That's exactly what I think, a lot more paraphrased I think we have a lot of individual efforts we should channel in a meaningful way and that's exactly what you and I want to do.
So let's do it. Let's create a guideline for marketing. Let's give them a place to gather and in the process a tool to contact them all at once too. What do you think? 2010/8/9 Martin Owens <docto...@gmail.com> > Hey Lisandro, > > I don't think it's just that we haven't volunteers, I think that' the > wrong way to look at the problem. We do actually have lots of people > doing lots of different things. > > The key is that they're rarely talking to each other about what their > doing. > > The other people, people in LoCo groups and other communities. They > don't have a way to express what they need out of marketing either. > > Who knew there was a facebook group? Well I could have guessed there > was, but did I know it was being run by someone enthusiastic who was > even on this list? > > Fact is that a global strategy would need an authority like Canonical > that we just don't have. I'm concerned Canonical don't want to do > marketing, not even social media. If they did they'd have a little more > structure and a lot less vague sentiment. > > I know Mark talks about word of mouth and such, but it's concerning that > what those mouths are mainly wording are inaccuracies and undefinable > characteristics about software which is made in ways most of the brains > attached those mouths don't really understand. > > If we want a solid marketing push, it's going to need to be the > community which does it and it's probably going to need us agreeing on a > set of sentiments. We might not be able to get everything branded the > same or worded exactly, but we shouldn't be still discussing the wording > of "Free and Open Source" and the misuse of the "Linux" brand to > describe an operating system. > > These are solved marketing problems. And yet, so many people aren't > listening to Randall Ross and myself about the importance of coherence > and not letting our own baggage clutter up our external communications > to the wider public. > > Perhaps we should have a "Marketing Pledge" and some sort of location > where we can discuss non-solved communication problems and list the ones > that are already very solved. It would basically fall down to each > person to abide by and structure their communication in the ways > documented then get each loco leader on board and work our way out of > the hole from there. Just throwing that out there, I've put no extra > thought into it other than that. > > Martin, > > On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 01:03 -0300, Lisandro Vaccaro wrote: > > I think it can be done, a coordinated approach I mean, the problem is > > that people tend to believe that you can just post an idea and > > somebody will quickly come and make it real. It doesn't work like > > that, while this is a community projects are born of individual > > initiative, then later people will aid and the project will become a > > conjunct effort but it won't take out if somebody doesn't walk the > > first steps. Right now we have a lot of ideas but without volunteers > > those ideas will never see the light. > > > > I'm encouraging people to contact Ubuntu sympathizers working in news > > sites and social networks across the net so that we can build a > > database. > > > > -- Lisandro H. Vaccaro
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