop Summit that
> > would like to do it, please speak up, otherwise I am happy to do it.
>
> Looks like that might be best. Thanks Stormy. :)
>
> > I could use all your help in calling out what was important and why it
> was
> > so cool.
> > * GNOME 3
> >  * Launch parties
> >  * press
> >  * all the work Allan and Sumanah did
> > ...
> >
> > Thoughts? I will be working on this later tonight ...
>
> The Q2 report I wrote might come in handy:
>
> https://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/QuarterlyReports/2011/Q2#Marketing
>
> As might the debrief that me and Sumanah wrote:
>
> https://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/ThreePointZero/LessonsLearned
>
> Best,
>
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Re: Marketing update at AGM

2011-08-08 Thread Stormy Peters
On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Jason D. Clinton wrote:

> On Aug 8, 2011 11:33 AM, "Stormy Peters"  wrote:
> > I could use all your help in calling out what was important and why it
> was so cool.
> > * GNOME 3
> >  * Launch parties
> >  * press
> >  * all the work Allan and Sumanah did
> > ...
>
> * videos
>

If I was going to play one, which one would you recommend?

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Marketing update at AGM

2011-08-08 Thread Stormy Peters
Hi GNOME Marketing folks,

We have been asked to give a 5 minute update at the AGM tomorrow afternoon.

If there is someone on the list that is here at the Desktop Summit that
would like to do it, please speak up, otherwise I am happy to do it.

I could use all your help in calling out what was important and why it was
so cool.
* GNOME 3
 * Launch parties
 * press
 * all the work Allan and Sumanah did
...

Thoughts? I will be working on this later tonight ...

Thanks!

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Re: Gnome advert for Linux User & Developer issue 102

2011-06-09 Thread Stormy Peters
Hi Clare,

I'm cc'ing the GNOME Marketing list who can help.

Can you remind us what the parameters for the advert are?

Thanks!

Stormy

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>  Hi Stormy,
>
>
>
> We’re looking to get a new community advert for Gnome to go into Linux User
> & Developer issue 102 – as the current copy is expired. Would you be able to
> send me new copy, or point me in the right direction for a new advert?
>
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Re: Can we document how to do GNOME announcements, please?

2011-06-08 Thread Stormy Peters
On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 3:57 AM, Dave Neary  wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I've been trying to figure out what the best place for GNOME project
> related news & announcements is recently, and it's *really* hard. This
> is in the context of announcing deadlines for attendee rates for Desktop
> Summit accommodation. We've also had the call for papers, announcement
> of the schedule, we have keynote interviews, etc. The DS has been
> generating quite a bit of news, and yet, you wouldn't be able to tell
> from looking at desktopsummit.org or gnome.org.
>
> We have:
>
> * No news posted to www.gnome.org
>

You can add a news blurb to www.gnome.org. But it has to point to an article
some where else.


>
> Aggregators:
> * planet.gnome.org - aggregating personal blogs, definitely not a news
> site
>

I think it would be good to occasionally have news things posted there. For
example the IRC meeting notices never hit Planet and so most people don't
see them.


> * news.gnome.org - aggregates announcement mailing lists, project blogs
> & the foundation blog - also not a news site
>

It was changed from a news site to an aggregate a few years ago because we
had no news. I think now that we have a strong marketing team, GNOME Journal
team and press team, we could change it back.

>
> Basically, someone not familiar with GNOME comes along & can't find out
> our news & announcements,


I too think this is a problem. Especially for companies interested in
getting involved in GNOME.


> someone inside GNOME wants to make people
> withing & around the community aware of something, they have their
> personal blog aggregated on Planet as basically the only way to do that.
>

This has always felt really weird to me.

>
> 1. Either:
>  - Make http://news.gnome.org a Wordpress blog and document who can add
> news items to it
>

And remove the other feeds? Or just have a way to publish news too?


>  - Turn gnomejournal.org into something more like lwn, with regular
> small updates, and more irregular, polished articles
> : and use the one we choose as the GNOME news & announcements site
>

I think GNOME Journal would be cool with regular updates like lwn or just
blog posts with a monthly/quarterly theme.

>
> 3. Find out who can post to the foundation blog and potentially use that
> as a way to publish news items when appropriate.
>

We can add anyone we think is appropriate. I believe I can post to it but I
can't add user accounts.


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2011-04-28 Thread Stormy Peters
I didn't set comments to disabled but I find I don't feel strongly one way
or the other.

Thoughts? If we want to turn them on, any one willing to help with
moderating?

Stormy

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2011-04-12 Thread Stormy Peters
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.)

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Re: Stack Overflow: a de facto hub for GNOME support & questions

2011-04-05 Thread Stormy Peters
I agree that Stack Overflow is a high quality site for Q&A.

Stormy

On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 8:34 AM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote:

> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/gnome
>
> There are 204 questions about GNOME on Stack Overflow (a
> trying-to-be-quality programmers' Q&A site with lots of traffic).  So if you
> have some spare time to look at new questions there, add a summary of GNOME
> for their wiki, and inject positivity, that might be a useful thing to do --
> I bet GNOME 3 questions will start popping up once it ships.
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2011-04-04 Thread Stormy Peters
Thanks Jason and everyone else who's helped with the videos!

Nice work, Jason.

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Re: Video #2 RFC

2011-03-21 Thread Stormy Peters
Nice work! I think these will really make a difference to folks new to GNOME
or wondering about GNOME 3.

