Fwd: marketing hackfest?

[Fabiana Simões <fabianapsimoes gmail com>]

Fw:

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Karen Sandler <karen gnome org>
Date: 21 April 2013 14:42
Subject: Re: marketing hackfest?
To: Fabiana Simões <fabianapsimoes gmail com>

On Sun, April 21, 2013 12:21 pm, Fabiana Simões wrote:
>> 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?
>>
>
> June 24-25 would be a bit hard for me. I leave Copenhagen early on the
> 23rd, arriving in Rio 20h55 on that same day. In order to be in NY on
> the 24th, I'd need to catch a flight right after landing here (and,
> still, I'd only make it to JFK mid-afternoon).
>
> Besides that, if Allan indeed needs to be back to the UK on the 26th, I
> guess it would be hard for him to be at the Hackfest and also get on a
> flight home on the 25th.
>
> Would July 1-2 work, perhaps?

Ah, that is too bad. I'm flying back from a wedding in LA on the 1, but I
could move it to Sunday if it's the only day that works.

karen

> Fabiana
>
> On 04/21/2013 09:45 AM, Karen Sandler wrote:
>> 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
>>>
>>
>