GNOME appreciation day (was Fwd: Looking for community managers or enthusiasts!)

2012-11-19 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On 15 November 2012 13:50, Alberto Ruiz ar...@gnome.org wrote:


 The one thing that was somewhat true is that we have less corporate
 support, back then IBM, Sun, Novell, Nokia and many other people were
 looking at GNOME as a platform to build products from. These days that's
 not the case. Market has changed, and sure, getting a job where you can do
 GNOMEy stuff is hard.


This and the blog post from Sony that is linked below made me think of what
could be a good marketing action: a GNOME appreciation day.

http://developer.sonymobile.com/2012/10/31/linux-developers-join-forces-in-the-linaro-project/

The marketing team would coordinate with prominent users of GNOME the
release of blog posts and/or press releases that would explain how the
organization benefits from GNOME and how it participates in the community.
This could be used to raise awareness of what GNOME is and how it works,
and hopefully would bring more contributors.

The participants in this campaign could be:

- organizations doing derivatives such as Canonical, Bosch or Sugar
Labs/OLPC,

- consultancy companies such as Codethink, Collabora, or Igalia,

- deployments such as City of Largo,

- the foundation's advisory board members,

- maybe famous people (Cory Doctorow uses GNOME?).

Regards,

Tomeu
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Re: GNOME appreciation day (was Fwd: Looking for community managers or enthusiasts!)

2012-11-19 Thread Seif Lotfy
Great idea, love it.

On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 5:05 PM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@tomeuvizoso.net wrote:
 On 15 November 2012 13:50, Alberto Ruiz ar...@gnome.org wrote:


 The one thing that was somewhat true is that we have less corporate
 support, back then IBM, Sun, Novell, Nokia and many other people were
 looking at GNOME as a platform to build products from. These days that's not
 the case. Market has changed, and sure, getting a job where you can do
 GNOMEy stuff is hard.


 This and the blog post from Sony that is linked below made me think of what
 could be a good marketing action: a GNOME appreciation day.

 http://developer.sonymobile.com/2012/10/31/linux-developers-join-forces-in-the-linaro-project/

 The marketing team would coordinate with prominent users of GNOME the
 release of blog posts and/or press releases that would explain how the
 organization benefits from GNOME and how it participates in the community.
 This could be used to raise awareness of what GNOME is and how it works, and
 hopefully would bring more contributors.

 The participants in this campaign could be:

 - organizations doing derivatives such as Canonical, Bosch or Sugar
 Labs/OLPC,

 - consultancy companies such as Codethink, Collabora, or Igalia,

 - deployments such as City of Largo,

 - the foundation's advisory board members,

 - maybe famous people (Cory Doctorow uses GNOME?).

 Regards,

 Tomeu

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Re: GNOME appreciation day (was Fwd: Looking for community managers or enthusiasts!)

2012-11-19 Thread Alberto Ruiz
+1000


2012/11/19 Seif Lotfy s...@lotfy.com

 Great idea, love it.

 On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 5:05 PM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@tomeuvizoso.net
 wrote:
  On 15 November 2012 13:50, Alberto Ruiz ar...@gnome.org wrote:
 
 
  The one thing that was somewhat true is that we have less corporate
  support, back then IBM, Sun, Novell, Nokia and many other people were
  looking at GNOME as a platform to build products from. These days
 that's not
  the case. Market has changed, and sure, getting a job where you can do
  GNOMEy stuff is hard.
 
 
  This and the blog post from Sony that is linked below made me think of
 what
  could be a good marketing action: a GNOME appreciation day.
 
 
 http://developer.sonymobile.com/2012/10/31/linux-developers-join-forces-in-the-linaro-project/
 
  The marketing team would coordinate with prominent users of GNOME the
  release of blog posts and/or press releases that would explain how the
  organization benefits from GNOME and how it participates in the
 community.
  This could be used to raise awareness of what GNOME is and how it works,
 and
  hopefully would bring more contributors.
 
  The participants in this campaign could be:
 
  - organizations doing derivatives such as Canonical, Bosch or Sugar
  Labs/OLPC,
 
  - consultancy companies such as Codethink, Collabora, or Igalia,
 
  - deployments such as City of Largo,
 
  - the foundation's advisory board members,
 
  - maybe famous people (Cory Doctorow uses GNOME?).
 
  Regards,
 
  Tomeu
 
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