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Support local conferences such as GNOME.Asia, GUADLAC (Latin America), the - Boston Summit, GNOME.conf.au (Australia), and Forum GNOME. Support local conferences such as GNOME.Asia, GUADLAC (Latin America), the + Boston Summit, GNOME.conf.au (Australia), and Forum GNOME (Brazil). -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Brochure for potential sponsors: need help!
Em Seg, 2009-03-23 às 07:24 -0600, Stormy Peters escreveu: I'd be interested in a separate version targeted at GNOME Foundation members. I think as a marketing team, we should think about how to explain the benefits of the GNOME Foundation to its members. Providing infrastructure for the GNOME project. Sponsoring community events. Providing travel to members to GNOME events and to speak about GNOME at other events. ... Stormy Also would be great to have a generic version (not only to Foundation members), showing what GNOME is, what GNOME Foundation is, and how to contribute to the GNOME project. I would be more interested in that version. Thanks, -- Jonh Wendell http://www.bani.com.br -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
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2009/3/23 Jonh Wendell jwend...@gnome.org: Em Seg, 2009-03-23 às 07:24 -0600, Stormy Peters escreveu: I'd be interested in a separate version targeted at GNOME Foundation members. I think as a marketing team, we should think about how to explain the benefits of the GNOME Foundation to its members. Providing infrastructure for the GNOME project. Sponsoring community events. Providing travel to members to GNOME events and to speak about GNOME at other events. ... Stormy Also would be great to have a generic version (not only to Foundation members), showing what GNOME is, what GNOME Foundation is, and how to contribute to the GNOME project. I would be more interested in that version. Actually, becoming a Foundation member is a natural step that comes after contributing. So I guess the most effective way to get new members is to outreach new contributors (and a more interesting way as well). Thanks, -- Jonh Wendell http://www.bani.com.br -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list -- Un saludo, Alberto Ruiz -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
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Ok, it's ready to go to print! http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/184285/foundation-folder.pdf http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/184285/foundation-folder.sla (source) (sorry that I didn't have the energy to change the texts further, we'll do better next time) - Andreas Stormy Peters wrote: Hi Andreas, Is the brochure done? Or are you still working on the color? (I've got people I can send it to!) Thanks! Stormy On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 5:03 AM, Andreas Nilsson nisses.m...@home.se mailto:nisses.m...@home.se wrote: Claus Schwarm wrote: Hi, since the objection of the flyer is to reach potential sponsors, maybe we should consider telling them what benefits they'll get, not what features GNOME has. I had some free time today and tried to make a draft so it's hopefully easier to see what I mean. The draft should be available here: http://live.gnome.org/ClausSchwarm?action=AttachFiledo=gettarget=GNOME-Foundation-Flyer-2009-Draft.pdf http://live.gnome.org/ClausSchwarm?action=AttachFiledo=gettarget=GNOME-Foundation-Flyer-2009-Draft.pdf Oh, I just finished the layout on Friday, just need to figure out the best tint of green left basically. Should have let you know earlier. http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/184285/foundation-folder.pdf I'm not sure I'm a fan of the two column layout in your version. Feels like a lot of text, and if you give the folder to someone on a conference, you can't really expect them to read through the whole thing (or anything at all, if it seems to heavy). Please note the text probably contains errors, since I'm not a native English speaker. It's also not quite finished since I'm not up-to-date concerning many GNOME developments. I also had to waste some time redoing the layout in Scribus since I'm not used to Inkscape. What texts did you change exactly? I like the 4 reasons why you should you should join..., but maybe the GNOME text is a bit big and too detailed. I'll let other weight in on what texts they like better. Also, while the design is nice, I'd like to suggest to use a better format -- a double sided A3 in 4 colors, for example. With digital printing, it shouldn't be that expensive, anymore. My idea for the folded A4 format was that it would be possible to print it out with a regular printer for anyone who wanted. I've kept it to 2 color print in order to save money when printing it at the printer (even though we might end up doing a small amount of them printed digitally, so maybe it won't matter). - Andreas -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
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Em Sáb, 2009-03-21 às 14:07 +0100, Andreas Nilsson escreveu: Ok, it's ready to go to print! http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/184285/foundation-folder.pdf http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/184285/foundation-folder.sla (source) (sorry that I didn't have the energy to change the texts further, we'll do better next time) - Andreas Hi, Andreas and all! That's a nice brochure. I'm very interested in translate it into Brazilian Portuguese and print out to distribute on local events. How can I do that? Which program should I install to edit the source? By the way, what is the target public for this brochure? Anyone? Thanks! -- Jonh Wendell http://www.bani.com.br -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
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Jonh Wendell wrote: Em Sáb, 2009-03-21 às 14:07 +0100, Andreas Nilsson escreveu: http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/184285/foundation-folder.pdf http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/184285/foundation-folder.sla (source) How can I do that? Which program should I install to edit the source? I created it using Scribus 1.3.5 (the development version). You might be able to edit it using PDFEdit. Let me know if that works. By the way, what is the target public for this brochure? Anyone? The main target is new companies who can become Foundation sponsors, but it will probably be interesting to some extent for people who want to learn more about the Foundation in general. - Andreas -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
