John Vilsack wrote: > I think we are running in circles. > > Gleaning what I can from these messages, This is what I think we should > consider: > > 1. The Local Communities are their own entity, and should be considered free > to do what they want, with no perceived or implied oversight from any > governing body. This group should be "forked" into a specific LoCo group. > > 2. A Marketing team should be formed to oversee the direction of marketing > as a whole for the open source project. While Canonical is responsible for > the trademarks, a marketing team should be able to build materials between > releases for items such as white papers, meeting kits for LoCo's, talking > points for dealing with the press, etc. I envision the team as being the > equivalent of the core-developers for the intangibles of the Ubuntu project > with a similar contribution model and transparency. > > 3. Establish a liaison within Canonical to help facilitate a coordinated > effort with them that is also mutually exclusive. This would ensure we are > using the trademarks properly, not doubling up on projects, and filtering > upstream whatever projects or ideas might require their contributions. > > I think if we simplify here, we can see that there isn't much that is > needed, except defining the discussions between Local Communities and the > Marketing team as separate but equally important endeavors. The Marketing > Team's purpose would be to support the Local Communities if they choose to, > but giving them the freedom to do as they please. > > This grassroots model was proven effective in a Presidential campaign I > worked in that had a "global" message team that distributed information to > local grassroots meetups for dissemination. Each group was asked to only > "consider" the information, and it was a fantastic success.
Sounds pretty good to me -- alan cocks Kubuntu user#10391 Linux user #360648 -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list ubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
