Re: Promoting the "Support GNOME" badges

["Jaap A. Haitsma" <jaap haitsma org>]

On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 21:49, Stormy Peters <stormy gnome org> wrote:
>
>
> On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 11:46 PM, Jaap A. Haitsma <jaap haitsma org> wrote:
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> Stormy, can you promote the new badges
>> <http://www.gnome.org/friends/promote.html> on your blog and send an
>> email to the gnome-announce list or so? I think that way we have most
>> effect. You could also try to contact some friendly journalists that
>> want to run a story on the "Friend of GNOME" program
>
> I will do that. Blog and contact journalists. I will probably wait to
> contact journalists until we have the ruler up and May numbers in. (As May
> numbers will be good.)
>
> We should make a calendar and have people regularly blog about Friends of
> GNOME. The week of:
> May 18th - Stormy
> May 25th -
> Jun 1st -
> Jun 8th -
> Jun 15th-
> Jun 22nd
>
> It doesn't have to be anything long.
>
> Volunteers?

I don't mind writing something about it, but I just started my  blog
and it's not on planet.gnome.org and number of visitors per day is
below 10.


>>
>>
>> Other ideas for promoting the badges?
>
> We should all put them on our websites!
>>
>>
>>
>> Should we also put a badge on the GNOME main page? If yes, where
>> should we put it on the page.
>
> I think the main web page and the Contribute page
> (http://www.gnome.org/community/) .
>
> I'm not sure where it should go ... thoughts from others?

On the contribute page it could go on the sidebar. On the main page we
could change the section "What is GNOME" slightly and add a button in
there.

Agree?

Jaap