Re: Become a friend of GNOME button

[Stormy Peters <stormy gnome org>]

That'd be very cool if we could track how many people/money you've
referred! I'd be a big fan of that.

We could also consider giving compensation for referrals. At the very
least, we'd give recognition but we could also consider money (like
Amazon does) or things like GNOME merchandise.

On a related note, Brian Cameron and I discussed how we could
compensate people for bringing in new corporate sponsors. One program
that encompassed it all would be great.

(BTW, I was thinking of just a general Friends of GNOME update.)

Stormy

On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 9:10 AM, Paul Cutler <pcutler foresightlinux org> wrote:
> I like Stormy's idea below, though will people have enough data to give an
> update?
>
> I have no idea if it's possible, but if you go back to the Miro Adoption
> idea, each user gets their own webpage and widget.  I thought I had seen
> another OSS project do something similar, but what I'm thinking would every
> Friend gets an affiliate code, and you can track how many referrals you've
> had from your badge to signups.
>
> Paul
>
> On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 9:43 AM, Stormy Peters <stormy gnome org> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 8:33 AM, Claus Schwarm <clschwarm googlemail com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >  - the GNOME Announce mailing list,
>> >  - a planet.gnome blog (Stormy's, maybe?)
>> >  - the GNOME frontpage
>> >  - gnomesupport.org
>> >
>> > to announce the badges program.
>> >
>> > It will probably also be useful to send reminders via panet.gnome.org
>> > every 6 weeks or so, since our main problem might not be a lack of
>> > willingness to help, but procrastination.
>>
>> Maybe we could make a mini-calendar out of people willing to promote
>> it on their blog. Every 4-6 weeks someone could post about it and give
>> an update about how the program was going.
>>
>> We also need to think about ways to reach out to other groups - so
>> having people who are on multiple planets would be great.
>>
>> Stormy
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