3.0 parties - amazing job!

[Dave Neary <dneary gnome org>]

Hi all,

Pockey & Fred are doing a really amazing job with the 3.0 release party
drive - it is quite astonishing to see the number of parties sprouting
up around the world! Truly, this is an amazing job.


I would like to suggest capitalising on the success of the event in a
couple of ways:

1. Let's get the organisers of the parties & their region into the GNOME
CRM for future use - it's easy to forget this later, as it is a lot of
slog work - if we do it while the parties are organising then the job
may be easier. This is something really easy that we could delegate
across a larger number of people.

2. We should follow up after 3.0 (about mid may, perhaps?) to try to
crystalise some of these groups into local GNOME user groups. Perhaps it
could be in the form of a survey to get some local information (do you
have a university nearby? Do they teach computer science? Do they have a
computer club, or a professor who likes free software?), or in the form
of a call to action (Here's some news & an info pack - would you be
prepared to contact your local university and give a presentation about
GNOME to the computer club about it? We've prepared some presentation
materials and notes that you can use for your presentation)

Or perhaps we start with the first one to get some buy-in from the local
organiser, and then follow up with the second once we have secured some
small action on their part?

Building up our network of local organisers in the CRM will be really
useful, and I bet that it will be really helpful for future events.

I can contribute a copy of GNOME contacts generated during the GNOME
survey last year, which should get things started.

Thoughts?

Cheers,
Dave.

-- 
Dave Neary
GNOME Foundation member
dneary gnome org