On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 20:11, Alan Pope <[email protected]> wrote: > 2009/11/3 John Vilsack <[email protected]>: > > 1. Let's schedule the meeting right now for 12-November-09 at 0000 > > hours (This is November 11th, 7:00PM for Eastern Time Zone). Alan or > > Danny, could you please add this to the calendar? > > > > Added to the fridge calendar. > > Cheers, > Al. >
Did you add through the Marketing Team calendar? I don't see it there... On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 19:57, John Vilsack <[email protected]> wrote: > Politely, I'm going to run with the idea of a new meeting and hope > that we can work together: > > 1. Let's schedule the meeting right now for 12-November-09 at 0000 > hours (This is November 11th, 7:00PM for Eastern Time Zone). Alan or > Danny, could you please add this to the calendar? > 2009/11/2 Rubén Romero y Cordero <[email protected]> > Soon should be next week. This week the Ubuntu Open Week might take away > part of our target audience. The agenda will consist of the below points, to see how we are moving > along. Primarily, the goal is to see if people are volunteering to > lead or help and in what capacity. We'll make the determination if > this is going to work. > > I will moderate the meeting. Please set it to be in #ubuntu-meeting. > > 2. Mailing Lists are nice, but the first order of business is to > create two signup lists: We need a grassroots registry of people that > can be contacted and activated in times of need. The first list is > people who aren't lurking; people that want to step up and do > something for the Marketing Team if the Marketing Team could get their > crap together. The second list will be of people wanting to LEAD this > group. The die hard nutjobs that want to put in the blood, sweat, > tears, and heartbreak that comes with leading a volunteer community. > > I NEED HELP CREATING THESE REGISTRATIONS. > > If nobody takes charge of this in the next 24 hours, I'll just do it > in Google Spreadsheets. If you are willing, email me offline and > we'll get this created (and transparent). > I'd think this mailing list works for the first one you mentioned, and i think the second list can be done when people step forward: i might not be an actual mailing list, just the leading members (perhaps formalized on the wiki) making sure they include each other in all correspondence. If an actual lists hosted at lists.ubuntu.com is needed, i think that should be discussed at the meeting 3. In the interim between now and the meeting, I want you to think > about the ways a concerted marketing effort can help reinforce the > efforts of the LoCo and the corporate marketing team of Canonical. > This includes the possibilities of creating monthly materials for LoCo > meetings, introductory packets for new users, comparison matrices > against other solutions, etc. Just start brainstorming and have > something you can share. > The marketing team could help, but i'm not sure if making materials really need to be such a centralized effort since we now have the Spread Ubuntu website which makes distributing materials much easier. 4. EVERYONE CAN BE A LEADER. Because this is a community, no person > should ever be turned away. But there needs to be some leadership > here, or people lurk and nothing gets done. I want us to find those > leaders and the first step to that is asking people to step up! > > If you are willing to help lead this charge, you can and should sign > up for the leadership team! Once we have some organization, maybe > things will change for the better! > Aren't we going to decide on leaders at the meeting? We've had many people step up as leaders-- i think we need more ideas on what they're leading us in (what does the team DO?). 5. Finally, its time for a change. There are a few people who do > their own projects, or small groups that move at a snails pace. Its > clear the community at-large wants a change, and Ubuntu needs it now > more than ever. I want this to be completely transparent and a step > in the right direction for the community as a whole, not as a way for > some people to put themselves above one another. > > We can do this! We are all here for the same thing and together we > can help make Ubuntu better! > -- ☮♥Ⓐ - http://www.google.com/profiles/danny.piccirillo
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