[ubuntu-marketing] Marketing Team Meeting Summary
Marketing Team Meeting Summary == Introduction == Christina Armstrong, Canonical Communications Manager, introduced herself to the team. * Job is to help Canonical employees and the community at large with guidance and advice, as well as work on the public image of both Canonical and the Ubuntu project. * Guiding the refreshing of the websites and other things == Ideas forwarded == * Press Release translations o It would be nice, but how to do it without leakage is unknown. == Case Studies == * Some really cool case studies have come through. Some will be published soon. == DIY Marketing == * This is a morph of SpreadUbuntu o Basis of DIY is to collect DIY Marketing reasources, ie - Provide quick access to digital-format material - list people who provide ready-made DIY, - provide direction to good places to find out how to make your own DIY (preferably located on wiki) - encourage people to contribute * A website to facilitate this is almost done * Will need a vetting process for new $STUFF once established == UWN == * Need to work out a way to prevent tardiness of the issues. o Content is not really an issue - workforce is o Set work sprints proposed (Wednesdays between 19-21UTC and Saturday 04-06UTC ) o As the tardiness is also a result of Corey being busy and not feeding Feisty Changes (etc) through, Corey needs to document so others can take over if need be. == Mailing list == * Getting spammed - recruit needed to help Jenda and Poningru * Somerville32 volunteered == Herd2 Doc == * Not due until Jan 11th, but we need to bear it in mind. -- Sincerely Melissa Draper http://www.meldraweb.com Phone: 0404 595 395 (intl): +61 404 595 395 P.O Box 1412 Lavington, NSW 2641 -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list ubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Marketing Team Meeting Summary
Jason;I understand your point, but I think that we must explain our reasoninig to others that were not in the meeting. As far as I understand we are doing this becuase we had bits and pieces of inforamtion all over the place. We are trying to get things organized and prunning the list was part of th effort. As I uderstand you can add your name to your Lunchpad anytime and after 30 days the memebership would be expanded to a whooe year membership. Other teams in Launchpad are doing tihs too. For example, if anyone wants to join the Spanish translation team you need to first need to prenset yourselve to the list and then you need to help out trsnaltion, you are then aprroved and after a year you ar eremoved if you do not collaborate. You are can still be in the mailing list. We need to do this in order to organize and sort things out. Please bear with us during this process as we don't want to aliniate anyone. As matthew said we expect to have more communication and discussion on the mailing list from now on. So please keep on expressing you ideas and opinions. On 6/29/06, Jason Macklin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello to everyone,I'm new to both Ubuntu and the Marketing Team so maybe my insight tothis issue is incomplete. I've been using various flavors of linuxfor about 6 to 7 years now. As my job has changed so has my knowledge of linux and unix.I discovered Ubuntu about a year ago and really fell for it enoughthat I wanted to play a larger part in "spreading the word." Becausemy activism in the open source community is non-existent I wanted to ease into the process as a sort of spectator. All of these emailsback and forth seem to want to thwart that idea. Have you allforgotten what it was like to be new to something as special asubuntu? Or were all of you weened on linux? Don't invoke some method to remove people. In the end it will onlyprove to be counter-productive. Why take the chance of alienatingsomeone that could do great things for the community in the future? I realize that my usage of the term "all" is not fair. Not everyoneis sold on this idea. But this is most certainly a turn down thewrong road. Community is supposed to be accepting and helpful. You shouldn't be thinking of ways to thin the list, but rather ways tofurther insight members to become more active.If this sort of thinking continues I will certainly be less inclinedto participate and would even consider letting my account lapse so that I wouldn't need to go through the trouble of disassociatingmyself from this effort.Regards,Jason MacklinOn 6/29/06, Matthew Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:> On 29/06/06, Matt Galvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:>> > It will certainly be nice to include info about what the Marketing Team> > is up to each week, especially when there is significant progress such > > as when SpreadUbuntu launches and such.>> I'm sure we can thrash something out each week on the list or the> wiki. I noticed that, in #ubuntu-meeting before the marketing meeting,> someone looked at the day's schedule and said, "Marketing team? New to > me!" or similar. Extra exposure in UWN will help greatly.>> --> Matthew Revell> www.understated.co.uk>> --> ubuntu-marketing mailing list > ubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing >--Jason Macklin--ubuntu-marketing mailing listubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list ubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Marketing Team Meeting Summary
