Hi Garth,

thank you for your lines and advertising GIMP and - even more - encouraging people to make art without having an expensive equipment. Your art looks great!

Kind regards,

Sven

Hi Garth,

I think most devs read the user mailing list (this one). There is also a GIMP developer list (
https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list ). Yet in your case though, the user ml is better suited. So you did well. I don't think we really want to make it a habit to have the dev list used for user promotion.

At least if your goal is just to say thank you, you are welcome, and I think you are already in the right place. :-) If your goal here is rather to spread the self-promotion, the user mailing list is ok for this too, I'd say.

Note that as far as I know, we don't have an official promotional team, or at least it is not about generic GIMP user promotion (see gimp.org to see what kind of news are published by the dev team). Though, there are a bunch of interesting media. For instance you might want to contact GIMP magazine (gimpmagazine.org/), Libre Graphics World (libregraphicsworld.org), Libre Graphics Mag (libregraphicsmag.com/), and whatever other computer graphics publication. :-)
Have fun!

Jehan

On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 11:26 PM, Garth MindFeather wrote:

I haven't been able to figure out how to share this message with the GIMP developers more directly, so maybe some people here can help spread this message?

http://blog.flickr.net/en/2013/05/03/modern-day-salvador-dali/

I'm an amateur photographer and photo artist. I make almost no money at my data entry job, and just have a point-and-shoot camera and GIMP.

For the past two years I've been using and experimenting with GIMP, and for the past year or so it's been my only graphics manipulation software. I completely believe in the Open Source programming philosophy and the amazing work everyone who helps out with GIMP is doing.

This past Friday, March 3rd, the Flickr Blog and Yahoo! Studios posted a three minute video of the work I've been doing with GIMP, which you can get to at the link above. I thought people who were instrumental with the creation of GIMP might want to know about that success.

I'm frequently asked if I use photoshop in my images, and I'm proud to tell people, "Not anymore. GIMP is my go-to software of choice."

Thank you so much, all of you, for all you do to make this such an amazing and powerful and easily accessible piece of software. You are the best!!

If anyone knows how I can more directly reach the developers and promoters of this software I'd love to let them know. Thanks for your help with this.

yours in peace and inspiration, -=-
Garth Hill
Photomaginarium at Flickr
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On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 9:51 PM, Jehan Pags wrote:

Note that as far as I know, we don't have an official promotional team, or at least it is not about generic GIMP user promotion

Yeeeah, that dedicated Google+ page, circled by ca. 30K users, just materialized from thin air :)

Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org

Hi,

On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 2:57 AM, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:

On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 9:51 PM, Jehan Pagès wrote:

Note that as far as I know, we don't have an official promotional team, or at least it is not about generic GIMP user promotion

Yeeeah, that dedicated Google+ page, circled by ca. 30K users, just materialized from thin air :)

Ahah ok. As I don't use social networks, I didn't know about the G+ page. :-) For me, the official promotion was the GIMP website.

Maybe I should start using some of these stuff for promotional reasons too, though I don't enjoy much all these "concentrated" pieces of the web. :-/ Maybe the GIMP Google+ account could be my first ever usage of social networks…
Thanks for the info.

Jehan

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On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 10:04 PM, Jehan Pags wrote:

For me, the official promotion was the GIMP website.

I wonder how that is possible for a website that has no linkable news pages or news archive or basic taxonomy.

One of the reasons that G+ page exists is that it's impossible to do any promotion on gimp.org.

Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org

Hi,

On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 3:08 AM, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:

On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 10:04 PM, Jehan Pagès wrote:

For me, the official promotion was the GIMP website.

I wonder how that is possible for a website that has no linkable news pages or news archive or basic taxonomy.

One of the reasons that G+ page exists is that it's impossible to do any promotion on gimp.org.

Well… that's what I was saying. :-)

For Google+, I know it became kind of a habit for many people to first search in social networks (Facebook, G+, Twitter, whatever some company will do next), but my personal only habit is to search in a web engine and I don't even have accounts for any network (I actually have an unused one for G+ because I tested hangouts once or twice). And if I search "GIMP" on google for instance, the website is the first answer, and the G+ page is not even in the first page. And on our official website, there is apparently no link to the G+ page (I found only a link in a 2012 news). So yeah if we are to consider it as the main GIMP information/promotion medium (which I find sad, but whatever), maybe the website should say so. Anyway just saying.

Jehan

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Hi,

I agree with Jehan: if one searches "GIMP" on Google for instance, the website www.gimp.org is the first answer, and the G+ page is not even on the first page.
On the other hand the G+ site has its advantages, too, especially when its about easily spread and quick information. Why not use the advantages of both solutions by simply adding a link to that G+ page or integrating the news from the G+ account into the news timeline on www.gimp.org?

As the topic is moving away from the original posters topic, lets continue the discussion on the gimp-web mailing list.

Kind regards,

Sven