Re: Introductions
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 5:02 PM, Nelson Marques 07...@ipam.pt wrote: Stormy, Got it. Awesome stuff. I'm going to give you a contact of a national hardware manufacturer which is supplying Laptops for students through the government (not the cursed Magalhães). Unfortunatly they use a national distribution called Caixa Mágica (Magic Box, http://www.caixamagica.pt) which is focused on KDE. This is sad, but it's the reality. Caixa Magica is built based on SuSE/openSuSE sources. This is not true, atm Caixa Magica is based on Mandriva and ships KDE for those laptops and GNOME for workstations on schools. Both Desktops are supported. I use myself Caixa Magica on a VM and it's based on GNOME 2.26 from Mandriva. Cheers Luis -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Introductions
On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 03:33 +, Luis Medinas wrote: On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 5:02 PM, Nelson Marques 07...@ipam.pt wrote: Stormy, Got it. Awesome stuff. I'm going to give you a contact of a national hardware manufacturer which is supplying Laptops for students through the government (not the cursed Magalhães). Unfortunatly they use a national distribution called Caixa Mágica (Magic Box, http://www.caixamagica.pt) which is focused on KDE. This is sad, but it's the reality. Caixa Magica is built based on SuSE/openSuSE sources. This is not true, atm Caixa Magica is based on Mandriva and ships KDE for those laptops and GNOME for workstations on schools. Both Desktops are supported. I use myself Caixa Magica on a VM and it's based on GNOME 2.26 from Mandriva. Cheers Luis You are correct, since 2007, I knew it as suse. Don't follow caixa magica. I referred on laptops only on my post, commonly advertised as e-escolas with cooperation with 3 legacy mobile companies. I am not aware of such programs for schools. Besides donations I would assume they work with local budgets? Not through mass stream student oriented campaigns. Anyway thanks for the correction on Caixa Mágica (not my fight). NM signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Introductions
Well sure it's just my opinion that I have good idea.. I have to have some ego in this group! sri On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 6:48 PM, Behdad Esfahbod beh...@behdad.org wrote: Do you? ;) I'm behdad by the way. Just listening and occasionally teasing. behdad On 02/16/2010 07:16 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: I am.. er sri. I don't seem to have a role other than to participate and snark. I do occasionally come up with good ideas that I have no time to implement. sri On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 4:04 AM, Dave Neary dne...@gnome.org mailto:dne...@gnome.org wrote: Hi, Nelson Marques wrote: I would like to ask one thing to this list, would it be possible for people to introduce themselfs and say what is their role around on the list? Dave Neary http://live.gnome.org/DaveNeary http://blogs.gnome.org/bolsh http://dneary.free.fr http://www.neary-consulting.com http://www.linkedin.com/ppl/webprofile?action=vmiid=2873233pvs=ppauthToken=qu0IauthType=nametrk=ndir_viewmorelnk=vw_pprofile http://www.linkedin.com/ppl/webprofile?action=vmiid=2873233pvs=ppauthToken=qu0IauthType=nametrk=ndir_viewmorelnk=vw_pprofile http://www.google.com/search?q=Dave+Nearyie=utf-8oe=utf-8aq=trls=com.ubuntu:en-GB:officialclient=firefox-a http://www.google.com/search?q=Dave+Nearyie=utf-8oe=utf-8aq=trls=com.ubuntu:en-GB:officialclient=firefox-a I started many of the initiatives the marketing team is now working on - collecting marketing materials, co-ordinating user groups, researching a GNOME store, having a regular annual marketing community travel budget, having an annual foundation report (I wrote most of the first one, and a good bit of the 2nd and 3rd), getting using a CRM, and I'm currently working on a GNOME census to answer some of the questions we keep getting asked have no good answer for. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member dne...@gnome.org mailto:dne...@gnome.org -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org mailto:marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Introductions
Hi Nelson, On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Nelson Marques 07...@ipam.pt wrote: About Guadec, have you contacted Vodafone? or any other big Mobile operators? I would assume that pushing the right keys, they would tag alongside with Guadec. Also try to have small local business present, and push hardware manufacturers into it aswell. Tryed BenQ ? it's a Benelux based company, should be interest from them. Having a company like BenQ with us could help. Are you willing to identify and approach some of these companies about GUADEC sponsorship? We have a brochure, so the main work is identifying contacts, approaching them, giving a pitch and then following up with them. (And following up with them. And following up with them. ;) Stormy -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Introductions
