Re: Marketing Accessibility

[Juanjo Marín <juanjomarin96 yahoo es>]

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----- Mensaje original -----
> De: Karen Sandler <karen gnome org>
> Asunto: Re: Marketing Accessibility
> 
> On Wed, August 24, 2011 8:09 pm, Juanjo Marín wrote:
>>   Hi Marketing Team!
>> 
>>   For a while now, the GNOME Accessibility Team has been thinking and 
>>  wanting to get more involved in marketing. And we have just been given 
>>  the nudge we needed to move from thinking and wanting to actually doing: 
>>  The GNOME Board has suggested we do so. :-) Thus here we are. :-)
> 
> Great!! There is already a thread on some of these points so I'm just
> responding to the part not yet discussed.
> 
>>   There are a couple of items which were specifically mentioned to us,
>>  namely:
>> 
>>   1. Would it be possible to have a Friends of GNOME campaign for
>>  Accessibility? And if so, when?
> 
> I think putting a proposal together for a FoG accessibility campaign is a
> great idea. I know that there were other ideas for the next campaign
> tossed around at the last foundations list meeting, but I think actually
> putting together a proposal for one is the first step, whether it is
> intended for the next campaign or the one after that. I'm pretty new to
> this, but poking around a bit, I noticed this post on Stormy's blog on the
> 2010 sys admin campaign:
> 
> http://stormyscorner.com/2010/03/one-step-closer-to-a-sys-admin.html
> 
> I think that's a good place to start - as a first step we'll need to
> clearly set out the goals of the campaign and how the money would be used.
> Since we list sponsoring attendees at hackfests and at CSUN as a past
> success of FoG, are there other perhaps more end-oriented goals we can use
> instead? Once we have a clear idea of how we'd want to present the
> campaign we can bring it to the board and the foundation.
> 
> karen
>