Re: GNOME Amazon stores up and running

[Alberto Ruiz <aruiz gnome org>]

2009/8/30 Jaap A. Haitsma <jaap haitsma org>:
> Hi,
>
> I think I now have the GNOME Amazon stores is such a shape that we can
> start advertising them.
> Please go to:
> http://www.gnome.org/friends/amazon/
> and take a look or even better buy something. To make it easy every
> store has a searchplugin which you can install in firefox. Just click
> on the dropdown of the search engines and you can add it.

I wonder if it's worth publicizing so outdated books, buying those
would be a total waste of time. Most of the technologies explained on
those books are deprecated, with the exception of Foundations of Gtk+
and the distro related books.

>
> I've also released version 1.0 of GNOME Amazon Firefox add-on here
> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/13182/
> It's still needs to be reviewed by addons.mozilla.org but you can
> already use it.
>
> That extension automatically puts in the friend of gnome referal code,
> if there is none yet. So if you want to make sure that a percentage of
> what you buy goes to the GNOME foundation you better check that
> tag=friendofgnome-xx (where xx is 20, 21 or 22) is part of the URL or
> just buy directly in the GNOME amazon store.
> However I think the extension is something what you can install at
> computers of family members or friends (with their permission of
> course) who buy stuff at Amazon. For them nothing changes. They can
> just shop as they do normally but 4-6% of what they buy goes to the
> GNOME foundation
>
>
> So that's the technical part. Now how are we going to market this?
>
> 1) Stormy asked me to write about it on my blog. I'm waiting to get
> added to planet gnome. When that's the case I can write something
> 2) We can add a logo plus some text in the sidebar of www.gnome.org/friends
> 3) We could add something at the gnome homepage
> 4) Maybe even a press release.
>
> Jaap
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Un saludo,
Alberto Ruiz