Re: GUADEC Promotion

[Diego Escalante Urrelo <diegoe gnome org>]

I was planning on live tweeting from @guadec, sort of what I did in A
Coruña in 2012, and last year from my living room.

My take last year was to highlight some talks based mostly on context.
I was keeping an eye on some keywords and trying to follow and respond
to the conference's flow.

I would stick to hand picked reminders, contextual retweets and then
almost exclusively photos of sessions, booths, speakers, etc. Reality
is built with images, so the more the better :-).

If the offer sounds attractive, I'm available for doing this. Or happy
to share insights with someone if I'm unable to attend this year (will
known in 2 weeks, yikes).

On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 12:13 PM, Efstathios Iosifidis
<iefstathios gmail com> wrote:
> 2014-06-26 19:16 GMT+03:00 Allan Day <allanpday gmail com>:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > GUADEC begins in a month, so it is high time that we thought about
> > promotional activities for the event. The main goal here is to
> > generate interest in the conference and in GNOME in general, and to
> > any circulate positive stories that we can.
> >
> > We need to have material to post in the run up to the conference. Here
> > we can announce things like the schedule going live, or registration
> > opening, but we should also generate content of our own. Interviews
> > with keynote speakers or conference organisers have been done in the
> > past. It would be great if anyone wanted to do something like this.
> >
> > The other thing to consider is what we will do during the conference.
> > Last year we collaborated on gnome.org news posts which summarised
> > each day, and posted photo galleries along with them. I'd really like
> > to do something like that this year. Again, volunteers would be
> > welcome.
> >
> > Does anyone else have ideas?
>
> Hello,
>
> If the schedule is out, someone can write a document with tweets-posts
> of every presentation title, speaker #guadec14 (or the official
> hashtag), #gnome
> Tweet as many as you want per day (try to do it on different time each
> tweet) so all the presentations will have an advertisement.
> Use official gnome channels and also a guadec one.
>
> During the conference, create a document with a table. Each column
> will be the room with presentations and each line will represent the
> time of the presentation.
> So write again short tweets for presentation title, speaker (you can
> use his tweeter account as name), Live http://live_stream_url
> #room_name, #guadec14, #gnome. Of course it'll be the right number of
> characters. Check out the streaming urls when it starts, tweet it.
>
> Also create a google plus event where everyone can upload pictures and
> also a facebook event (pictures there as well). Tweets go there too.
> try to use products, speakers as mentions.
>
> Finally, if someone uses lanyard (http://lanyrd.com/), create an event
> there as well. Check out what I created for the past conf
> http://lanyrd.com/2014/osc14/
>
> Try to have someone to each room that will tweet/post some key
> sentences from the speech, and then the official account can retweet
> and post it to other channels.
>
> Also tweet the same on the irc channel during the event and tweet the
> posts to gnome.org to all our channels.
>
> Well, this is one man job actually. He/she might don't attend to
> his/her fav presentations but he/she will see all the presentations
> from streaming. He/she can inform the streaming team if everything is
> all right.
> He/she can do it from anywhere at the venue, so he/she can attend to
> presentations.
>
> That's what I did during other conference and I was thinking to write
> a tutorial about it soon.
> Unfortunately it's 95% that I cannot attend to GUADEC this year and
> cannot help now.
>
> Have phun,
> Stathis
>
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