Stormy

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> A first production attempt of launch video #2 is available here.
> Comments, please. The sooner, the better because two more will be
> produced tomorrow.
>
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Re: Any Shared Slides - "New Features for GNOME 3.0"

2011-03-16 Thread Stormy Peters
I really don't think the history is what is interesting to folks.

They want to know what it is now.

When a new president stands up, he doesn't talk about all the previous
presidents, he talks about what he's going to do.

Stormy

On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 12:02 PM, Juanjo Marin <
juanj.ma...@juntadeandalucia.es> wrote:

> El mié, 16-03-2011 a las 18:59 +0100, Juanjo Marin escribió:
> > El mié, 16-03-2011 a las 11:43 -0600, Stormy Peters escribió:
> > > I think we should focus less on history and more about what is cool
> > > right now. And where we are going.
> > >
> > > Stormy
> >
> > The history could be graphically reduced to 3 images
> > 1. Screenshot of GNOME 1
> > 2. Screenshot of GNOME 3
>
> Obviously a 2. Screenshot of GNOME 2
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Re: Any Shared Slides - "New Features for GNOME 3.0"

2011-03-16 Thread Stormy Peters
I think we should focus less on history and more about what is cool right
now. And where we are going.

Stormy

On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 11:08 AM, Brian Cameron wrote:

>
> Emily:
>
>
>  I am writing to ask is there any public shared slides to talk about
>> "What's new in GNOME 3.0". Since we are going to have 120+ Launch
>> parties in April, a slides like this can be reused and shared with some
>> launch parties.
>>
>
> There are some side fragments you can use here:
>
>  http://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/MarketingMaterial/Presentations
>
> I'm sure they could be improved.  There is a "History of GNOME" fragment,
> though it might need to be updated with some of the
> latest GNOME 3.0 History (e.g. to discuss GNOME 3 in the past instead
> of the future tense).
>
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Re: first draft of my response to Linux Format magazine

2011-03-10 Thread Stormy Peters
I too think you did a great job!

On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna  wrote:

>
> For the most part, a GNOME 2 application can exist in a GNOME 3
> environment.  We continue to maintain the same GTK+ api from GTK+ 2 although
> they are deprecated while providing newer API for application programmers to
> use.  The advantage is that applications developers can move to GNOME 3 at
> their discretion.  This is in contrast to the GNOME 1.x to GNOME 2.x where
> we broke all APIs and application writers had to re-write their applications
> from scatch.
>

I think I would remove "we broke all APIs and". It will still say the same
thing.

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Re: GNOME 3 release marketing - DONEs & TODOs

2011-02-28 Thread Stormy Peters
Thanks, Sumana. Good stuff!

On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 11:39 AM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote:

>
> * Research what we'll need to do to translate the videos
>

You can use universalsubtitles.org for it. I volunteer to help transcribe.

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Re: Speaking opportunity at SVLUG on April 6 about GNOME 3.0

2011-02-17 Thread Stormy Peters
Did you get anyone? I know Luis Villa is in the area.

Stormy

On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 8:32 AM, Frederic Muller  wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> Checking on the SVLUG schedule it seems April 6 is the date of their
> April's monthly meeting () and the slot is still available. Wouldn't it be
> nice to have someone submit a talk (http://www.svlug.org/call4speakers.php)
> about GNOME 3.0 and go there to present to one of the oldest and largest
> LUG?
>
> From the description "the meetings are 2-hour technical presentations for
> an engineering audience, with Q&A".
>
> That could also be a could way to promote and launch GNOME 3.0 on the West
> Coast. We can definitely arrange some goodies (from the launch parties) to
> the speaker volunteering to give away on that day.
>
> Thanks for stepping up or forwarding the information to the relevant
> candidates (and letting us know).
>
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Re: GNOME 3 User Day: Debrief and analysis

2011-02-16 Thread Stormy Peters
Hi Allan,

Thanks so much for making these happen!

The one I attended was so full of people with questions that it was hard to
follow all the conversations - which was awesome! I agree that the general
tone was positive. People had questions and concerns but they were looking
for information, not to complain.

I think it would be helpful to post a short summary (maybe a paragraph or
so?) to the Foundation list to let people know this happened and perhaps to
pull in more people next time.

Thank you again!

