On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 12:34 -0600, Shaun McCance wrote:
On Tue, 2010-02-16 at 21:27 +0000, Nelson Marques wrote:Hi all, In attachment there is a proposal for a new campaign and it's goals. To unravel this a bit, it aims to position GNOME brand as an ecological supporting brand alongside with some things we can do to promote this. Another aspect interesting is that through this campaign we are also trying to mobilize new artists to cooperate with GNOME Project. There are other concerns, and this campaign was designed to be a generic campaign that would allow other campaigns to brew from this one, mainly to support GNOME through art. I am proposing with this campaign the following: 1. Give names to GNOME Releases based on endangered species which share strong points with the main features of GNOME. This is appealing to users and at some point allows the usage of a more catchy name for every release, thus we promote a social responsible cause and broaden our contributors to a new standard, including organizations which promote several endangered species through the donation of art and media such as high resolution pictures, movies, etc. This is also a great opportunity to advocate the usage of Free Standards.I like this idea a lot. We stopped doing release names a few years ago, largely because of the controversy over naming one of our releases "Temujin". Some people decided that choosing non-controversial release names was near impossible, so we just stopped doing release names altogether. This proposal would involve us making a value statement, and that could cause some controversy. I'm not saying not to do it. It's just something that people should be aware of if they try to push this through. There could be pushback, and there's some history. If I could make a request, could we not start with the Iberian Lynx? Apple is well-known for naming their releases after cats, and I fear if we started with a cat, the "endangered species" theme would get lost, and people would just think we're copying Apple. After we've established the theme, by all means bring out the cats. I love cats. -- Shaun
How are the GNOME's community feelings towards the Red Wolf (the most endangered canine species with less than 50 specimens)? I can seek cooperation with the Missouri Department of Conservation for this issue (http://mdc.mo.gov/). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwXcPs_5J6g There is also a wicked option, the spider monkey, I probably assume this has a lot of fans within GNOME: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1XVyqqqPi4 There is a Bolivian organization who is fighting for the spider monkeys and the Amazon rain forest (their habitat). Can also seek cooperation with them. Nelson.
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