Hi John, and everyone in the list... Answering between the lines.
On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 3:52 PM, John Botscharow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd be talking to LoCos like the UK LoCo about what needs to be > done to get Ubuntu onto Becta's list of recommended software for schools > in the UK. I'd be writing articles for various educational trade > joutnals in the US touting the benefits of Edubuntu. I'd be on the phone > to several very large online home schooling communities here in the US > that provide curricula to home schoolers about Edubuntu. And talking to > the LoCos that are located near those communities about putting together > a demo for those homeschool sites. > There is nothing stopping anyone from starting or doing whatever they believe is important. Around here things work that way: Get down to the wiki, e-mail other people doing the same. Organize the available resources in a per-mini-project basis. Get your work done! > > But I do not have that authority, No one person on this team does. And > no one person on this team can do that kind of marketing campaign alone. > It takes a team. A team with leadership. A team wjere everyone has a > role and understands that role. Any team, whether it is a team of > volunteers or a team of athletes, cannot function effectively without > leadership. To think that we can do effective marketing without > leadership and structure is. to repeat myself, quite naive and will > result in this team accomplishing nothing but lots of conversation. > True, to a certain extend. I believe people with a "leading role" in this community understand the need of action and dialogue combined. This, as I mentioned earlier, is best described in the: Leadership Code of Conduct: http://www.ubuntu.com/community/leadership-conduct > > I apologize if this offends anyone, but like I said, this situation is > very frustrating. The potential of what we could do as a team - an > organized team - is staggering. And, personally, I am itching to get it > going. We can literally rock the world with this! :=) > John, I truly believe you are a wonderful resource to this community and your insight, experience and depth in marketing generally combined with other peoples experiences as well is undoubtly part of what we need as a team, but not everything. Bare with us, please. We are all used to a methodology and workflow and try equally to adapt to everyone else's. But in the end we all scratch the itch that matters most to ourselves, the idea of this team is to see which of those itches are common and can be syncronized. That's all, we just need management... But management must be understood within the boundaries of the community and its members. I feel inspiration rather than frustration in this ubuntu-marketing evolution cycle. I believe we should stay focused and rather be positive in every single way we can, and point out constructively tyhings that are not progressing. But again... I have read this list for a long time and never saw the need to act, as I never saw real traction in the project (no offence anyone). I believe that this cycle in the projects history is going to change that. Let's make that become a reality and work out the technicalities one by one. > - -- > Peace! > > John > Cheers! Rubén - Hubuntu https://launchpad.net/~huayra
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