Stormy

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 3:20 PM, Allan Day  wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Yesterday was the first GNOME 3 user day [1, 2]. Many thanks to everyone
> who contributed.
>
> I was really pleased with how the event went. Attendance was excellent,
> and those who participated seemed to get a lot out of it. It certainly
> seemed to boost enthusiasm, and I daresay that we managed to calm a few
> critics (though there was surprisingly little of that, actually). I also
> thought that the publicity that was generated was useful, and the fact
> that we've held the session will come in handy in our ongoing PR work.
>
> We might want to hold more of these events in the future, so it seems
> worthwhile to examine how yesterday went. Some observations:
>
>  * Attendance was good at all three sessions. The 15:00-16:00 session
> was vastly more popular than the others though. Almost too popular.
>
>  * The popularity of the second session made it difficult (though not
> impossible) to manage the discussion. I ended up having to list the
> questions that were asked, which I then called out in sequence. This was
> a bit messy at times, but worked fairly well on the whole. (I eventually
> transferred the list of questions to an Etherpad, which other volunteers
> were then able to use.)
>
>  - As a result of these experiences, the third and final session of the
> day was organised using two channels - one for asking questions and one
> for answering and discussing them. Though this was undoubtedly more
> efficient, I actually thought that it impaired the atmosphere of the
> event, since it left most of the participants disconnected from the
> discussion.
>
>  - I'd be interested in hearing people's thoughts on the best way to
> organise these sessions in the future. Andre mentioned that there is a
> bot that can be used for hosting meetings. That could be an interesting
> line to pursue. Another possibility might be to use an Etherpad to
> record the questions that are asked, in much the same way that we ended
> the second session of the day.
>
>  * In future, we need to have details on how the sessions will be
> organised on the wiki prior to the event itself. This will ensure that
> latecomers are informed about how we are organising things.
>
>  * The questions asked in the sessions covered a lot of ground. Most
> were design questions (generally relating to GNOME Shell), but technical
> issues were also raised. There wasn't enough expertise in the channel to
> answer the questions at times. Though I think it's fine to refer people
> on or even to say 'I don't know', we do want to be able to address most
> of the queries that are brought to us.
>
>  - There are two ways we can approach this issue (that I can think of).
> First - we can be clear about the kind of knowledge and expertise that
> are being made available: we can say 'Andreas will be answering design
> questions' or 'Fred will be taking questions about the GNOME 3
> platform'. The other approach is to broaden the amount of expertise that
> is on hand for each session. Having each one be co-hosted by a designer
> and a developer could work.
>
> Any thoughts about any of this? Anything that I've missed? (You can view
> the logs of the event on the wiki [2].)
>
> An aside: one thing that the user day made clear to me is how many
> enthusiastic GNOME users there are out there. This project has a lot of
> supporters - the more we can reach out to them, the better.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Allan
>
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Re: Fwd: Universal Subtitles will caption your videos!

2011-02-16 Thread Stormy Peters
Awesome.

When you get them set up, I'm happy to start transcribing. (I'll leave the
translating to people who can actually write well in a language other than
English.)

Stormy

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 10:01 AM, will kahn-greene wrote:

> I've been working with the Miro Community folks to figure out how to add
> Universal Subtitles functionality to videos on GNOME Miro Community
> (http://gnome.mirocommunity.org/).  It seems it's not too difficult.
> Once a video has been registered with Universal Subtitles, there's some
> embed code that I can just swap into GMC.
>
> I'm definitely interested in doing that for GNOME videos on GMC for any
> videos registered with Universal Subtitles.
>
>
> On 02/16/2011 11:28 AM, Stormy Peters wrote:
> > Universal Subtitles is awesome. You can easily transcribe a video and
> then
> > localization folks can translate the text.
> >
> > If there are particular GNOME videos we would like subtitles for, we
> should
> > add them ...
> >
> > Stormy
> >
> > -- Forwarded message --
> > From: Ed I.
> > Date: Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 10:34 AM
> > Subject: Universal Subtitles will caption your videos!
> >
> >
> > Hello Stormy,
> >
> > I'm contacting you on the behalf of Dean Jansen at the Participatory
> Culture
> > Foundation. You might have heard of Universal Subtitles, a project we are
> > currently working that enables collaborative creation and editing of
> > subtitles for online video. Great for reaching an audience that doesn't
> > speak your language, or to improve accessibility for deaf and hard of
> > hearing users.
> >
> > We're currently working on a list of social interest videos, as well as
> on a
> > page where deaf and hard of hearing users can suggest social videos
> they'd
> > like subtitled.  We are also working with organizations to ask what
> videos
> > they would like subbed. This is where you come in: its a chance for your
> > organization to get free captions and translations from volunteers.
> >
> > So, if you'd like to send me links for one to four videos you'd like
> > captioned and translated, we'll get the ball rolling!
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Ed
> > Participatory Culture Foundation
> >
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Fwd: Universal Subtitles will caption your videos!

2011-02-16 Thread Stormy Peters
Universal Subtitles is awesome. You can easily transcribe a video and then
localization folks can translate the text.

If there are particular GNOME videos we would like subtitles for, we should
add them ...

Stormy

-- Forwarded message --
From: Ed I.
Date: Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 10:34 AM
Subject: Universal Subtitles will caption your videos!


Hello Stormy,

I'm contacting you on the behalf of Dean Jansen at the Participatory Culture
Foundation. You might have heard of Universal Subtitles, a project we are
currently working that enables collaborative creation and editing of
subtitles for online video. Great for reaching an audience that doesn't
speak your language, or to improve accessibility for deaf and hard of
hearing users.

We're currently working on a list of social interest videos, as well as on a
page where deaf and hard of hearing users can suggest social videos they'd
like subtitled.  We are also working with organizations to ask what videos
they would like subbed. This is where you come in: its a chance for your
organization to get free captions and translations from volunteers.

So, if you'd like to send me links for one to four videos you'd like
captioned and translated, we'll get the ball rolling!

