Re: marketing hackfest?

["Karen Sandler" <karen gnome org>]

On Thu, April 4, 2013 10:20 am, Allan Day wrote:
> Karen Sandler <karen gnome org> wrote:
> > > > > > As per Tobi's email, we should consider again whether to organize a
> > > > > > marketing hackfest! Shaun has suggested co-locating with the docs
> > > > > > sprint
> > > > > > in Cincinatti June 17-19.
> > > ...
> > > > > > What do people think? Would it be workable this time and if so would
> > > > > > having it in June make sense?

I'd love to get this scheduled! It's looking like scheduling around
theJune 24-25 makes sense from looking at people's preferences. Allan do
you know if you're unavailable from the 26th? Sri, could you add your
availability?

> As for things that we could work on, there are a number of priority
> areas for me:
>
>  * Marketing materials - we could use the opportunity to move our
> existing content over to OwnCloud and fill in any blanks
>  * Updating the brand guidelines and move them to a restricted
> location (this would include elaborating them to cover things like
> visual style, colour schemes, etc)
>  * Writing a GNOME mission statement
>
> For some of these items, particularly the last one, we will need more
> expertise than the marketing team has. If we are going to tackle these
> tasks - and I think that a hackfest would be a good opportunity to do
> so - we should think about getting other people to the event, either
> from the GNOME community and/or specialists who can help us to
> articulate our message.

These are the people we identified before as good people to help contribute:

 * Allan
 * Andreas
 * Emmanuele
 * Karen
 * Garrett
 * Jon McCann
 * Lucas Rocha
 * Vincent
 * Stormy
 * Sri

 * Jim Nelson (Yorba)
 * Guy Lunardi (Collabora)
 * John Sullivan (FSF)
 * Alex (Skud) Bayley
 * Nick Richards (formerly Intel)
 * Karl Fogel
 * Havoc Pennington

If we get the date settled, I can invite them, or we can even set up a
call to discuss it, with some people in person. Anyone else to add?

karen
> (And if we do want to get other members of the community involved, New
> York might be a better location.)
>
> Allan