Marketing Hackfest feedback

[Bharat Kapoor <3 kapoor gmail com>]

Hi Guys

I may be a little late with my post but I think we still have time to act on a few things I feel maybe important.

If you guys want I can post them in wiki - but it would help if some decision were made on the mail list.

Goals:

Meet
 with local government to create long term partnership 
My comments:

• I see the agenda more in terms of presentations, will this lead to a long term engagement
• What is our goal from this engagement - do we want a long term one and if so how do we convey that.
  
• Can we dig a little into their motivations before we even show up in Spain - happy to take the lead if you can put me in touch with the right contact (or I can dig)
• Do they want Gnome - where, how and why
  

Meet with local users

• Should we use this opportunity to develop these users (not developers) into our cheerleaders
• And then this pilot can be scaled to other hackfests & conferences
• I feel this could enhance your vision of getting users involved (from donations to any other engagement)
• How - I have no clue?
• Is this even our goal or am I on a different tangent?
  

Gnome 3 Videos: (its very 
possible - its already been discussed - I did not show up for some of 
the meetings)

• I was looking at: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeThreeBrainstorming 
• Would it be worth spending some time and writing down our: ( I can help with this and that is what I call Integrated Marketing Strategy)
  
• Strategy for Gnome 3 - yes its cool and nice
• then what do we want to achieve with the campaign surrounding it?
  
• then what is our marketing strategy
• then we make a list of videos we need

GNOME Message

• We have a lot of them on http://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/CoreMessage - and yes they are all relevant
• I'd suggest we develop our USP - Unique Selling proposition

Success:
Established
 relationships with local government

• Can we define it further - have specific goals e.g. get Zaragoza govt to install Ubuntu with Gnome on 1000 PCs by end of 2010 (I am just saying)
• OR give away CDs in schools

Attendance from our downstream 
partners

• Can we define it

Please comment

Regards
Bharat