Re: Revamping Friends of GNOME: help with web page text (with updated text!)

[Brian Cameron <Brian Cameron Sun COM>]

Stormy:

Looks good.  Some testimonials would also be nice if we could find the
appropriate people to provide them.  Perhaps we could send pings to the
appropriate mailing lists to see if we could find users who benefit
from GNOME who could provide them.

Brian


> Ok, I updated the text with some of the comments. We should still add
> pictures with quotes and it'd be nice to have a campaign slogan but I think
> we should go ahead and put together the web pages with the current text.
> Perhaps, we could think about where pictures could go as we get them - we
> could have a different one on every page.
> Stormy
>
> On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 12:47 PM, Brian Cameron <Brian Cameron sun com>wrote:
>
> > It would also be nice to build up a collection of photos of people
> > using GNOME A11y technologies, and testimonials from people who find
> > GNOME makes a difference in their lives.  I'd think this would be a
> > great addition to the Friends of GNOME website.  Are there people
> > in the GNOME a11y community who could help with this?
> >
> > Also, lets try to collect photos that have good Creative Commons free
> > licensing, so we can use them freely as needed for other things
> > (presentations, etc.)
> >
> > Brian
> >
> >
> >
> >  That's a great idea. Pictures and quotes would be awesome. Do we have
> > > > people that could easily reach a few kids in Peru and take some pictures
> > > > and get a fun, short quote? (I can take one of my stepson but I don't
> > > > think that would send the same message. :)
> > > I imagine that Pia Waugh would be able to give us some photos from the
> > > pacific, and I am guessing that we can get publicity photos directly
> > > from OLPC for other countries.
> > >
> > >  And not just One Laptop Per Child. Maybe at GNOME.Asia we can get a few
> > > > pictures and quotes from people using GNOME in other languages.
> > > Why wait? I think that you might be able to reach some foreign GNOME
> > > users (and also get some screenshots & photos of projects) through this
> > > list and the gugmasters list.
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Dave.