> You are assuming that everyone in the community understands marketing. > That, IMHO, is a DANGEROUS assumption. That's like assuming everyone who > has a driver's license knows how to drive WELL or everyone who owns a > gun REALLY knows how to use it. You can get killed that way!
I'm not assuming anything close to that. I'm assuming that when I visit ubuntu marketing team wiki page, I want to learn things about ubuntu marketing team, its actions and its members, how to contribute... Things directly related to the subject of the page. I'm not saying your articles couldn't be useful to some of our readers nor I wanted to offend you. Just stating that articles related to marketing as a whole should be put, IMO, in a "Link" or "Resources" page. The best would even be to add them as links/resources when we will be writting guidelines / howto. There, they could be way more useful because directly related to the ubuntu content they belong with. Maybe I don't make it very clear, but the idea is to link theoritycal content with ubuntu marketing actions. Learning theoritycal marketing without direct goal/action is of no use for the common user. > Besides, the more you know about your job/task, the better your results > will be. I couldn't agree more, and that's exactly my point. You have a howto + the theoritycal article going along with it, you are able to make it better than by just having the howto on a hand and the theoritycal content on the other one. > I stopped writing marketing > articles a couple of years ago, but it has crossed my mind to perhaps go > back to writing some specficially for the team. Beside the bad feeling my last email seemed to give you, I'd like you to write articles for the ubuntu marketing team. They would be useful for whoever wants to "get it further" than just the howto. > As far as driving traffic to my personal wiki goes, that is not > important to me. I would rather people went to the TEAM wiki, which is > why I put the marketing category link at the bottom of my page and why I > have links to the team on both my wiki and my profile. I never took that wrong, and I could already have bet on the fact you didn't care of your wiki traffic. You seem to be a very dedicated guy. > Since when does giving people knowledge confuse them? People are only > confused when they LACK knowledge. And knowledge is one thing you can > never get too much of. Gimme a book about Van Gogh's life and way of painting while I'm drawing, and you will confuse me. Maybe that's just me..? I think that if you give your users theoritycal content while they try to put ideas in action you will confuse them. There are (atleast) 2 times in a learning process : the time where you try to understand how it works, and the time where you try to understand how what you learnt could serve you and how to put it in action. Just my 2 cents, no offence. Jonathan -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
