> > Another idea put forth was seeing Canonical hire someone to lead the > marketing team while maintaining a model similar to the one existing. > Marketing is a huge job and it is completely understandable why there is no > one to step forward and why previous teams leaders have either burnt out or > became busy with other things (Such as myself with Xubuntu and being a > MOTU). If Canonical were to hire someone, they would have to be hired to > fill the role of the community marketing team leader and not employed to > promote Canonical or its services. For the individual to be useful and > effective, they must simply be any regular, old community contributor who > just happens to be able to fill that role with the support they are > recieving from Canonical. Jono said that he was unsure if this would be able > to materialize due to Canonical growing so fast in so many directions but we > did learn from the Mozilla folks at the session that having someone(s) hired > to work on the marketing seemed to be instrumental in generating the > required momentum. Another interesting tidbit was that Jono said that if a > marketing iniativie requires funds or resources (that are unreasonable for > the loco team or individuals on the project to be able to obtain easily or > via a bit of elbow polish) that they could contact him and he'll be able to > assist them (ie. he'll get his wallet out... erm, as in he'll act as a > liasion to get sponsorship from Canonical). > > A third option was to rebuild the marketing team using a similiar model to > the current one but sourcing a "loco team marketing contact" from each loco > team to build the new marketing team. Possible leadership for this new team > discussed was the loco council.
These two ideas can be combined.
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