Ubuntu Global Jam - A Marketing Jam?

[Daniel Holbach]

Hello Rubén,

Am Samstag, den 19.09.2009, 19:38 +0200 schrieb Rubén Romero y Cordero:
> Hi Daniel!

I'm glad you CCed a bunch more people than me. There's probably people
who have more clue about Marketing than I do. :-)


> I would like to add a "Marketing Jam" or "SpreadUbuntu Jam" taking
> SpreadUbuntu <http://spreadubuntu.neomenlo.org/> as the base and work
> with Material creation, translation of existing material and planning
> of a Marketing campaign towards the Karmic release.
> 
> 
> Shall I just put up a How-To on running that kind of Jam as a draft
> page for further discussion so we can eventually add it to the general
> overview for Global Jams?

I think a Marketing Jam is not a bad idea. Originally we said "We want
people to meet locally, get to know each other and have fun making
Ubuntu better in a direct way".

Marketing is maybe not as immediate or direct as working on Bugs,
Translations, Docs, Packaging or Testing (all these efforts go into some
kind of 'central repository', be it Launchpad, the testing tracker, the
Ubuntu archive or what not), but definitely important too.

I realise that there's a bunch of different Marketing efforts in the
Ubuntu world, but I'd appreciate if there was clarity in goals, TODO
items and "go-to people" when we add this to the Jam docs. There's a lot
of newcomers at those local events and they need to know who's working
on what, who they can talk to and what needs doing.

So if we are going to add Marketing to the list of Jams, it'd be nice if
we had all the input and guidance from the Ubuntu Marketing team, the
Ubuntu News team, the SpreadUbuntu team, Canonical Marketing and all the
others who work on Ubuntu marketing digested and formed into a nice
piece of wiki docs, so new people don't get lost and their efforts
aren't wasted.

Have a great day,
 Daniel