Re: Brochure for potential sponsors: need help!
- From: Andreas Nilsson <nisses mail home se>
- To: Stormy Peters <stormy gnome org>
- Cc: marketing-list <marketing-list gnome org>
- Subject: Re: Brochure for potential sponsors: need help!
- Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2009 12:35:56 +0100
Stormy Peters wrote:
Let me know what you need from me. I think I have all the text below
unless someone has feedback or suggestions on it.
Kalle Persson and myself spent some time on this last night and here is
a sketch.
Front and back:
http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/184285/foundation-folder-outside.png
Inside: http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/184285/foundation-folder-inside.png
Source: http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/184285/foundation-folder-sketch.svg
This would be printable in only two colors (black+green), so it would be
relatively cheap to print.
Some text blocks ended up a bit small in size, and some parts felt a bit
massive. Any darlings we can kill?
Let me know if you have any feedback. I will go ahead and lay this out
in Scribus now.
- Andreas
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 4:24 PM, Andreas Nilsson <nisses mail home se
<mailto:nisses mail home se>> wrote:
I would like to help out with this.
Stormy Peters wrote:
As I work to recruit companies as GNOME Foundation sponsors,
it would be really helpful to have a brochure that describes
what GNOME is, the GNOME Foundation, why they should sponsor
and what is entailed. It should be something that looks good
online as well as printed on a single sheet of paper. (Either
one or two sided, or folded in three like a brochure.)
I've put together some text, but could really use some help
with the layout and graphics. I'm thinking we could even reuse
the GUADEC type look and feel.
While this might not go to hundreds of companies, every
company that we do recruit is at least $10,000/year for the
GNOME Foundation. That pay for a lot of travel for developers
or with a handful of those we could hire a system administrator.
Thanks in advance to anyone that can help!
Best,
Stormy
*GNOME*
The GNOME Project is an effort to create a complete, free and
easy-to-use desktop environment accessible to all, a powerful
application development framework for software developers, and
a set of free software applications for mobile devices. GNOME
is part of the GNU Project <http://www.gnu.org/>, is Free
Software <http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html>, and
developed as Open Source <http://www.opensource.org/> software.
The GNOME project encompasses many applications from the
desktop to multimedia applications for end users to
development tools. See http://projects.gnome.org/ for the
entire list.
*The GNOME Foundation*
The GNOME Foundation supports the GNOME project goal of
creating a computing platform for use by the general public
that is completely free software.
To achieve this goal, the Foundation coordinates releases of
GNOME and determines which projects are part of GNOME. The
Foundation acts as the official voice for the GNOME project,
providing a means of communication with the press and with
commercial and noncommercial organizations interested in GNOME
software. The foundation may produce educational materials and
documentation to help the public learn about GNOME software.
In addition, it may sponsor GNOME-related technical
conferences, and represent GNOME at relevant conferences
sponsored by others, help create technical standards for the
project and promote the use and development of GNOME software.
The Foundation has over 400 members, all contributors to
GNOME, who vote once a year to elect the GNOME Board of
Directors who run the Foundation. The Foundation has two
people on staff, an executive director and an administrator.
The Foundation also has 20 corporate sponsors and a board of
advisors that represent the corporate sponsors. Corporate
sponsors include Access, Canonical, Debian, Free Software
Foundation, HP, Google, IBM, Igalia, Immendio, Intel,
Motorola, Mozilla Foundation, Nokia, Novell, OLPC, OpenedHand,
Red Hat, Software Freedom Law Center, Sugar Labs and Sun.
*Why join the GNOME Foundation as a sponsor:*
1) Open source technologies are forming the building blocks of
desktop and mobile computing platforms. By using open source
technologies, companies can focus on adding their value add,
branding both the open source pieces and their applications,
in a unique solution for end users.
2) The foundation provides a conduit to the developers.
Developers working on GNOME technologies whether they work at
large corporations, small consulting firms or as hobbyists.
3) As an advisory board member, through regular phone meetings
and an annual face to face meeting, you will have a high-value
communication channel with the GNOME community, through the
board of directors.
4) The advisory board also provides the ideal forum for
improved collaboration on areas of common interest among
distributors of the GNOME products. Many of our members value
the chance to speak and collaborate with partners and
competitors about GNOME technologies.
5) The foundation invests in tasks which the community has
done well, including a comprehensive program for independent
software developers. We currently have a part-time assistant
and a full-time director who will support the GNOME community
and grow interest in the desktop and the platform. We are
looking to hire a system administrator in the near future.
