[ubuntu-marketing] Better resource for LoCo teams

2006-08-16 Thread Sean Booth
One thing that surprised me when I got on launchpad, was the lack of location data. Most of the other sites I've worked with have allowed people to search for users close to their location, so they can tap into each other for knowledge or resources. I think it would be a great advantage for a LoCo

[ubuntu-marketing] The fridge and the Magazine

2006-08-16 Thread sara vasquez
Marketing Team, about a week ago we had a converstaion IRC on the magazine and we agreed with Rich and Matt, that it we would be better served if we merged with the Fridge. Ther were a couple of ideas that we had in mind. 1. We need a nicer news section 2. We are thinking of making the How-to o

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Step down considerately

2006-08-16 Thread Rich Johnson
On Wednesday 16 August 2006 14:55, John Baer wrote: > Team, > > I was speaking not long ago with an Information Officer for an > organization in the Midwest (US) with supports about 30,000 Windows > desktops. I poised the question, have you or would you ever consider > deploying a linux desktop? Sh

[ubuntu-marketing] Step down considerately

2006-08-16 Thread John Baer
Team, I was speaking not long ago with an Information Officer for an organization in the Midwest (US) with supports about 30,000 Windows desktops. I poised the question, have you or would you ever consider deploying a linux desktop? She smiled and responded by saying the only Information Officer s

[ubuntu-marketing] Powered by Stickers

2006-08-16 Thread Rich Johnson
I just wanted to let everyone know, that I created some sample "Powered by" SVG files for anyone and everyone to use. I did them quick, so if you can make them better, go ahead and do so and update the wiki page, or just add a version to the wiki page. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PoweredBy I creat

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Contribute doc and the Marketing team page

2006-08-16 Thread Andreas Lloyd
Matthew Revell wrote: > I have to say, I like the way our team page on the wiki has a "Find > us" section right up front. Ubuntu wiki pages don't make it that easy, > that I can see, to have anything other than a linear layout. So, we > need the first item to be for new people, and how they can fin

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Community metrics - how OpenSolaris does it

2006-08-16 Thread Matthew Revell
On 16/08/06, john levin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1: Most of this data seems eminently automatable, so it might not be > that much work. Yeah, and I think some of it will already be available. Matthew Nuzum - are you reading? If so, what sort of stats can we get for the Ubntu websites, downloa

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Community metrics - how OpenSolaris does it

2006-08-16 Thread john levin
Matthew Revell wrote: > Each month, the OpenSolaris project's marketing guy (Patrick Finch) > posts a page of stats. They show what's going on in the OpenSolaris > world and how people come across OpenSolaris. > > Now, OpenSolaris has the advantage that Sun pays a number of people, > including Pat

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Contribute doc and the Marketing team page

2006-08-16 Thread Matthew Revell
On 14/08/06, Andreas Lloyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To solve this, I have made a TeamPageTemplate [2] in the Ubuntu Wiki > to offer a common structure for team wiki pages to make it easy for > new contributors to get an overview of the information that they will > need to get involved. I have

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Community metrics - how OpenSolaris does it

2006-08-16 Thread Matthew Revell
On 11/08/06, john levin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do you have a link for that page? I just looked over opensolaris.org, > but couldn't find it. Sorry, I thought I'd included that in my original mail. Here it is: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/marketing/metrics/latest/ -- Matthew Rev

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Community metrics - how OpenSolaris does it

2006-08-16 Thread Matthew Revell
On 11/08/06, Rich Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Each month, the OpenSolaris project's marketing guy (Patrick Finch) > > posts a page of stats. They show what's going on in the OpenSolaris > > world and how people come across OpenSolaris. > When you say "..some of this data", you mean pic

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Firefox crop circle

2006-08-16 Thread Atila Sendil
Yess ...I am even thinking of making an Ubuntu Guitar myself :-)But to motivate people to make things like that ...Go team go !On 8/16/06, Matthew Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Man alive, this is the sort of high impact thing we'll be doing whenwe've got in the swing of things:http://lug.orego

[ubuntu-marketing] Firefox crop circle

2006-08-16 Thread Matthew Revell
Man alive, this is the sort of high impact thing we'll be doing when we've got in the swing of things: http://lug.oregonstate.edu/index.php/Projects/Firefox/Firefox_Circle -- Matthew Revell www.understated.co.uk -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list ubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.u

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] High Profile Switcher..Almost

2006-08-16 Thread Matthew Revell
On 11/08/06, John Little <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mr. Engadget Almost Loves Ubuntu I spoke to Cory Doctorow, a few weeks back, to ask if he'd do audio and text interviews with us, for a possible switcher campaign (SU thing, perhaps). He was well up for it but did ask that I get back in touch