Re: Emergency marketing team meeting

[Shane Fagan <shanepatrickfagan ubuntu com>]

Hi,
The times you picked are very bad times for Europe except the Saturday
and Sunday. 

Shane

On Mon, 2010-03-08 at 10:58 -0600, Jason D. Clinton wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 10:31 AM, Jason D. Clinton
> <me jasonclinton com> wrote:
>         Let's meet to discuss candidly on #marketing.
>
> In order to facilitate the meeting going quickly and with a minimal
> amount of straying off-topic, I would like to hear on this list in
> advance if there is anyone whom disagrees with the following premise
> or whom feels that it needs slight modification:
>
>
>         From a marketing perspective we, publicly, cannot promise
>         anything as radically disruptive as proposed by the UX
>         Hackfest brainstorming sessions for delivery *after* Gnome 3.0
>         (whenever that release may be.) Such a strategy would have the
>         following outcomes:
>              1. It would make our desktop look like 3.0 is half-baked
>              2. It would make us look like we're experimenting on our
>                 user base
>              3. It would make our desktop environment look unstable
>         On the other hand, should such changes happen
>         organically--that is, not part of a narrative about what Gnome
>         3 is--then so be it.
>
>
> Please make your feelings known if you disagree in advance of the
> meeting so that we all start from the same frame of reference.