On Wednesday 22 December 2010 00:34:14 Bryen M. Yunashko wrote:
Folks,
The openSUSE Marketing Team's Collaboration Days have concluded and Pascal (yaloki) entered the final statement into our log files as we closed up:
"we can be heroes, just for one day" - David Bowie
How fitting for us on days when so many marketing heroes stepped forward to make Collaboration Days a success.
I want to echo this statement, thanks all - super work! Really appreciate it, although I'm almost falling asleep behind the keyboard now ;-)
I'm going to leave the report for today's Social Media collaboration day to our fine moderators Manu Gupta and Jos Poortvliet to convey to you all, but for me, I just want to make a general statement.
You all did a wonderful job and proved that when we need to come together, we can do it! So many tasks were identified over the last 3 events this month and identified many things that we need to focus on in 2011.
So what's next? To be sure, we will definitely plan special Collaboration Days as the need arises within our team. Hopefully not with the intensity we faced this month with 3 weekly events, but still, we learned what works and what doesn't work.
The next tentative "collaboration day" is actually a face-to-face hackfest which we are aiming for February. We encourage you all to take a look at http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:11.4_Marketing_Hackfest Soon we will need to review the list of people who are interested and start making concrete plans for organizing this event.
Yes, please, ppl, anyone who would WANT to come and contribute - just put your name there. Don't think about cost or whether the date works for you - we will figure that out later. ADD YOUR NAME IF YOU WANT TO COME PLEASE. Of course we can't fly 20 ppl over from India or the USA if we do it in Europe. But we don't have to do it in Europe, if it's cheaper to do it in the USA then that's where it'll be. And we have budget. The hotel will be free, I surely pay for that, the travel depends on how much you need it, how many ppl need it etc - but we will try to help as many ppl to come as possible!
So what's next? Over the next few days (taking some time to celebrate the holidays of course), I will be compiling a grand list of Marketing ToDos on our wiki that combine the items we did not finish on our Collaboration days, other items not covered during the Days but still important for us to do, and etc. This will be an on-going living reference list that helps us to quickly identify what each of us can and want to do to complete the needs of the marketing team and supporting the promotion of openSUSE.
Dude, you're a workaholic. Good luck compiling that list, it is useful, so thanks :D But then ppl (and that includes everyone who reads this and the dude who writes it) need to pick up those tasks! THink about it peeps, that's how we get things done - doing them ;-)
Once I get this list started, I'll be encouraging you all to take a look at the list and commenting/suggesting items to the list.
In the meantime, please... Enjoy the holiday season, be safe, and come back in 2011 strong, revitalized and energized!
Same to you, and all: happy holidays!
Thank you all, Bryen M Yunashko
Cheers, Jos