Re: [ubuntu-marketing] The future of the Marketing Team

2008-05-27 Thread John Vilsack
I would draw attention to the nature of much of the marketing creative and effort resource - it certainly has a central objective. Canonical and the wider set of volunteers have strongly overlapping objectives. However, the factors of geographical location, local culture and circumstances,

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] The future of the Marketing Team

2008-05-27 Thread John Botscharow
On Tue, 2008-05-27 at 18:49 +0100, alan c wrote: Restrain the oCo??? Heaven forbid If anything, I would like to see them empowered much much more :-) RJ wrote: Hi folks, I'm quite new in ubuntu-marketing list but I'd like to get my two pennies worth feeling in. If I'm of topic

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] The future of the Marketing Team

2008-05-27 Thread John Botscharow
John V., What a perfect segue to something I wanted to propose, but was waiting to see if more members of the group chime in: My talents and experience are not in the programming area. far from it! I am a writer and a blogger. So, the other day, when Ronnie Tucker of FCM came on with the draft

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] The future of the Marketing Team

2008-05-27 Thread alan c
John Botscharow wrote: John V., What a perfect segue to something I wanted to propose, but was waiting to see if more members of the group chime in: My talents and experience are not in the programming area. far from it! I am a writer and a blogger. So, the other day, when Ronnie Tucker

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] The future of the Marketing Team

2008-05-27 Thread John Botscharow
On Tue, 2008-05-27 at 18:50 -0400, Cory K. wrote: John Vilsack wrote: This is the niche I believe a Marketing Team has to fill. Autonomy should exist at the local level, but if someone new wants to start or gain access to a local chapter, then the Marketing Team should be there to fill

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Marketing from early adopters...

2008-05-27 Thread John Botscharow
On Tue, 2008-05-27 at 23:45 +0100, Tiago Vieira wrote: Hello all, I'm really sorry if I write something wrong here ( and using the sentence of Jonathan If you find my English awful). I would ask to apologise for that. I'm Brazilian (Portuguese as native language), living in UK for 2 and a

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] The future of the Marketing Team

2008-05-27 Thread Nick Ali
On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 7:18 PM, John Botscharow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2008-05-27 at 18:50 -0400, Cory K. wrote: John Vilsack wrote: This is kinda what was talked about at UDS. A team made up of people in each LOCO (local level) who want to promote Ubuntu. Along with ties to the

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] The future of the Marketing Team

2008-05-27 Thread Onno Benschop
On 28/05/08 07:18, John Botscharow wrote: I also suggest a name change since this marketing team is confusing since it has no real ties to the Canonical marketing dept. Maybe Ubuntu DIY Promotion team? -Cory K. OR we could leave the name and change the lack of ties to Canonical's

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] The future of the Marketing Team

2008-05-27 Thread Cory K.
Nick Ali wrote: The problem with this is that people start expecting things from Canonical. Why doesn't Canonical do this, why don't they do that. Its already evident in this thread. We should definitely work with Canonical coordinating events. But expecting Canonical to hire someone to help