Formalizing the marketing team

2007-07-29 Thread Quim Gil
The board is in the process of formalizing some groups contributing to th goals of the GNOM Foundation as defined committees. Examples of well defined commitees are the Release Team and the GUADEC organization. There is a Marketing Team defined as committee and it's time to define it. This is an i

Re: Formalizing the marketing team

2007-07-29 Thread Ken VanDine
I think formalizing could be a good step in the right direction. I have tried to organize a brainstorming session to get people to take responibility for specific things and failed miserably. I think only 2 people showed any interest. My suggesstion would be to create a list of goals and put peo

Re: Formalizing the marketing team

2007-07-29 Thread Lucas Rocha
Hi, Some (sort of obvious) suggestions: - I noticed that marketing topics tend to bring very long discussions but no practical actions. Therefore, after the goals are defined, translate them into actions ASAP. Otherwise they will be just... goals. - Start small, don't try to achieve everything a

Re: Formalizing the marketing team

2007-07-29 Thread John Williams
On Sun, 2007-07-29 at 21:45 +0300, Quim Gil wrote: (lots of good stuff) > There is a Marketing Team defined as committee and it's time to define > it. This is an invitation for a brainstorming. Can we do it on IRC, as Ken (and others?) tried previously? > - We need at least a mission. Our nearest

Re: Formalizing the marketing team

2007-07-29 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Quim Gil wrote: > There is a Marketing Team defined as committee and it's time to define > it. This is an invitation for a brainstorming. Awesome idea. > - We need at least a mission. Our nearest reference currently is > "Goals" at http://live.gnome

Re: Formalizing the marketing team

2007-07-29 Thread John Williams
On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 10:19 +0530, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote: > The broad goal of a Marketing function is to let as many folks "know" > about GNOME which in turn means provide guidance and support towards > events, activities, material that allow folks to "know" about GNOME. Oh dear. I am go

Re: Formalizing the marketing team

2007-07-29 Thread Jeff Waugh
> Oh dear. I am going to try again to push the idea of what marketing is. > BTW: If anyone is getting sick of my pontification on this, please let me > know, publicly if necessary. I'm not going to tell you to shut up -- what you say is an important point. But I am going to ask you to step up a