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I think we should go with what we have. However, I think Claus has some good points. I don't necessarily agree that more information/text is better. I think people are more likely to read what you have, if you have less. However, I liked the title calling out more to the audience and less about us. I'd probably change it a bit: Why You Should Become a GNOME Foundation Associate Find out how companies such as Google, HP, IBM, Intel, Motorola, Nokia, Novell, RedHat, and Sun work with the GNOME community to develop world class [systems] for a fraction of the cost Or instead of cost we could highlight speed or customization or any of the open source benefits. I also like the idea of adding the number to the list: 6 reasons to become a GNOME Foundation Sponsor. Numbers have proved to help popular blog post titles! Stormy On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 10:48 AM, Claus Schwarm clschw...@googlemail.comwrote: Hi, On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 12:03 PM, Andreas Nilsson nisses.m...@home.sewrote: Oh, I just finished the layout on Friday, just need to figure out the best tint of green left basically. Should have let you know earlier. http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/184285/foundation-folder.pdf Andreas, this is absolutely no problem. It was fun, anyway -- whether we use it or not. I'm not sure I'm a fan of the two column layout in your version. Feels like a lot of text, and if you give the folder to someone on a conference, you can't really expect them to read through the whole thing (or anything at all, if it seems to heavy). Yes, you're in line with nearly all designers I've ever worked with. :) But when you're trying to sell something, information matters. There's just one exception: This is when the main benefit of your product is basically just emotion (feeling attractive, feeling free, etc.). Thus I used two columns: It simply allows more text. What texts did you change exactly? I like the 4 reasons why you should you should join..., but maybe the GNOME text is a bit big and too detailed. I'll let other weight in on what texts they like better. I tried to reuse as much as possible. It's also not finished, just meant as a concept. My idea for the folded A4 format was that it would be possible to print it out with a regular printer for anyone who wanted. I've kept it to 2 color print in order to save money when printing it at the printer (even though we might end up doing a small amount of them printed digitally, so maybe it won't matter) Yes, I thought so. Nothing wrong with it. I just made the suggestion to discuss a different option. Best regards, Claus -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
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Claus Schwarm wrote: Hi, since the objection of the flyer is to reach potential sponsors, maybe we should consider telling them what benefits they'll get, not what features GNOME has. I had some free time today and tried to make a draft so it's hopefully easier to see what I mean. The draft should be available here: http://live.gnome.org/ClausSchwarm?action=AttachFiledo=gettarget=GNOME-Foundation-Flyer-2009-Draft.pdf Oh, I just finished the layout on Friday, just need to figure out the best tint of green left basically. Should have let you know earlier. http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/184285/foundation-folder.pdf I'm not sure I'm a fan of the two column layout in your version. Feels like a lot of text, and if you give the folder to someone on a conference, you can't really expect them to read through the whole thing (or anything at all, if it seems to heavy). Please note the text probably contains errors, since I'm not a native English speaker. It's also not quite finished since I'm not up-to-date concerning many GNOME developments. I also had to waste some time redoing the layout in Scribus since I'm not used to Inkscape. What texts did you change exactly? I like the 4 reasons why you should you should join..., but maybe the GNOME text is a bit big and too detailed. I'll let other weight in on what texts they like better. Also, while the design is nice, I'd like to suggest to use a better format -- a double sided A3 in 4 colors, for example. With digital printing, it shouldn't be that expensive, anymore. My idea for the folded A4 format was that it would be possible to print it out with a regular printer for anyone who wanted. I've kept it to 2 color print in order to save money when printing it at the printer (even though we might end up doing a small amount of them printed digitally, so maybe it won't matter). - Andreas -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
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Hi, On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 12:03 PM, Andreas Nilsson nisses.m...@home.sewrote: Oh, I just finished the layout on Friday, just need to figure out the best tint of green left basically. Should have let you know earlier. http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/184285/foundation-folder.pdf Andreas, this is absolutely no problem. It was fun, anyway -- whether we use it or not. I'm not sure I'm a fan of the two column layout in your version. Feels like a lot of text, and if you give the folder to someone on a conference, you can't really expect them to read through the whole thing (or anything at all, if it seems to heavy). Yes, you're in line with nearly all designers I've ever worked with. :) But when you're trying to sell something, information matters. There's just one exception: This is when the main benefit of your product is basically just emotion (feeling attractive, feeling free, etc.). Thus I used two columns: It simply allows more text. What texts did you change exactly? I like the 4 reasons why you should you should join..., but maybe the GNOME text is a bit big and too detailed. I'll let other weight in on what texts they like better. I tried to reuse as much as possible. It's also not finished, just meant as a concept. My idea for the folded A4 format was that it would be possible to print it out with a regular printer for anyone who wanted. I've kept it to 2 color print in order to save money when printing it at the printer (even though we might end up doing a small amount of them printed digitally, so maybe it won't matter) Yes, I thought so. Nothing wrong with it. I just made the suggestion to discuss a different option. Best regards, Claus -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