On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 09:15 -0700, Stormy Peters wrote: Hi Nelson, On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Nelson Marques 07...@ipam.pt wrote: About Guadec, have you contacted Vodafone? or any other big Mobile operators? I would assume that pushing the right keys, they would tag alongside with Guadec. Also try to have small local business present, and push hardware manufacturers into it aswell. Tryed BenQ ? it's a Benelux based company, should be interest from them. Having a company like BenQ with us could help. Are you willing to identify and approach some of these companies about GUADEC sponsorship? We have a brochure, so the main work is identifying contacts, approaching them, giving a pitch and then following up with them. (And following up with them. And following up with them. ;) Stormy Hi, I can dig some information about possible interested companies and try to approach them. I do know that some are more friendly because I've contacted about 280 Operators (including MVNO's) in Europe in the past. Before approaching we need to know a couple of things: # What benefits can they take from sponsoring (ex: how are we going to advertise them, expected visitors) # What do we need from them (ex: money, merchandising, etc) # I would advice also than when applies, we should ask for participation as well, like providing speakers to conferences. This get touchy as some companies are related to users and opensource, but in a different way from us... for instance the emerging market for netbooks and tables is of interest to Vodafone as they provide carrier data services through GSM Networks. They are attacking this niche, but the issue is how we relate it with open source. So, this needs some thinking. Taking a look into potential companies that can help us. I do have a background in the Netherlands, as I lived there for almost 2 years, I can most likely get some contacts from companies like Logitech. Point me the material that we have already done. As you now my english is not native, and before I contact them, I'll send to the list a general message so that people can fix it correctly and I'll take it from there. I'll place some effort on this one. It would help if we have a program already available for the event and a list of activities/participation's. I'll be in touch about this. NM signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Introductions
Great. I'll send the brochure to you offlist. Stormy On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 9:30 AM, Nelson Marques 07...@ipam.pt wrote: On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 09:15 -0700, Stormy Peters wrote: Hi Nelson, On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Nelson Marques 07...@ipam.pt wrote: About Guadec, have you contacted Vodafone? or any other big Mobile operators? I would assume that pushing the right keys, they would tag alongside with Guadec. Also try to have small local business present, and push hardware manufacturers into it aswell. Tryed BenQ ? it's a Benelux based company, should be interest from them. Having a company like BenQ with us could help. Are you willing to identify and approach some of these companies about GUADEC sponsorship? We have a brochure, so the main work is identifying contacts, approaching them, giving a pitch and then following up with them. (And following up with them. And following up with them. ;) Stormy Hi, I can dig some information about possible interested companies and try to approach them. I do know that some are more friendly because I've contacted about 280 Operators (including MVNO's) in Europe in the past. Before approaching we need to know a couple of things: # What benefits can they take from sponsoring (ex: how are we going to advertise them, expected visitors) # What do we need from them (ex: money, merchandising, etc) # I would advice also than when applies, we should ask for participation as well, like providing speakers to conferences. This get touchy as some companies are related to users and opensource, but in a different way from us... for instance the emerging market for netbooks and tables is of interest to Vodafone as they provide carrier data services through GSM Networks. They are attacking this niche, but the issue is how we relate it with open source. So, this needs some thinking. Taking a look into potential companies that can help us. I do have a background in the Netherlands, as I lived there for almost 2 years, I can most likely get some contacts from companies like Logitech. Point me the material that we have already done. As you now my english is not native, and before I contact them, I'll send to the list a general message so that people can fix it correctly and I'll take it from there. I'll place some effort on this one. It would help if we have a program already available for the event and a list of activities/participation's. I'll be in touch about this. NM -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Introductions
