Actions (was: Surveys at conferences..)

[Dave Neary <dneary free fr>]

Hi Sri,

My reaction to things like this is starting to be "great idea - who's 
going to do it?" We have lots of ideas currently lacking people 
following up on them - from collecting press contacts, to getting 
posters & t-shirts designed, through surveys and market research.

What we really need is a terse list of initiatives that we are working 
on with names opposite them.

Here's a short list of the stuff that's ongoing:

GNOME Journal (Jim, Sri)
Upcoming conferences (Claus)
LiveCD (Luis)
Press contacts (?)
Deployments list (Dave)
Printed material (posters/flyers/t-shirts) (?)
Market research (?)

Can we get some concensus behind a few outstanding points for overall 
strategy?

1) Main target audiences: Existing GNU/Linux users, public 
administration (both of these are huge and growing markets - they may 
even be too wide)
2) Main selling point: Ease of use

Bear in mind that selling points are different for different markets, 
and that we cannot market to everyone at the same time. We know we have 
a great platform, good bindings, cool apps, etc. But to get a core, 
focussed message, we have to concentrate on one thing we do better than 
anyone else.

We are the easiest to use Free Desktop.

Every review of GNOME I've ever seen has praised its clean, easy to use 
interface. So let's use that, and make it self-evident. Material should 
be clean, elegant, and have one simple core message - "Using GNOME won't 
piss you off. GNOME doesn't get in the way."

Can we start putting names to some of those ?s above, please?

Cheers,
Dave.

Sri Ramkrishna a écrit :
> You know it might be interesting to do surveys at conferences to see
> what people want.  Places like OSCON has a lot of people from school
> districts, government, and purchasing depts from companies and getting
> real feedback from them would be cool.  It might give us a better random
> sample I think than a web one.
>
> Just a thought.
>
> sri

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David Neary
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