On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 10:55 AM, Musayev, Ilya <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Chip,
>
> Here is what I propose, part of this may have already been done.
>
> MeetUp:
> Reach out to CloudStack Groups and sent a note - I've seen this has been done 
> by Karen for NYC, perhaps there is more groups she has not reached out yet
> Reach out to Other User Groups that CloudStack has been presented on in 
> 2012/2013 and ask presenters to send a message to user group organizers about 
> CCC13 so they can share with a group members

I think that Karen has done this for known groups.

>
> LinkedIn:
> Everyone in linkedin must update their personal status - as going to CCC13
> Send a note on LinkedIn CloudStack and Cloud groups about CCC13
>

Has it been promoted in the CloudStack Linked In group (and the EU one) yet?

> Twitter:
> Tweet and ask for retweets

@CloudStack has had lots of tweets scheduled for this already, but
perhaps we need more?

>
> Mailing List:
> Already done, but I would send a notice once a week so that new comers can 
> read and perhaps attend

Who wants to take this up?  users@ and dev@ are the right targets IMO.
 Once a week might be too much, but then again we are not that far
away.

>
> CloudStack.org:
> Needs to have a large banner about CCC13 on the main page

Hmm...  that's a reasonable idea.  What do others think?

>
> Wikipedia:
> Needs to have a link and notice to CCC13
>

Not sure if that's "legal", but somebody can certainly try!  I'd add a
"Conferences" section, and then link to both the 2012 one and this
one.  You'll need to cite the announcements probably.

> Facebook:
> The main image with 2 screens needs to have CCC13 notice

I don't "do" facebook, so I leave this to whomever (Joe?) has that access.

>
>
> If you think of more let me know, lets divide and conquer.
>
> Regards
> ilya
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Chip Childers [mailto:[email protected]]
>> Sent: Monday, May 06, 2013 11:36 AM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: CloudStack Collaboration Conference - Marketing Plan?
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> While most of the event planning work is being done off-list for the
>> upcoming conference, one area that I believe would be great to see the
>> marketing@ community help out with is in coming up with a good marketing
>> plan for the conference.  We're actually (IMO) quite late in both announcing
>> the conference and in promoting it, however I think there's still time to 
>> make
>> an impact.
>>
>> So my first question is: has anyone already come up with a comprehensive
>> marketing plan to promote attendance at the conference?
>>
>> And the follow up: If the answer above is no, then does anyone want to start
>> that up and see if we can get the word out even more broadly?
>>
>> -chip
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