Here is a patch that adds a spread.wml page to the Friends of GNOME
Website.
Inside the page, the copy reads:
<h2>GNOME Badges</h2>
Do you have a blog or website? Tell others you support GNOME by
proudly displaying a GNOME badge and helping spread the word about the
Friends of GNOME program.
Just copy and paste the code below into your webpage or blog.
And then it links to the last two badges from the thank you page.
This is my first Git patch ever, so please review it, and the HTML.
If the patch should be filed in Bugzilla instead, please let me know.
Thanks.
Paul
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 10:46 AM, Paul Cutler
<pcutler foresightlinux org> wrote:
Claus,
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 10:08 AM, Claus Schwarm
<clschwarm googlemail com> wrote:
I may be wrong, but it seems to me, Jaap has something
different in mind. What about:
I attached the archive per Jaap's second email, but I agree
with your thoughts below there is more we could do.
(1) Moving Paul's "embedding code" to a separate page,
say "wgo/friends/spread.html". At least the last two
badges could also be used by everybody who wants to
support the friends of GNOME program.
(2) Offering different image sizes (standard ad sizes)
so that they are more prominent and fit into other
people's layout.
I like both these ideas. I think a vision of good in my
opinion is some of the things EFF does that are similar,
though I think they could combine some of their different
pages:
Various EFF badges for blogs and such, including different
sizes: http://www.eff.org/badges/
More banners and buttons (some banners in flash):
http://w2.eff.org/campaigns/banners/
Logos: http://w2.eff.org/press/logos/
Flash banners: http://w2.eff.org/campaigns/flash/
They offer a number of different sizes, from small to big
badges for blogs and websites to full size banners that are
standard size for websites that advertise.
Similar sites:
FSF "Play Ogg" campaign has different sized badges right on
the home page: http://www.fsf.org/resources/formats/playogg
Firefox: http://www.spreadfirefox.com/affiliates/homepage
(3) Linking the "friends/spread.html" page from the
main friends of gnome page: "Are you running a blog or
website? You can help GNOME also by spreading the word
about the Friends of GNOME program."
Again, looking at something other non-profits do:
EFF Help Out (including a "Spread the Word" section):
http://www.eff.org/helpout
(4) Making an announcement of the new page (GNOME's
main mailing list or a blog on planet.gnome.org). I
guess not many people within the GNOME community know
these badges exist.
(5) Adding these badges where we can now: in the
sidebar of live.gnome.org, in a new sidebar of the
GNOME Journal, in the footer of planet.gnome.org, in
the footer of gnomesupport.org/forums/, in the footer
of bugzilla.gnome.org, etc..
I've added the "Support GNOME" badge to the footer of GNOME
Journal.
Later, we might be able to set up a separate (dynamic)
infrastructure to serve these ads. Then, we could then
switch announcements, maybe even track reactions. But
there's no need to wait for that.
Best regards,
Claus
I will work on "Spread GNOME" type page over lunch today and
submit a patch we can review that uses some of these ideas.
Paul
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 7:41 AM, Stormy Peters
<stormy gnome org> wrote:
I agree we need Friends of GNOME more
prominently on the website. I think we will
get some of this when we get the "ruler" that
shows donations towards our goal.
We do have badges:
http://www.gnome.org/friends/thank-you.html.
And Paul Cutler wrote some html that shows
code for embedding it in your website,
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/marketing-list/2009-April/msg00019.html. (We still need someone with web access to incorporate that into the website.)
Best,
Stormy
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 11:34 PM, Jaap A.
Haitsma <jaap haitsma org> wrote:
Hi,
What about "friend of GNOME" button
that links to
http://www.gnome.org/friends/ which
people can put on their site/blog?
Furthermore the button can be used on
the GNOME site. Currently I only
see a news story about somewhere down
on the main page so it does not
really catch attention of many people.
Jaap
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