Hi all, I've been distracted with trips recently, but I had chance to discuss Friends of GNOME with Tobi during GNOME.Asia. I think we can try and turn this discussion into a set of more realistic actions.
First, when it comes to sending updates to existing donors, it would make sense to tie this in with events where we are already generating material. The two main opportunities I see here are releases and GUADEC. For releases, we can send out a mail on release day, thanking donors and pointing to the release notes. This will hopefully make them feel like they have contributed to our achievements. For GUADEC, I think it would be a good idea to take a photo of everyone who was sponsored to attend (this should be easy enough to do when we take the group picture). We can then mail this to donors along with some thank you text. Other actions to consider: * Come up with a pretty HTML design for Friends of GNOME emails. * Review whether we want to continue sending gifts. * Review existing email texts. See .txt files here - http://hg.cryptobitch.de/gnome-paypal/file/8a05cdc4f90d * Set up an automated thank you email, to be sent on the anniversary that the account was set up. * Split out one time donations and campaigns from Friends of GNOME: update the website [1], create new emails. When we run a campaign, send an email advertising it to Friends of GNOME members. * Promote Friends of GNOME using social media: come up with a list of post topics, decide on a schedule to send them out, recruit volunteers to write them. Maybe we can go over this list at a future meeting. Allan [1] Some basic "schematic" mockups - https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5031519/friends-of-gnome/web-pages.png _______________________________________________ engagement-list mailing list engagement-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/engagement-list
