Re: marketing meeting next week!

[Emily Gonyer <emilyyrose gmail com>]

On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 10:09 AM, Karen Sandler <karen gnome org> wrote:
> On Fri, December 7, 2012 10:05 am, Brett Legree wrote:
>> Great! Yes, Katherine Noyes is another friendly, positive person I had in
>> mind.
>>
>> That's a good plan - to figure out what we want to showcase, and then
>> start
>> writing and submitting.
>>
>> One thing I've noticed a lot of detractors say is that "you can't do 'real
>> work' with GNOME" - which is a load of hullabaloo, as we know.
>>
>> Surely the people who code it, design it, and so forth are using it. Greg
>> KH uses it on at least one of his systems, and what he does is pretty
>> intense.
>
> Great - I'll contact Greg!
>
>>
>> I'm a nuclear engineer and when I'm using Linux, GNOME is my graphical
>> shell of choice (I don't use it to design reactors, but I use it to do
>> engineering consulting work and it does the job just fine - the nature of
>> the UI helps me to stay focused on the task at hand, distraction free).
>
> Wow! You should write this up in more detail then this can be some of the
> content we use :)
>

I agree - that sounds very cool! *I* certainly want to read about it :)

Emily

> karen
>
>
>> So obviously it isn't just for Facebook and frivolous things - which all
>> of
>> us know, but the idea is to get the message out there.
>>
>> -Brett
>> On Dec 7, 2012 9:56 AM, "Karen Sandler" <karen gnome org> wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, December 7, 2012 4:28 am, Brett Legree wrote:
>>> > Good day all,
>>> >
>>> > One suggestion is to engage various journalists, tech bloggers, or
>>> other
>>> > online personalities who either write about GNOME (good or bad
>>> feedback)
>>> > or
>>> > use/have used it.
>>> >
>>> > For example, Bruce Byfield just wrote a fairly positive article on how
>>> we
>>> > need to engage with the community, get our message out more clearly -
>>> hey,
>>> > good idea ;-)
>>> >
>>> > Others have not been so kind, but I'd say if we reach out to them with
>>> > positive news before they pick up rumours from the grapevine, we can
>>> sort
>>> > of use them as positive messengers.
>>>
>>> Agreed! I have an email interview with Bruce that I'm working on now,
>>> and
>>> I also have been in touch with Katherine Noyes too. I've also contacted
>>> a
>>> few other reporters. Everyone - let me know what points to highlight!
>>>
>>> > Another idea for instance - some tech blogs that have been writing
>>> about
>>> > GNOME welcome guest articles (Muktware is one) - if we can start
>>> getting
>>> > articles out there, again food for us. I could take Muktware as I know
>>> the
>>> > owner of the site.
>>>
>>> This is a great idea - the barrier in the past has been generating the
>>> necessary content to do this. Perhaps we should start by writing what we
>>> wish were out there and then shopping it around?
>>>
>>> karen
>>>
>>> >
>>> > Brett
>>> > On Dec 6, 2012 1:12 AM, "Sriram Ramkrishna" <sri ramkrishna me> wrote:
>>> >
>>> >> Howdy folks,
>>> >>
>>> >> It's that time to start thinking about when to schedule our marketing
>>> >> meeting next week.  Is the same time frame okay or do people want to
>>> try
>>> >> a
>>> >> different time frame in order to have more people.  I know that
>>> several
>>> >> people keen on attending.
>>> >>
>>> >> I would request the people who volunteered for community outreach
>>> attend
>>> >> this as we will probably spend the entire hour talking about
>>> community
>>> >> management.
>>> >>
>>> >> Before we talk, we probably want to plan on a structured discussion
>>> as
>>> >> I
>>> >> think that without one we won't come out of the meeting without any
>>> >> concrete goals.  We should strive to have some kind of actionable
>>> item
>>> >> at
>>> >> the end of the discussion.
>>> >>
>>> >> Can we open the floor on what we want to focus on, in the next
>>> meeting?
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> I want to do one test call Friday so that we can get everybody's
>>> >> software
>>> >> working prior to the real meeting.  We spent way too much time trying
>>> to
>>> >> get things working and I want to not waste time getting people's
>>> >> software
>>> >> working.
>>> >>
>>> >> Once we find a bullet proof method, we can put it on l.g.o and
>>> reference
>>> >> it.
>>> >>
>>> >> sri
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>
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