Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Marketing Restructure Proposal - No Attachments

2008-06-06 Thread VidA
Nice work John :) On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 2:58 AM, John Vilsack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dg523cct_41d8t388r5 hmm...your mail didnt have any attachment (atleast i didnt get any) and the document does not allow me to save it so that i can read it later. Since the

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Marketing Restructure Proposal - No Attachments

2008-06-06 Thread John Vilsack
Dan, The goal is to have a leadership in place that helps organize tasks and helps place the contributions of the team in a central place for everyone to have access to. People who just want to contribute will have it much easier than it is right now. If you are new, you can come in an take a lo

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Marketing Restructure Proposal - No Attachments

2008-06-06 Thread John Botscharow
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dan Trevino wrote: > On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 10:48 PM, John Vilsack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Thank you for the vote of confidence! >> >> My recommendation is to base a quorum on attendance levels. I would use >> tommorrow's attendance level as

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Marketing Restructure Proposal - No Attachments

2008-06-06 Thread Dan Trevino
On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 10:48 PM, John Vilsack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thank you for the vote of confidence! > > My recommendation is to base a quorum on attendance levels. I would use > tommorrow's attendance level as a baseline and then establish that 66% or > greater of that number are nee

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Marketing Restructure Proposal - No Attachments

2008-06-06 Thread John Botscharow
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Vilsack wrote: > Thank you for the vote of confidence! > > My recommendation is to base a quorum on attendance levels. I would use > tommorrow's attendance level as a baseline and then establish that 66% or > greater of that number are needed fo

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Marketing Restructure Proposal - No Attachments

2008-06-06 Thread John Vilsack
Thank you for the vote of confidence! My recommendation is to base a quorum on attendance levels. I would use tommorrow's attendance level as a baseline and then establish that 66% or greater of that number are needed for votes at the next meeting. In the event of appointing a Core Marketing Gro

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Marketing Restructure Proposal - No Attachments

2008-06-06 Thread John Botscharow
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Vilsack wrote: > [The following message is being submitted twice, once with attachments and > once without for spatial consideration of some users - John] > > Greetings all! > > I apologize in advance for my recent silence, I have been pulling 7

[ubuntu-marketing] Marketing Restructure Proposal - No Attachments

2008-06-06 Thread John Vilsack
[The following message is being submitted twice, once with attachments and once without for spatial consideration of some users - John] Greetings all! I apologize in advance for my recent silence, I have been pulling 70 hour work weeks in preparation for an upcoming e-commerce project at work. W

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Community Marketing Direction - some thoughts

2008-06-06 Thread John Botscharow
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jono Bacon wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Recently there has been a flurry of discussion regarding the marketing > efforts in the Ubuntu community and how we can best manage and architect > those efforts. I would like propose a direction for how we should

[ubuntu-marketing] Community Marketing Direction - some thoughts

2008-06-06 Thread Jono Bacon
Hi everyone, Recently there has been a flurry of discussion regarding the marketing efforts in the Ubuntu community and how we can best manage and architect those efforts. I would like propose a direction for how we should work - this just a proposal, so feel free to discuss, debate and disagree i

[ubuntu-marketing] [Fwd: Re: Meeting Preparation - learning from the past]

2008-06-06 Thread John Botscharow
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - Original Message Subject: Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Meeting Preparation - learning from the past Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2008 14:54:26 -0500 From: John Botscharow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: alan c <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTE

[ubuntu-marketing] [Fwd: [Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share]

2008-06-06 Thread John Botscharow
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thought you all would enjoy reading this. I certainly got a good chuckle our of it this morning. - Original Message Subject: [Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2008 09:35:36 - From: Tom Janes <[EM

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Sample Letter to Government

2008-06-06 Thread RJ
Interesting, I was working on something close to that. We have a sort of forum here in France where everyone can have his word on numeric future in France. That's held by the French government for a month, each year. I'm gathering ideas in French community on "how to highlight the power of Open

[ubuntu-marketing] Sample Letter to Government

2008-06-06 Thread Danny Piccirillo
Since i've gotten involved with the free software movement, i have seen many articles about governments and school systems switching over to linux but i don't see this nearly as much or at all on a large scale in the states. I think it's an important focus to get linux on school and government comp

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Article on mass Linux migration

2008-06-06 Thread RJ
Reading it now. Thanks for the info. As a side note, there is a Microsoft Office Ad on this article, spaeking about Linux. Nice coupling there ! Cheers, Jonathan -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list ubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/ma

[ubuntu-marketing] Article on mass Linux migration

2008-06-06 Thread alan c
I found this thoughtful article on mass Linux migration and the factors influencing it: What drives a mass Linux migration? http://www.itwire.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18625&Itemid=1090&limit=1&limitstart=1&mosmsg=Thanks+for+your+vote%21&mosmsg=You+already+voted+for+this+item+

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Meeting Preparation - learning from the past

2008-06-06 Thread Alan Pope
On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 09:19:53PM -0500, John Botscharow wrote: > Now that would be a HUGE help. I have saved every list email since I > joined and my thunderbird can search those no problem, but I've only > been a member of this list a short time, so my archive is rather limited > :-) Being able