Re: GNOME appreciation day (was Fwd: Looking for community managers or enthusiasts!)

[Seif Lotfy <seif lotfy com>]

Great idea, love it.

On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 5:05 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu tomeuvizoso net> wrote:
> On 15 November 2012 13:50, Alberto Ruiz <aruiz gnome org> wrote:
>>
>>
>> The one thing that was somewhat true is that we have less corporate
>> support, back then IBM, Sun, Novell, Nokia and many other people were
>> looking at GNOME as a platform to build products from. These days that's not
>> the case. Market has changed, and sure, getting a job where you can do
>> GNOMEy stuff is hard.
>
>
> This and the blog post from Sony that is linked below made me think of what
> could be a good marketing action: a GNOME appreciation day.
>
> http://developer.sonymobile.com/2012/10/31/linux-developers-join-forces-in-the-linaro-project/
>
> The marketing team would coordinate with prominent users of GNOME the
> release of blog posts and/or press releases that would explain how the
> organization benefits from GNOME and how it participates in the community.
> This could be used to raise awareness of what GNOME is and how it works, and
> hopefully would bring more contributors.
>
> The participants in this campaign could be:
>
> - organizations doing derivatives such as Canonical, Bosch or Sugar
> Labs/OLPC,
>
> - consultancy companies such as Codethink, Collabora, or Igalia,
>
> - deployments such as City of Largo,
>
> - the foundation's advisory board members,
>
> - maybe famous people (Cory Doctorow uses GNOME?).
>
> Regards,
>
> Tomeu
>
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