Re: Campaign Proposal

[Diego Escalante Urrelo <diegoe gnome org>]

El mar, 23-02-2010 a las 08:51 -0700, Stormy Peters escribió:
> So I really don't think that naming releases after endangered species
> will make us look like an endangered species. And I think being
> associated with cute animals is almost always a good thing. 
> 

Me neither. I honestly think people don't think endangered is a synonym
for failure, endangered usually puts the guilt in illegal hunting,
irresponsible growth and such, and puts the pride in people trying to
raise awareness and fighting to get them out of the endangered status.

It appeals to me because I see an opportunity and in the worst case a
lesson to learn and teach to others about taking care of the stuff we
have to not regret later. Honestly I think the view tends to be positive
towards the ones promoting the cause.

A brainstormish list of possible reactions:
- good:
 + let's help!
 + oh that sucks, i'll plant a tree
 + cute animals, we suck for killing them
 + sensitive guys, they care for life
- bad:
 + animals? really? I only care about the ones I eat!
 + haha! a dodo!
 + shouldn't they be hacking instead?

And GNOME 3 the Doodling Dodo is a great release name :-).

> But I do like the idea of picking a humanitarian cause more related to
> us. Is there something in the developing world or technology related
> that we can link to? Could we pick animals in areas we'd like to help?
> 

There are a lot of cute animals down here. Also lots of nice places too.
I don't know if associating with places would make sense since they are
not causes and would be more like ad-space for touristic development :).

We have cute vulnerable bears in Perú, locally nicknamed "Googles
bear" (as in he's using googles/glasses):
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tremarctos_ornatus

Everybody loves bears.

Perhaps education can be a cause we can directly support: we provide
free software to aid teachers and students to use computers without
prohibitive license costs and also give them the chance to learn from
our work.