Re: Christmas cards

[Claus Schwarm <c schwarm gmx net>]

I'm glad, you and Rajiv found this interesting. The basic use cases:

 * An enthusiast already talk to family and friends about GNOME/Linux.
But there're some more people he or she doesn't know 'that' good. It
doesn't seem appropriate to talk to them about their operating systems.
A short note on a card means: "If you're interested, here's somebody to
help!" Additionally, it also means: "This new Linux thingy seems to be
more widespread that usually said."

 * It might be a nice add-on for merchandising: Weather we start selling
T-Shirts or six-pack of xmas cards is not a big difference. Smaller
companies might be interested to use this as a sort of GNOME funding
effort. They need such cards anyway.

 * It's a simple way to demonstrate what's already possible with F/OSS
applications.


Of course, everybody is invited to present the idea to whoever seems
appropriate (has an established system for merchandising, and an
interest in promoting F/OSS). No need to constrain ourselves to GNOME.

Cheers,
Claus


On Sat, 17 Sep 2005 18:49:14 -0400
Luis Villa <luis villa gmail com> wrote:

> 
> Interesting idea*. Maybe this is something the gimp or inkscape people
> would want to drive, as the 'graphics people'? Certainly they have the
> artistic firepower to bring to bear :)
> 
> Luis
> 
> *And tangentially, we should consider sending something like this to
> the FOG with a year-in-review kind of thing, which is traditional here
> in the states- the head of the family sends out a summary of what the
> family has done over the year ('little stephen graduated from
> kindergarten, henrieta learned to drive', etc.) to all the friends of
> the family.
>