On 04/16/2010 10:10 PM, Bryen M. Yunashko wrote:
Shayon,
Good questions.
First of all, oftentimes marketing teams and conference planning go hand-in-hand. Conferences are a way for companies to showcase their products. And in our case, marketing team definitely needs to participate and at the very least, be aware of what the conference goals are (which need to be determined by the upcoming Conference Planning Team.)
However, I'd like to ensure that we do not turn our conference into a marketing event. We should be focusing more on hacking, developing, infrastructuring, etc. The conference should not be as focused on showcasing openSUSE but rather focus on bringing contributors together in one place.
So what should the marketing team be concerned with?
- Spreading the word that the conference is going to happen on <insert date here.> - Ensuring that our conference is listed on FOSS event calendars - Contacting Media people to get them to attend our event. - Reaching out to existing and potential new contributors to come to the event. - Planning a "press corps" to ensure that the event is tweeted/blogged/talked-about live during the conference - Looking at what materials (if any) can be given to contributors who attend - Coordinating how videos are gathered and posted for people to view after the conference - Maybe make a commercial or two? - Create online brochures for people interested in learning more about why they should attend the conference. - Etc. Etc. Etc. Etc.
The possibilities of what the marketing team can do is endless, and is limited only by your creativity. :-)
Ok , well then looking forward to the meeting to get the entire scenario and try to contribute accordingly . Btw , is the meeting time mentioned above is Final or is flexible enough to change ? ;)
Bryen
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