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Stormy Peters wrote: Ok, I updated and chopped text. If I was going to add any back, it'd be in the plans for 2009. If I was going to cut more text it'd be in the about sections. Looks great! Sweet work on this. Still says the same things, but in a much more straight forward way. (We could also cut some text from the about-foundation page in the friends page. Or at least bold the parts I didn't cut.) I'll remove the unnecessary parts of the text on the website later today. People have even less patience on the web than with printed stuff. * Continue to provide a place for our sponsors to discuss their GNOME-related plans. I'm running a bit short on size on the back (as I'm able to use bigger size of the text now). Is it ok if I cut this paragraph out? It sounds like a odd thing to accomplish and something I would trust the foundation to do anyway. - Andreas On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Shaun McCance sha...@gnome.org wrote: On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 15:53 -0600, Brian Cameron wrote: - The text says The Foundation has over 400 members, all contributors to GNOME, who vote once a year. Actually we now vote every 18 months We had a single 18-month period to put the new board elections closer to GUADEC so that the new board can use GUADEC to get face time early in their term. Now that they're more closely aligned, we'll have our regular annual elections again. -- Shaun -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
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* Continue to provide a place for our sponsors to discuss their GNOME-related plans. I'm running a bit short on size on the back (as I'm able to use bigger size of the text now). Is it ok if I cut this paragraph out? It sounds like a odd thing to accomplish and something I would trust the foundation to do anyway. Strangely enough this is one of the things just about every sponsor told me was really good about the GNOME Foundation when I first talked to them. That said, I think it's covered in the what you get section, so we don't need it here too. Thanks! Stormy -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
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Andreas, I was going through my action items and I had Roberto's idea to get quotes from existing sponsors. I haven't done that yet. Is there room to put them on the brochure if I get them? Stormy On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 6:31 AM, Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org wrote: * Continue to provide a place for our sponsors to discuss their GNOME-related plans. I'm running a bit short on size on the back (as I'm able to use bigger size of the text now). Is it ok if I cut this paragraph out? It sounds like a odd thing to accomplish and something I would trust the foundation to do anyway. Strangely enough this is one of the things just about every sponsor told me was really good about the GNOME Foundation when I first talked to them. That said, I think it's covered in the what you get section, so we don't need it here too. Thanks! Stormy -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
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Hmm. Maybe we should change the front quote to Become a GNOME Foundation associate, support free and open source software (mobile and desktop?) solutions or something like that. Stormy On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 8:04 AM, Andreas Nilsson nisses.m...@home.sewrote: Stormy Peters wrote: I was going through my action items and I had Roberto's idea to get quotes from existing sponsors. I haven't done that yet. Is there room to put them on the brochure if I get them? Not really. Running really short of space, unless there are parts of something else we can get rid of. One option might be to put one quote on the cover though, instead of the boringish (and maybe a bit too much in the face) A short introduction to why you should become a GNOME Foundation associate, but I'm not sure how that would work out. - Andreas On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 6:31 AM, Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org mailto: sto...@gnome.org wrote: * Continue to provide a place for our sponsors to discuss their GNOME-related plans. I'm running a bit short on size on the back (as I'm able to use bigger size of the text now). Is it ok if I cut this paragraph out? It sounds like a odd thing to accomplish and something I would trust the foundation to do anyway. Strangely enough this is one of the things just about every sponsor told me was really good about the GNOME Foundation when I first talked to them. That said, I think it's covered in the what you get section, so we don't need it here too. Thanks! Stormy -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
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Stormy Peters wrote: Hmm. Maybe we should change the front quote to Become a GNOME Foundation associate, support free and open source software (mobile and desktop?) solutions or something like that. Do we have to say solutions? It's such a hackneyed word... How about Become a GNOME Foundation associate, support a community dedicated to free software computer user interfaces? Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member dne...@gnome.org -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
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Sounds good. We could remove a community dedicated to if the wording is long. And the word computer as we're talking user interfaces for computers, desktops, netbooks, phones, gps, ... So that'd be Become a GNOME Foundation associate, support free software user interfaces. Although I'd vote for: Become a GNOME Foundation associate, support a community dedicated to free software user interfaces Stormy On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 8:22 AM, Dave Neary dne...@gnome.org wrote: Stormy Peters wrote: Hmm. Maybe we should change the front quote to Become a GNOME Foundation associate, support free and open source software (mobile and desktop?) solutions or something like that. Do we have to say solutions? It's such a hackneyed word... How about Become a GNOME Foundation associate, support a community dedicated to free software computer user interfaces? Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member dne...@gnome.org -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
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Hi, Stormy Peters wrote: So that'd be Become a GNOME Foundation associate, support free software user interfaces. Although I'd vote for: Become a GNOME Foundation associate, support a community dedicated to free software user interfaces Agreed. After all, who wants to support a user interface? But supporting a community, that's something worth doing. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member dne...@gnome.org -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
