>
> 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.
