On 8/15/06, alan c <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dave Sullivan wrote: > > > > Being a newcomer to the Marketing Team, I thought that this may (or may
Welcome to the team ! > > before, I have a lot of enthusiasm for Ubuntu and would love to promote > > it, but reading the mailing list and looking at the wiki and such, it > > seems somewhat disorganized, and thus I feel discouraged and/or > > intimidated to just hop into a project and go for it. Getting to know the community and its working ways takes time for a newcomer. So you could start out small with wiki page edits, join teams in LP (and corresponding list/channel) which regularly look for people willing to accomplish tasks. Well the Fridge.ubuntu.com is looking for contributions (stories, articles and what-have-you). Send your write-up to <fridge-devel AT lists.ubuntu.com> and we might just publish it. > > I would love to help out, but again, I just feel slightly intimidated. Dont be, there is a lot happening and we would love to have people who are willing to get the work done and delivered. A little more action and less noise please. > In practice, the Ubuntu project has something similar I believe. Actually the Ubuntu community does not have 'management' layers, except ofcourse the Tech board and the CC, if I may call them that. Almost all team memberships are open*, work on a co-op basis and are expected to share responsibility and disperse their skills so to speak. * Except the translation teams to ensure quality. > The upper level of management are probably those who have a financial > responsibility. The assistants may be in more than one level. It is ... actually the volunteers afaik, do not handle money (cash) for teams per se, unless they have taken permission from the CC/Ubuntu or Canonical. Hope that clears things a bit... -- Vid -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
