[Marketing] Fwd: Proposal: "What's new"

[Tomeu Vizoso]

Looks like GNOME is currently trying to organize their marketing efforts.

Wonder if this is a good opportunity to exchange references in our
press releases and also to increase interest in Sugar from GNOME
developers, who are the people in this world best prepared to
contribute to Sugar's software development.

I think it has been clear after Bolzano that GNOME developers: don't
know what Sugar is, don't know what Sugar Labs is, don't know that SLs
is volunteer based, don't know that Sugar is being used by >1 million
children, don't know to which point Sugar is based in GNOME, don't
know that OLPC is _not_ shipping Windows, etc. and also that a notable
portion of them are very interested in helping out once they know
about us. Has this been the impression as well of other Bolzano
attendees?

Regards,

Tomeu




---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Paul Cutler <pcutler at gnome.org>
Date: 2009/11/18
Subject: Re: Proposal: "What's new"
To: Patryk Zawadzki <patrys at pld-linux.org>
Cc: desktop-devel-list <desktop-devel-list at gnome.org>, Murray Cumming
<murrayc at murrayc.com>


I really like this idea, especially as we think about GNOME branding.

One of the topics at the Marketing Hackfest last week was around our
branding and how we partner better with the downstream distributions.
I think this gives us a unique opportunity for users to think of
"GNOME" and seeing the work we're doing upstream.  This may also tie
to another idea around how we can incorporate Friends of GNOME
opportunities as well.

I don't know if this would actually make it easier to write release
notes - it may make it harder as the release notes would probably have
more detail than something like this, so in some ways we're adding
work.  I really like how Fedora did their one sheet release notes via
PDF for Fedora 12 [1] - something high level like that is what I would
see here.

Paul

[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_one_page_release_notes

On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 4:23 AM, Patryk Zawadzki <patrys at pld-linux.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 10:47 AM, Murray Cumming <murrayc at murrayc.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 10:12 +0100, Patryk Zawadzki wrote:
> >> Goals? Two really. One - to make it easier for users to discover newly
> >> introduced features.
> > I don't believe that most people care much, partly because they don't
> > upgrade that often. This would be clearer if we had real personas to
> > talk about.
> >
> > People who do care generally find the release notes online already.
>
> Not really. A lot of people have no idea what GNOME is. They just
> launch the application (or rather click on a document and the app
> "launches itself"), see that it looks slightly different and sometimes
> get curious as to why it looks different.
>
> Several times in the past I've read through NEWS and ChangeLog files
> just to tell someone what the exact changes were.
>
> >>  Two - to make it easier to write GNOME release
> >> notes.
> > The UI clutter seems like a high price to pay for the slight possibility
> > that this would help with writing release notes.
>
> I wouldn't call adding a _third_ option to the menu that usually
> contains "Contents" and "About..." clutter.
>
> Even if it is clutter, we can still add it as a section in the manual.
>
> --
> Patryk Zawadzki
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