Best regards,

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Re: freenode gnome channel

2011-02-16 Thread Stormy Peters
+1

On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 11:37 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:

> On freenode, we have a ##gnome channel that is actually staffed by self
> interested in volunteers for quite a number of years.  There is no official
> #gnome channel due to Freenode's policy of needing an official group
> sponsoring it like the GNOME Foundation.  I would like to propose that we
> actually create a #gnome channel under GNOME Foundation and either staff it
> or get people to use the #gnome channel on irc.gnome.org.  ##gnome sees a
> lot more visitors from my casual observance than #gnome does and this is
> probably because there is an actual number of people who are in there
> answering questions.
>
> I have talked to the ##gnome folks and they are totally willing to shut
> down their channel if a #gnome is created.  I would assume that they will
> continue to do the excellent support that they've been giving to a large
> number of users that pop in from #ubuntu and other channels to ask
> questions.  In the mean time, they have given me +o on their channel so that
> I can set topics and what not.  It'll probably be good to have Allan, Jason
> and some others also operator access just so that we can manage the /topic
> for user days and the like.
>
> In general, it's been good to see people manning the #gnome channels.  I
> hope we continue.
>
> sri
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Re: Fwd: FreeWear.org - Royalty Report (2011/01).

2011-02-15 Thread Stormy Peters
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 10:00 AM, Brian Cameron wrote:

>
>
> I do think we want to avoid creating a confusing clutter of options,
> but I do not think that is a real concern at this point considering
> the small number of merchants who have arrangements to sell GNOME
> branded merchandise.  This could become more of a concern if the
> number of merchants grows significantly, but it does not seem a
> serious issue at the moment to me.
>
> I am not sure if it makes sense to promote merchants on the GNOME
> front page, but I think we should promote all merchants somewhere
> on the GNOME website.  Perhaps a website like http://store.gnome.org/
> could contain a link to each merchant.  Then we could link to this
> website from sensible places, like the FoG website and perhaps the
> GNOME front-door.


Maybe we could do this in a way that doesn't give any one user too many
options by breaking it down by region. (Too many options often means people
buy none.)

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Re: GNOME Ambassadors

2011-02-10 Thread Stormy Peters
I did create the mailing list and invite several people to participate in
the program - they are signed up on the list. We had a few short
discussions.

I think the next step is starting to give them materials and info and
starting discussions about how to present it. And making sure they are aware
of the important things that are happening.

I also wanted to invite some mentors and some additional people.

Stormy

On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 11:32 AM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote:

> As I catch up on marketing email:
>
>  Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 15:06:41 +
>> From: Allan Day
>> To: marketing-list@gnome.org
>> Subject: 3.0 Marketing Schedule
>> Message-ID:<1295449601.4813.13.ca...@blackbox.lan>
>>
>>
>> * GNOME Ambassadors - what is happening with this? What would it involve
>> in the context of the 3.0 campaign? If it definitely isn't going to
>> happen in time for 3.0, I'd prefer to remove it from the schedule.
>>
>
> As far as I am aware, nothing is happening with GNOME Ambassadors.  I was
> to lead it last year and then I flaked out due to a family emergency.
>  Stormy, Vincent, & others & I developed the idea during the May marketing
> hackfest in Zaragoza, and I still think it would be worthwhile, but yeah,
> there's no time between now and GNOME 3's launch.
>
> The page is
>
> http://live.gnome.org/Ambassadors
>
> and, like Stormy, I do think it would be a valuable goal to develop more
> quality speakers for GNOME within the next few years.  I'd be willing to
> lead an IRC meeting next week to discuss further; say, Tuesday the 15th, or
> Wed. or Thurs.?  I've set up a Doodle time poll:
>
> http://www.doodle.com/7qetmix3ivuiuazh
>
> Agenda:
>
> Looking over a schedule, to be sent out as soon as I edit it
> Naming some candidates
> Naming potential mentors
>
> Should be maybe 20-30 minutes.
>
> -Sumana Harihareswara
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Re: Conference t-shirts: kids sizes

2011-02-07 Thread Stormy Peters
For conference people in general, including hackfest organizers and people
that have booths at conferences, I think the Foundation list might be your
best bet.

Alternatively (or in addition) you could put a note at the top of the
Hackfest page and the top of the Event Box page.

Stormy

On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 9:19 AM, Olav Vitters  wrote:

> Got a few requests @ FOSDEM for kids size t-shirts. This was started at
> last years GUADEC. I think for at least Europe it might be nice to make
> such sizes available (together with mens + womans sizes).
>
> How do I make this known? I know guadec-list... but I'd like to contact
> conference people in general. Maybe gnome-i18n?
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2011-02-03 Thread Stormy Peters
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 2:19 AM, Allan Day  wrote:

>
>
> [1] http://www.doodle.com/nhgec7p29ebyfgcf
>

I filled out the time. But like Sri, if I'm not traveling, I can monitor it
throughout the day, usually 7am-4pm MT plus some time in the evening. The
week of Feb 21st I'm traveling.

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Re: Mission statement status

2011-02-01 Thread Stormy Peters
I too think we should put our mission on the about page.

Right now it lists our values, not our mission.

Stormy

On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 11:20 AM, Jason D. Clinton wrote:

> After reviewing a few email threads that mentioned the topic, it seems
> that the most up-to-date copy of the mission statement is held here:
>
> https://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/ConferenceMaterial/Brochure
>
> I don't have any complaints about the statement--I actually love it.
> However, I am wondering if the statement getting prominently placed on
> http://www.gnome.org/about/ was blocking on the new website launch or
> some other reason?
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Re: GNOME Corporate Sponsor Brainstorming

2011-01-28 Thread Stormy Peters
I think this is a great idea.

On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 9:30 AM, Paul Cutler  wrote:

>
> * Non-profits: $0
>

This was defined as 501(c)(3)'s.

