Re: Friends of GNOME campaign

["Karen Sandler" <karen gnome org>]

On Thu, August 16, 2012 10:17 pm, Stormy Peters wrote:
> I think campaigns that target the development of GNOME are often most
> successful. So I think hardware for GNOME OS might be a good one.

I also think it's a good idea. A bunch of us were talking also about a
privacy/security campaign following Jake's talk at GUADEC (like
specifically for adding OTR to empathy...) and I think that would be
really awesome. I've been following up at finding partners for that too.

Which would be best for the next campaign? I like there being an
ideological component to the campaign as I think it gets people thinking
about important issues, even if they're not able to donate. Either sound
like good campaigns!

As for GNOME OS, I like the idea for targeting hardware for GNOME
development, but as I've said on multiple occasions, I'd really like to
come up with a better name for what we've been talking about as "GNOME
OS". I think that name is confusing and is partially responsible for some
of the negative press we've gotten around the intiative(s). Moreover, some
of our partners have also expressed dissatisfaction with the name.

Given that a recent discussion on this list regarding naming became news,
should we establish a committee to privately discuss this further? :)

karen
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> Stormy
>
> On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 4:23 PM, Juanjo Marín
> <juanjomarin96 yahoo es>wrote:
>
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>> ----- Mensaje original -----
>> > De: Oliver Propst <oliver propst gmail com>
>> > Para: karen gnome org
>> > CC: marketing-list gnome org
>> > Enviado: Miércoles 18 de abril de 2012 1:22
>> > Asunto: Re: Friends of GNOME campaign
>> >
>> > 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.
>>
>>
>> Hi !
>>
>>
>> I think is time to retake this proposal. AFAIK, people who are working
>> in the "GNOME OS" proposal need some hardware for testing. This
>> could be another target for the FoG campaign.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>>     -- Juanjo Marin
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