Re: Contractor status update: last week & next steps

[Sumana Harihareswara <sumanah panix com>]

On 04/12/2011 05:54 AM, Allan Day wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Sumana Harihareswara wrote:
> > [snip]
> > Now that we've launched, I talked with Allan about how to best use the
> > rest of our contracts (we're booked to work on GNOME till the end of
> > April).  We think our priorities for the rest of April are:
> >
> > (a) reach out to not-so-news-driven (more in-depth-reporting)
> > journalists about aspects of the release that didn't get covered on
> > launch day -- once we get some bites, prep developers who have
> > volunteered, and get them interviewed

Trying, not having much success.

> > (b) write up lessons learned&  ideas for next time

By the way, Allan and I have started this here: 
http://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/ThreePointZero/LessonsLearned

> > (c) infrastructure building&  maintenance: update the wiki, consolidate
> > audiovisual and textual resources, and otherwise help prep for future
> > marketing, including press releases, talking points, etc. for the
> > launches of GNOME 3 within distributions that will come out in the next
> > weeks&  months
> >
> > So I'm going to make some progress on each of those this week.
> > Specifically, I aim to reach out to two reporters, braindump a few
> > lessons learned privately, and confer with Allan and Vincent about
> > resource consolidation.  And I'm planning on pushing GNOME Journal's
> > next issue forward, in collaboration with Paul Cutler, but that's not
> > part of my contract since it's not GNOME 3-specific.  :-)
> Looks good to me! I'll be writing a report on my recent activities in my
> blog.
>
> Some of the things I want to do in the upcoming weeks (apologies if this
> overlaps with above):

Allan, there's no need to apologize for any overlap; I was anticipating 
that the priorities mentioned above would be things we both worked on.

> * Get a couple of nice articles into external news sites.

I think an under-appreciated aspect of GNOME 3 is the GObject 
introspection, so that's something I've been telling reporters about.  I 
also contacted a Pacific Northwest reporter to let him know Sri will 
talk about GNOME 3 at LinuxFest Northwest in a few weeks.

> * Finish up the release parties photo competition and do what I can to
> get the photos on gnome3.org.
>
> * Improve the content that's on gnome.org and maybe produce a bit more
> (I'm working with the design crew to produce a nice printable GNOME 3
> cheat sheet).
>
> * Clean up the marketing wiki pages, particularly the marketing
> materials, and elaborate our brand guidelines so that they cover GNOME 3
> patterns (stripes, Canterall, etc).
>
> Can anybody think of anything else?!
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Allan

That all sounds good, Allan.  I am especially a fan of cleaning up the 
marketing wiki, consolidating material on fewer pages, and adding a 
Reviews/What People Are Saying part on gnome3.org.

Who are our liaisons with particular distributions?  Do we have any such 
liaisons?  Ubuntu 11.04 is out on the 28th, OpenBSD on 1 May, Fedora 15 
on 24 May, Mandriva on 13 June (dates according to DistroWatch), and if 
we can provide them our GNOME 3 materials (screenshots, videos, FAQs, 
etc.). That way they can redistribute them to their users.  If we don't 
have any particular distro liaisons, then Allan and I should find their 
marketing people and liaise.

-Sumana