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Re: GNOME 3.0 launch party attack?

2011-01-26 Thread Stormy Peters
gnome-sysad...@gnome.org

And they are also on IRC, #sysadmin I think.

Stormy

On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 6:38 PM, Frederic Muller  wrote:

> How can I get in touch with them?
>
> Thanks a lot.
>
> Fred
>
>
> On 01/27/2011 09:35 AM, Stormy Peters wrote:
>
>> Perhaps the sys admin team could help?
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 6:26 PM, Frederic Muller > <mailto:fr...@gnome.org>> wrote:
>>
>>On 01/27/2011 09:11 AM, Frederic Muller wrote:
>>
>>Hi!
>>
>>in the past 8 hours the wiki page for GNOME 3.0 launch parties has
>>disappeared http://live.gnome.org/ThreePointZero/LaunchParty/ . I
>> do
>>subscribe to it but got no notification and history is gone.
>>
>>In parallel 2-3 days ago the blog post about launch parties
>>
>> http://pockey.dao2.com/2011/01/gnome-3-0-launch-parties-support-from-the-gnome-foundation/
>>was removed from the GNOME planet.
>>
>>Those might be 2 totally separate issues, but I'd be happy if
>>someone
>>could help us out restore the wiki page and investigate this weird
>>happening.
>>
>>Thank you.
>>
>>Fred
>>
>>
>>After further investigation the page has been renamed to
>>
>> http://live.gnome.org/ThreePointZero/LaunchParty/Athens/TEI%20of%20Athens
>>by George Chatzipapas, I suppose by mistake.
>>
>>Is it possible to prevent renaming of a page?
>>
>>Thanks.
>>
>>
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Re: GNOME 3.0 launch party attack?

2011-01-26 Thread Stormy Peters
Perhaps the sys admin team could help?

On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 6:26 PM, Frederic Muller  wrote:

> On 01/27/2011 09:11 AM, Frederic Muller wrote:
>
>> Hi!
>>
>> in the past 8 hours the wiki page for GNOME 3.0 launch parties has
>> disappeared http://live.gnome.org/ThreePointZero/LaunchParty/ . I do
>> subscribe to it but got no notification and history is gone.
>>
>> In parallel 2-3 days ago the blog post about launch parties
>>
>> http://pockey.dao2.com/2011/01/gnome-3-0-launch-parties-support-from-the-gnome-foundation/
>> was removed from the GNOME planet.
>>
>> Those might be 2 totally separate issues, but I'd be happy if someone
>> could help us out restore the wiki page and investigate this weird
>> happening.
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>> Fred
>>
>
> After further investigation the page has been renamed to
> http://live.gnome.org/ThreePointZero/LaunchParty/Athens/TEI%20of%20Athensby 
> George Chatzipapas, I suppose by mistake.
>
> Is it possible to prevent renaming of a page?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
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Re: Questions about FoG and campaigns

2011-01-26 Thread Stormy Peters
We also need to promote the campaigns more.

People need to blog about it, maybe we can ask some journalists to help us
by writing about it, we can use our Google Adsense account, etc.

Other than here on the marketing list and on the header of gnome.org, I
haven't seen it mentioned any where ...

Stormy

On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 9:28 AM, Og Maciel  wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 11:24 AM, Jason D. Clinton 
> wrote:
> > I guess the question would be: do the campaigns switch like clock-work
> > or do we do it manually depending on how close we are to the goal when
> > the time for the next campaign period arrives?
>
> I'd like to have campaigns scheduled in advance so that we can better
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2011-01-26 Thread Stormy Peters
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:

>
>
> On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 8:07 AM, Jason D. Clinton 
> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 10:03, Allan Day  wrote:
>> > A GNOME 3 Q&A session would be an extremely beneficial part of our
>> > marketing campaign. It would demonstrate that GNOME is open and cares
>> > about its users, and it would be an effective way of dealing with
>> > negative comments on the web. It's really good to be able to say 'if
>> > you have concerns, please come and talk to us'.
>>
>>
> My recommendation would be to use the existing #gnome on GIMPnet which
>>
>> already frequently gets user questions that go unanswered. Perhaps we
>> could establish office hours like the design team has done.
>>
>
> +1
>
>
I too think regular office hours would be good. I'm willing to help out with
a regular time each week. We could keep an archive of the questions asked
and the answers to help out people answering questions.

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Re: Goodies for GNOME 3.0 launch parties

2011-01-18 Thread Stormy Peters
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 7:18 AM, Allan Day  wrote:

>
> > How shall we announce this (and where)?
>
> Planet GNOME, Identica, Twitter, www.gnome.org... any others? (I'm
> interested in this too.)
>

Facebook too.

>
> > In fact I am also interested in a more generic question which is how do
> > we usually use our channels to announce stuff? I tried to motivate
> > people with the T-shirt contest but didn't receive much feedback except
> > from the people I contacted personally. How do we actually usually
> > promote stuff outside of the GNOME community? (I thought GUGs would be a
> > good way, but they seem a little bit sleepy ;) ).
>
> Good question! I've been thinking for a while that GNOME needs an
> outward facing media channel. The Planet and GNOME News are primarily
> places where we talk to ourselves. www.gnome.org is outward facing and
> has a news section, but it isn't primarily a news site (you certainly
> can't subscribe to it)... A blog or news site where we talk to our
> partners and to GNOME enthusiasts would be a great way to promote GNOME
> and to keep people in tune with where the project is going. It'd need
> volunteers if it were to become an enduring reality, of course...
>
> There are people that have been helping with Facebook and Twitter.