Stormy, Got it. Awesome stuff. I'm going to give you a contact of a national hardware manufacturer which is supplying Laptops for students through the government (not the cursed Magalhães). Unfortunatly they use a national distribution called Caixa Mágica (Magic Box, http://www.caixamagica.pt) which is focused on KDE. This is sad, but it's the reality. Caixa Magica is built based on SuSE/openSuSE sources. I would like you to contact this person (the CEO of the company) and CC it to the contact I'm also providing. They sponsored me in 2001 for my even and they are often opened to new challenges. This company is distributing computer with linux pre-installed for over 5 years, which makes them a pioneer in the Portuguese Market. Also offer him a possibility participate if possible with a speaker about open source or GNU/Linux as an alternative on pre-installed PC's. And why don't use GNOME ;) Gonna send this in private email. Nelson. On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 09:43 -0700, Stormy Peters wrote: Great. I'll send the brochure to you offlist. Stormy On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 9:30 AM, Nelson Marques 07...@ipam.pt wrote: On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 09:15 -0700, Stormy Peters wrote: Hi Nelson, On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Nelson Marques 07...@ipam.pt wrote: About Guadec, have you contacted Vodafone? or any other big Mobile operators? I would assume that pushing the right keys, they would tag alongside with Guadec. Also try to have small local business present, and push hardware manufacturers into it aswell. Tryed BenQ ? it's a Benelux based company, should be interest from them. Having a company like BenQ with us could help. Are you willing to identify and approach some of these companies about GUADEC sponsorship? We have a brochure, so the main work is identifying contacts, approaching them, giving a pitch and then following up with them. (And following up with them. And following up with them. ;) Stormy Hi, I can dig some information about possible interested companies and try to approach them. I do know that some are more friendly because I've contacted about 280 Operators (including MVNO's) in Europe in the past. Before approaching we need to know a couple of things: # What benefits can they take from sponsoring (ex: how are we going to advertise them, expected visitors) # What do we need from them (ex: money, merchandising, etc) # I would advice also than when applies, we should ask for participation as well, like providing speakers to conferences. This get touchy as some companies are related to users and opensource, but in a different way from us... for instance the emerging market for netbooks and tables is of interest to Vodafone as they provide carrier data services through GSM Networks. They are attacking this niche, but the issue is how we relate it with open source. So, this needs some thinking. Taking a look into potential companies that can help us. I do have a background in the Netherlands, as I lived there for almost 2 years, I can most likely get some contacts from companies like Logitech. Point me the material that we have already done. As you now my english is not native, and before I contact them, I'll send to the list a general message so that people can fix it correctly and I'll take it from there. I'll place some effort on this one. It would help if we have a program already available for the event and a list of activities/participation's. I'll be in touch about this. NM signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: introductions (was Re: )
On 02/09/2010 04:49 PM, Nelson Marques wrote: I would like to ask one thing to this list, would it be possible for people to introduce themselfs and say what is their role around on the list? Hello all. My name is John Williams. I am not a developer or documenter. I am a user. I also study and teach Marketing at a university. Studying for about 20 years, teaching for about 15. My view of marketing is probably different to that of most people on this list. To me Marketing is a business philosophy, while evidently to most other people this word means sales and promotion. That is one set of activities that the business philosophy guides, but not the only set. The philosophy is roughly this: learn about what your customers (actual and potential) want, and then give it to them --- if it's a good idea. Reason's why it might not be a good idea are include: - it's illegal or morally wrong (some customers clearly want cocaine, child pornography or tobacco, for example). - it doesn't fit your corporate purpose and/or resources (e.g. GNOME isn't going to start delivering quality health care to its users) - it won't make a buck (in the case of for-profit organisations) None of these apply to us. So, marketing GNOME, to me, does not mean pushing our product on to the market; rather it means finding out what would make our users happier and more productive, and crafting our product to deliver that. In other words: listen to users. And give them what they want/need. If it's not crack. Thus endeth the rant. -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Introductions
