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Re: [Gnustep-marketing] GNUstep Foundation
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Nicolas Roard |
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Re: [Gnustep-marketing] GNUstep Foundation |
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Fri, 1 Oct 2004 19:47:25 +0100 |
Le 1 oct. 04, à 10:59, MJ Ray a écrit :
I don't really think we can have worse marketing than what we have
now [...]
Marketing was not a suggested role of the foundation. Also, I think
you are being rude to those who have tried in the past by calling
their efforts "nothing".
I'm sorry, but I'm one of those that "tried in the past", I wrote
severals articles, did some logos/artworks, asked for other's people
artworks, even did the marketing
leaflets that were distributed at the last fosdem, etc. And I'm
continuing to work on promoting GNUstep, because I really think this
project could be
more used/known than it is now, it deserve it, even if not everything
is perfect, the foundation and designs are good.
Yet, I acknowledge that we don't really have a well defined marketing
strategy, and most people's opinion on GNUstep is fuzzy at the best.
When
they don't confond the project with WindowMaker they think it's a dead
project.
If that sadden you, well, that's too bad, but that's the truth, and you
know it.
I'm not saying that the previous efforts were "nothing", just that the
actual impact is close to it.
We need to do more marketing, but setting up a corporation is a huge
piece of work and long-term investment which will do little to help
with it.
The foundation and the marketing are not automatically tied (the
foundation will probably not do the marketing itself after all, it will
more likely
be a group of volounteers as today). But a foundation gives us more
credibility, a central place to send/get money, etc.
A foundation does not need to be a corporation -- in France, it could
just be a non-profit organization, you just need to go and register.
I'm not
in the US and I don't know how it works here, but if Greg want do
create a Foundation, I trust him. I think he knows what kind of work he
expose
himself to.
Although I agree that the exact roles of the Foundation needs to be
more discussed and detailed, I really don't think we should use the
FSF, because
- it's not the FSF role, they don't have manpower for that
- they are not as involved in the project as us (euphemism)
--
Nicolas Roard
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
-Arthur C. Clarke
- Re: [Gnustep-marketing] GNUstep Foundation, (continued)
- Re: [Gnustep-marketing] GNUstep Foundation, Gregory John Casamento, 2004/10/01
- Re: [Gnustep-marketing] GNUstep Foundation, MJ Ray, 2004/10/01
- Re: [Gnustep-marketing] GNUstep Foundation, Alex Perez, 2004/10/01
- Re: [Gnustep-marketing] GNUstep Foundation, MJ Ray, 2004/10/01
- Re: [Gnustep-marketing] GNUstep Foundation, Gregory John Casamento, 2004/10/01
- Re: [Gnustep-marketing] GNUstep Foundation, MJ Ray, 2004/10/01
- Re: [Gnustep-marketing] GNUstep Foundation, Gregory John Casamento, 2004/10/01
- Re: [Gnustep-marketing] GNUstep Foundation, MJ Ray, 2004/10/01
Re: [Gnustep-marketing] GNUstep Foundation, Nicolas Roard, 2004/10/01
Re: [Gnustep-marketing] GNUstep Foundation, Alex Perez, 2004/10/01
Re: [Gnustep-marketing] GNUstep Foundation, MJ Ray, 2004/10/01
Re: [Gnustep-marketing] GNUstep Foundation, Gregory John Casamento, 2004/10/01
Re: [Gnustep-marketing] GNUstep Foundation, MJ Ray, 2004/10/01
Re: [Gnustep-marketing] GNUstep Foundation, Nicola Pero, 2004/10/01