Increasing membership of marketing-private

[Dave Neary <dneary free fr>]

Hi,

As most of you know, there are currently 2 marketing lists around GNOME, 
the first is marketing-list, where we brainstorm about GNOME's strategy, 
message, and generate action points for what we want to do to move 
towards them. The second is marketing-private, which is a private, 
invitation only list which includes the board and some other people 
(Jeff Waugh, Leslie Proctor, probably others I don't know about). It is 
also an alias for gnome-press-contact gnome org 

Why do we need two? Well, because often when someone contacts us for a 
press issue, they want that issue to stay secret until a release date 
that they have decided on (as with the Nokia announcement recently). 
Also, the press are likely to be a little wary of posting to a public 
list asking for reaction on a story they're writing before it's published.

Similarly, sometimes we want to work on press releases and have a bit of 
a splash.

I would like to get more of the marketing team onto marketing-private. 
That way, we have more input from people from the community, improving 
communication. I would like to keep it invitation-only, though, to make 
sure that we don't get stuck in endless discussions when we just need to 
get a release out the door.

Could anyone interested in being on marketing-private contact me, 
please? I hope to get agreement on this from the list owner soon, at 
which point you'll be added to the list.

Cheers,
Dave.

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David Neary
bolsh gimp org