Hi all At the Drizzle developer day we agreed that anyone interested in Drizzle community work, marketing work, whatever you may want to call it, should subscribe to https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-advocacy Since that is a quiet list, I'm also cross posting this to drizzle-discuss and will do so for a while, then hopefully gravitate on drizzle-advocacy for future posts. But the content of this post deserves wider attention anyway.
So here we go: Between some heavy traveling the past month, I have also successfully flushed out final commits and blog posts from my Winter projects. This allows me to start spending time with new cool projects and one of them seems to be Drizzle. I'm interested in focusing my spare late night hours more on stuff like project governance, marketing and such. Since Drizzle already has such great contributors, I feel this is an area where I can contribute most. Let's see where it takes us... As a first step, I wrote down what I remember we discussed at the Drizzle developer day on this topic. http://wiki.drizzle.org/Marketing It is long, but a lot of the stuff is already being done by Drizzle activists. I wanted to document both things that already work well and things that are only planned, to get a holistic view of this area. Some questions, or action items: * Please review the list for correctness. (Especially so if you see your name there.) * Please add stuff you think is missing. You can add ideas without committing to doing it yourself. * Andrew: Suppose someone wanted to work on www.drizzle.org. Should I push to the launchpad repo, or will you eventually share passwords and such? * Ronald: Same for planet drizzle: please share password with me and other persons of your choosing. BTW, I was juggling "Advocacy", "Community" and "Marketing" for the title of this page/activity, and it ended up being Marketing. I hope everyone will understand it the right way and not get any allergic reactions. Looking at the list, my own plans going forward is to spend some time improving the main website plus Planet Drizzle. That way, as we get more attention, there's interesting content plus visual for people to find. And when I say improving drizzle.org, I don't necessarily mean I will be producing any HTML. The whole point of this writeup is that we can start building teams purely around marketing and community activism, as is done in some other great projects like Ubuntu, Mozilla and OpenOffice (R.I.P). In other words, for a person who is a great web hacker and has zero C++ skills, this will be a great opportunity to do rather high profile contributions to Drizzle. (And the other bullet points offer similar opportunities.) henrik -- [email protected] +358-40-8211286 skype: henrik.ingo irc: hingo www.openlife.cc My LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=9522559 _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
