Re: press release ideas

[Dave Neary <dneary gnome org>]

Hi,

Indeed!

http://live.gnome.org/GnomeEventsBox/Schedule

Although groups don't always request the event box.

The box is managed in Europe by Murray Cumming, who is, I believe, right 
here.

Cheers,
Dave.

Patrick Fey wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> On 25.06.2009 10:52, Dave Neary wrote:
> > Stormy Peters wrote:
> > > Any idea how best to find out about them before hand?
> > In this particular case, it'd be nice if someone from GNOME Deutschland
> > let the gugmasters mailing list know they were going to have an event
> > presence at LinuxTag, and if someone from Lanedo told us that they were
> > sponsoring the stand (note, for LinuxTag, sponsoring the stand means, I
> > believe, paying for printing and supplying hardware, mostly - and
> > several Lanedo people man the stand most of the time).
>
> while it would be ideal to be notified by the various groups beforehand,
> it will not always happen, because people tend to forget these things. A
> more proactive approach would be for the marketing team to monitor the
> schedules of the two GNOME Event Boxes. The organizers could then be
> contacted beforehand.
>
> > In general, we really should be encouranging the various user groups to
> > give advance notice of GNOME participation in events so that we can tell
> > people about it, and ensure institutional support (centrally printed
> > posters, merchandise for sale, Friends of GNOME sign-up brochures, etc)
> > where possible & desirable.
>
> Why not send out these brochures to Openismus and whoever maintains the
> American event box right away? If Murray places the brochures inside the
> box, they will be used for sure and we do not need to ping everyone in
> advance. That would cover most of the bigger events automatically.
>
> :-) Patrick
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Dave Neary
GNOME Foundation member
dneary gnome org