Jonathon, Forgive me if I was a bit brusque earlier, but, for personal reasons, I have been up for over 24 hours straight, and at 60 my kernel can no longer handle that, and I get a bit touchy. Also, there was an earlier exchange involving my wiki that kinda rubbed me the wrong way. I think you caught the residue from that, and for which I apologize.
BTW, you might be interested to know that Van Gogh is one of my favorite artists and personalities, as well as a personal favorite of my 16-uear-old daughter, whose passion also is art. She did her own version of "Starry Nights" last year as an art class assignment. It now hangs in my living room. And I want to thank you for the complments. They are very much appreciated. I am going to eat breakfast and go get some sleep. Be back in several hours. On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 12:20 +0100, RJ wrote: > > 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 > -- Peace! John You do have choice on what operating system you use: http://www.ubuntu.com/ I am an Ubuntu user! My profile: https://launchpad.net/~jbotscharow My wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JohnBotscharow -------------------------------------------------------------- Read my blog: http://hbotscharow.com John Botscharow: Reflections on Religion, Politics & Life -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
