Re: SpreadGNOME.org

[michael phoronix com]

SpreadGNOME.org would be glad to work with FootNotes or anyone else in the
community to merge resources to accomplish more for GNOME.

SpreadGNOME.org really isn't intended to be simply a news source -- for
the content that is on there currently, it's primarily just notices of the
major stable/development releases, and not news of when a package apart of
the GNOME project is updated or anything of that nature. The primary focus
is with promoting GNOME through marketing, etc... as basically an
organizational resource.

So I believe the intentions of both sites are slightly different, but I
would be open to working with anybody to help spread GNOME. And yes, I
have been on the GNOME marketing list for a while.

~ Michael

> Hi!
>
> I like the idea of promoting speakers -- provided you find people
> willing to get promoted. ;-)
>
> However, while thinking about a few more notes I started wondering
> what we should do with footnotes? After all, you seem to have a rather
> similar news feed and footnotes is already slow on news sometimes --
> which is of course also due to the fact that it'd need some more people
> as editors.
>
> However, with two sites, we will just split our resources again.
>
> Funny enought, there are two things that I've always wanted for
> a spreadGNOME site:
>
>   * An events calender similar to the one used by http://www.php.net/
>
>   * The ability to generate different banners on the fly and record
>     the success of the different designs and slogans.
>
> Until today, I never had the idea to ask whether footnotes is able to
> do that -- shame on me. Why shouldn't footnotes be able to promote
> speakers as well?
>
> So, my basic questions is: Is it useful to have two sites with nearly
> similar capabilities and goals ?
>
>
> Cheers,
> Claus
>
> P.S.: I'm not sure whether you're on this list already, thus the cc.
>
> On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 08:22:05 -0500 (CDT)
> michael phoronix com wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am Michael Larabel the owner of Phoronix Networks (and long-time
>> GNOME user). SpreadGNOME.org is basically meant to be a
>> community-driven ad-free independent project for promoting GNOME to
>> both existing Linux users and potential converts. At this point the
>> site has a mini calendar, news feeds, commenting system, etc... It's
>> using a custom Phoronix CMS system under the hood, and can basically
>> handle any other valid features that users might request.
>>
>> It's been a project in our minds since May/June of this year, and
>> working in the available spare time, it's finally ready to launch on
>> the same date as the GNOME 2.16 RC release. As is apparent from the
>> site, at this point it basically lacks content (graphics, marketing
>> tags, and other text) but now that this community site is live users
>> will hopefully begin to contribute. Anyone is also free to voice
>> their opinion on what direction they would like to see the site
>> headed, etc...
>>
>> One of the hopes David Nielsen had for SpreadGNOME was: ?My main idea
>> with spreadGNOME would be a centralized place where people who liked
>> GNOME or wanted to know more about GNOME could get together,
>> primarily the idea was to connect speakers with communities that
>> wanted to learn about GNU/Linux and GNOME as well as provide helpful
>> material to upcoming speakers to help them present GNOME to it's
>> fullest. I think there's a fundamental lack of this kind of
>> information out there and if we have a horde of people around the
>> world willing to do some advocacy and knock on a few doors to get
>> speaking slots at first - then we could really serve the cause.?,
>> which would be a terrific item to address once more material is
>> available. Others in the GNOME community have voiced their opinion as
>> well.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Michael Larabel
>>
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