Re: 3.0 parties - amazing job!

[Allan Day <allanpday gmail com>]

Emily Chen wrote:
> 2011/2/11 Dave Neary <dneary gnome org>
>         Hi all,
>         
>         Pockey & Fred are doing a really amazing job with the 3.0
>         release party
>         drive - it is quite astonishing to see the number of parties
>         sprouting
>         up around the world! Truly, this is an amazing job.
>         
>         
>         I would like to suggest capitalising on the success of the
>         event in a
>         couple of ways:
>         
>         1. Let's get the organisers of the parties & their region into
>         the GNOME
>         CRM for future use - it's easy to forget this later, as it is
>         a lot of
>         slog work - if we do it while the parties are organising then
>         the job
>         may be easier. This is something really easy that we could
>         delegate
>         across a larger number of people.
>         
>         2. We should follow up after 3.0 (about mid may, perhaps?) to
>         try to
>         crystalise some of these groups into local GNOME user groups.
>
> Yes, The place where host the launch party will likely to became a
> GNOME Users Group. All the organizors' contact will be added
> togugmasters-list gnome org . We should follow up with them for future
> activities.
>
> After the activites, all the parties will required to submit: 
> 1. Blog 
> 2. Photos
> 3. Videos 
>
> It would be great if we define a tag for those medias. How about
> define tag as :  GNOME3_launch_party

A few considerations:

 * I might be being pedantic here, but I think we should try and stick
to the term 'release parties' and not 'launch parties'. 'Launch' makes
it sound like people will be able to start using GNOME 3 straight away.

 * Whatever tag we choose, it should be usable across sites, including
Twitter and Identica.

 * Should we encourage people to use the 'gnome3' tag as well as the
party tag? (I think we possibly should.)

I know Pockey had some ideas here... My suggestion would be
gnome3parties.

> I like the idea from Allan to have a competition for the best Photos.
> (Photos is much easier and more than videos. )

Question is - what would the prize be? They're already being sent
goodies.

Best,

Allan

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