Re: Campaign Proposal

[Nelson Marques <07721 ipam pt>]

 Hi


 I've been away from a couple of days due to final exams, presentations
and lately some problems with natural issues, mainly a couple of storms
and national wide red alert. I'm also a Volunteer Firefighter in
Murtosa, therefore I was forced to be off for some time.

 Back to the subject. I'd recon for now that the "wild life" might be a
sensible issue. My proposal:

 Open a Wiki page for discussion of possible themes for a new release to
be opened to community discussion.

 Once the theme has been decided by whoever has the power to do such,
according to the community feedback, we can propose another stage for
the process to decide name's etc.

 Would this be reliable and we can abandon my approach on the subject
regarding the endangered species?

 I'm willing to make this happen.

 nelson





On Tue, 2010-02-16 at 21:27 +0000, Nelson Marques wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> In attachment there is a proposal for a new campaign and it's goals. To
> unravel this a bit, it aims to position GNOME brand as an ecological
> supporting brand alongside with some things we can do to promote this.
> 
> Another aspect interesting is that through this campaign we are also
> trying to mobilize new artists to cooperate with GNOME Project.
> 
> There are other concerns, and this campaign was designed to be a generic
> campaign that would allow other campaigns to brew from this one, mainly
> to support GNOME through art.
> 
> I am proposing with this campaign the following:
> 
> 1. Give names to GNOME Releases based on endangered species which share
> strong points with the main features of GNOME. This is appealing to
> users and at some point allows the usage of a more catchy name for every
> release, thus we promote a social responsible cause and broaden our
> contributors to a new standard, including organizations which promote
> several endangered species through the donation of art and media such as
> high resolution pictures, movies, etc.
> This is also a great opportunity to advocate the usage of Free
> Standards.
> 
> 2. Support the existing GNOME artistic community through the
> availability of donated media.
> 
> 3. Stimulate Open Desktop standard through following up campaigns and
> "call for help" campaigns that are aimed to introducing GNOME to more
> people and thus increase our artists.
> 
> 4. Provide grounds that can improve the concept people have around
> GNOME, and earn more muscle.
> 
> 
> 
> I would deeply like that everyone could advance with suggestions for
> this campaign and place in personal comments so I can work to make it an
> attractive campaign and take it from paper into implementation.
> 
> Despite I don't need help to make this happen, as I am willing to offer
> my time to gather for support between other organizations, to work in
> the wiki campaign page, and whatever is necessary, I would like to have
> someone that can speak in the name of GNOME Foundation to follow this so
> that it complies with the vision behind GNOME.
> 
>  Please flame at will...
> 
>  Nelson