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Last week from Tuesday until Friday(May 4-7, 2010), the city of Zaragoza and the Aragon Regional Government hosted our GNOME 3.0 Marketing Hackfest.

We had a really productive and busy week, working on the marketing plans and actions for launching GNOME 3.0.

The main subjects were:

GNOME 3 Website:

As Andreas already said, the goal is create a website with videos showing the new great and amazing things on GNOME 3, the new website will be more integrated with social networks, in this way we will have a dynamical content from user in social networks.

Website Mockup by Andreas

GNOME 3 Talking Points:

Yes, we compile everything cool (or the most)  you should know about GNOME 3. I should confess I was a resistant old GNOME look and feel user(I love my GNOME panel), and working on the plans for launching the GNOME 3 was really convinced about all the changes. The new GNOME is amazing and it is more, much more than we can see.

The new Ambassadors project:

A new way to get more contributors at the project and spread the GNOME at the world. Our goal is provide all the infra for the new ambassadors, everyone will feel comfortable to talk about GNOME in conferences, universities and regional groups. Take look at our almost done draft http://live.gnome.org/Ambassadors

Video Story boards:

The story boards for new videos on the new GNOME 3 website were created. Now we just need to film then

Sumana has summarized all the work we have done during the week at the hackfest in her blog.

We talked to members of the local community that are doing a great work developing free software in their companies as Ignacio Correas in EBOX and Felix Ontanon and Juan Ojeda in  Emergya.

You can see more pics here.

Thanks all the attendees Stormy, Jason, Vincent, Andreas, Sumana, Paul, Bharat, Ryan and Dani, it was a pleasure work with you.

Thanks Agustín, Albert and Ignacio for the hospitality.

And of course, many thanks for our sponsors: Zaragoza Municipality, Aragon Regional Government, Technological Institute of Aragon (ITA), ASOLIF, CESLA and the GNOME Foundation .

Alexandro Silva, Licio and Rodrigo Padula

Against the Murphy’s law, I could arrive safety at Foz do Iguassu and be able to talk at Latinoware Conference. It is other story, If I tell you that you will sit at the corner and cry!

Let’s talk about the Gnome Forum! We got a room where we spent all the day talking about GNOME, I started our forum talking about GNOME Love and how to join gnome, it was amazing!

The second one was Rodrigo Flores, Portuguese translation coordinator,  talking about our translation project. It was very clarify about a lot of aspects. Unfortunately in room beside us was having a presentation about blender and it was really noisy!

Rodrigo Flores talking about translations

The next one was Alessandro Binhara talking about Mono and the Mono Brasil Project. His speech was very funny using some star wars characters…he was followed by Izabel Valverde and Luciana Freitas, their presentation was about the GNOME Women Project, unfortunately I was at our stand talking to some users.

Vinicius Depizzol gave a talk about reorganizing the gnome users experience and ends the forum we got Tiago showing some gnome personalizations, I heard at the alleys that people was excited about the gnome-shell showed by Tiago!

Outside the Gnome Forum, Alexandro Silva, gnome sysadmin team, talked about linux hardening and the room was completely full of people!

It was easy find Vinicius and Everaldo making some private hack parties wherever was possible, I heard through the grapevine that they made some changes at the nautilus..

Vinicius Depizzol and Everaldo Canutos hacking..

Our stand received hundreds of visitors(users and developers), for each question two was about GNOME 3

Among our visitor was a kde developer, that always had a puzzle for us!

Alexandro Silva, Tomaz Canabrava(kde) e Licio

could you be in a puzzle chalenger with this guy?

The Forum was really awesome, meet the friends always is good and healthy, met new friends is also good! Thanks all GNOME-BR guys: Vinicius, Alexandro, Everaldo, Rodrigo Flores and mainly Izabel that made it happens. It was nice met the ubuntu-br guys: Duda and Pretto, the fedora guys( Rodrigo Padula, Jayme and Duli) the kde people: Tomaz Canabrava and Anne-Marie , Arnaldo(acme) and everybody else

Everaldo Canuto, Licio and Vinicius