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Re: Become a friend of GNOME button

Paul,

I've took your page and changed it such that the .wml file is correct
and pushed it to git. The result is here
http://www.gnome.org/friends/spread.html

However after I pushed it actually occured to me that it's probably
not a good idea to have this called Spread GNOME. We're asking people
to financially support GNOME not to encourage people to encourage
people to use GNOME.

Furthermore since we're asking people to financially support GNOME
having a button called "GNOME Lover" is probably confusing. If I put
the "GNOME Lover" button on my blog and somebody clicks on it an
average user will expect to land at the GNOME homepage and not at a
donation page.

So in short I think if we want to have a spread gnome activity we
should do that separately from Friends of GNOME.

I've came up with an alternative for the Friends of GNOME button. I've
got it running on one of my own websites. You can see the result here.
http://test.hightechstartups.nl/friends/

The major change is that in the side bar we ask people to promote
"Friends of GNOME" by adding a button to their site

Furthermore a couple of small changes which I think are improvements
1) At the end a paragraph for companies that might want to become
corporate sponsors
2) Changed to "Donate to the GNOME Foundation now!" to "Donate to the
GNOME Foundation". I find the "now!" a bit pushy. We're asking our
"customers" to give money and customers don't like to be pushed by
their suppliers.
3) "Thanks to our donations, in 2008 we we were able to" changed to
"Thanks to our donations, in 2008 we we were able to". The word "our"
can be confusing, because who is "our" in this context? People in the
GNOME organisation???

Looking forward to your feedback

Jaap



On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 02:42, Paul Cutler <pcutler foresightlinux org> wrote:

Andreas - you're question is right on - the first step was to get the page
up, the next question is where we link to it from.

Paul

On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 7:21 PM, Andreas Nilsson <nisses mail home se> wrote:


Forgive me if I missed something in the discussion, but is the plan to put
a url on any of the friends page somewhere?

A small link in the sidebar on the index page would probably be enough.
Let me know when you have pushed the changes so the page is up, and I'll
put it there.
- Andreas

Paul Cutler wrote:


Here is a patch that adds a spread.wml page to the Friends of GNOME
Website.

Inside the page, the copy reads:

<h2>GNOME Badges</h2>

Do you have a blog or website?  Tell others you support GNOME by proudly
displaying a GNOME badge and helping spread the word about the Friends of
GNOME program.

Just copy and paste the code below into your webpage or blog.

And then it links to the last two badges from the thank you page.

This is my first Git patch ever, so please review it, and the HTML.  If
the patch should be filed in Bugzilla instead, please let me know.

Thanks.

Paul



On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 10:46 AM, Paul Cutler <pcutler foresightlinux org
<mailto:pcutler foresightlinux org>> wrote:

   Claus,

   On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 10:08 AM, Claus Schwarm
   <clschwarm googlemail com <mailto:clschwarm googlemail com>> wrote:

       I may be wrong, but it seems to me, Jaap has something
       different in mind. What about:


   I attached the archive per Jaap's second email, but I agree with
   your thoughts below there is more we could do.



       (1) Moving Paul's "embedding code" to a separate page, say
       "wgo/friends/spread.html". At least the last two badges could
       also be used by everybody who wants to support the friends of
       GNOME program.

       (2) Offering different image sizes (standard ad sizes) so that
       they are more prominent and fit into other people's layout.


   I like both these ideas.   I think a vision of good in my opinion
   is some of the things EFF does that are similar, though I think
   they could combine some of their different pages:

   Various EFF badges for blogs and such, including different sizes:
 http://www.eff.org/badges/

   More banners and buttons (some banners in flash):
 http://w2.eff.org/campaigns/banners/

   Logos:  http://w2.eff.org/press/logos/

   Flash banners:  http://w2.eff.org/campaigns/flash/

   They offer a number of different sizes, from small to big badges
   for blogs and websites to full size banners that are standard size
   for websites that advertise.

   Similar sites:

   FSF "Play Ogg" campaign has different sized badges right on the
   home page:  http://www.fsf.org/resources/formats/playogg
       Firefox:  http://www.spreadfirefox.com/affiliates/homepage


       (3) Linking the "friends/spread.html" page from the main
       friends of gnome page: "Are you running a blog or website? You
       can help GNOME also by spreading the word about the Friends of
       GNOME program."


   Again, looking at something other non-profits do:

   EFF Help Out (including a "Spread the Word" section):
   http://www.eff.org/helpout



       (4) Making an announcement of the new page (GNOME's main
       mailing list or a blog on planet.gnome.org
       <http://planet.gnome.org>). I guess not many people within the
       GNOME community know these badges exist.

       (5) Adding these badges where we can now: in the sidebar of
       live.gnome.org <http://live.gnome.org>, in a new sidebar of
       the GNOME Journal, in the footer of planet.gnome.org
       <http://planet.gnome.org>, in the footer of
       gnomesupport.org/forums/ <http://gnomesupport.org/forums/>, in
       the footer of bugzilla.gnome.org <http://bugzilla.gnome.org>,
       etc..


   I've added the "Support GNOME" badge to the footer of GNOME Journal.



       Later, we might be able to set up a separate (dynamic)
       infrastructure to serve these ads. Then, we could then switch
       announcements, maybe even track reactions. But there's no need
       to wait for that.

       Best regards,
       Claus


   I will work on "Spread GNOME" type page over lunch today and
   submit a patch we can review that uses some of these ideas.

   Paul



       On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 7:41 AM, Stormy Peters
       <stormy gnome org <mailto:stormy gnome org>> wrote:

           I agree we need Friends of GNOME more prominently on the
           website. I think we will get some of this when we get the
           "ruler" that shows donations towards our goal.

           We do have badges:
           http://www.gnome.org/friends/thank-you.html.

           And Paul Cutler wrote some html that shows code for
           embedding it in your website,

 http://mail.gnome.org/archives/marketing-list/2009-April/msg00019.html.
           (We still need someone with web access to incorporate that
           into the website.)

           Best,

           Stormy


           On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 11:34 PM, Jaap A. Haitsma
           <jaap haitsma org <mailto:jaap haitsma org>> wrote:

               Hi,

               What about "friend of GNOME" button that links to
               http://www.gnome.org/friends/ which people can put on
               their site/blog?

               Furthermore the button can be used on the GNOME site.
               Currently I only
               see a news story about somewhere down on the main page
               so it does not
               really catch attention of many people.

               Jaap






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