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Shaun McCance wrote: On Sat, 2009-02-21 at 12:35 +0100, Andreas Nilsson wrote: Stormy Peters wrote: Let me know what you need from me. I think I have all the text below unless someone has feedback or suggestions on it. Kalle Persson and myself spent some time on this last night and here is a sketch. Front and back: http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/184285/foundation-folder-outside.png Inside: http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/184285/foundation-folder-inside.png Source: http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/184285/foundation-folder-sketch.svg This would be printable in only two colors (black+green), so it would be relatively cheap to print. Some text blocks ended up a bit small in size, and some parts felt a bit massive. Any darlings we can kill? Let me know if you have any feedback. I will go ahead and lay this out in Scribus now. Might be different when it's actually on paper (things usually are), but I find the white text on green background on the back cover incredibly hard to read. It's one thing to use this for headings and eye-catchers, but it's just not enough contrast for extended reading. Good point. I'll change it to black. It will also improve readability to cut down on the number of bullets and/or the amount of text in each bullet. That way we can grow the text size. Is there any of the points under 2009 that are more important than the others? Ensure a free and secure desktop environment for everyone. is kind of already mentioned inside the folder under the header GNOME Foundation already (and under GNOME as well). - Andreas -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
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Some thoughts... - Note that the text on the back of the brochure is old text from the Friends of GNOME page: http://www.gnome.org/friends/about-foundation.html The text in the above website has been updated and contains improvements that should also be reflected in the brochure. For example, the Google Summer of Code blurb reads as follows: Participating in the Google Summer of Code program in which 30 students and mentors participated. They worked on improving the photo-management application F-Spot, improving the integrated development environment Anjuta, improving the webcam application Cheese, and adding LLMNR support to Avahi. See a complete list of projects. This text is better because it just explains the functionality and does not compare GNOME products to Apple or Microsoft products. Actually most of the bullets have been improved on the above website. I'd suggest updating all the text to the latest copy. - The inside says See the projects.gnome.org website for the entire list. I think URL's are more clear if you say http://projects.gnome.org; - In the GNOME Foundation section it says we may sponsor GNOME-related technical conferences. I think we can safely remove the word may here. There hasn't been a year where we have not done this. - The text says The Foundation has over 400 members, all contributors to GNOME, who vote once a year. Actually we now vote every 18 months - The bottom of the 2nd inside page says To follow up, please contact. I think we should also provide a URL to http://foundation.gnome.org/ Would probably also be good to give the foundation.gnome.org website a bit of a facelift. Brian Andreas Nilsson wrote: Shaun McCance wrote: On Sat, 2009-02-21 at 12:35 +0100, Andreas Nilsson wrote: Stormy Peters wrote: Let me know what you need from me. I think I have all the text below unless someone has feedback or suggestions on it. Kalle Persson and myself spent some time on this last night and here is a sketch. Front and back: http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/184285/foundation-folder-outside.png Inside: http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/184285/foundation-folder-inside.png Source: http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/184285/foundation-folder-sketch.svg This would be printable in only two colors (black+green), so it would be relatively cheap to print. Some text blocks ended up a bit small in size, and some parts felt a bit massive. Any darlings we can kill? Let me know if you have any feedback. I will go ahead and lay this out in Scribus now. Might be different when it's actually on paper (things usually are), but I find the white text on green background on the back cover incredibly hard to read. It's one thing to use this for headings and eye-catchers, but it's just not enough contrast for extended reading. Good point. I'll change it to black. It will also improve readability to cut down on the number of bullets and/or the amount of text in each bullet. That way we can grow the text size. Is there any of the points under 2009 that are more important than the others? Ensure a free and secure desktop environment for everyone. is kind of already mentioned inside the folder under the header GNOME Foundation already (and under GNOME as well). - Andreas -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
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On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 15:53 -0600, Brian Cameron wrote: - The text says The Foundation has over 400 members, all contributors to GNOME, who vote once a year. Actually we now vote every 18 months We had a single 18-month period to put the new board elections closer to GUADEC so that the new board can use GUADEC to get face time early in their term. Now that they're more closely aligned, we'll have our regular annual elections again. -- Shaun -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
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Ok, I updated and chopped text. If I was going to add any back, it'd be in the plans for 2009. If I was going to cut more text it'd be in the about sections. (We could also cut some text from the about-foundation page in the friends page. Or at least bold the parts I didn't cut.) GNOME The GNOME Project is: + a complete, free and easy-to-use desktop environment accessible to all, + a powerful application development framework for software developers, and + a set of free software applications for mobile devices. GNOME is part of the GNU Project, is Free Software, and developed as Open Source software. The GNOME project encompasses many applications from the desktop to multimedia applications for end users to development tools. See http://projects.gnome.org/ for the entire list. The GNOME Foundation The GNOME Foundation supports the GNOME project goal of creating a computing platform for use by the general public that is completely free software. To achieve this goal, the Foundation coordinates releases