[Foresight-distro] Re: I'd like to volunteer. (marketing/ideas)

[Thilo Pfennig]

On 3/5/07, Adam <adamant1988 at gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Adam, welcome to Foresight. Till now I had taken to organize some
marketing tasks. As a first step please reigster an account at JIRA (bug
tracker)https://issues.foresightlinux.org/secure/Dashboard.jspa  which is
the same for Confluence (core wiki)
http://wiki.foresightlinux.com/confluence/dashboard.action. There you find
some workspaces like the Marketing FL workspace.

Well, the first thing I need to know is what I am responsible for.  What do
> you expect of me? What areas do you think I could be useful in?   In terms
> of my skill set I'm strong in the following:
>
>
>    - Creative solutions
>    - Advertising
>    - Interfacing and networking
>    - (reasonably strong) in advertising art concepts.
>    - Public relations
>    - Gathering all necessary information
>
> My skill set allows me to not just market the product (Foresight Linux)
> but
> I would also be able to provide you guys, the developers, a lot more
> insight
> into what the client base wants.  Again, that's just the kind of stuff I'm
> good with and enjoy doing, I don't want to overstep my bounds so please
> tell
> me what they are.   Thanks!



As a new release is approaching I suggest that we just stick our heads
together and talk online about what we should do NOW. I have concentrated on
working out release notes for FL 1.1 which you also can find in the wiki. We
dont have time to extensively discuss directions of FL now - I suggest that
we do that after March 14th when we made a successful release. I am happy to
see more people joining the marketing efforts.

For now my priorities are making nice release notes, presenting them nicely
on the homepage (will have to look deeper into Django). Then we should make
sure that we distribute release notes efficiently so that we get more media
attention as last time.

I have focused on talking about GNOME, the new update manager and also
Jokosher. So I closely follow discussion and also am active in GNOMEs
#marketing and the wiki.

cum

Thilo

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Thilo Pfennig
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