Re: Marketing Tasks

[Paul Cutler <pcutler gnome org>]

Two things - I looked at the wiki markup and ran away as fast as I
could.  I need help with this, I'm not an expert MoinMoin user, and
even though we have a template for this from the Release & Web
teams, it's going to take someone a few hours to get this done.  You're
right though, it would be a good thing to be consistent with what the
Release & Web teams are using.  The second question I had was would
this work for campaigns?  I'm thinking we have to clearly define the
time period when we do the work, as well as the beginning and end of a
campaign.  Or am I overthinking this?

Any volunteers?  This needs to be more than a one person job.

Paul

On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 5:25 AM, Claus Schwarm <clschwarm googlemail com> wrote:

I like your idea of organizing tasks due to due dates.

But why don't we just sync with the regular release schedule? I've seen
something like this for the GnomeWeb here:

http://live.gnome.org/GnomeWeb/TwoPointTwentyseven

And I like it. It's easy to pick the dates one wants to care about.

This gives us also the opportunity to have a sort of template, so making
a new schedule for the next release is simply a matter of copy'n'paste
instead of having someone re-collect all the data every year. For
example, I didn't see the dates for making the release notes in your
task calender.

So, I'd suggest we drop

http://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/Tasks/MarketingTasks2009

and start something like this

http://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/Schedule/TwoPointTwentyseven
http://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/Schedule/TwoPointTwentynine
http://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/Schedule/ThreePointOne

This may also help us to figure out what tasks need to be done before
other tasks. Maybe we can use colors to distinguish between certain
classes of tasks if that's needed.

I'd also suggest to delete items on the task list that are done. For
example, the brochure for sponsors is done, AFAIK. There's no need to
keep it one the list, then.


Best regards,
Claus

On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 22:12 -0500, Paul Cutler wrote:
> Hi Marketing Team,
>
> I don't know if anyone has had an opportunity lately to review the
> list of Tasks on the Marketing page on live.gnome.org at
> http://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/Tasks.  There are a lot of great
> ideas, and it's organized by active tasks, non-active and then by
> one-time tasks and ongoing tasks.
>
> It can be a bit overwhelming browsing through everything we want to
> do!
>
> I don't know about you, but I organize stuff a little differently, and
> I'm a little more goal oriented, so I re-organized some of the tasks
> and tried to assign due dates.  You can review at
> http://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/Tasks/MarketingTasks2009
>
> I've also continued to work on GNOME 3.0 Marketing.  A couple days ago
> I posted a link to some potential campaign ideas, and that ties to
> marketing calendar I've started in OpenOffice.org.  It includes
> potential marketing vehicles and outlines development time for the
> various vehicles and launch dates.  The download link is posted on
> http://live.gnome.org/GnomeThreeBrainstorming
>
> Help I need from the marketing team:
>
> * Review the marketing campaign ideas and give feedback
> (http://live.gnome.org/GnomeThreeBrainstorming)
> * Review the marketing calendar and give feedback
> (http://live.gnome.org/GnomeThreeBrainstorming) (What is missing?  Do
> we have enough time built in for planning and developing these
> activities?  Are they the right activities, and what you recommend?)
> * Review the current task list
> (http://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/Tasks)  (Is it up to date?  If
> your name is on something, are you still working on it?  What else
> should we be thinking about?)
> * Review the 2009 tasks
> (http://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/Tasks/MarketingTasks2009) (Are
> they prioritized correctly, or should some tasks move months?  What
> else would you want to add?  Change?)
>
> They're wiki pages, so please feel free to edit, or give feedback via
> email.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Paul

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