Re: SELF
- From: Jayson Rowe <jayson rowe gmail com>
- To: marketing-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: SELF
- Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2012 17:02:27 -0400
Just wanted to follow-up by saying that the Fedora booth (where I hung
out a bit) had quite a few different GNOME stickers to give out, and I
talked about GNOME with as many folks as I could. There was also an
awesome moment in the evening keynote Saturday when Steven J
Vaughn-Nichols was "shocked" when so many GNOME users raised their
hands when he asked how many users of each DE was there (this was
after he touted KDE as the #1 desktop currently based on some survey
he found). We had the strongest showing among the hand-raisers ;-)
On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 3:06 AM, Dave Neary <dneary gnome org> wrote:
Hi Bryen,
On 06/02/2012 11:15 PM, Bryen M Yunashko wrote:
I'll be at SELF, but working the openSUSE booth. And FYI, KDE will also
have a booth there. I assumed, wrongly, that GNOME was going to have a
booth there. :-/
This is, I think, part of the problem. Every conference I've been to has had
a decent number of GNOME people there manning stands - the OpenSUSE stand,
the Ubuntu stand, the Fedora stand, the Mozilla stand, the Collabora
stand... When Sri says that "we don't have many people in the Sounth West",
I may be wrong, but I'm betting he's thinking of corporate offices.
Somehow, GNOME users & developers self-identify more strongly with other
groups than with GNOME now. Or at least, it seems that way to me. Is that a
legacy of having more paid developers, and the unpaid contributors not
feeling the ownership/authority to represent the brand?
I don't know if my analysis is correct, and if it is, I don't know how to
help fix it.
All I can say is, there are a *lot* of GNOME people in the South East.
Especially in North Carolina (there is a Red Hat office in Raleigh). But I
don't know many of them. I know Ken Van Dine ived in that part of the world
though - perhaps he knows more people specifically?
Cheers,
Dave.
PS. In Europe, it is the local chapters who request stand space for GNOME -
and the GNOME Foundation is often unaware of either the conference or the
stand. Is it a requirement to be effective that these requests come through
us centrally? I know I've regretted that we don't have regional GNOME groups
in the US in the past.
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