Re: Formalizing the marketing team

["Lucas Rocha" <lucasr gnome org>]

Hi,

Some (sort of obvious) suggestions:

- I noticed that marketing topics tend to bring very long discussions
but no practical actions. Therefore, after the goals are defined,
translate them into actions ASAP. Otherwise they will be just...
goals.

- Start small, don't try to achieve everything at once.

- Collaborate with other teams. For example, talk with the Roadmap
Gang and Release Team about the future of our modules. Suggest cool
stuff from the Art team. Write articles for GNOME Journal, and so on.

--lucasr


2007/7/29, Ken VanDine <ken vandine org>:
> I think formalizing could be a good step in the right direction.  I
> have tried to organize a brainstorming session to get people to take
> responibility for specific things and failed miserably.  I think only
> 2 people showed any interest.
>
> My suggesstion would be to create a list of goals and put people in
> charge of specific goals.  Some accountability would be good.
>
> I think there could be allot to gain from have a defined list of
> members and a forum for us to discuss things without getting snipped
> from outside.  Openness is good, but we need some people that can take
> on the responsibility to drive things.  And some things need early
> discussion before opening up to the masses.
>
> My $0.02
>
> --Ken
>
> On 7/29/07, Quim Gil <qgil gnome org> wrote:
> > The board is in the process of formalizing some groups contributing to
> > th goals of the GNOM Foundation as defined committees. Examples of
> > well defined commitees are the Release Team and the GUADEC
> > organization.
> >
> > There is a Marketing Team defined as committee and it's time to define
> > it. This is an invitation for a brainstorming.
> >
> > - We need at least a mission. Our nearest reference currently is
> > "Goals" at http://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing :
> >
> > # Increase awareness of GNOME
> > # Increase the user base of GNOME
> > # Ease user contributions at GNOME
> >
> > Let's review this.
> >
> > - We also need to decide if there is a defined membership of this
> > team/committee. See http://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/MarketingTeam
> > . We would have also the members of marketing-private, the almost
> > inactive list were press releases used to be worked out.
> >
> > I think that it is good to have a well defined list of reliable member
> > with clear responsibilities and active participation in a decision
> > process. We have seen many discussions in this list ending up in
> > almost nothing, and IMHO one of the causes of this problem has been
> > the lack of a clear decision process.
> >
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