> I have no problem with the marketing team, I was simply annoyed at > needing to file yet more registration details on a new forum.
it is my understanding (and others can correct me if I get any of this wrong) that they have this new forum because: a) they coudn't get a section of their own on the ubuntuforums.org b) they didn't want to use this mailing list because it was a mailing list and thought a forum was more efficient for the large number of people and post they expect to manage in the future. And also they thought that using this list was imposing a "Canonical" control on their activities; and they objected to the fact that they would not be a team in the offical Ubuntu sense until the Community Council approve them as a team. They didn't want to be bothered by all this bureaucracy and what they thought was a "corporate" control by Canonical on their activities and went when on to work directly to solve Malone Bug #1 on their own forum server. (like I said before, that's my understanding from previous posts on this list; feel free to correct me) It appears that leaves us with two marketing team efforts: one on this external forum where they started doing their own discussions. having their own plans, and planning some of their own documents and their own web portal for public outreach, and another team effort that was planned to use this mailing list, and build an official team via the more traditionnal approach (Community Council approved, interaction with other official teams, lauchpad and wiki pages, maybe use the Fridge for public postings, etc). Personally I hope interactions between the 2 approach will occur to avoid too much duplications. But it is also my belief that the later approach is the best on the long run to fully utilize other resources and efforts from other corners of the large Ubuntu community. -- Daniel Robitaille -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
