Re: GNOME : Get involved

[Joachim Noreiko <jnoreiko yahoo com>]

--- Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
<sankarshan mukhopadhyay gmail com> wrote:

> Catching up late in the game is sometimes
> unsettling. So here I was
> trying to grasp the spread of the tasks and FIXMEs
> and ToDo when I
> chanced upon this subtask:
>
> Spread GNOME -- is this an existing endeavour or
> something we're
> starting? Ask the Marketing team
>
> in http://live.gnome.org/GnomeWeb/WgoGetInvolved and
> I was stuck.
>
> - From a read of the archives and some more reading
> (there is more to read
> that I can ever complete) on the l.g.o it seems (to
> me at least) that
> the Spread GNOME is an existing effort. So what is
> the current scope of
> this effort:
>
> o LUGs
> o Corporates
> o Banners
> o Stickers
> o Logo placements

Good question!

Prompted by your email, I've typed "spread gnome" into
google, and found this:
http://www.spreadgnome.org/

... which claims to be "restructuring".

Look at blog posts and this list's archive, the site
was launch in August of this year.
I don't remember if the site ever had any content, but
it certainly doesn't now.

I rather agree with what Quim said at the time:
--------------
I still wonder why
we need an external site to promote GNOME. To me it is
a symptom of a
GNOME and gnome.org failure. The wgo revamp tries to
solve failures like
this, and I don't see what GNOME marketing
spreadgnome.org could do that
gnome.org can't do.
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/marketing-list/2006-August/msg00225.html
----------------

So basically:

Let's plan a "spread gnome" page in our section, that
stands on its own. 
See what that does. 
Then think about whether we want to expand it to a
whole site.

That basically means it's up to us what we suggest
people can do to help market gnome: as you say, LUGs,
corporates, public organizations etc.

One thing we'll have to remember is to ask the guy who
owns http://www.spreadgnome.org/ to change his links
once WGO is up.

PS. Does anyone feel like updating the image we have
on http://live.gnome.org/MarketingTeam, or doing a new
one?
I don't want to offend whoever's hard work that is,
but it looks like the guy's being screamed at...




                
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