I just got added to the Google Apps account, and working with Brian, will be creating the G Site at www.drizzle.org, as soon as the DNS CNAME is set up for it.
..m On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 1:24 PM, Henrik Ingo <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all > > At the Drizzle developer day we agreed that anyone interested in > Drizzle community work, marketing work, whatever you may want to call > it, should subscribe to https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-advocacy Since > that is a quiet list, I'm also cross posting this to drizzle-discuss > and will do so for a while, then hopefully gravitate on > drizzle-advocacy for future posts. But the content of this post > deserves wider attention anyway. > > So here we go: Between some heavy traveling the past month, I have > also successfully flushed out final commits and blog posts from my > Winter projects. This allows me to start spending time with new cool > projects and one of them seems to be Drizzle. I'm interested in > focusing my spare late night hours more on stuff like project > governance, marketing and such. Since Drizzle already has such great > contributors, I feel this is an area where I can contribute most. > Let's see where it takes us... > > As a first step, I wrote down what I remember we discussed at the > Drizzle developer day on this topic. > http://wiki.drizzle.org/Marketing > > It is long, but a lot of the stuff is already being done by Drizzle > activists. I wanted to document both things that already work well and > things that are only planned, to get a holistic view of this area. > > Some questions, or action items: > > * Please review the list for correctness. (Especially so if you see > your name there.) > * Please add stuff you think is missing. You can add ideas without > committing to doing it yourself. > * Andrew: Suppose someone wanted to work on www.drizzle.org. Should I > push to the launchpad repo, or will you eventually share passwords and > such? > * Ronald: Same for planet drizzle: please share password with me and > other persons of your choosing. > > BTW, I was juggling "Advocacy", "Community" and "Marketing" for the > title of this page/activity, and it ended up being Marketing. I hope > everyone will understand it the right way and not get any allergic > reactions. > > Looking at the list, my own plans going forward is to spend some time > improving the main website plus Planet Drizzle. That way, as we get > more attention, there's interesting content plus visual for people to > find. > > And when I say improving drizzle.org, I don't necessarily mean I will > be producing any HTML. The whole point of this writeup is that we can > start building teams purely around marketing and community activism, > as is done in some other great projects like Ubuntu, Mozilla and > OpenOffice (R.I.P). In other words, for a person who is a great web > hacker and has zero C++ skills, this will be a great opportunity to do > rather high profile contributions to Drizzle. (And the other bullet > points offer similar opportunities.) > > henrik > > > -- > [email protected] > +358-40-8211286 skype: henrik.ingo irc: hingo > www.openlife.cc > > My LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=9522559 > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-advocacy > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-advocacy > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
