Re: Getting marketing-list going again..

[Sri Ramkrishna <sri aracnet com>]

Yes, thats a good question and to combine that with Elliot's the primal
questions so far are:

* Who is our target audience
* What value can we provide them

In my opinion, I'm not particularly choosy about my audience here.  I
would say it's:

* People disatisfied with their commercial desktop because of:
  * highly commericialized environment, popups, pornographic material
    etc
  * complex applications
  * Overpriced software

Our main target is proprietary desktops in my opinion.  People on free
desktops are already converted and have an opinion on what they want.

What are we delivering.  Real GNOME Apps provide:

* Consistent look and feel
* Simplicity though HIG
* Free as in Freedom
* Stability
* Lack of commercialization


So there's something to start with.  

sri

On Tue, 2004-10-12 at 20:34 -0400, Ken VanDine wrote:
> I may be jumping into something that you guys have already discussed,
> so excuse me if this has been discussed.  
> 
> The first question I think that needs to be answered is "Who are we
> marketing to?".  I know in practice we are going to market to
> everyone, but we need to have a primary target.  So, are we marketing
> first and foremost to users of "Other" dekstop environments on Linux?
> Or, are we really focusing on windows users, and switching them to
> Linux w/GNOME?
> 
> Thanks,
> --Ken
> 
> 
> 
> Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: 
> > Greetings folks!
> > 
> > I thought I would (with a little help from Luis) attempt to get 
> > marketing list and see if we can come up with a good strategy to market
> > GNOME to all those people who we KNOW want to use it. :-)
> > 
> > To start off, I thought we would use Luis's notes from GNOME Summit
> > as a point to start off discussion.  I haven't put anything up yet becuase
> > there is still web infrastructure that we need to get marketing going and 
> > we don't quite have that yet.  Hopefully, after the infrastructure move
> > is complete we have somewhere to go.  
> > 
> > Please read:
> > 
> > http://tieguy.org/events/2004/gnomesummit/marketing-notes/
> > 
> > Comments, thoughts?
> > 
> > sri
> > 
> >