Hello to everyone, I'm new to both Ubuntu and the Marketing Team so maybe my insight to this issue is incomplete. I've been using various flavors of linux for about 6 to 7 years now. As my job has changed so has my knowledge of linux and unix. I discovered Ubuntu about a year ago and really fell for it enough that I wanted to play a larger part in "spreading the word." Because my activism in the open source community is non-existent I wanted to ease into the process as a sort of spectator. All of these emails back and forth seem to want to thwart that idea. Have you all forgotten what it was like to be new to something as special as ubuntu? Or were all of you weened on linux? Don't invoke some method to remove people. In the end it will only prove to be counter-productive. Why take the chance of alienating someone that could do great things for the community in the future? I realize that my usage of the term "all" is not fair. Not everyone is sold on this idea. But this is most certainly a turn down the wrong road. Community is supposed to be accepting and helpful. You shouldn't be thinking of ways to thin the list, but rather ways to further insight members to become more active. If this sort of thinking continues I will certainly be less inclined to participate and would even consider letting my account lapse so that I wouldn't need to go through the trouble of disassociating myself from this effort. Regards, Jason Macklin On 6/29/06, Matthew Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 29/06/06, Matt Galvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It will certainly be nice to include info about what the Marketing Team > is up to each week, especially when there is significant progress such > as when SpreadUbuntu launches and such. I'm sure we can thrash something out each week on the list or the wiki. I noticed that, in #ubuntu-meeting before the marketing meeting, someone looked at the day's schedule and said, "Marketing team? New to me!" or similar. Extra exposure in UWN will help greatly. -- Matthew Revell www.understated.co.uk -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list ubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing -- Jason Macklin -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list ubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Marketing Team Meeting Summary
On 29/06/06, Matt Galvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It will certainly be nice to include info about what the Marketing Team is up to each week, especially when there is significant progress such as when SpreadUbuntu launches and such. I'm sure we can thrash something out each week on the list or the wiki. I noticed that, in #ubuntu-meeting before the marketing meeting, someone looked at the day's schedule and said, "Marketing team? New to me!" or similar. Extra exposure in UWN will help greatly. -- Matthew Revell www.understated.co.uk -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list ubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Marketing Team Meeting Summary
Hi Robert, On 29/06/06, Robert McWilliam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The first mention I saw on the list of the idea of deleting people was the sumary from the meeting, and then action was taken without waiting to see if there were any objections from people on the list. Not everybody can make it to meetings in IRC That's a very good point. We should throughly discuss decisions on the mailing list before meetings, allowing people who can't make it to the meeting to put forward their view. If we're having fortnightly meetings then, at the very least, we should perhaps agree the agenda on the list the week before, so all the issues get some chance of discussion here. As I understood it, we agreed to prune the wiki member list, as it's superceded by Launchpad, and then contact each person removed from the wiki member list to let them know about the Launchpad team. That just seemed to make practical sense to me, as the wiki pages are/were out of date, plus Launchpad is the best way to handle members. The discussion in this thread seems to be about people being removed from the Launchpad team - I didn't think that was what we agreed in the meeting. If that's what happened, then let's look upon this as a learning experience, pointing to a need for improved communication. I apologise for everything that I've sent to this list attacking people who are trying to get things done, but I think we have to be very careful that it is the right things are done, and that we dont exclude anyone from the descision making process because they were unable to get on IRC at a certain time. Now that the marketing team has moved back to the mailing list and we're planning to have regular IRC meetings, I think it'll take a short while for things like this to settle down. To sort this particular issue out, I'd say we need to: * Discuss things on the mailing list to give everyone ample time to discuss things before anyone takes action. * Ensure we can still remain sufficiently nimble to deal with things quickly. * Avoid prescriptive language, which irritates people and is not appropriate for a community such as this. All common sense really, but the team has a new momentum and some new people, such as myself, so it's natural there'll be a short period of working things out. -- Matthew Revell www.understated.co.uk -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list ubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Marketing Team Meeting Summary
