Re: Revamping Friends of GNOME: help with web page text

["Stormy Peters" <stormy gnome org>]

I definitely like your idea of listing concrete goals. I think we
should list specific things we want funding for and we should follow
up with what we spent it on, but we shouldn't actually earmark it. As
a nonprofit, if you earmark it, if plans change, you can't use that
money for anything else.

Stormy

On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 7:19 PM, Brian Cameron <Brian Cameron sun com> wrote:
> Stormy:
>
> > I originally thought an "adopt a hacker" program would be cool where
> > we highlighted developers that had received travel sponsorship but
> > Brian Cameron pointed out that that would probably appeal to the
> > current set of contributors but not branch out much.
>
> I think an "Adopt a Hacker" program is great.  I just think that
> we also need to highlight some ways that the Foundation benefits
> end users, developers, translators, etc.  Some people may not make
> the connection of how supporting a hacker to attend a conference
> benefits them in any tangible way.
>
> The Foundation has sponsored two Outreach programs, The GOPA is an
> example of how the Foundation has done a more tangible thing which
> benefits end users.  I'm sure other "success stories" could be
> highlighted.
>
> If, as you suggest, we were to encourage people to donate money and
> earmark it for certain projects (a11y, localization into 3rd world
> languages, or whatever), then the Foundation could get even more
> involved with collecting money and making use of it for tasks that
> would more clearly benefit end users, and thus encourage more people
> to donate.
>
> Brian
>
>
> > All that said, I could use some text for the actual page. The current
> > page is here:http://www.gnome.org/friends/.
> >
> > I'd like to have a couple of sections:
> > - Top intro that summarizes what this is all about: "Show your support
> > for GNOME. Become a Friend of GNOME and "
> > - List of things that GNOME does well. I'd like to list quite a few
> > but maybe we could also have an "ad space" at the right that
> > highlights things like "GNOME technology used by half a million kids
> > worldwide in OLPCs", "GNOME on school kids desktops in Spain", ... In
> > the general list we could list (with links) all the current stories we
> > have in the marketing web site plus:
> >     - accessibility
> >     - localization
> >     - functionality: multimedia, mail, etc.
> > - List of things we use money for directly:
> >  - developer travel,
> >  - printing and marketing materials,
> >  - ...
> > - Levels of sponsorship and gifts (probably should go towards the top
> > of the page)
> > - A link to all the current Friends of GNOME.
> >
> > Thoughts? Anyone willing to help with the web page?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Stormy
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Stormy Peters
Executive Director
GNOME Foundation
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