Hi Nelson, Nelson Marques schreef: Hi Sanne, On Fri, 2010-02-12 at 15:10 +0100, Sanne te Meerman wrote: Hi, I was triggered by this conversation as I have recently approached several companies to sponsor Guadec. One of the companies that declined, was Cap Gemini and I got some interesting feedback that relates to branding as well. They told me that large system integrators like themselves mostly do support and training on whole distributions like Ubuntu and Suse etc. That doesn't surprise me at all. Remember that when you approach a company to sponsor an event, for them there should be a business possibility implied. It's distro's that give them money, not normal software packages. No business possibility, not worth investing. I understand that of course. And it might not be very surprising that they don't sponsor, but I felt challenged to think of ways to get their attention. If they're into training and system integration, there can be possibilities for them as well, like approaching hardware vendors to help them use Gnome in their products, or maybe even user training. Which doesn't mean that other companies in the same marker segment can have opposite positions. In this cases, it would be advisable to launch the same challenge to all, and make sure they know that their competitors might be present there. Yes, good one. I'm no marketeer, but the creation of a 'Buzz' and the fact that companies, people and instittions are watching each other has to be used well, true. Having said that, we are looking out for the work of the volunteers who are helping Koen and me to improve the Guadec website as fast as possible, as the website is such a crucial means to create 'the buzz'. So... any advice on how to make them forget about their wifes and loved-ones, to start building the site, are welcome! :-) The marketing challenge with regard to branding would probably be then to associate one brand with another, like Intel has so succesfully done by having the 'Intel'inside ' logo on hardware and having joined TV commercials with software and hardware vendors. The marketing challenge with branding in my opinion is somewhere else, a set of values that our brand should imply. My laptop has ATI Premium Graphics sticker. I chosed ATI because it's GPU didnt went above 60C under heavy load, because I do give importance to thermal designs. The reason that make me go this way was because my previous laptop had one of those wicked G86 based nvidia cards operating the GPU at 81C in idle. I won't ever buy nvidia. Consumer choice. Regarding the brands again, we don't need stickers. Our product, GNOME is distributed in digital format, therefore most of our marketing should around digital formats. We should associate the brand GNOME to brands who distribute us, who support us and who share the same ideals behind GNOME. It's more of a ideological set of ideas you want people to recognize about you. Both the values of Quality and Ideology are what interests you and are also what you think the brand should project. Your decision to go with ATI might sound obvious to you, but I have my doubts if there are a lot of people who have such a well thought out judgement as you do (even if it could help them avoid burning their fingers haha). FLOSS people seem to be a well informed bunch in general, that might not be as sensitive to 'the Buzz'. As Gnome is moving out of this subculture and into the mainstream, the amount of people considering the ideology will hopefully remain something closely associated with Gnome and other Free software. But IMHO the thing that might probably help move Gnome more into the a mainstream market might probably be: great software with great functionality that looks great and is also easy and great to use. Just felt like sharing this. Hope it's useful and hopefully I'll see the 'Gnome inside' logo flickering on my next mobile phone ;-). regards, Sanne, Guadec organisation You touched a sensible thing. If we look into the market, as Brian said in another thread, the industry is changing quickly. We're going into the netbook/tablet æeon (era), for reference, see the efforts being made by Ubuntu on this field. Their option to replace openoffice with googledocs... the reaction of the community... They went back on that one, but still, from a marketing point of view, such replacement would please either netbook vendor (indirectly association with google) and possibly breaking grounds amongst users. just some thoughts, great to think about things like this, thanks. About Guadec, I will definitely forward your suggestions to Stormy, as she's doing most of the contacts with companies on behalf of Gnome. Vodafone and BenQ might be really excellent suggestions, and with Nokia on board, they could be triggered, as other companies might be as well. about the local companies: we're approaching them too, yes. About Guadec, have you
