Hi, Joachim wrote: > No, what I was asking was for the board and perhaps the whole of Gnome > to say whether it needs a marketing team, and what it wants it to do.
Personally, I think that GNOME needs better marketing and promotion. There are two ways that can happen - ad hoc, where people who have things to promote do their best on their own, and people who see gaps fill them as best as they can, or in a semi-organised way, where a group of people with skills perhaps missing from the general population (press relations, writing skills, market analysis) provide support and infrastructure to the greater community. During the boot-strap phase, a big part of that job will be listening to what's happening inside the community and reacting to that, once trust is gained and a track-record is established, people will come to us when they need to promote something, and will listen to key members of the team when we propose a direction for the project. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
