Re: marketing hackfest?

[Fabiana Simões <fabianapsimoes gmail com>]

(Karen, sorry for re-posting, I noticed I forgot to reply to all. I'll forward your reply to me.)

 

I'd love to get this scheduled! It's looking like scheduling around
theJune 24-25 makes sense from looking at people's preferences. Allan do
you know if you're unavailable from the 26th? Sri, could you add your
availability?

June 24-25 would be a bit hard for me. I leave Copenhagen early on the 23rd, arriving in Rio 20h55 on that same day. In order to be in NY on the 24th, I'd need to catch a flight right after landing here (and, still, I'd only make it to JFK mid-afternoon).

Besides that, if Allan indeed needs to be back to the UK on the 26th, I guess it would be hard for him to be at the Hackfest and also get on a flight home on the 25th.

Would July 1-2 work, perhaps?

On 21 April 2013 09:45, Karen Sandler <karen gnome org> wrote:

On Thu, April 4, 2013 10:20 am, Allan Day wrote:
> Karen Sandler <karen gnome org> wrote:
>>>>>> As per Tobi's email, we should consider again whether to organize a
>>>>>> marketing hackfest! Shaun has suggested co-locating with the docs
>>>>>> sprint
>>>>>> in Cincinatti June 17-19.
>>> ...
>>>>>> What do people think? Would it be workable this time and if so would
>>>>>> having it in June make sense?

I'd love to get this scheduled! It's looking like scheduling around
theJune 24-25 makes sense from looking at people's preferences. Allan do
you know if you're unavailable from the 26th? Sri, could you add your
availability?

> As for things that we could work on, there are a number of priority
> areas for me:
>
>  * Marketing materials - we could use the opportunity to move our
> existing content over to OwnCloud and fill in any blanks
>  * Updating the brand guidelines and move them to a restricted
> location (this would include elaborating them to cover things like
> visual style, colour schemes, etc)
>  * Writing a GNOME mission statement
>
> For some of these items, particularly the last one, we will need more
> expertise than the marketing team has. If we are going to tackle these
> tasks - and I think that a hackfest would be a good opportunity to do
> so - we should think about getting other people to the event, either
> from the GNOME community and/or specialists who can help us to
> articulate our message.

These are the people we identified before as good people to help contribute:

 * Allan
 * Andreas
 * Emmanuele
 * Karen
 * Garrett
 * Jon McCann
 * Lucas Rocha
 * Vincent
 * Stormy
 * Sri

 * Jim Nelson (Yorba)
 * Guy Lunardi (Collabora)
 * John Sullivan (FSF)
 * Alex (Skud) Bayley
 * Nick Richards (formerly Intel)
 * Karl Fogel
 * Havoc Pennington

If we get the date settled, I can invite them, or we can even set up a
call to discuss it, with some people in person. Anyone else to add?

karen

>
> (And if we do want to get other members of the community involved, New
> York might be a better location.)
>
> Allan
>