Robert McWilliam wrote: > On Thu, 29 Jun 2006 02:01:54 +0200 > Jan Vancura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Jenda: I need you people's confirmation of the following step in this >> process. I'd like to email every person on the LP and wiki member >> lists, and remove all those who do not respond within... two weeks? a >> month? We currently have over 70 people on the LP list, and not 15 of >> them ever show up - which I think is worse than having no list at >> all. To avoid this for the times to come, I've set launchpad to give >> 30 day memberships the first time - which are given to anyone at all >> - and year long memberships to all who show at least some >> participation during those 30 days. >> >> > > Please don't. The idea of ejecting people from the community if they > haven't met some minimum requirements of participation (no matter how > low these are) is counter productive. It doesn't harm the team to have > large numbers of people who read the mailing list, or have their names > attached to the team, without ever posting, or contributing anything - > they have shown an interest by putting their name on the list. It will > harm the team if we are seen as demanding work from people or we delete > them from the list. > > Please, please don't make the barrier to entry for the team any higher. > We need all the help we can get and I don't think we should risk > offending people by deleting them cause they haven't done enough - they > might contribute in the future. > > > Robert McWilliam [EMAIL PROTECTED]www.ormiret.com > > A morning without coffee is like something without something else. > > Well, it has been done, as decided on the meeting. We aren't raising any barriers really. Please note that all these people have been on that list for over a year, most probably don't even know they are. The only requirement set is wanting to be back on the list enough to ping me, Corey Burger (well, he was deactivated too, but is still the 'team owner', or John Lambrechts). Jenda -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list ubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
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On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 22:08:14 -0600, "Joey Stanford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > So here is my beef at the end of a trying work day > > I get 5 minutes warning for the Community Council (which I was actually > asleep when it happened) and now I'm ejected from the Marketing Team > because the meeting was during my work time. > If the ejections have already happened I will stop arguning that they are a bad idea, but this does bring up the issue of descision making in the team. The first mention I saw on the list of the idea of deleting people was the sumary from the meeting, and then action was taken without waiting to see if there were any objections from people on the list. Not everybody can make it to meetings in IRC no matter what time of day they are so I think we need to avoid making decisions on issues there unless they have been raised before on the mailing list to give people who aren't going to be at the meeting a chance to express their opinions (especially since the mailing list was recognised in the same summary as the 'official' communication channel). There was talk at the meeting about preventing a splitting of the community into those on IRC and those on the mailing list - taking descisions in one venue without discussion in the other is what will cause that split. I apologise for everything that I've sent to this list attacking people who are trying to get things done, but I think we have to be very careful that it is the right things are done, and that we dont exclude anyone from the descision making process because they were unable to get on IRC at a certain time. Robert McWilliam [EMAIL PROTECTED]www.ormiret.com Curiosity was framed; ignorance killed the cat. -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list ubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
