Re: [GnomeMeeting-devel-list] GnomeMeeting 2.0 Promotion/Marketing (was: Interest for GM 2.00)

[Daniel Huhardeaux <devel tootai net>]

CJ van den Berg a écrit :

> On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 07:06:12PM +0100, Damien Sandras wrote:
>  
>
> > That you are right. Also, GnomeMeeting needs more marketing power. I
> > sent a mail about that earlier this month, but got few feedback.
> >    
>
> Well here are some more thoughts on GM promotion:
>
> 1. Get GM 2.0 into Gnome 2.14
>
> This is by far the most important way to raise visibility of any Gnome
> related application. I know from watching the Gnome lists that there is
> a lot of excitement over GM 2.0 and I'm sure they will mention SIP
> prominently in their new features list if GM 2.0 is ready for 2.14.
> Gnome releases have a *huge* chain reaction marketing effect and if GM
> 2.0 with SIP support gets into 2.14 I'm sure you'll see literally
> hundreds of articles world wide mentioning GM 2.0.
>  
But Gnome is not Linux. That you push the Gnome part it's ok. But don't 
forget to attract also people from Kde and others. I hear it: "Ok, but 
it's only Gnome compliant, it's even written in the application name"

> [...]
> And last but definitely not least...
> ... and I hate to say it...
>
> 4. Change the name!
>
> I know it's difficulty and no-one really wants to go through the
> hassle, but GnomeMeeting *really* needs a better name. NetMeeting is
> dead (at least in the public mind) and GnomeMeeting is *not* just a
> clone anyway. The -Meeting name really associates the project too much
> with video conferencing which is a niche application (at least compared
> to VoIP) and will always stay that way. Simple is good though too, so I
> would suggest something simple and catchy that says *exactly* what GM
> does/is. For example, GnomePhone, GnomeVoice, GnomeTalk, etc.
>
> If you really want to keep a strong association to the GnomeMeeting
> name perhaps condensing it and adding a suffix or prefix might work too.
> For example, GM-Voice, GM-Talk, VoIP-GM, etc. 
>
> Anyway, as you probably noticed, none of these items are actually
> *new*. They have all been talked about before and are AFAIK are on the
> program from the GM 2.0 release. So I guess what it boils down to is,
> push hard to get GM 2.0 out the door.
>  
I agree 200% Others products change their name (X-Ten for instance) or 
their logo without loosing popularity. The marketing has to do a good 
job, that's all.

I remain that I send a message 21/11/2005 "Change of GNOMEMEETING name" 
about changing the name of GM, wasn't a lot of feedback :-(

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Daniel