Jan 14th, 2010 Meeting Agenda

  • Thursday, January 14th
  • 22:00 UTC / 17:00 EST.
  • #marketing on irc.gnome.org

Tasks in Progress

  • GNOME Store
  • Friends of GNOME
    • Sysadmin Campaign
    • 10 subscribers/month goal
  • CiviCRM
  • Marketing Hackfest
    • Conference materials
      • FAQ
      • Presentation template
      • Presentations
    • Application Dialogs
    • GNOME 3.0 Campaign
      • Video campaign
  • Women's Outreach Program
    • Awareness
    • Fundraising
  • GNOME Journal

GNOME Marketing Meeting Minutes

January 14th, 2010

GNOME Store

  • Andreas Nilsson has been working on getting the GNOME Store ready for launch and sent an email with remaining tasks at http://mail.gnome.org/archives/marketing-list/2010-January/msg00046.html

  • Stormy replied via email with product suggestions
  • Need to fix a minor CSS issue with spacing in the left sidebar (see the “Promote” link)
  • Need to add a header to the page - Paul to add the header to the GNOME art request page on live.gnome.org

Friends of GNOME

  • Sysadmin Campaign
    • Need a volunteer to update the GNOME.org pages with the donation ruler and copy
    • Paul to email the marketing list with a request for a volunteer and the action items
  • Growing donations
    • Referrals - how do we give someone credit or travel sponsorship to the person who refers the most new subscribers?
    • LWN membership
    • Look into a dual partnership with the Linux Foundation
    • Look into possible partnership with Linux Pro Magazine
    • Marketing team is looking for a volunteer to help manage Friends of GNOME and investigate some of these ideas
    • Zonker to reach out to the Linux Foundation about possible partnership ideas
    • Jason Clinton looking at building a mockup of a new dialog in the About dialog of GNOME apps via a patch to GTK that could pull a donor list directly into the tarball
    • Jason to build a mockup, dicuss with the Release Team and then propose to a wider group
    • Stormy to email the marketing list to keep brainstorming ideas about Friends of GNOME going (and we’re all going to reply and share our feedback!)

GNOME Marketing Hackfest

  • Discussed next steps / outstanding action items from the hacfkest, inclucing:
    • Paul to work with Stormy and get all content (slides, presentations, conference FAQs, brochures) added to the wiki
    • Jason to help with working on the GNOME 3.0 and Shell slides
    • Once all the content is posted, Paul to email the list with outstanding action items and assign dates as a goal to finish
    • Vinicius finished the slides template (Guy to review)

GNOME 3.0 Videos

  • Marketing team wants to create a series of short videos to introduce users to GNOME 3.0
    • Paul to follow up with hackfest members on the GNOME 3.0 campaign theme and then email the list
    • Need to start developing the video idea for a possible hackfest in April to film and edit
    • valessio offered to help with video product and has experience with Synfix Animation 2D, Inkscape, Gimp and Kdenlive

Women’s Outreach Program

  • Marina gave an overview of the program
  • Peter Brown of the FSF blogged about the program in the hope of bringing in some donations to help with the program, but no donations were received
  • Discussed possible ways to get donations, including Google Adwords, changing FoG to earmark donations (which would need attorney feedback), polls and using a dedicated page for Women’s Outreach Program for donations (which is the recommendation moving forward)

GNOME 3.0 Launch Party

  • bharatkapoor proposed an idea for the GNOME 3.0 launch of having a GNOME 3.0 launch party held at multiple locations worldwide that streamed video of GNOME developers giving talks and demos of GNOME 3 from one location
    • Proposal here: http://live.gnome.org/Gnome%203%20Release%20Splash

    • Shane Fagan to follow up with downstream community managers on launch party best practices
    • Proposal needs to be discussed more and needs feedback (brainstorming ideas included should we time with the Boston Summit which is 2 weeks after GNOME 3.0 launch, impact on press coverage if we delay the launch party, venue, locations and more)

Misc.

  • Stormy needs help with creating Google Adwords now that we have a non-profit grant from Google
  • Team liked the idea of monthly meetings to start
    • Paul to send out the Doodle link (with correct timezone information) Jan 20th for the February meeting

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