I think a blog would be hard but perhaps a blog that gives excerpts and
points to other articles. That way someone could follow Planet GNOME, GNOME
News and other channels, make a judgement call on what would be interesting
to our users and add them to the feed.

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Re: Made of Easy -> Made of Inspiration

2011-01-15 Thread Stormy Peters
People use their computer to do things.

We are making GNOME so that it does not interfere with what you are doing.
What you need is at your finger tips. You are notified, but not interrupted,
by messages. You can switch tasks easily.

It's made to inspire you - at the work you are trying to create. To assist
you in your main creative efforts.

Stormy

On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 6:08 AM, Olav Vitters  wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 11:50:10AM -0700, Stormy Peters wrote:
> > Made to Inspire?
>
> Playing devil's advocate:
> What is the benefit of an OS if it inspires? Inspires me? Inspires other
> OS makers?
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Re: Made of Easy -> Made of Inspiration

2011-01-14 Thread Stormy Peters
Made to Inspire?

On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 11:34 AM, Jason D. Clinton wrote:

> So, as we ramp up our marketing earlier than anticipated (good!) the launch
> theme that we selected in November 2009 has been bothering me. Mostly, I
> think, because what was a common meme at the time ("made of fail", "made of
> awesome") isn't so common now. And so the play on the meme doesn't seem very
> clever any more.
>
> Also, as I am reviewing the list of videos to produce, I am increasingly of
> the feeling that they need to inspire people by explaining the inspired
> design behind the new UI.
>
> What about "Made of Inspriation?"
>
> Thoughts?
>
> As it stands now, we haven't done anything with the official launch theme
> so changing it is a zero-cost proposition...
>
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Re: Pre-release marketing and community management [Was: getting www.gnome3.org]

2011-01-07 Thread Stormy Peters
Hi Allan,

On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 1:29 AM, Allan Day  wrote:

>
> > Is someone willing to go through archives and talk to the people close
> > to the decision to try to document the features and rationale?
>
> That was my plan for the shell design page. I'm familiar with most of
> the design principles as well as the documentation which has been
> produced. I can also dredge the lists, and I can harass Jon and Jimmac
> if it comes down to it. :)
>
> That'd be great. We could start it on the wiki and then move it to
gnome3.org/... when it's ready.

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Re: Pre-release marketing and community management [Was: getting www.gnome3.org]

2011-01-06 Thread Stormy Peters
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 6:09 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna  wrote:

>
> We didn't do this for 2.0 which fed into a lot of rage on a number of
> forums.  Nobody could understand why we were removing features or the
> philosophy behind it.  Because of that history, Gnome 3.0 will fall into the
> same cycle.  Let's hope we can avoid doing it this time with a little
> forethought now that we are a lot more mature project. :-)
>

So my concern isn't making sure everyone agrees or even gets it but rather
that everyone who wants to can explain why we did it (or at least point to
somewhere that does explain.)

Is someone willing to go through archives and talk to the people close to
the decision to try to document the features and rationale?

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Re: Pre-release marketing and community management [Was: getting www.gnome3.org]

2011-01-06 Thread Stormy Peters
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 12:14 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:

>
> OK, point taken. Let's modify that argument instead to "people who are
> worried as there isn't any documented evidence that this design is going to
> work".  We do not have official Gnome usability studies to back up our
> design of shell.  We need something that we can point to that says that we
> thought of all possibilities.  When there is a lack of evidence then indeed
> people do fear change.  I know Jon and others are using research material,
> books and what not to back up their design and they have done some internal
> testing.  None of which is public.
>
>
I've heard this again and again. That there were design decisions made that
were supposedly based on research and supposedly that information is public
but supposedly nobody can find it. (I personally haven't looked hard for it
online.)

I think it would be a huge help if someone could go through and document the
"Design principles behind GNOME 3.0". And talk about the major features,
changes and why they are good for users with pointers to any discussions or
supporting research. We could make it a subpage of gnome3.org. I think
having it all on one page, clearly laid out by features with rationale would
be great.

No matter what we write, people will argue, but at least we can point to
something and say this is what and why.

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Re: Pre-release marketing and community management [Was: getting www.gnome3.org]

2011-01-05 Thread Stormy Peters
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 2:05 AM, Allan Day  wrote:

> On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 13:50 -0800, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:
> > We've never done community management (well or at all) and it might be
> > a good way to do a sales job on our own existing user base who fear
> > change.  It will also prepare us for after the release for questions
> > that will certainly be forthcoming when we make presentations at
> > various conferences.  I have two conferences that I'll be talking at,
> > Open Source Bridge and Linuxfest Northwest.  I've already put in the
> > paperwork for them and I want to make sure that I can address any
> > users who might be confrontational.
> >
> > Making the effort will earn us some brownie points I think.
>
> *raises hand*
>
> Me and Sri have discussed this a bit online. There already seems to be
> an unorganised effort to do community management on the lists and
> channels. Pooling, recycling and generating resources in the fight
> against stop energy would only enhance that effort, I think.
>
>
It seems like we need two things:
1) a website to speak to the world (our our community) about GNOME 3.0 -
that's gnome3.org
2) a place for all those interested in helping with community management to
share stories and ideas - is that this list?

