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

[Paul Cutler]

Count me in for helping as well.  I've contributed a few pages for the
gnome.org revamp, but am other wise fairly new to following the
gnome-marketing list and wiki pages.

I'd love to help out any way I can.

Paul

On 3/5/07, Thilo Pfennig <thilopfennig at foresightlinux.org> wrote:
>
> 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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