On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 1:26 AM, Alan Pope <[email protected]> wrote: > 2009/11/3 Martin Owens <[email protected]>: > > Perhaps we need an administrative assistant to organize these things, I > > asked about the fridge, I have no idea how to add things to it, other > > promotions such as the loco teams list and the planet would be good too. > > > > It's detailed here:- https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Fridge/Calendar > > I tried to look for information in our wiki, but the meeting was not announced there :-|
> > People's Thoughts? > > > > My thoughts, put simply. > > The Ubuntu community could do with a coordinated marketing effort, and > that requires leadership. If an appropriate person is thinking of > stepping up to the plate to lead the team where no other persons have > expressed an interest, I say go for it. In the event that multiple > persons step up to the plate then some system of selection should be > taken and a leader (or leaders) of the team chosen. > > I have followed the Mozilla, Gnome and Fedora marketing efforts for a while now and honestly they do not have what you define as "leadership", they have people that put their act where their mouth is. No one expecting this or that being done. Rather they have community players that understand how a FLOSS community works, how PR and the media work and coordinate the different activities to gain attention and generate more attention to/awareness of their software and thus more users. More than leadership our team needs: * To define what the team should be doing (writing press releases or adding information to the Ubuntu Technical overview or a noob marketing friendly overview?). We do not have concrete goals/activities. * After defining the activities to be taken we need accountability and responsability assumed by individuals (what you seem to call "leaders"). In other words action! * Strategic, long terms goals aligned with our short term goals * Understand that our activities must be aligned with our releases = Adopt the same cycle that developers have and strive to make our campaigns/activities surf on the synergy generated elsewhere in our community and canalize it > Without leadership this team is destined to languish, whither and die > or meander aimlessly. > > Leadership is necessary in the form of action. I call leaders doers (in the spirit of our Code of Conduct). So let's do this! Please... > Just my 2p. > > I propose a meeting where this is discussed is arranged for sometime > "soon", and is added to the calendar and promoted as necessary. > > Soon should be next week. This week the Ubuntu Open Week might take away part of our target audience. > Cheers, > Al. > > Regards, Rubén Romero https://launchpad.net/~huayra
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