Re: Introductions
I am.. er sri. I don't seem to have a role other than to participate and snark. I do occasionally come up with good ideas that I have no time to implement. sri On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 4:04 AM, Dave Neary dne...@gnome.org wrote: Hi, Nelson Marques wrote: I would like to ask one thing to this list, would it be possible for people to introduce themselfs and say what is their role around on the list? Dave Neary http://live.gnome.org/DaveNeary http://blogs.gnome.org/bolsh http://dneary.free.fr http://www.neary-consulting.com http://www.linkedin.com/ppl/webprofile?action=vmiid=2873233pvs=ppauthToken=qu0IauthType=nametrk=ndir_viewmorelnk=vw_pprofile http://www.google.com/search?q=Dave+Nearyie=utf-8oe=utf-8aq=trls=com.ubuntu:en-GB:officialclient=firefox-a I started many of the initiatives the marketing team is now working on - collecting marketing materials, co-ordinating user groups, researching a GNOME store, having a regular annual marketing community travel budget, having an annual foundation report (I wrote most of the first one, and a good bit of the 2nd and 3rd), getting using a CRM, and I'm currently working on a GNOME census to answer some of the questions we keep getting asked have no good answer for. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member dne...@gnome.org -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Introductions
Do you? ;) I'm behdad by the way. Just listening and occasionally teasing. behdad On 02/16/2010 07:16 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: I am.. er sri. I don't seem to have a role other than to participate and snark. I do occasionally come up with good ideas that I have no time to implement. sri On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 4:04 AM, Dave Neary dne...@gnome.org mailto:dne...@gnome.org wrote: Hi, Nelson Marques wrote: I would like to ask one thing to this list, would it be possible for people to introduce themselfs and say what is their role around on the list? Dave Neary http://live.gnome.org/DaveNeary http://blogs.gnome.org/bolsh http://dneary.free.fr http://www.neary-consulting.com http://www.linkedin.com/ppl/webprofile?action=vmiid=2873233pvs=ppauthToken=qu0IauthType=nametrk=ndir_viewmorelnk=vw_pprofile http://www.linkedin.com/ppl/webprofile?action=vmiid=2873233pvs=ppauthToken=qu0IauthType=nametrk=ndir_viewmorelnk=vw_pprofile http://www.google.com/search?q=Dave+Nearyie=utf-8oe=utf-8aq=trls=com.ubuntu:en-GB:officialclient=firefox-a http://www.google.com/search?q=Dave+Nearyie=utf-8oe=utf-8aq=trls=com.ubuntu:en-GB:officialclient=firefox-a I started many of the initiatives the marketing team is now working on - collecting marketing materials, co-ordinating user groups, researching a GNOME store, having a regular annual marketing community travel budget, having an annual foundation report (I wrote most of the first one, and a good bit of the 2nd and 3rd), getting using a CRM, and I'm currently working on a GNOME census to answer some of the questions we keep getting asked have no good answer for. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member dne...@gnome.org mailto:dne...@gnome.org -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org mailto:marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Introductions
Hi Sanne, On Fri, 2010-02-12 at 15:10 +0100, Sanne te Meerman wrote: Hi, I was triggered by this conversation as I have recently approached several companies to sponsor Guadec. One of the companies that declined, was Cap Gemini and I got some interesting feedback that relates to branding as well. They told me that large system integrators like themselves mostly do support and training on whole distributions like Ubuntu and Suse etc. That doesn't surprise me at all. Remember that when you approach a company to sponsor an event, for them there should be a business possibility implied. It's distro's that give them money, not normal software packages. No business possibility, not worth investing. Which doesn't mean that other companies in the same marker segment can have opposite positions. In this cases, it would be advisable to launch the same challenge to all, and make sure they know that their competitors might be present there. The marketing challenge with regard to branding would probably be then to associate one brand with another, like Intel has so succesfully done by having the 'Intel'inside ' logo on hardware and having joined TV commercials with software and hardware vendors. The marketing challenge with branding in my opinion is somewhere else, a set of values that our brand should imply. My laptop has ATI Premium Graphics sticker. I chosed ATI because it's GPU didnt went above 60C under heavy load, because I do give