Re: About a list for India

[Hasbullah Bin Pit <sebol ikhlas com>]

Jeff Waugh menulis:
> Hi there,
>
> This is really great, thank you!
>
> One of the things we need to resolve here is how we can work with existing
> Indian groups, and whether it makes sense to have a general "GNOME India"
> marketing team, or groups per province or even language... There is so much
> interest in GNOME from India at the moment, we're at risk of having too many
> groups! :-)



> On one hand we have indlinux.org, and the associated language-oriented user
> groups. On the other hand, I have heard that some of the Novell GNOME guys
> in Bangalore are starting up a user group there. I don't think there's a lot
> of duplication-of-effort between those, but it's something to think about.

It's normal within a country to have:-
- several Linux Group (LUG)
- several OpenSource Group
- several BSD group
- l10n/i18n group (but base on language and per project.)

sometimes, this group is per language,
and  getting narrower as per state, per city, per university


> Do you think that a gnome-in-list, for India-wide GNOME marketing discussion
> would make things easier? Would it be useful to have that list for groups in
> each province (or per-language) to come together and share resources? Should
> we get in touch with the other groups and see what they think? How can we
> involve these other groups?

Marketing + Advocacy relate closely with love.
I dont think it's easy to ask people to join 'gnome country_name 
marketing project' to advocate & market gnome in a particular country.

i think we should drop "marketing" word on that group name to attract 
people.

what if, we just link gnome<>country, also link gnome<>language and just 
create groups.

it will be (per country) :-
"GNOME Malaysia" or "Malaysian GNOME Group"
"GNOME India" or "Indian GNOME group"
"GNOME France"
"GNOME Australia"


AND ...
"GNOME Malay"
"GNOME Germans"
"GNOME Hindi"
"GNOME espanyol"
for language that used only in single country, we dont need per language 
group for it.

we do marketing in that groups.

It's just like LUG, but replace Linux with GNOME.
We just do marketing

I know a lot of people asking about gnome in local LUG  mailing list.
instead of usingLUG, it would be better if they ask GNOME question, 
share GNOME experience in GUG (GNOME user group). from this, we can 
generate love upon GNOME and willing to do marketing for it.
just link up these group with our main marketing group or the foundation.

if we want to avoid conflict with l10n Team, just suggest the 
translation team to have their user mailing list as our per language 
marketing tool.

> Lots of things to consider - what do you think?


> Thanks,
>
> - Jeff


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