Great! Yes, Katherine Noyes is another friendly, positive person I had in mind.
That's a good plan - to figure out what we want to showcase, and then start writing and submitting.
One thing I've noticed a lot of detractors say is that "you can't do 'real work' with GNOME" - which is a load of hullabaloo, as we know.
Surely the people who code it, design it, and so forth are using it. Greg KH uses it on at least one of his systems, and what he does is pretty intense.
I'm a nuclear engineer and when I'm using Linux, GNOME is my graphical shell of choice (I don't use it to design reactors, but I use it to do engineering consulting work and it does the job just fine - the nature of the UI helps me to stay focused on the task at hand, distraction free).
So obviously it isn't just for Facebook and frivolous things - which all of us know, but the idea is to get the message out there.
-Brett
On Fri, December 7, 2012 4:28 am, Brett Legree wrote:
> Good day all,
>
> One suggestion is to engage various journalists, tech bloggers, or other
> online personalities who either write about GNOME (good or bad feedback)
> or
> use/have used it.
>
> For example, Bruce Byfield just wrote a fairly positive article on how we
> need to engage with the community, get our message out more clearly - hey,
> good idea ;-)
>
> Others have not been so kind, but I'd say if we reach out to them with
> positive news before they pick up rumours from the grapevine, we can sort
> of use them as positive messengers.
Agreed! I have an email interview with Bruce that I'm working on now, and
I also have been in touch with Katherine Noyes too. I've also contacted a
few other reporters. Everyone - let me know what points to highlight!
> Another idea for instance - some tech blogs that have been writing about
> GNOME welcome guest articles (Muktware is one) - if we can start getting
> articles out there, again food for us. I could take Muktware as I know the
> owner of the site.
This is a great idea - the barrier in the past has been generating the
necessary content to do this. Perhaps we should start by writing what we
wish were out there and then shopping it around?
karen
>
> Brett
> On Dec 6, 2012 1:12 AM, "Sriram Ramkrishna" <sri ramkrishna me> wrote:
>
>> Howdy folks,
>>
>> It's that time to start thinking about when to schedule our marketing
>> meeting next week. Is the same time frame okay or do people want to try
>> a
>> different time frame in order to have more people. I know that several
>> people keen on attending.
>>
>> I would request the people who volunteered for community outreach attend
>> this as we will probably spend the entire hour talking about community
>> management.
>>
>> Before we talk, we probably want to plan on a structured discussion as
>> I
>> think that without one we won't come out of the meeting without any
>> concrete goals. We should strive to have some kind of actionable item
>> at
>> the end of the discussion.
>>
>> Can we open the floor on what we want to focus on, in the next meeting?
>>
>>
>> I want to do one test call Friday so that we can get everybody's
>> software
>> working prior to the real meeting. We spent way too much time trying to
>> get things working and I want to not waste time getting people's
>> software
>> working.
>>
>> Once we find a bullet proof method, we can put it on l.g.o and reference
>> it.
>>
>> sri
>>
>>
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