Re: Friends of GNOME campaign

[Oliver Propst <oliver propst gmail com>]

On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 5:32 AM, Karen Sandler <karen gnome org> wrote:
> hi all,
>
> We've had the accessibility campaign up for a while, and I'm going to post
> a new item about it this week (pointing to Diego's story -
> http://www-old.gnome.org/friends/a11y-testimonial-2.html) but I think it's
> time to start looking ahead.
>
> What do we think the next campaign should be? And when should we ideally
> launch it? (While giving full consideration to running the current
> campaign for the right amount of time.)
>
> karen
>
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Maybe the current campaign should continue until GNOME ASIA in the
beginning/middle of June. The next campaign could start in end of
July/the beginning of August and continue through the fall to November
and in December we can lunch a Christmas/New Year campaign.

The end of July/ beginning of August are a good time to start a new
campaign because the GNOME project usually get some press attention
around that time because of
GUADEC and the upcoming release in September.

Here are a few suggestions of themes for a new campaign.

Website/infrastructure campaign.
One resource that many GNOME users and contributors take for granted
are the websites and infrastructure that support the GNOME project in
various way. In the marketing meeting we had back in October it was
stated that the website/infrastructure was not in ideal shape
(http://goo.gl/eB0um). I know that the past months great progress have
been made with the websites (foundation website migration to new
design).

A campaign to raise money for website/infrastructure work could also
be a good way to raise awareness about the GNOME infrastructure. The
money collected could be used to improve the website/infrastructure
and finish outstanding website projects (mention of
the projects are in meeting minutes).


Developer documentation campaign
If the GNOME project are to succeed it is important that great apps
are available and
if want we want developers to write great apps for GNOME it is
important that they have access to good developer documentation
(including examples). While the developer documentation are not that
bad today, I think it could be much better. When I look at the
developer documentation I get the feeling that there are certain
'gaps' that need to be filled, certain topics needed to be explained
in greater detail and we need to provide more code examples &
tutorials. The money collected could be used to “fill the the gaps”
and construct examples/tutorials.
Tagline: "Help make great GNOME 3 apps possible"
"Good developers want good documentation, help make it possible"

Anjuta IDE campaign
As well as it is important for developers to have access to good
documentation it is important for all GNOME developers that do non
trivial programming to have access to a great IDE. As I understand it,
the official GNOME IDE Anjuta are missing features from a modern state
of the art IDE, look a bit outdated and have old non trivial bugs that
need to be resolved. A campaign could raise money to help fix these
issues.
Tagline: "Ease the life for GNOME developers"
“Help make it easy and enjoyable to develop for GNOME”

In general I think the upcoming campaign should aim at making the life
easier for GNOME developers and thus make it easier to contribute to
GNOME.

-- 
-Mvh Oliver Propst