Re: Mobile Funding Plan - Please comment

[Bharat Kapoor <3 kapoor gmail com>]

My comments below

On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 5:19 PM, Juanjo Marin <juanjomarin96 yahoo es> wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-04-26 at 23:45 +0200, Juanjo Marin wrote:
>> On Mon, 2010-04-26 at 23:43 +0200, Juanjo Marin wrote:
>> > On Mon, 2010-04-26 at 15:52 -0500, Bharat Kapoor wrote:
>> > > http://live.gnome.org/Gnome Fund Raising
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>> > The uri is wrong :(
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>> Sorry, it turns that http://live.gnome.org/Gnome%20Fund%20Raising
>> works OK
>
> Bharat kindly fixed the url: now http://live.gnome.org/GnomeFundRaising works perfect :)
> Thanks !!!
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> I don't have an clear opinion about the mobile donation. In my country I
> think it won't work. On small hackfests, there are few people for this
> and in big events in Spain, people are used to get free gifts more than
> the opposite and the audience is usually students with not to much
> money. Only "fan-boys/girls" will make a donation.

BK>> Completely agree - its same here in USA at least that is my impression. Wont work at hackfests.
My target is big conferences where people who are not developers attend and have some affinity for OSS and Gnome.


> Anyway, surely this is different in the USA. However, I think people
> should be feel excited about GNOME project even for making a small
> donation IMHO. Cool videos and demos will help on this I think.
>

BK>> Can u talk a bit more on Cool videos and demos - shed some light on something u have in mind or have done before. I am all for demos and videos - we can even play them on a laptop at conferences. What type of content do u suggest?

Thanks a lot

> Just my 2 cents,
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> -- Juanjo Marin
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> PD: off topic, I remember my friends and I were amazed with the Nokia
> N900/Maemo5 launch video. I'd like to see a sort-of video like this of
> GNOME 3.0 :)
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhTtsZATwBQ
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