importance to thermal designs. The reason that make me go this way was because my previous laptop had one of those wicked G86 based nvidia cards operating the GPU at 81C in idle. I won't ever buy nvidia. Consumer choice. Regarding the brands again, we don't need stickers. Our product, GNOME is distributed in digital format, therefore most of our marketing should around digital formats. We should associate the brand GNOME to brands who distribute us, who support us and who share the same ideals behind GNOME. It's more of a ideological set of ideas you want people to recognize about you. Just felt like sharing this. Hope it's useful and hopefully I'll see the 'Gnome inside' logo flickering on my next mobile phone ;-). regards, Sanne, Guadec organisation You touched a sensible thing. If we look into the market, as Brian said in another thread, the industry is changing quickly. We're going into the netbook/tablet æeon (era), for reference, see the efforts being made by Ubuntu on this field. Their option to replace openoffice with googledocs... the reaction of the community... They went back on that one, but still, from a marketing point of view, such replacement would please either netbook vendor (indirectly association with google) and possibly breaking grounds amongst users. About Guadec, have you contacted Vodafone? or any other big Mobile operators? I would assume that pushing the right keys, they would tag alongside with Guadec. Also try to have small local business present, and push hardware manufacturers into it aswell. Tryed BenQ ? it's a Benelux based company, should be interest from them. Having a company like BenQ with us could help. ;) -- my 2 cents, nelson. Nelson Marques schreef: Brian, I can provide some documentation regarding Brand Management if you need. This is actually a complex subject. If you need help I can help with it as well. There's a very good publication from Philip Kotler (currently the top personality in Marketing) named Brand Management, there is also a chapter in Marketing Management (the bible of Marketing) which covers some points. I have a large collection of books which I can share with whoever wants to take a look. Meanwhile I'll just compile some stuff that I have from my university which might be useful. Anything you need, just ask. Nelson. PS: I would assume GNOME is going to be taken as an Umbrella brand, correct? On Thu, 2010-02-11 at 09:23 -0600, Brian Cameron wrote: Hello, my name is Brian Cameron and there is some information about me here: http://live.gnome.org/BrianCameron I have worked for Sun Microsystems (now becoming Oracle) for over 10 years, over 8 of those years on the GNOME project. I am on the GNOME Foundation board of directors and acting as the secretary. I am really more of a developer than a marketing person, but I have been involved with marketing-related discussions for the past few years, and attended the last Marketing hackfest in Chicago. Any board member often deals with marketing topics and opportunities, and one of the reasons I participate is because I think the GNOME marketing-list is one of the more important GNOME forums for board members to be involved with. I also tend to work closely with the GNOME legal team, and I tend to get involved with marketing issues that involve working with the legal team. For example, one marketing related task I am currently
Re: Introductions
Hello, my name is Brian Cameron and there is some information about me here: http://live.gnome.org/BrianCameron I have worked for Sun Microsystems (now becoming Oracle) for over 10 years, over 8 of those years on the GNOME project. I am on the GNOME Foundation board of directors and acting as the secretary. I am really more of a developer than a marketing person, but I have been involved with marketing-related discussions for the past few years, and attended the last Marketing hackfest in Chicago. Any board member often deals with marketing topics and opportunities, and one of the reasons I participate is because I think the GNOME marketing-list is one of the more important GNOME forums for board members to be involved with. I also tend to work closely with the GNOME legal team, and I tend to get involved with marketing issues that involve working with the legal team. For example, one marketing related task I am currently working on with the legal team is to put together more comprehensive trademark agreements so that GNOME is better prepared to license the GNOME brand to organizations who want to sell GNOME branded merchandise. Brian -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Introductions
