On Wed, 2010-10-27 at 15:34 +0200, Henne Vogelsang wrote: > Hey, > > On 27.10.2010 09:00, Bryen M. Yunashko wrote: > > > This is one of the priorities we discussed last week at our BoF and we > > really need to go out into the community and over a long period of time > > seek out qualified folks who can write such articles. > > I'm sorry i missed the BoF, it clashed with the appstore one, but i beg > to disagree. Basically I think the openSUSE Marketing team needs to > transition from an "call for action/organizing" to a "action" team. I > also think, given the recent months, you're already half-way there. We > need you guys to step up and make it happen. > > That means that with this opportunity to market openSUSE you need to > come up with a prioritized list of things to write about (things YOU > deem important) and then go ahead (individuals or as team) and write > them. If you in the course of writing them need input or technical help > you approach experts directly or ask specific things on the appropriate > mailinglist/forum/whatever. > > The recent months have shown that to make blogposts, articles or > announcements happen it needs the marketing team to take care of this > and the success has shown that you are more than capable to deliver > great media. I would like to strongly encourage you to explore this > direction further! > > Henne > > P.S. Sorry if I come across as someone who is telling you what to do but > i really really liked what you guys did so far. Don't stop now :) > > -- > Henne Vogelsang, openSUSE. > Everybody has a plan, until they get hit. > - Mike Tyson
Honestly, I don't think what you said is a disagreement but rather an agreement. :-) The point of my statement was that part of the team building includes recruiting people to join the marketing team as writers. And we've got some good folks already. Not many in the team currently have article writing skills, though I have always felt that deep down, everyone has the skills, they just haven't seen it in themselves yet. :-) Thus far, our marketing team has been one that is based on people coming to the team and saying "I wanna do...." And there's more out there that we can reach out to and say "You can do..." I once again re-iterate that everyone is a marketer, they just don't know it yet. :-) We need more writers. Plain and simple. We need to go beyond just the wait until someone comes by mentality we've been doing so far. Bryen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscr...@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+h...@opensuse.org
