Subject: Re: GNOME Mug Update - msg#00045

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On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 5:56 PM, Shaun McCance <shaunm@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I would avoid hacking-oriented mugs (for FOG, at least. They
> could be great for sale.) Our Friends might not be hackers.
> They might just be grateful and satisfied users. We certainly
> don't want the Gnome image to be hackers-only.

+1. At the same time, these are people who are aware of the GNOME
brand. So I for one think the [computer] + [foot] = [heart] design
would be great for FOG.

(Selfishly, I'd love to give a set of those to our trademark lawyers too ;)

Luis

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On 12 Mar 2008, at 21:56, Shaun McCance wrote: > > On a more productive note, I've always loved the "official > desktop of happy people" tag line. It's very positive, and > very mass-appeal. Ergo, "The official [mug|beverage] of happy people"...? -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:calum.benson@xxxxxxx GNOME Desktop Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems

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GNOME 2.22 and beyond

Hi, I take the opportunity of a new GNOME release to discuss some issues with marketing which are still present. Unfortunately the wiki content about marketing wasnt really updated since 2006, really. I have cleaned up some stuff on http://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing and below. I like to indicate that the pages about Market Segmentation and Target Markets are very much similarm but were also not developed much further besides some minor clean up. So I like to suggest to merge these two pages: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/TargetMarkets and

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Re: GNOME Mug Update

<quote who="Lucas Rocha"> > - "GNOME Milk" (With a white cow full of black GNOME foot marks) I would totally buy this (particularly without any text, except perhaps "GNOME" and a non-cow/milk specific tagline). I also love the [computer] + [foot] = [heart] image. In green, around the mug? Lovely. :-) - Jeff -- GUADEC 2008: Istanbul, Turkey http://www.guadec.org/ "This is the new dividing line in public life. It is not a question of Left versus Right, but a struggle between insiders and outsiders." - Mark Latham

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