GNOME Marketing Tasks
Want to help to promote GNOME, but don't know where to start? Look no further! The following are ideas for things you can do help with the GNOME marketing effort. Feel free to pick up a task if it interests you (and let us know about it on the usual marketing channels).
Things you can do to help promote GNOME:
- Every positive tweet, forum post, blog post or conversation helps. If there's something that you love GNOME, tell people about it!
- Tweet/dent for GNOME! We need a constant stream of positive tweets about GNOME up until the release. Can you help?
- Write blog posts about cool things in GNOME 3, or things you have contributed towards. Sounds like a little thing, but this something we're in serious need of.
- Construct a GNOME 3 graphics hardware compatibility matrix: it would be good to have documentation on which graphics card/driver combinations will deliver the full GNOME 3 experience.
Improve the GNOME and GNOME Shell wikipedia pages - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME_Shell
Design a template for one page release notes (like this one: http://mairin.wordpress.com/2009/11/13/fedora-12-one-page-release-notes-pdf/)
- Help to develop and update the GNOME websites, such as gnome.org.
Help prepare press releases for GNOME releases (see ReleasePlanning) or one time events (see /HowtoIssuePressRelease).
Collect GNOME testimonials
Collect examples of GNOME in the news.
- Encourage collaboration on gugmasters-list mailing list
- Distribute marketing materials to user groups for printing and distribution.
- Interview local GNOME user groups for your blog post
Coordinate GNOME presence at conferences around the world
Cooperate with distributions and other projects to co-ordinate presence at trade shows (see GnomeEvents/Annual).
Help organise the next GUADEC
Create marketing materials
Promote GnomeInSchools
University outreach - contacting local university user groups - see Jono Bacon's UK tour, or the BadgerBadgerBadger tour as good examples of possibilities - encourage your local LUG to have open door sessions, and get a "big name" to come & present - see GnomeScienceCD
Write an article for GnomeJournal
- Help configure GNOME CiviCRM - we need help integrating Friends of GNOME/paypal, press team, local teams, etc.
Work on the GNOME conference brochure
Help write GNOME talking points - we need convincing arguments about the value of GNOME. These can be used to develop presentations and other marketing materials
Create presentation materials
Friends of GNOME: promote the Friends of GNOME scheme
- Get a badge, tell people about it, encourage them to become a subscriber