GNOME 3 release marketing - DONEs & TODOs

[Sumana Harihareswara <sumanah panix com>]

Allan and I discussed some near-term priorities today in #marketing so 
I'll document them here, and on my blog ---> Planet GNOME.


ALLAN: this week is concentrating on release notes 
[http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointNinetyone/ReleaseNotes ] this week.  He 
feels he has a good handle on what to write for the user side, but would 
like more input on what's changed for developers, so he wants 
advice/contacts on how to get that.  I've suggested he do a session in 
#gtk+ or some other popular channel and crowdsource some rough bullet 
points.  He's also working on the Porting Guide at 
http://live.gnome.org/Gnome3PortingGuide -- as of today, he's working 
with Shaun McCance and the docs team.  (This is part of our marketing to 
distributions.)  We're hoping to coordinate with the docs team on this 
during their May hackfest: http://live.gnome.org/Hackfests/UserHelp2011

He's already blogged/emailed what he's done at 
https://afaikblog.wordpress.com/2011/03/07/gnome-marketing-contract-week-1/ 
so I won't rehash.


SUMANA:  Between my last note and now, I chased distro marketing, 
clarified the role of the release roadmap, started a press release, got 
a CiviCRM account and started accumulating press contacts, chased video 
from launch parties and restarted the conversation about GNOME 3 videos, 
communicated & thought with Brian and Allan about promoting FLOSS and 
not promoting unfree software, reached out to potential volunteers 
(including on foundation-list), and recruited and edited articles for 
GNOME Journal's Issue 23 (GNOME 3.0 issue -- 
http://live.gnome.org/GnomeJournal/ArticleSubmissionQueue ).  And then 
today Allan and I hashed out some priorities in #marketing.


This week, to balance Allan's focus on two big things, I intend on doing 
a lot of smaller things.

* Get into CiviCRM and input our press contacts, start seeking the ones 
we want but don't have (Ars Technica, Wired, TechCrunch, O'Reilly 
online) in collaboration with Zonker

* Continue drafting 2 press releases, 1 for a Linux-specific crowd (like 
LWN) and one for a more general tech crowd (like Wired)

* Try out the GNOME install of Collabtive and see if Allan and I should 
switch our task management to that, or to Bugzilla (trying to track 
tasks in live.gnome wiki tables is not my idea of pleasant)

* With a little input from Allan, start setting up another GNOME User 
Day [http://live.gnome.org/ThreePointZero/UserDays ] for late March

* Ask Licio to chase marketing localization

* Continue recruiting and editing GNOME Journal's GNOME 3 edition

* Reach out to docs team and other potential volunteers

* If I have time, chase videos/screencasts

* If I have time, some wiki cleanup


This is a lot and so it might change if more pressing matters come up, 
but I think it's a good place to start.  Thanks again for the 
opportunity to work on this!
-Sumana Harihareswara