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So here is my beef at the end of a trying work day I get 5 minutes warning for the Community Council (which I was actually asleep when it happened) and now I'm ejected from the Marketing Team because the meeting was during my work time. I'm not feeling the love nor the "new users are welcomed into the community" like I've been pitching as part of my LOCO. Someone please fix my entry. Robert McWilliam wrote: > On Thu, 29 Jun 2006 02:01:54 +0200 > Jan Vancura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Jenda: I need you people's confirmation of the following step in this >> process. I'd like to email every person on the LP and wiki member >> lists, and remove all those who do not respond within... two weeks? a >> month? We currently have over 70 people on the LP list, and not 15 of >> them ever show up - which I think is worse than having no list at >> all. To avoid this for the times to come, I've set launchpad to give >> 30 day memberships the first time - which are given to anyone at all >> - and year long memberships to all who show at least some >> participation during those 30 days. >> >> > > Please don't. The idea of ejecting people from the community if they > haven't met some minimum requirements of participation (no matter how > low these are) is counter productive. It doesn't harm the team to have > large numbers of people who read the mailing list, or have their names > attached to the team, without ever posting, or contributing anything - > they have shown an interest by putting their name on the list. It will > harm the team if we are seen as demanding work from people or we delete > them from the list. > > Please, please don't make the barrier to entry for the team any higher. > We need all the help we can get and I don't think we should risk > offending people by deleting them cause they haven't done enough - they > might contribute in the future. > > > Robert McWilliam [EMAIL PROTECTED]www.ormiret.com > > A morning without coffee is like something without something else. > > signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list ubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Marketing Team Meeting Summary
On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 20:40:30 -0500, "Richard Johnson" > That is why I proposed you don't remove them from the list, however > you can send them into a disabled/expired status. That way there they > still get the messages, however they aren't listed in the main window. > The people who you see on the main window for the Marketing Team on > the LP should be those waiting to field questions, comments, and/or > concerns from others. I agree that the current list shouldn't be > removed, however they shouldn't remain active if they are in a way, > "not active". Just my two cents. Thanks. > I disagree with what the list of members of the marketing team should be. I think it should be a list of people who want to have themselves lsited as members of the marketing team, as it is currently - people who have expressed an interest in the marketing team, and said they want to be a part of it. If you want another list of people ready to answer questions, then make that - don't try and retask the existing list by removing people. I actually don't think that such a list is required though. I don't think that we should be encouraging people to start contacting individuals, but rather giving them easy routes to contact the team as a whole. If that is currently not happening and interested parties are picking people at random off the list and contacting them, then we need to fix that. I think removing/diabling/expiring people is the wrong way to try and fix this, as it has the posibility of alienating the people that you remove/disable/expire. The inactive members of the team are the ones at the finges of the team, they haven't made much commitment to the team and so can very easily walk away and find something else to do. Why give them a push in that direction? I'm more than a little worried that this has even come up. I consider inclusiveness as something that is very much part of the core values of ubuntu and free software in general. The idea that people can be removed from a team or relegated to a desabled/expired status by another person for any reason short of them deliberately causing trouble for the team (and even then I would hope the descision would not be taken lightly) is very troubling. I'm not convinced that there is any problem with having people on the list even if they aren't doing anything - but there are problems with removing them. All the people on the lsit chose to put themselves there, and expressed an interest in the marketing team by doing so. Why should we be overturning that and risking pushing them away from the team? Robert Robert McWilliam [EMAIL PROTECTED]www.ormiret.com Curiosity was framed; ignorance killed the cat. -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list ubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
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On Thu, 2006-06-29 at 02:01 +0200, Jan Vancura wrote: > * How can we work with Ubuntu Weekly News and The Fridge? > > Left largely undecided for the Magazine at the current state: > different target audience, but leeching is possible. The Marketing > Team will give regular reports to the UWN (Assigned to JendaVancura > for now). It will certainly be nice to include info about what the Marketing Team is up to each week, especially when there is significant progress such as when SpreadUbuntu launches and such. I try to keep the UWN short and sweet. UWN and Ubuntu Magazine certainly have different target audiences and I think that we can both work together and coexist peacefully and productively. There will certainly be times when we can leech off each other in some ways which is perfectly fine. /me rolls down his socks and exposes his ankles for the leeches ;) I think the best thing ATM is for Ubuntu Magazine to make the push to get Issue 1 ready (I will try and keep an eye on it and see if I can help out). I would like to see it, at which point I think we will get a better feel for how we can help other. Matt -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list ubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Marketing Team Meeting Summary
