Marketing team's role (was: Re: response to linus...?)

[Dave Neary <dneary free fr>]

Hi Santiago,

Santiago Roza wrote:
> i meant "we" the marketing team; dude i don't consider myself a gnome hacker  :)

Everyone involved with GNOME is in the marketing team. Kathy Sierra 
wrote at lenght about this: 
http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2005/08/you_are_a_marke.html

The marketing team's job is not to dictate GNOME positions on anything. 
Nor is it necessarily to communicate them (although we will certainly be 
involved in a lot of communication effort).

I see us bridging a gap between developers and users (actual and 
potential). We have an opportunity to mould, through our actions, the 
image of the GNOME project, and also to actually help affect the 
direction of the project. But just being on the marketing team doesn't 
give us the moral authority to do anything. We must flow like water, and 
not tilt at windmills.

Cheers,
Dave.

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David Neary
bolsh gimp org