On Fri, 2008-05-30 at 12:03 +0100, Chris Rowson wrote: Chris, I agree that setting up a meeting for the entire group is going to be difficult, but not impossible and I think that THIS meeting should involve everyone. We may very well end up with regional meetings later on, but right now we need to resolve the organizational issues at a single meeting of the entire group - or at least as many as can make it.
As for what day of the week, I suggest either Sat. or Sun. since that should avoid any day job conflicts for most people. Amd, given, from the time zone responses, that we have a 13 hr range of time zones, it would seem that something in the early afteroon say 1 or 2 PM UTC would keep the time reasonable for all of us - not too early for those of us at UTC -5 and not too late for those at UTC +8. Also doing it on a Sat. would probably give everyone the most flexibility in the amount of time they can commit to the meeting. I really don't think this is going to be a short meeting :-) and we all should be prepared for that. The urgency of getting organized is another reason that I feel we need to do this at a full team meeting. Regional meetings first would lengthen the time frame of resolving the organizational issues, and I don't think we have that luxury. > I think part of the problem with these meetings is that given the > international basis of the marketing team, whenever you organise one, > someone will be unable to attend. > > I propose that an agenda is fixed, with a set of issues to be > addressed and that the agenda is discussed at a group of regional > meetings. > > The responses to the discussed issues could then be noted and fed > 'back up' to the international level and a decision arrived upon based > on the common consensus of the regional findings. > > Either that, or split the marketing team into regional marketing teams > with the main marketing team as an advice centre for people to discuss > and feed ideas up to. I did this over at ubuntu-uk here > https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-uk-marketing > > Although we've not done much as of yet, it is a good way to identify > people with an interest in marketing in each locality and I'm sure > formalising the process would help get things moving along more > smoothly. > > Chris > -- 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