of GNOME and determines which projects are part of GNOME. The Foundation acts as the official voice for the GNOME project, providing a means of communication with the press and with commercial and noncommercial organizations interested in GNOME software. The foundation sponsors GNOME-related technical conferences, represents GNOME at relevant conferences sponsored by others, helps create technical standards for the project and promotes the use and development of GNOME software. The Foundation has over 400 members, all contributors to GNOME, who vote once a year to elect the GNOME Board of Directors who run the Foundation. The Foundation has two people on staff, an executive director and an administrator. The Foundation also has 20 corporate sponsors and a board of advisors that represent the corporate sponsors. Corporate sponsors include Access, Canonical, Debian, Free Software Foundation, HP, Google, IBM, Igalia, Immendio, Intel, Motorola, Mozilla Foundation, Nokia, Novell, OLPC, OpenedHand, Red Hat, Software Freedom Law Center, Sugar Labs and Sun. Why join the GNOME Foundation as a sponsor: 1) Open source technologies are forming the building blocks of desktop and mobile computing platforms. 2) The foundation provides a conduit to the developers. 3) As an advisory board member, through regular phone meetings and an annual face to face meeting, you will have a high-value communication channel with the GNOME community, through the board of directors. 4) The advisory board also provides the ideal forum for improved collaboration on areas of common interest among distributors of the GNOME products. 5) By joining the GNOME Foundation and sponsoring GNOME, you will create good will among GNOME developers. They know that the GNOME Foundation fees go towards things that help GNOME developers like hackfests, sponsoring travel to conferences, and system administration resources. 7) General press. If you wish you can be part of GNOME related initiatives and announcements throughout the year. Sponsorship fees are $10,000/year. The advisory board is made up of sponsor company representatives and meets in person annually at GUADEC and holds regular teleconference calls throughout the year. Most sponsors also provide additional funding for specific programs like events and programs targeted at specific technologies. During 2008, the GNOME Foundation was able to help bring a free and open source desktop to the world by doing the following: * Participating in the Google Summer of Code program in which 30 students and mentors participated. * Running an Accessibility Outreach Program that resulted in improvements in documentation, magnification, and mouse control through a webcam. * Held several hackfests, which was widely seen as successful for tasks like planning the future of GTK+ and the GNOME user experience. * Held several large worldwide developer conferences to enable developers to collaborate effectively and to educate new users and developers. In 2009, we could use your help to accomplish the following: * Produce more end-user-focused technology and features through technology-specific hackfests. * Continue to provide a place for our sponsors to discuss their GNOME-related plans. * Organize a usability study focused on GNOME technologies used by all people, including children, users in developing nations, and people with accessibility needs. * Provide travel subsidies to bring our worldwide community of volunteer developers together. * Have more active dialogs between our sponsor companies and our developers through monthly advisory board meetings. * Hold a joint GUADEC/Akademy conference, a Free Desktop Summit, in order to encourage collaboration and common specifications. * Ensure that there is a free and open source stack for mobile devices by working with other mobile groups to define and produce GNOME Mobile. * Hire a system administrator
Re: Brochure for potential sponsors: need help!
Stormy Peters wrote: Let me know what you need from me. I think I have all the text below unless someone has feedback or suggestions on it. Kalle Persson and myself spent some time on this last night and here is a sketch. Front and back: http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/184285/foundation-folder-outside.png Inside: http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/184285/foundation-folder-inside.png Source: http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/184285/foundation-folder-sketch.svg This would be printable in only two colors (black+green), so it would be relatively cheap to print. Some text blocks ended up a bit small in size, and some parts felt a bit massive. Any darlings we can kill? Let me know if you have any feedback. I will go ahead and lay this out in Scribus now. - Andreas On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 4:24 PM, Andreas Nilsson nisses.m...@home.se mailto:nisses.m...@home.se wrote: I would like to help out with this. Stormy Peters wrote: As I work to recruit companies as GNOME Foundation sponsors, it would be really helpful to have a brochure that describes what GNOME is, the GNOME Foundation, why they should sponsor and what is entailed. It should be something that looks good online as well as printed on a single sheet of paper. (Either one or two sided, or folded in three like a brochure.) I've put together some text, but could really use some help with the layout and graphics. I'm thinking we could even reuse the GUADEC type look and feel. While this might not go to hundreds of companies, every company that we do recruit is at least $10,000/year for the GNOME Foundation. That pay for a lot of travel for developers or with a handful of those we could hire a system administrator. Thanks in advance to anyone that can help! Best, Stormy *GNOME* The GNOME Project is an effort to create a complete, free and easy-to-use desktop environment accessible to all, a powerful application development framework for software developers, and a set of free software applications for mobile devices. GNOME is part of the GNU Project http://www.gnu.org/, is Free Software http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html, and developed as Open Source http://www.opensource.org/ software. The GNOME project encompasses many applications from the desktop to multimedia applications for end users to development tools. See http://projects.gnome.org/ for the entire list. *The GNOME Foundation* The GNOME Foundation supports the GNOME project goal of creating a computing platform for use by the general public that is completely free software. To achieve this goal, the Foundation coordinates releases of GNOME and determines which projects are part of GNOME. The Foundation acts as the official voice for the GNOME