[CREATE] CREATE Digest, Vol 69, Issue 16

[jon at rejon.org]

Sure, who works there? I don't know anyon there, but I bet someone
from canonical can hook it up? which canonical employees are on this
list? or I can just email robbie....or susan can ask her significant
other ;)

Jon

On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 2:01 AM, Susan Spencer <susan.spencer at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dell ships computers preloaded with Linux.
> Perhaps they are interested in cultivating
> customers within the open source community.
>
> - Susan
>
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>>
>> Message: 3
>> Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2011 03:31:06 -0500
>> From: Jon Phillips <jon at rejon.org>
>> Subject: Re: [CREATE] Access to LGM website
>> To: Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com>
>> Cc: create at lists.freedesktop.org
>> Message-ID: <1300609866.4094.11.camel at slobook>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
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>> On Sat, 2011-03-19 at 13:37 -0400, Gregory Pittman wrote:
>> > On 03/19/2011 10:19 AM, jon at rejon.org wrote:
>> > > Have youbguya donated or blogged about the upcoming Conference?
>> >
>> > One of the things I think we should address formally is the idea of paid
>> > advertising on the LGM site. I'm not talking about just any old ads
>> > regarding p3nis enlargement or the benefits of acai berries, but some
>> > graphics-related ads (example: Adobe). Or even various players in the
>> > computing realm, open source or not (Ubuntu, Dell, HP, IBM, RedHat,
>> > Google).
>> >
>> > We live currently (subject to change) in a time where it seems to be
>> > accepted in some form, at various sites where free information is
>> > provided, that some ads will be seen on the sidebars that pay the way
>> > for this free information.
>>
>> Sure, I'm game for targeted ads if they are relevant, but not for
>> generic unrelated google text ads. There is still some void in finding
>> targeted ads for projects like ours, which essentially is matching
>> compatible companies who can benefit from our community and vice-versa.
>> I know some people working on this, but its not there yet...
>>
>> >
>> > Have we extended a special invitation for those involved in Google
>> > Summer of Code to come see what LGM is all about, so we can generate
>> > some esteem on their part for our various projects? It doesn't matter if
>> > this year's GSoC is already decided by the time LGM2011 happens.
>>
>> I asked Google, and Google is giving us 5K so far, but yes, I will
>> followup in the thread about GSoC participating. I've become friends
>> with the new GSoC manager, Carol.
>>
>> > Have we rolled out the red carpet (so to speak) for HP, with its heavy
>> > investment and involvement in graphics printing, to be an honored guest
>> > at LGM? (With the tacit backup of contacting Canon or Epson or Brother
>> > or Lexmark -- ok, we'll be happy with money, but we want you to come
>> > too)
>>
>> I emailed Keith Packard at Intel and BDale at HP, hoping their companies
>> will sponsor, but yes, hope that we can get more support and
>> participation from people from those companies. We've never had a good
>> time getting the other printing companies on-board. They redirect to
>> lame sales people.
>>
>> > Have we talked to any of these people about linking to LGM from their
>> > sites? (we're really not threatening to them in any way -- we're pretty
>> > benign compared to their real competitors)
>>
>> That's an interesting idea. Google is the most healthy in this aspect,
>> but unless there is a deeper committment, most companies have a hard
>> time promoting others.
>>
>> >
>> > Let's make LGM2011 viral.
>>
>> Other ideas? Keep them flowing! The most potent viral campaigns are
>> original content, and not gimmicks. Things like LGMag, etc are great,
>> but videos of me and eric hahahahhahaa ;) just kidding...
>>
>> Jon
>>
>>
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