On 6/28/06, Robert McWilliam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Please don't. The idea of ejecting people from the community if they haven't met some minimum requirements of participation (no matter how low these are) is counter productive. It doesn't harm the team to have large numbers of people who read the mailing list[...] I have to disagree here. Of course, having a fair amount of registered users on the mailing list doesnt hurt at all, but I think Jenda is preventing "idle" users to just sit in various teams and projects (note that im not talking about the mailing list here). Considering the way he is explaining his move, I dont see that as a (rude) ejection, but rather as a fresh [re]start for the MT, more-or-less explained by the forum being shutdown. As another offtopic note: Jenda, for the record i'm EricBelanger on the wiki and on LP. -- Bilange/Eric Belanger [EMAIL PROTECTED] / hotmail.com / gmail.com / *.* -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list ubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Marketing Team Meeting Summary
On Wednesday 28 June 2006 20:09, Robert McWilliam wrote: > On Thu, 29 Jun 2006 02:01:54 +0200 > > Jan Vancura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Jenda: I need you people's confirmation of the following step in this > > process. I'd like to email every person on the LP and wiki member > > lists, and remove all those who do not respond within... two weeks? a > > month? We currently have over 70 people on the LP list, and not 15 of > > them ever show up - which I think is worse than having no list at > > all. To avoid this for the times to come, I've set launchpad to give > > 30 day memberships the first time - which are given to anyone at all > > - and year long memberships to all who show at least some > > participation during those 30 days. > > Please don't. The idea of ejecting people from the community if they > haven't met some minimum requirements of participation (no matter how > low these are) is counter productive. It doesn't harm the team to have > large numbers of people who read the mailing list, or have their names > attached to the team, without ever posting, or contributing anything - > they have shown an interest by putting their name on the list. It will > harm the team if we are seen as demanding work from people or we delete > them from the list. > > Please, please don't make the barrier to entry for the team any higher. > We need all the help we can get and I don't think we should risk > offending people by deleting them cause they haven't done enough - they > might contribute in the future. > > > Robert McWilliam [EMAIL PROTECTED]www.ormiret.com > > A morning without coffee is like something without something else. That is why I proposed you don't remove them from the list, however you can send them into a disabled/expired status. That way there they still get the messages, however they aren't listed in the main window. The people who you see on the main window for the Marketing Team on the LP should be those waiting to field questions, comments, and/or concerns from others. I agree that the current list shouldn't be removed, however they shouldn't remain active if they are in a way, "not active". Just my two cents. Thanks. -- Rich Johnson (nixternal) http://home.comcast.net/~nixternal https://wiki.ubuntu.com/nixternal https://launchpad.net/people/nixternal "The best thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to do something stupid." -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list ubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Marketing Team Meeting Summary
On Thu, 29 Jun 2006 02:01:54 +0200 Jan Vancura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Jenda: I need you people's confirmation of the following step in this > process. I'd like to email every person on the LP and wiki member > lists, and remove all those who do not respond within... two weeks? a > month? We currently have over 70 people on the LP list, and not 15 of > them ever show up - which I think is worse than having no list at > all. To avoid this for the times to come, I've set launchpad to give > 30 day memberships the first time - which are given to anyone at all > - and year long memberships to all who show at least some > participation during those 30 days. > Please don't. The idea of ejecting people from the community if they haven't met some minimum requirements of participation (no matter how low these are) is counter productive. It doesn't harm the team to have large numbers of people who read the mailing list, or have their names attached to the team, without ever posting, or contributing anything - they have shown an interest by putting their name on the list. It will harm the team if we are seen as demanding work from people or we delete them from the list. Please, please don't make the barrier to entry for the team any higher. We need all the help we can get and I don't think we should risk offending people by deleting them cause they haven't done enough - they might contribute in the future. Robert McWilliam [EMAIL PROTECTED]www.ormiret.com A morning without coffee is like something without something else. -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list ubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
