Hello Geekos,
I'm writing now cause many things are being said from few perspectives and many decisions will be taken. If we don't stand up now we will be apart from marketing decisions and we will send for the rest of the project the idea that marketing is just necessary for Release times or advertise on twitter, facebook or G+! We must to be more than this, we are more than this.
From my point of view if the Marketing Team wants to be alive and more active the first task to work in it, is the advertisment in the social media not only during the Release times but during the whole period of time. So yes Izabel I agree with that.
During both events I had no openSUSE goodies/gears. I just went with my laptop running openSUSE 13.1 & carried the ISO images. Those wishing to have a copy brought their pendrives. Infotech 2013 was visited by thousands of Mauritians & I can't really count how many attended our stand. While for the Linuxfest we received nearly 200 people for the presentations. Now, you can imagine how having goodies would have helped showcasing the project differently.
Talking about Marketing , Articles in News and Wiki page are very important but we cannot ignore the importance of the Marketing materials (such as PromoDVD's etc). Let me give an example : The last 3 months I study in Austria. People from the local IEEE Student Branch (but also university students) are open to a openSUSE Release Party or a openSUSE Install Fest. There are students who don't know about Linux but willing to learn about it and also some Linux users. Concerning the fact that the shipping proccess of the Marketing material [1] seems to be frozen (we can't ask for PromoDVD's as we did in the past) currently I cannot organize properly (burning iso's is not enough in this case) such an event. I assume that apart from me and Ish, are people who need the Marketing material for organizing an event or attend to a local FOSS conference/event. I would like to remind to all of us that in 13.1 many bugs have been solved [2] and such a fact will attract more users/volunteers...
This will make most of us active again and will bring other people that want to contribute and most of all it will be something that will make the Project more visible(again). I know by experience that translating the Weekly neews made our local community more visisble and gathered people around the Project.
Many people joined our community due to the 'rocky' Release Parties (from my experience in Greece and Spain) apart from the openSUSE idea , PromoDVD's attracted people's attention. Some of them stayed and contributed seasonly some of them not, and that's normal. With such an input (of possibly contributors) Marketing team had to be very active. I think this is a good period of time (concerning the 13.1 release) to work on the Marketing Team Jobs [3] and re-define some them if required. Kosta's idea about the weekly tasks is a very good one, cause volunteers will remain active and with an active Marketing team more people will be attracted. For such an idea we could either use the Wiki or an issue tracker (e.g create tasks in a seperate github repo).
So, please, stand up who is or wants to be part of openSUSE Marketing Team.
Although I have limited time available, I do stand up.
Thanks Izabel,
Geekings,
Ilias R.
[1] http://software.opensuse.org/promodvd
[2] http://news.opensuse.org/2013/10/15/betapizza-hackaton-results/
[3] http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Marketing%20jobs
On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 5:17 PM, Manu Gupta
On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 7:32 PM, jdd
wrote: Le 09/12/2013 14:52, Kostas Koudaras a écrit :
I have a thought since we used to have openSUSE Weekly news where most of the marketing people had something to work on every week
don't know if it's the reason, but weekly news is vital
We need a proof that something lives in the wild :-)
there was a project of monthly magazine after OSC11, but probably dead for lack of volunteers
I can look for the resources and push onto the artwork github, if you want to work on it
a weekly news can be very short if time is sparse, but we have to got one. It's the first project I will work on if necessary
What help do you need from me on this, I am ready to be a follower if this is a monthly initiative, lets start monthly then maybe weekly or biweekly
thanks jdd
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