project, providing a means of communication with the press and with commercial and noncommercial organizations interested in GNOME software. The foundation may produce educational materials and documentation to help the public learn about GNOME software. In addition, it may sponsor GNOME-related technical conferences, and represent GNOME at relevant conferences sponsored by others, help create technical standards for the project and promote the use and development of GNOME software. The Foundation has over 400 members, all contributors to GNOME, who vote once a year to elect the GNOME Board of Directors who run the Foundation. The Foundation has two people on staff, an executive director and an administrator. The Foundation also has 20 corporate sponsors and a board of advisors that represent the corporate sponsors. Corporate sponsors include Access, Canonical, Debian, Free Software Foundation, HP, Google, IBM, Igalia, Immendio, Intel, Motorola, Mozilla Foundation, Nokia, Novell, OLPC, OpenedHand, Red Hat, Software Freedom Law Center, Sugar Labs and Sun. *Why join the GNOME Foundation as a sponsor:* 1) Open source technologies are forming the building blocks of desktop and mobile computing platforms. By using open source technologies, companies can focus on adding their value add, branding both the open source pieces and their applications, in a unique solution for end users. 2) The foundation provides a conduit to the developers. Developers working on GNOME technologies whether they work at large corporations, small consulting firms or as hobbyists. 3) As an advisory board member, through regular phone meetings and an annual face to face meeting, you will have a high-value communication channel with the GNOME community,
Re: Brochure for potential sponsors: need help!
Le samedi 21 février 2009, à 12:35 +0100, Andreas Nilsson a écrit : Stormy Peters wrote: Let me know what you need from me. I think I have all the text below unless someone has feedback or suggestions on it. Kalle Persson and myself spent some time on this last night and here is a sketch. Front and back: http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/184285/foundation-folder-outside.png Looks great, but please please please, remove the TM :-) Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Brochure for potential sponsors: need help!
On Sat, 2009-02-21 at 12:35 +0100, Andreas Nilsson wrote: Stormy Peters wrote: Let me know what you need from me. I think I have all the text below unless someone has feedback or suggestions on it. Kalle Persson and myself spent some time on this last night and here is a sketch. Front and back: http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/184285/foundation-folder-outside.png Inside: http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/184285/foundation-folder-inside.png Source: http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/184285/foundation-folder-sketch.svg This would be printable in only two colors (black+green), so it would be relatively cheap to print. Some text blocks ended up a bit small in size, and some parts felt a bit massive. Any darlings we can kill? Let me know if you have any feedback. I will go ahead and lay this out in Scribus now. Might be different when it's actually on paper (things usually are), but I find the white text on green background on the back cover incredibly hard to read. It's one thing to use this for headings and eye-catchers, but it's just not enough contrast for extended reading. -- Shaun -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Brochure for potential sponsors: need help!
Hi! I would like to help out with this. - Andreas Stormy Peters wrote: As I work to recruit companies as GNOME Foundation sponsors, it would be really helpful to have a brochure that describes what GNOME is, the GNOME Foundation, why they should sponsor and what is entailed. It should be something that looks good online as well as printed on a single sheet of paper. (Either one or two sided, or folded in three like a brochure.) I've put together some text, but could really use some help with the layout and graphics. I'm thinking we could even reuse the GUADEC type look and feel. While this might not go to hundreds of companies, every company that we do recruit is at least $10,000/year for the GNOME Foundation. That pay for a lot of travel for developers or with a handful of those we could hire a system administrator. Thanks in advance to anyone that can help! Best, Stormy *GNOME* The GNOME Project is an effort to create a complete, free and easy-to-use desktop environment accessible to all, a powerful application development framework for software developers, and a set of free software applications for mobile devices. GNOME is part of the GNU Project http://www.gnu.org/, is Free Software http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html, and developed as Open Source http://www.opensource.org/ software. The GNOME project encompasses many applications from the desktop to multimedia applications for end users to development tools. See http://projects.gnome.org/ for the entire list. *The GNOME Foundation* The GNOME Foundation supports the GNOME project goal of creating a computing platform for use by the general public that is completely free software. To achieve this goal, the Foundation coordinates releases of GNOME and determines which projects are part of GNOME. The Foundation acts as the official voice for the GNOME project, providing a means of communication with the press and with commercial and noncommercial organizations interested in GNOME software. The foundation may produce educational materials and documentation to help the public learn about GNOME software. In addition, it may sponsor GNOME-related technical conferences, and represent GNOME at relevant conferences sponsored by others, help create technical standards for the project and promote the use and development of GNOME software. The Foundation has over 400 members, all contributors to GNOME, who vote once a year to elect the GNOME Board of Directors who run the Foundation. The Foundation has two people on staff, an executive director and an administrator. The Foundation also has 20 corporate sponsors and a board of advisors that represent the corporate sponsors. Corporate sponsors include Access, Canonical, Debian, Free Software Foundation, HP, Google, IBM, Igalia, Immendio, Intel, Motorola, Mozilla Foundation, Nokia, Novell, OLPC, OpenedHand, Red Hat, Software Freedom Law Center, Sugar Labs and Sun. *Why join the GNOME Foundation as a sponsor:* 1) Open source technologies are forming the building blocks of desktop and mobile computing platforms. By using open source technologies, companies can focus on adding their value add, branding both the open source pieces and their applications, in a unique solution for end users. 