Re: Goodies for GNOME 3.0 launch parties

[Stormy Peters <stormy gnome org>]

On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 7:18 AM, Allan Day <allanpday gmail com> wrote:

> How shall we announce this (and where)?

Planet GNOME, Identica, Twitter, www.gnome.org... any others? (I'm
interested in this too.)

Facebook too.

> In fact I am also interested in a more generic question which is how do
> we usually use our channels to announce stuff? I tried to motivate
> people with the T-shirt contest but didn't receive much feedback except
> from the people I contacted personally. How do we actually usually
> promote stuff outside of the GNOME community? (I thought GUGs would be a
> good way, but they seem a little bit sleepy ;) ).

Good question! I've been thinking for a while that GNOME needs an
outward facing media channel. The Planet and GNOME News are primarily
places where we talk to ourselves. www.gnome.org is outward facing and
has a news section, but it isn't primarily a news site (you certainly
can't subscribe to it)... A blog or news site where we talk to our
partners and to GNOME enthusiasts would be a great way to promote GNOME
and to keep people in tune with where the project is going. It'd need
volunteers if it were to become an enduring reality, of course...

There are people that have been helping with Facebook and Twitter.

I think a blog would be hard but perhaps a blog that gives excerpts and points to other articles. That way someone could follow Planet GNOME, GNOME News and other channels, make a judgement call on what would be interesting to our users and add them to the feed.

Stormy