1. Day 1 - Brand brainstorming
Participants: aday, andreasn, fabiana, gonyere, karenesq, marina, sri
- A brand helps people think about the GNOME project
- All marketing activities should focus on promoting that brand
- A brand not only reaches for outsiders, but also empower our own community to promote the project consistently.
- Who are you? What do you do? Why does it matter? (The Brand Gap: How to Bridge the Distance Between Business Strategy and Design - 2005)
1.1. Who are we?
- A community (of who?)
- Contributors
- Volunteers, hobbyists, professionals, students, companies (other non-profits), users (people, government, educational institutions...)
- Diversity: Designers, artists, writers, developers, translators, MAKERS
- Freedom fighters
- A non profit
- International
- Independent
- Governance: Collaboration, transparent, democratic
- Leaders (OPW)
1.2. What do we do?
- We make GNOME
- A unique user experience (personal computing experience)
- For laptops and desktops
Unique >> Pleasant, acessible, easy, simple, safe + FREE
- Acessible not only in the usual sense of accessibility (your mother can use it)
- A unique user experience (personal computing experience)
- Fix things at the source (do it properly)
- Work across the stack - with other projects (collaboration, cooperation)
- Community engagement + Outreach
- Teach and inspire to other projects
- Teach/mentor students
- Teach and inspire to other projects
- Make reusable technologies
- Make Free software better
- Why don't we make Windows? What aren't we satisfied with the other options?
1.3. Why does it matter?
- Empower people to create
- Openness to participation, irrespective of background
- Everyone is equal, based on participation. Equal potential
- We are unique - easy to use, open
- We want to make the world a better place
- We create opportunites for people (to learn, gain experience, see above)
- Independence from individual corporations
- Shared/pooled resources
- We care about people
- Respect and value community
- Promote transparency
- We provide a choice
Other keywords:
- Inclusive
- Welcoming
- Craftmanship
- User-centered
- ACTION: Improving the "Get GNOME" page
- Up to distros to keep installation instructions updated, we just need to point people in that direction.