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Re: getting www.gnome3.org

2011-01-04 Thread Stormy Peters
We do have gnome3.org and we worked on it at the last marketing hackfest. At
that time, it was really close to launching ...

Paul, Andreas, what is left? What can we help with?

Stormy

On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 12:56 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:

> Any chance we could get the DNS entry www.gnome3.org (and I think gnome4
> and gnome5 etc) so that we can use it to centralize messaging to a
> particular URL?  I think as we get close we want to be able to point people
> to a site that is simple to remember and specific to gnome 3.
>
> What do you guys think?
>
> sri
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Re: New face to Friends of GNOME

2011-01-04 Thread Stormy Peters
Thanks, Andreas. It definitely needed an update and I like how it all fits
above the fold now.

I would actually suggest simplifying it more and only giving people 2-3
options. If we could offer them monthly and one time and then take them to
payment page and fill in a default (editable) amount and list what all the
amounts benefit from, that would be great. (I don't think we can easily do
that with Paypal though.)

FYI, in the last box, Philanthropist, when I select it, the words overwrite
the title.

Stormy

On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 7:10 AM, Andreas Nilsson  wrote:

> Wanted to do some modifications to the Friends of GNOME website as the
> design me and Kalle did hasn't scaled well with the content added over time
> and with the new website [1] coming around the corner, needs a facelift
> anyway.
> The current site is getting a bit cluttered and I wanted make the process
> of donating as simple as possible. Some darlings might have gone lost in the
> process. :)
>
> http://www.andreasn.se/diverse/temp/friends-of-gnome-2.0/
>
> This can be considered alpha state as I think the forms are a bit broken
> here and there and not all sub pages are finished.
> If you find something broken, fix it here:
>
> http://gitorious.org/gnome-design/gnome-design/trees/master/www/friends-of-gnome-2.0
>
> 1. http://wptest.gnome.org/
> - Andreas
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Re: GCI: Update Gnome Usergroup Info, Introduction

2011-01-03 Thread Stormy Peters
I agree with Dave Neary's points. I also think showing that you are going to
follow up and record the information might encourage people to take your
request seriously. Maybe create the wiki page beforehand and populate it
with all the information you have?

On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 3:40 PM, Andre Klapper  wrote:

> This assumes that the GUG has a leader, however I have the feeling that
> some GUGs listed are just mailing lists without a defined "internal
> hierarchy"?
>

Maybe one piece of information is how many people are signed up on the
mailing list and how active it is, i.e. how many mails/month? The sys admin
team can probably help gather any information that's not public (like number
of people on the list).

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Re: GNOME 3.0 Contract Opportunity

2010-12-21 Thread Stormy Peters
Is this just to create materials or to also do social media and press
management?

I think it's critically important that we organize our marketing activities
within the community, with external communities, within social media
channels and with the press. I would prioritize that over creating
materials. (But I assume they'd have to create some materials to get it
done.)

Stormy

On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 9:32 AM, Paul Cutler  wrote:

> Hi Marketing Team!
>
> Over the last few months I haven't had the time I would like to dedicate
> to the marketing team and work with the community on GNOME 3.0
> deliverables.  With GNOME 3.0 coming, the GNOME Foundation Board
> believes this work is important and is willing to sign a short term
> contract to get some marketing materials created to help support the
> GNOME 3.0 launch.  If anyone is interested, please email the Board with
> your resume per official announcement below.
>
> Paul
>
> The GNOME Foundation is seeking a marketing expert to do short-term
> contract work to help improve GNOME and GNOME 3 marketing materials, to
> work to promote GNOME in the media, and to assist with press management.
> The GNOME Foundation has $5,000 (USD) allocated to pay a contractor for
> the creation of marketing materials supporting GNOME.
>
> Interested parties should email board-l...@gnome.org with a resume
> detailing related work or volunteer experience.  Please include a cover
> letter that explains your interest and level of familiarity with
> marketing as it relates to GNOME and free software.  Please include
> references.
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Re: GNOME User Survey

2010-12-14 Thread Stormy Peters
Hi Pockey,

Thanks for starting this.

I think we should think carefully about every question. Do we really care
what gender they are or how much money they make? Will we be able to do
anything useful with that information? (I don't think so, so I think we
should take them out. Others too.)

I also think if we are surveying GNOME users, we should ask questions that
will help us with the product not just the website. Unless the point of the
survey is definitely the website. Then we should probably ask about that and
not worry about which software they are using.

I agree with Jason that most questions should be multiple choice. (Although
one or two places for comments is good.) And all questions should be
optional - better to get some data than have everyone quit because one
question is too hard to answer.

Stormy

On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 8:14 AM, Jason D. Clinton wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 22:35, Pockey Lam  wrote:
>
>>  We would need your feedbacks on the drafted questions as well, you can
>> find all the information of this survey at
>> http://live.gnome.org/UserSurvey2011
>> Please feel free to discuss here or edit the wiki page directly. Thanks in
>> advance!
>>
>
> Having run a few surveys in the past, my experience has been that people
> are less likely to answer open-ended essay questions. I would recommend
> replacing these with multiple choise, if at all possible.
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Re: Learning from the best

2010-12-08 Thread Stormy Peters
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 6:43 AM, Frederic Muller  wrote:

> Hi!
>
> For me I think half of the size would have been ok. The style is a but
> pompous and that part really killed it "The weekly email newsletters are
> extremely good, with links to a whole host of excellent articles and
> tutorials, notifications of events and training opportunities. " Basically
> the guy loves spam weird. I doubt our user base does (I could be wrong).
>

Actually a professional survey I just read said that most developers prefer
email newsletters as their communication method and subscribe to several. I
think the focus was web developers. It was a 50+ page report but I will try
to dig up the quote later.