Brian, I can provide some documentation regarding Brand Management if you need. This is actually a complex subject. If you need help I can help with it as well. There's a very good publication from Philip Kotler (currently the top personality in Marketing) named Brand Management, there is also a chapter in Marketing Management (the bible of Marketing) which covers some points. I have a large collection of books which I can share with whoever wants to take a look. Meanwhile I'll just compile some stuff that I have from my university which might be useful. Anything you need, just ask. Nelson. PS: I would assume GNOME is going to be taken as an Umbrella brand, correct? On Thu, 2010-02-11 at 09:23 -0600, Brian Cameron wrote: Hello, my name is Brian Cameron and there is some information about me here: http://live.gnome.org/BrianCameron I have worked for Sun Microsystems (now becoming Oracle) for over 10 years, over 8 of those years on the GNOME project. I am on the GNOME Foundation board of directors and acting as the secretary. I am really more of a developer than a marketing person, but I have been involved with marketing-related discussions for the past few years, and attended the last Marketing hackfest in Chicago. Any board member often deals with marketing topics and opportunities, and one of the reasons I participate is because I think the GNOME marketing-list is one of the more important GNOME forums for board members to be involved with. I also tend to work closely with the GNOME legal team, and I tend to get involved with marketing issues that involve working with the legal team. For example, one marketing related task I am currently working on with the legal team is to put together more comprehensive trademark agreements so that GNOME is better prepared to license the GNOME brand to organizations who want to sell GNOME branded merchandise. Brian signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Introductions
On Tue, 2010-02-09 at 21:49 +, Nelson Marques wrote: I would like to ask one thing to this list, would it be possible for people to introduce themselfs and say what is their role around on the list? Thanks in advance. Hi, I'm Paul, and I help out with the Sysadmin team, help publish GNOME Journal, maintain documentation for a few different projects and try to herd cats with the Marketing team, including trying to manage some of the Marketing projects, schedule team meetings and other stuff. More info at: http:/.live.gnome.org/PaulCutler http://www.silwenae.org/blog Paul -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Introductions
Hi, Nelson Marques wrote: I would like to ask one thing to this list, would it be possible for people to introduce themselfs and say what is their role around on the list? Dave Neary http://live.gnome.org/DaveNeary http://blogs.gnome.org/bolsh http://dneary.free.fr http://www.neary-consulting.com http://www.linkedin.com/ppl/webprofile?action=vmiid=2873233pvs=ppauthToken=qu0IauthType=nametrk=ndir_viewmorelnk=vw_pprofile http://www.google.com/search?q=Dave+Nearyie=utf-8oe=utf-8aq=trls=com.ubuntu:en-GB:officialclient=firefox-a I started many of the initiatives the marketing team is now working on - collecting marketing materials, co-ordinating user groups, researching a GNOME store, having a regular annual marketing community travel budget, having an annual foundation report (I wrote most of the first one, and a good bit of the 2nd and 3rd), getting using a CRM, and I'm currently working on a GNOME census to answer some of the questions we keep getting asked have no good answer for. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member dne...@gnome.org -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Introductions
On Tue, 2010-02-09 at 21:49 +, Nelson Marques wrote: I would like to ask one thing to this list, would it be possible for people to introduce themselfs and say what is their role around on the list? Hi I'm a proud member of the Portuguese conspiracy probably one of the firsts involved in the GNOME Project. I have 25 years old and i recently got a Masters degree in Physics Engineering at University of Aveiro (also looking for a job involving OpenSource :)). I'm also the Co-maintainer of Brasero our favorite burning application and contributor for other modules. Of course i'm involved in the great Bugsquad, Patchsquad and help on other projects where i can. Some links: http://live.gnome.org/LuisMedinas http://pt.linkedin.com/in/luismedinas http://lmedinas.livejournal.com Cheers Luis -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
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On 02/09/2010 04:49 PM, Nelson Marques wrote: I would like to ask one thing to this list, would it be possible for people to introduce themselfs and say what is their role around on the list? Thanks in advance. I'm Will Kahn-Greene. I think I introduced myself a couple of weeks ago. I work for Participatory Culture Foundation http://pculture.org/ on Miro http://getmiro.com/ and curate the Gnome Miro Community http://gnome.mirocommunity.org/. I'm on this list to help with indexing/curating video about Gnome conferences, projects, development, marketing, and such so that users, developers, and other interested parties can find it, watch it, and better participate in Gnome-related things. /will -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