6) As you know, the more you work with the community and the
more awareness they have of your plans, the more supportive
they will be when you need help. By joining the GNOME
Foundation and sponsoring GNOME, you will create good will
among GNOME developers. They know that the GNOME Foundation
fees go towards things that help GNOME developers like
hackfests, sponsoring travel to conferences, and system
administration resources.
7) General press. If you agree, we would like to issue a press
release announcing your support. It would reach a large number
of international press people, technologists and businesses.
We would of course follow up with press coverage of GNOME
related initiatives and announcements throughout the year.
Sponsorship fees are $10,000/year. Most sponsors are also
invited to join the GNOME Foundation Board of Advisors. The
advisory board meets in person annually at GUADEC and holds
regular teleconference calls throughout the year.
Most sponsors also provide additional funding for specific
programs like events and programs targeted at specific
technologies.
During 2008 the GNOME Foundation was able to help bring a
free
and open source desktop to the world by doing the following:
* Participated in Google Summer of Code in which 30
students and
mentors participated. They worked on improving f-spot (an
application to manage photos), improving anjuta (integrated
development environment), improving cheese (webcam
application,
similar to photobooth), and working on avahi to support LLMNR
(which is the Windows technology similar to zeroconf,
iirc). See
a complete list of projects here
<http://code.google.com/soc/2008/gnome/about.html>.
* Ran an Accessibility Outreach Program that resulted in
improvements in documentation, magification and mouse control
through a webcam. In addition, several smaller tasks like bug
fixing were accomplished as well. See a complete list of the
tasks here
<http://www.gnome.org/projects/outreach/a11y/tasks/>.
* Held a GTK+ hackfest that was widely seen as successful for
getting the GTK+ developers together and was essential for
planning the future of GTK+. We plan to build on this
success by
using the hackfest model for other GNOME technologies. We are
currently planning hackfests around topics like usability,
desktop search, internet/desktop integration, GNOME Mobile,
accessibility, profiling, and performance.
* Held several world wide developer conferences to enable
developers to collaborate effectively and to educate new
users
and developers. In Europe, our volunteer run conference,
GUADEC,
brought 300 GNOME developers together. This year we had the
first GNOME event in Asia, GNOME.Asia, that was held in
October
18-19th in Beijing with 300 Asian attendees.
In 2009, we could use your help to accomplish the following:
* Produce more end user and need focused technology and
features
through technology specific hackfests. Hackfests are an event
where a core team of project developers get together and
spend a
week in the same place, discussing plans and writing
code. They
are particularly useful for getting new projects or large
features launched (like GTK+ 3.0) or getting a large
amount of
code written.
* Ensure a free and secure desktop environment for everyone.
* Continue to provide a place for our sponsors to come
together to
discuss their GNOME technology related plans.
* Organize a usability study focused on GNOME technologies
used by
all people including children, users in developing
nations and
people with accessibility needs.
* Provide travel subsidies to bring our world wide community of
volunteer developers together. This enables them to work on
existing projects, plan new projects and work with
partners and
companies that use GNOME technologies.
* Have more active dialogs between our sponsor companies
and our
developers through monthly advisory board meetings. This
is one
way to bring end user and distribution company needs to GNOME
developers.
* Hold a joint GUADEC/Akademy conference, a Free Desktop
Summit,
in order to encourage collaboration and common
specifications.
* Ensure that there is a free and open source stack for mobile
devices by working with other mobile groups to define and
produce GNOME Mobile.
* Hire a system administrator to manage the GNOME
infrastructure.
The GNOME community has 1000s of volunteer contributors. The
infrastructure to support them from mailing lists to bug
tracking system to source code repositories is all
maintained by
volunteers. A contract system administrator could provide the
on-call support that would give our volunteer developers and
volunteer administrators with the resources they need to keep
the GNOME project moving forward its mission of a free
and open
source desktop for all.
* Support local conferences like GNOME.Asia, GUADLAC (Latin
America), Boston Summit, GNOME.conf.au
<http://GNOME.conf.au> <http://gnome.conf.au/>
(Australia) and Forum GNOME as a forum for community
building,
technology sharing, and bringing developers, companies
and users
closer together. Start an internship program aimed at
exposing
business students to the free and open source software
world and
bringing their expertise to some of the marketing and
business
challenges we have.
* Support the community on defining and executing a release
plan
for GNOME 3.0.
Thanks for your interest.
To follow up, please contact:
Stormy Peters
Executive Director
GNOME Foundation
stormy gnome org <mailto:stormy gnome org>
<mailto:stormy gnome org <mailto:stormy gnome org>>
970-481-2076
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