Re: Friends of GNOME subscription enhancements

[Stormy Peters <stormy gnome org>]

That kind of misses the point of the experiment that Andre pointed to where "you should" made a big difference.

http://dustincurtis.com/you_should_follow_me_on_twitter.html

Stormy

On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 4:38 PM, Lefty (石鏡 ) <lefty shugendo org> wrote:

One minor tweak, perhaps.

I’m not so happy with the “You should”, myself, on two counts:

“Donate! Become a Friend of GNOME and help provide a free desktop for all users!”

gets rid of two unnecessary words, and “should” for me has a connotation of obligation, and invites me to think “Well, I know I should, but...” They know they’re “you”; don’t tell ‘em what they should do—they don’t do what they should do all day long, and so do I—tell ‘em what to do.

(Also, I like a stress—italicized?--on the word “all”. There’s an important subtext in there, in terms of localization, of accessibility, etc. Maybe we’ll even get that gender-neutral-ish equal-opportunity-ish thing working sometime. Shoot me now.)

On 7/21/09 3:20 PM, "Paul Cutler" <pcutler gnome org> wrote:

Correct grammar should be:

"Donate!  You should become a Friend of GNOME and help provide a free
desktop for all users."

Sometimes it's the little things.  :)

Paul

On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 4:52 PM, Andreas Nilsson <nisses mail home se> wrote:

 
On 07/21/2009 11:31 PM, Stormy Peters wrote:

 
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Andre Klapper <ak-47 gmx net> wrote:
 

Am Dienstag, den 21.07.2009, 14:47 -0600 schrieb Stormy Peters:
 
> "Donate to help support the GNOME Foundation's goal to provide a free
> desktop for all users - become a Friend of GNOME"
> or
> "Donate - help support the GNOME Foundation's goal to provide a free
> desktop for all users - become a Friend of GNOME"
> or it could go in the title:
> "Donate - Become a Friend of GNOME!"
 
 
Pardon that I don't remember who blogged/twittered/<bla>ed about
 http://dustincurtis.com/you_should_follow_me_on_twitter.html in the last
days so I can't give credits.
 
Proposal:
"Donate! - You should become a Friend of GNOME and help providing a free
desktop for all users."

Let's try it!
 
 

Heh, sounds brave and crazy. Done!
- Andreas

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