Re: getting www.gnome3.org

[Sriram Ramkrishna <sri ramkrishna me>]

On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 12:34 PM, Jason D. Clinton <me jasonclinton com> wrote:

Since it was supposed to be almost entirely video thumbnails on the front page, the videos need to go up there. And since we don't have a UI freeze for a few more months, it wasn't in the plan to have it up until then.

But I think there is a value in making this a kind of process-marketing. I think we could launch the site with a "Beta" decal and post the unfinished videos with the time codes in them so that no one gets any ideas about posting them as the final marketing assets.

Due to all the noise that we're getting on DDL, I wanted focus a little on community management from now till release.  So having a website fro simple messaging sounds good.  Of course, if we're using it for video thumbnails and what not maybe this might not be the best place for it.  I had forgotten about the details on the marketing hackfest so I don't want to interfere with plans already in progress.

The idea is to pool resources of people who are already doing community management (eg engaging people who ask questions) on g-s and ddl and maybe work together on creating a more positive impression of gnome shell.  Rather than discussing the same issues, this allows developers to focus on completing Gnome 3 without the distraction of spending time trying to allay fears of change and in the process feeling stop energy.  if there are real issues than perhaps we can advocate on those issues and so Jon, Owen and others can work with us rather than random people who are made about something.

We've never done community management (well or at all) and it might be a good way to do a sales job on our own existing user base who fear change.  It will also prepare us for after the release for questions that will certainly be forthcoming when we make presentations at various conferences.  I have two conferences that I'll be talking at, Open Source Bridge and Linuxfest Northwest.  I've already put in the paperwork for them and I want to make sure that I can address any users who might be confrontational.

Making the effort will earn us some brownie points I think.

sri

 

On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 14:11, Stormy Peters <stormy gnome org> wrote:

We do have gnome3.org and we worked on it at the last marketing hackfest. At that time, it was really close to launching ...

Paul, Andreas, what is left? What can we help with?

Stormy

On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 12:56 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna <sri ramkrishna me> wrote:

Any chance we could get the DNS entry www.gnome3.org (and I think gnome4 and gnome5 etc) so that we can use it to centralize messaging to a particular URL?  I think as we get close we want to be able to point people to a site that is simple to remember and specific to gnome 3.

What do you guys think?

sri

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