2) The foundation provides a conduit to the developers. Developers working on GNOME technologies whether they work at large corporations, small consulting firms or as hobbyists. 3) As an advisory board member, through regular phone meetings and an annual face to face meeting, you will have a high-value communication channel with the GNOME community, through the board of directors. 4) The advisory board also provides the ideal forum for improved collaboration on areas of common interest among distributors of the GNOME products. Many of our members value the chance to speak and collaborate with partners and competitors about GNOME technologies. 5) The foundation invests in tasks which the community has done well, including a comprehensive program for independent software developers. We currently have a part-time assistant and a full-time director who will support the GNOME community and grow interest in the desktop and the platform. We are looking to hire a system administrator in the near future. 6) As you know, the more you work with the community and the more awareness they have of your plans, the more supportive they will be when you need help. By joining the GNOME Foundation and sponsoring GNOME, you will create good will among GNOME developers. They know that the GNOME Foundation fees go towards things that help GNOME developers like hackfests, sponsoring travel to conferences, and system administration resources. 7) General press. If you agree, we would like to issue a press release announcing your support. It would reach a large number of international press people, technologists and businesses. We would of course follow up
Re: Brochure for potential sponsors: need help!
Awesome! Let me know what you need from me. I think I have all the text below unless someone has feedback or suggestions on it. Thanks, Stormy On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 4:24 PM, Andreas Nilsson nisses.m...@home.sewrote: Hi! I would like to help out with this. - Andreas Stormy Peters wrote: As I work to recruit companies as GNOME Foundation sponsors, it would be really helpful to have a brochure that describes what GNOME is, the GNOME Foundation, why they should sponsor and what is entailed. It should be something that looks good online as well as printed on a single sheet of paper. (Either one or two sided, or folded in three like a brochure.) I've put together some text, but could really use some help with the layout and graphics. I'm thinking we could even reuse the GUADEC type look and feel. While this might not go to hundreds of companies, every company that we do recruit is at least $10,000/year for the GNOME Foundation. That pay for a lot of travel for developers or with a handful of those we could hire a system administrator. Thanks in advance to anyone that can help! Best, Stormy *GNOME* The GNOME Project is an effort to create a complete, free and easy-to-use desktop environment accessible to all, a powerful application development framework for software developers, and a set of free software applications for mobile devices. GNOME is part of the GNU Project http://www.gnu.org/, is Free Software http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html, and developed as Open Source http://www.opensource.org/ software. The GNOME project encompasses many applications from the desktop to multimedia applications for end users to development tools. See http://projects.gnome.org/ for the entire list. *The GNOME Foundation* The GNOME Foundation supports the GNOME project goal of creating a computing platform for use by the general public that is completely free software. To achieve this goal, the Foundation coordinates releases of GNOME and determines which projects are part of GNOME. The Foundation acts as the official voice for the GNOME project, providing a means of communication with the press and with commercial and noncommercial organizations interested in GNOME software. The foundation may produce educational materials and documentation to help the public learn about GNOME software. In addition, it may sponsor GNOME-related technical conferences, and represent GNOME at relevant conferences sponsored by others, help create technical standards for the project and promote the use and development of GNOME software. The Foundation has over 400 members, all contributors to GNOME, who vote once a year to elect the GNOME Board of Directors who run the Foundation. The Foundation has two people on staff, an executive director and an administrator. The Foundation also has 20 corporate sponsors and a board of advisors that represent the corporate sponsors. Corporate sponsors include Access, Canonical, Debian, Free Software Foundation, HP, Google, IBM, Igalia, Immendio, Intel, Motorola, Mozilla Foundation, Nokia, Novell, OLPC, OpenedHand, Red Hat, Software Freedom Law Center, Sugar Labs and Sun. *Why join the GNOME Foundation as a sponsor:* 1) Open source technologies are forming the building blocks of desktop and mobile computing platforms. By using open source technologies, companies can focus on adding their value add, branding both the open source pieces and their applications, in a unique solution for end users. 2) The foundation provides a conduit to the developers. Developers working on GNOME technologies whether they work at large corporations, small consulting firms or as hobbyists. 3) As an advisory board member, through regular phone meetings and an annual face to face meeting, you will have a high-value communication channel with the GNOME community, through the board of directors. 4) The advisory board also provides the ideal forum for improved collaboration on areas of common interest among distributors of the GNOME products. Many of our members value the chance to speak and collaborate with partners and competitors about GNOME technologies. 5) The foundation invests in tasks which the community has done well, including a comprehensive program for independent software developers. We currently have a part-time assistant and a full-time director who will support the GNOME community and grow interest in the desktop and the platform. We are looking to hire a system administrator in the near future. 6) As you know, the more you work with the community and the more awareness they have of your plans, the more supportive they will be when you need help. By joining the GNOME Foundation and sponsoring GNOME, you will create good will among GNOME developers. They know that the GNOME Foundation fees go towards things that help GNOME developers like hackfests, sponsoring travel to conferences, and system administration
Re: Brochure for potential sponsors: need help!
