Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Marketing material needs a home

2008-06-10 Thread VidA
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 7:29 AM, Tord Jansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there, > > I'm new to this list since about 12 hours so let me just give a quick Welcome !! > The posters are currently in Swedish only, but I have put them all in a [snip] > > 1. I believe these adverts can be usefu

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] [Fwd: FCN submission - your reaction,

2008-06-09 Thread VidA
On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 12:01 PM, John Botscharow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have a theory, but you may not like it:-) A lack of a formal > leadership structure. Specific "offices" that are filled as they become > vacant. Frankly speaking, its not entirely true that we lack leaders in Ubuntu.

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] Organizational meeting proposed (Mike

2008-06-01 Thread VidA
On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 11:05 AM, Rubén Hubuntu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yeah, let's use that poll, in that way we just see who can when... > > I have to say that it's not a good sign to not even be able to set up a time. > > The easiest thing (and what every other team in the community normally

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Organizational meeting proposed

2008-05-30 Thread VidA
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 2:45 PM, John Vilsack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Due to the international nature of the group, I also think a meeting is > somewhat unfeasible for 100% attendance. agreed. > > I am about 90% done with a rough draft of a proposal to the council which > covers the three ma

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Defining who we are

2008-05-29 Thread VidA
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 11:49 PM, Alan Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "The sole purpose of marketing is to shorten the sales cycle." > Ah,... that needs to be at the top of the first page, in bold for effect :) -- Vid || http://www.svaksha.com || -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list ubuntu-ma

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Organizational meeting proposed

2008-05-29 Thread VidA
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 10:23 PM, John Botscharow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We need to hear from everyone re: their time zone so that we can get Folks, do add your preferences on the meetings wikipage[1], which has a schedule for prefered individual timings. After the meeting date is fixed, pl

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] The future of the Marketing Team (Mike Feravolo)

2008-05-29 Thread VidA
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 1:52 PM, Mike Feravolo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello: > > I have been reading this list and the marketing list of another flavor > of Linux for a while and would like to make a suggestion. > > Maybe the current marketing team should be broken up by function: > > 1) Amba

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Catetory cleanup [was] Defining who we are

2008-05-29 Thread VidA
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 1:25 PM, VidA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes they are, I searched for them later and fyi, the page i renamed was > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Marketing/JohnBotscharow > to > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Marketing/Agenda oops, wrong link, the pag

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Catetory cleanup [was] Defining who we are

2008-05-29 Thread VidA
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 11:13 AM, John Botscharow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The articles already are subpages of my wiki page > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JohnBotscharow Yes they are, I searched for them later and fyi, the page i renamed was https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Marketing/JohnBotscharow to http

[ubuntu-marketing] Catetory cleanup [was] Defining who we are

2008-05-29 Thread VidA
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 10:39 AM, John Botscharow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I did not say that it did not belong there :-) But if that's the > rule > I suspect it showed up there because I have several pages of marketing > articles on my wiki, which I put there because I was not sure about >

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Defining who we are

2008-05-29 Thread VidA
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 10:15 AM, Onno Benschop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Without looking, I'm trying to run out the door, I suspect that John > used a Marketing Template and that it contains some category which then > makes the automagic wiki code put it into the header. That's right renam

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Defining who we are

2008-05-29 Thread VidA
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 8:13 AM, John Botscharow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Did you put the link to my wiki there or did that show up on its own No I didnt put it there but thanks for pointing that out. You are right, personal wiki pages dont belong there so could someone tell me how to edit

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Defining who we are

2008-05-28 Thread VidA
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 7:52 PM, alan c <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Botscharow wrote: >> I'm going to start a new thread here as the first step in creating a >> marketing plab for the team: Great stuff. I added them to the wiki page : https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MarketingTeam Feel free to chan

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

2008-05-28 Thread VidA
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 8:22 PM, alan c <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think trying to channel too strongly will loose us some benefit. > Canonical is hoping to make a profit from selling services and support > - most obviously to the corporate market. Absolutely, Canonical should be looking at

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

2008-05-28 Thread VidA
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 3:34 AM, Cory K. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I see the marketing of Ubuntu as a Canonical responsibility. Anything > "community" lead I see as D.I.Y./street team work. Just me. > > If I had my way, I'd reinvent the team as Ubuntu-StreetTeam or something. I have to disagree

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

2008-05-21 Thread VidA
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 8:39 AM, Cody A.W. Somerville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 9:34 AM, Rubén Hubuntu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [snipped good ideas] >> >> >> Then we will be heading to a more organized (and hence effective) and >> cooperative organization. > > Those a

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

2008-05-20 Thread VidA
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 3:02 AM, Cody A.W. Somerville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Another idea put forth was seeing Canonical hire someone to lead the > marketing team while maintaining a model similar to the one existing. > Marketing is a huge job and it is completely understandable why there