During the last marketing meeting, we noticed that we have different means for marketing. I'm especially interested in one topic: Announcements. My text below is not complete, I'm sure I miss some parts but hope it helps for discussion and reaching a plan. Looking at announcements, we have at least these types of announcements: * team meetings, e.g. the openSUSE marketing meeting * trade shows, e.g. FOSDEM with a large openSUSE presence * product releases, e.g. openSUSE 11.2 or openSUSE Build Service 1.7 We use different media for announcing including: * A post on news.opensuse.org * An entry in the event calendar of news.opensuse.org * @opensuse twitter/identi.ca (automatically done for all posts on news.o.o) * An email to opensuse-announce * the openSUSE Weekly News * The front page www.opensuse.org * facebook, forums.o.o (note that I have no idea how stuff gets published there) I see at least the following tasks: * Define how the openSUSE project announces different types, this includes media and also schedule * How can the marketing team help teams with announcements? This might include distribution, e.g. putting it on news.o.o, and also editing or scheduling. * Figure out how to measure that our announcements are read and acted upon What did I miss? How do we want to achieve these? Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, Program Manager openSUSE, aj@{novell.com,opensuse.org} Twitter: jaegerandi | Identica: jaegerandi SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126