2009/1/21 Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org: Awesome! Let me know what you need from me. I think I have all the text below unless someone has feedback or suggestions on it. What about adding some quotes from present sponsors? Reason number 5) is an area that I would highlight to let potential sponsors know about the meaning of coopetition at the GNOME Foundation. Roberto -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Brochure for potential sponsors: need help!
As I work to recruit companies as GNOME Foundation sponsors, it would be really helpful to have a brochure that describes what GNOME is, the GNOME Foundation, why they should sponsor and what is entailed. It should be something that looks good online as well as printed on a single sheet of paper. (Either one or two sided, or folded in three like a brochure.) I've put together some text, but could really use some help with the layout and graphics. I'm thinking we could even reuse the GUADEC type look and feel. While this might not go to hundreds of companies, every company that we do recruit is at least $10,000/year for the GNOME Foundation. That pay for a lot of travel for developers or with a handful of those we could hire a system administrator. Thanks in advance to anyone that can help! Best, Stormy *GNOME* The GNOME Project is an effort to create a complete, free and easy-to-use desktop environment accessible to all, a powerful application development framework for software developers, and a set of free software applications for mobile devices. GNOME is part of the GNU Project http://www.gnu.org/, is Free Software http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html, and developed as Open Source http://www.opensource.org/ software. The GNOME project encompasses many applications from the desktop to multimedia applications for end users to development tools. See http://projects.gnome.org/ for the entire list. *The GNOME Foundation* The GNOME Foundation supports the GNOME project goal of creating a computing platform for use by the general public that is completely free software. To achieve this goal, the Foundation coordinates releases of GNOME and determines which projects are part of GNOME. The Foundation acts as the official voice for the GNOME project, providing a means of communication with the press and with commercial and noncommercial organizations interested in GNOME software. The foundation may produce educational materials and documentation to help the public learn about GNOME software. In addition, it may sponsor GNOME-related technical conferences, and represent GNOME at relevant conferences sponsored by others, help create technical standards for the project and promote the use and development of GNOME software. The Foundation has over 400 members, all contributors to GNOME, who vote once a year to elect the GNOME Board of Directors who run the Foundation. The Foundation has two people on staff, an executive director and an administrator. The Foundation also has 20 corporate sponsors and a board of advisors that represent the corporate sponsors. Corporate sponsors include Access, Canonical, Debian, Free Software Foundation, HP, Google, IBM, Igalia, Immendio, Intel, Motorola, Mozilla Foundation, Nokia, Novell, OLPC, OpenedHand, Red Hat, Software Freedom Law Center, Sugar Labs and Sun. *Why join the GNOME Foundation as a sponsor:* 1) Open source technologies are forming the building blocks of desktop and mobile computing platforms. By using open source technologies, companies can focus on adding their value add, branding both the open source pieces and their applications, in a unique solution for end users. 2) The foundation provides a conduit to the developers. Developers working on GNOME technologies whether they work at large corporations, small consulting firms or as hobbyists. 3) As an advisory board member, through regular phone meetings and an annual face to face meeting, you will have a high-value communication channel with the GNOME community, through the board of directors. 4) The advisory board also provides the ideal forum for improved collaboration on areas of common interest among distributors of the GNOME products. Many of our members value the chance to speak and collaborate with partners and competitors about GNOME technologies. 5) The foundation invests in tasks which the community has done well, including a comprehensive program for independent software developers. We currently have a part-time assistant and a full-time director who will support the GNOME community and grow interest in the desktop and the platform. We are looking to hire a system administrator in the near future. 6) As you know, the more you work with the community and the more awareness they have of your plans, the more supportive they will be when you need help. By joining the GNOME Foundation and sponsoring GNOME, you will create good will among GNOME developers. They know that the GNOME Foundation fees go towards things that help GNOME developers like hackfests, sponsoring travel to conferences, and system administration resources. 7) General press. If you agree, we would like to issue a press release announcing your support. It would reach a large number of international press people, technologists and businesses. We would of course follow up with press coverage of GNOME related initiatives and announcements throughout the year. Sponsorship fees are $10,000/year. Most sponsors are also
