Fwd: Marketing @ GNOME and an idea

[Stormy Peters <stormy gnome org>]

Guy has some great ideas in the attached campaign document.

Thoughts?

Stormy

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Guy Lunardi <glunardi novell com>
Date: Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 5:19 PM
Subject: Marketing @ GNOME and an idea
To: stormy gnome org


Stormy,

I hope that your 2-year old enjoyed or will enjoy his brother's birthday
party very much.

This email should probably go to the GNOME marketing mailing list but I
don't have that address with me :-). Riding the bus back to Boston from
New York City.

While I was relaxing with friends on Friday afternoon we came up with an
idea for a campaign for GNOME 3.0. It started with me saying that users
do not relate with version numbers. What if we could change that with
GNOME 3.0? What if the version number upgrade actually meant something
to them? We could emphasize the number 3 (three) itself. Or we emphasize
that we go from 2 to 3. We are adding a 1 (one). That 1 (one) is you
(the user).

I spent a few minutes putting some ideas down in the attached document.
It's food for thoughts for the GNOME Marketing team. Hopefully there are
some useful ideas in it we could implement.


Another quick idea coming out of spending 3 days with 180+ screaming and
dancing 10-year old to 18-year old girls at a Dance competition. A
killer application for teenagers to embrace GNOME 3.0: create a
cell-phone SMS messages archive manager. Something password protected on
their desktop that would allow all of them to go back, stare and ponder
at SMS messages for hours :-). It xould send and receive SMS messages
too.


Have a great weekend,
-Guy

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