Re: Doodle Meeting! Re: New Friends of GNOME campaign with LWN!

[Stormy Peters <stormy gnome org>]

Joey can't make it and I think after being one of the few to try to
attend at the right time we should keep his schedule in mind!

Stormy

On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 9:33 AM,  <suserocks bryen com> wrote:
> I thought afterward rgar nighr have been the case.  I have no problem hanging out for the next one tonight. 
> Keep the appt if tjhats what most people had planned on.
>
> Bryen
> Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stormy Peters <stormy gnome org>
> Sender: marketing-list-bounces gnome org
> Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 09:25:46
> To: GNOME Marketing List<marketing-list gnome org>
> Subject: Re: Doodle Meeting! Re: New Friends of GNOME campaign with LWN!
>
> We will reschedule the meeting.
>
> Tuesday 3am UTC is actually *Monday* 9pm in my time zone. I assume
> others also had this problem as Joey and Bryen were the only ones that
> showed up. Thanks to Joey and Bryen for hanging in there!
>
> I'll send another Doodle invite shortly.
>
> Stormy
>
> On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Stormy Peters <stormy gnome org> wrote:
> > We will meet Tuesday at 3am UTC. I realize this is not a good time for
> > anyone in Europe but it worked the best for the people that filled out the
> > poll.
> > See you there! (IRC: irc.gnome.org, #marketing)
> > Stormy
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Stormy Peters <stormy gnome org> wrote:
> > > I think a good way to kick this off would be with an IRC meeting to
> > > discuss some of the details.
> > > If you are interested, please indicate what times would work well for you:
> > > http://www.doodle.com/gadqfyrte69adi6a
> > > (Note that there are *3* days so please scroll all the way to the right
> > > and fill in all the times.)
> > > Best,
> > > Stormy
> > >
> > > On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 11:36 AM, Stormy Peters <stormy gnome org> wrote:
> > > > Hi GNOME Marketing team,
> > > > LWN and the GNOME Foundation have partnered to support the GNOME project!
> > > >  Every Friend of GNOME monthly subscriber will receive a subscription to
> > > > LWN.net as part of their subscription. (For all subscribers that give
> > > > $10+/month.)
> > > > So it's time for a new Friends of GNOME campaign! This one is to show how
> > > > great our community is - by focusing on our supporters instead of the
> > > > dollars.
> > > > In order to take advantage of our agreement with LWN, I'd love to see us
> > > > do something big for a subscriber campaign. Here are some initial thoughts I
> > > > have. We'll need everyone's help to make it happen, so your thoughts on what
> > > > parts are most interesting or important would be great.
> > > > * Campaign time frame: October - Dec 31st
> > > > * Goal: Number of subscribers (how many do we want our goal to be? 500?)
> > > > * Perks: LWN subscription!, tshirt - we could do a new tshirt with LWN on
> > > > it too
> > > > * Target: technical users (not GNOME developers) - 95% of our current
> > > > subscribers give money because they can't contribute code
> > > > * Slogan?
> > > > * I think it would also be good to give people a way to track the people
> > > > the refer (through word of mouth or their blog or whatever) and give out
> > > > some sort of recognition or prize to people that recruit the most people.
> > > > To do:
> > > > * Find a way to track referrals.
> > > > * Develop slogan/ad campaigns.
> > > > * Design ads (Need specs for LWN ads.)
> > > > * Modify the ruler (subscribers instead of $s)
> > > > * Design new tshirt if we want a new one.
> > > > * Design swag for people who referred the most people.
> > > > * Place ruler on gnome.org and Planet GNOME.
> > > > * Place ads on Google Adwords, LWN, blogs.
> > > > * Send an email to all existing subscribers offering them an LWN
> > > > subscription.
> > > > * Add a yearly subscription option (This is especially important for
> > > > those that live in places with really high Paypal fees.)
> > > > Thoughts? Ideas? Would you be willing to help?
> > > > Stormy
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