Re: [gNewSense-users] gnewsense marketing

[David Sterry]

Hello,

I've been interested in marketing gNewSense since it's pure free 
software and nearly all-inclusive. I've been mentioning it in comments I 
write to stories on popular websites like Cnet, Zdnet, and Slashdot. If 
we are to let more people know about gNewSense comments like these can 
help bring in users that never would have been exposed to it. To not be 
simply spamming, they do need to make sense in the context of the 
article at hand so it's important to write them well.

In regards to the use of the word marketing, the word market is on the 
list of words to avoid on the GNU site(that's linked to the gNS site) 
but the concept there is just not see users as a market that we want to 
penetrate. It's a social movement about freedom so I think it's always 
best to mention gNewSense as the best way to have freedom while using 
your computer.

Lastly, I think if we are to have some sort of campaign where we contact 
publications, there should be a list of the largest publications of any 
type, the contact info for each, and who's responsible for contacting 
whom, the result of each contact, etc. I'm thinking of a light CRM type 
webapp. I don't know of or have experience with anything specific here 
but SugarCRM comes to mind though there's probably something lighter.

Thanks for reading,

David Sterry
http://trygnulinux.com