Re: SXSW stuff

2014-03-05 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 3:04 AM, Fabiana Simões wrote: > Hi there, > > On 4 March 2014 09:47, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: >> I was planning on doing 1:1 correspondance. I had actually looked >> into buying cookies with teh GNOME logo on it as an ice breaker. I >> got that idea from a gal who works

Re: SXSW stuff

2014-03-05 Thread Fabiana Simões
Hi there, On 4 March 2014 09:47, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > I was planning on doing 1:1 correspondance. I had actually looked > into buying cookies with teh GNOME logo on it as an ice breaker. I > got that idea from a gal who works at a bakery and was waiting at an > airport heading back to Por

Re: SXSW stuff

2014-03-04 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 10:52 AM, Fabiana Simões wrote: > While this discussion is quite important, I think we should get it > going in another thread as none of this quite applies to SXSW. > > Sri: how do you plan to promote GNOME at SXSW? Will you join any > relevant events during the conference?

Re: SXSW stuff

2014-03-03 Thread Diego Escalante Urrelo
Hi Kat, On Mar 3, 2014 6:29 AM, "Ekaterina Gerasimova" wrote: > > It would be nice to have them as "opt-in" rather than compulsory as a > (very) small minority of participants in 2012 were not happy that they > had to participate, some of whom have gone on to become Foundation > Members so it was

Re: SXSW stuff

2014-03-03 Thread Fabiana Simões
While this discussion is quite important, I think we should get it going in another thread as none of this quite applies to SXSW. Sri: how do you plan to promote GNOME at SXSW? Will you join any relevant events during the conference? I think it would be great if you brought some swag to distribut

Re: SXSW stuff

2014-03-03 Thread Ekaterina Gerasimova
On 3 March 2014 10:46, Allan Day wrote: > Diego Escalante Urrelo wrote: >> I have a specific agenda item for this. I would like to make the >> Outreach Games from 2012 a tradition at GUADEC. >> I live under the impression that they were really effective to break >> the ice between new contributor

Re: SXSW stuff

2014-03-03 Thread Allan Day
Diego Escalante Urrelo wrote: >> With SXSW, I get to talk to orthogonal communities, and one of the >> things that really bugs me is the lack of participation in the overall >> GNOME communities. The people I interact with are generally been >> core, active members. But what do I know about the

Re: SXSW stuff

2014-03-01 Thread Diego Escalante Urrelo
On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 12:57 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > With SXSW, I get to talk to orthogonal communities, and one of the > things that really bugs me is the lack of participation in the overall > GNOME communities. The people I interact with are generally been > core, active members. But w

SXSW stuff

2014-03-01 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
So I've been thinking deeply about what I think I should be doing at SXSW in terms of engagement and I think there are two stories that I would like to talk about there. With SXSW, I get to talk to orthogonal communities, and one of the things that really bugs me is the lack of participation in th