It also said that when it comes to training, they prefer webinars.

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Re: FoG pending Tasks

2010-12-06 Thread Stormy Peters
A while back Lucas Rocha said he could help.

Stormy

On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 8:01 AM, Og Maciel  wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Paul Cutler  wrote:
> > Og - any updates on getting the banner added to the GNOME sites to
> > track new subscribers?
>
> Hey Paul,
>
> I thought since you had the task of working on the ruler, that you'd
> also add it. Let me get back to my desk and I'll ping you to discuss
> this and get it done.
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Re: The GNOME Foundation blog

2010-12-06 Thread Stormy Peters
Maybe somebody with WordPress experience could make the Foundation blog look
like the gnome.org web page? (Or the new web page look and feel ...)

We might also want to ask people with hosted blogs on blogs.gnome.org if
they are happy with the look and feel and customizations they have.

Stormy

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> Hi Pockey,
>
> Thanks for the feedback.  We're going to be upgrading blogs.gnome.org
> to the latest WP version in the next couple of months and I'll take a
> look at it then.  I don't plan on using the GJ theme as I believe
> GNOME Journal, as a quarterly magazine, should have its own look and
> feel.
>
> Paul
>
> On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 3:12 AM, Juanjo Marin 
> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2010-12-06 at 11:38 +0800, Pockey Lam wrote:
> >> Dear all,
> >>
> >> When promoting the new Friends of GNOME campaign via facebook, I
> >> received some feedback that 'the theme of The GNOME Foundation blog
> >> (http://blogs.gnome.org/foundation) is too simple'.  'They also
> >> suggest to use the one from gnomejournal 
> >> (http://gnomejournal.org/)
> '.
> >> What do you guys think and what can we do about it?
> >>
> >> Pockey
> >
> > I agree that the theme of the GNOME Foundation blog is too simple and
> > looks like a sort-of default theme. We should use a most elaborate
> > theme. The only thing I like about this theme is the fact it uses an
> > suitable font for GNOME.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > -- Juanjo Marin
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Re: FoG pending Tasks

2010-12-01 Thread Stormy Peters
Hi Joey,

It would be great to see the press mail and the radio jingle before you send
them out.

Looking forward to it!

Stormy

On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 12:43 PM, Joey Ferwerda wrote:

> Hey all
>
> I have a lot of things ready but pending, the Annual doodad is created, but
> i am waiting for Shapeways to contact me back, i think this might be a
> better plan for 2011.
>
> I have created a Press mail for Magazines and Websites, but i am still
> waiting for the website to contain the Video, since i mentioned it in the
> Press message.
> I did some ad design, but it was to short time to get it towards the print
> media, so i am thinking of doing a banner instead.
>
> The radio Jingle is almost done, will have it before end of the weekend,
> and will send it to multiple radio stations then.
>
> Thanks
>
> Joey
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 7:27 PM, Og Maciel  wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 12:01 PM, Brian Cameron 
>> wrote:
>> > It's great that FoG is moving forward.  However, we have had plans
>> > to make it possible for organizations to donate money to the GNOME
>> > Foundation in exchange for recognition, link exchange, being said
>> > to sponsor GNOME events/activities, etc.
>>
>> We already have a "previous donors" page in place which I manually
>> update...
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Re: FoG pending Tasks

2010-12-01 Thread Stormy Peters
On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 6:38 AM, Og Maciel  wrote:

>
>  * LWN (Stormy)
>

I'm not sure the exact action here but I think I've introduced all the right
people to the right people and between Og, Paul and Rosanna, things are good
here. (We still need to send the subscriptions out to the people that wanted
them.)

I feel that we should make the new FoG launch right now and add new
> items as we go, as we should take advantage of the end of the year and
> see if we can attract more/new contributos! Things marked as NEEDED
> can be punted and worked on later imho.
>
> I agree. I think we should just go for it. Put the banner up and have
everyone blog and spread the word!

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Re: I love GNOME videos

2010-11-23 Thread Stormy Peters
It looked to me like they were all filmed at the Mozilla Summit. They had an
international event there.

Stormy

On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 10:02 AM, Jason D. Clinton wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 07:47, Stormy Peters  wrote:
>
>> At the Boston Summit we discussed recording "I love GNOME" segments,
>> perhaps in people's native languages.
>>
>> The Mozilla video at the bottom of this page has something similar:
>>
>> http://www.mozilla.org/foundation/annualreport/2009/a-competitive-world.htm<http://www.mozilla.org/foundation/annualreport/2009/a-competitive-world.html>
>
>
> Wow, that's really well done. It appears that they solicited contributions
> and then achieved the same look and feel through color balance and pan and
> zoom.
>
> Anyone know how this was solicited?
>
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Re: litl arrival - GNOME slideshow

2010-11-23 Thread Stormy Peters
At the Boston Summit we discussed recording "I love GNOME" segments, perhaps
in people's native languages.

The Mozilla video at the bottom of this page has something similar:
http://www.mozilla.org/foundation/annualreport/2009/a-competitive-world.html

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