[ubuntu-marketing] Marketing Team Meeting Summary
Hello all Marketing... things. I present to you now: The June 28 Marketing Team meeting summary. To be found anytime at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MarketingTeam/Meetings/Minutes/2006-06-28 I hope no-one minds html too much. Please complain to me if you do. Think of what the sabdfl sends out ;) Agenda What are the Marketing Team's objectives? Jenda: Are we happy with what the current wiki says? If anyone wants to propose a new set of objectives, please get them ready for this meeting or the next. How can we unify the team and achieve Community Council approval? Jenda: I think this is a formality. We'll see how unifying goes tonight, and we will only speak to the CC once we have a team up and running. Jenda: I need you people's confirmation of the following step in this process. I'd like to email every person on the LP and wiki member lists, and remove all those who do not respond within... two weeks? a month? We currently have over 70 people on the LP list, and not 15 of them ever show up - which I think is worse than having no list at all. To avoid this for the times to come, I've set launchpad to give 30 day memberships the first time - which are given to anyone at all - and year long memberships to all who show at least some participation during those 30 days. Where does SpreadUbuntu stand and what still needs to be done? Jenda: We need layout proposals, I'll try to get as far as we are on the structure as I can by then. Where does Ubuntu Magazine stand? How can we work with Ubuntu Weekly News and The Fridge? How do we interact with Canonical, who is our contact point? How can we work with LoCoTeam teams to improve press coverage in non-English language media? Jenda: Do we need more than to create all artwork in text-editable form, such as svg? Now of course only those LoCo's that seek us out will have access - however, it shouldn't be that hard to mail the LoCo contact mailing list. Decide how this affects the Marketing wiki pages. Jenda: I suggest we keep all our wikis in /MarketingTeam/* and a TOC in /MarketingTeam Mailing list moderator(s) required to take strain from Jane Silber. Jenda: If we decide on project leaders, I believe each of them should be a moderator. Add your point here Summary What are the Marketing Team's objectives? We decided to move this discussion into a slower paced mailing list one almost unanimously. How can we unify the team and achieve Community Council approval? Community Council Approval is far away and not important for the immediate workings of the Team. We discussed, instead, the means of communication for the team. We have decided not to use any forums at all, to focus around launchpad using three levels of communication: IRC, mailing list, wiki, where the mailing list is considered most formal and official. Whenever an important decision is reached, the thread should be summarized in /Highlights. We will do our best to make it accessible to new users - through the wiki and potentially spreadubuntu. We will try to get a sticky on the ubuntuforums.org to point to the wiki. MatthewRevell will write an easy guide to join the list. The Launchpad Team will be pruned brutally, the member list on the wiki will be removed and merged with the former. Where does SpreadUbuntu stand and what still needs to be done? I (JendaVancura) have been chosen as the project leader for Spreadubuntu and I gave this graphical site layout proposal: http://crashhosting.com/Spreadubuntu-060628-jenda.odg Right now, we're gathering graphical site designs to choose the best ideas and get a first-version site running. I will soon update the wiki as to the goals of the project. MathewRevell, Bilange, Mindspin and JohnLambrechts have all offered to help with the design. Where does Ubuntu Magazine stand? SaraVasquez is the appointed leader of the project, and most info on it is available at UbuntuMagazine. The project will have its own meeting soon. New project: Media Relations The Media Relations project will soon be launched under the leadership of MathewRevell. Read more at the temporary wiki: PressTeam How can we work with Ubuntu Weekly News and The Fridge? Left largely undecided for the Magazine at the current state: different target audience, but leeching is possible. The Marketing Team will give regular reports to the UWN (Assigned to JendaVancura for now). How do we interact with Canonical, who is our contact point? I (JendaVancura) have been chosen to act as the contact point of the MarketingTeam, and it will be largely my responsibility to communicate with Canonical, where JaneSilber will be our main contact and perhaps the new Marketing person (see http://www.ubuntu.com/employment) How can we work with L
