New Doc for Kubuntu -- KQuicktour -- Marketing Team?

[Jonathan Jesse]

On Friday 04 November 2005 03:14, Daniel Robitaille wrote:
> > Riddel and I were talking on #kubuntu-devel today about the new
> > quicktour. We would like to use the doc as well to highlight and draw
> > more attention to Kubuntu as well.  On my local copy I have created
> > /trunk/kde/kquicktour and will be commiting it in the morning so more
> > people can work on it if the would like.
>
> that's a very good idea.
>
> > Also at one time I thought the Marketing team might be working on this
> > and would hope they could work as well on the kquicktour.
>
> Marketing team?  which marketing team :)
>
> >From what I can see, there are currently  2 Ubuntu marketing teams:
>
> One defined around the mailing list ubuntu-marketing at lists.ubuntu.com
> And one on the forums an http://www.ubuntupeople.com
>
> The mailing list seems pretty quiet these days; the marketing forum
> are slightly busier, but it seems they tend to  keep for themselves
> away from the Ubuntu official team structure (by choice)
>
> To my best knowledge there hasn't been any interest (in public) in
> either team on taking over the Quicktour for Dapper.  Unless there is
> a strong interest from them, the Quicktour document could stay in the
> sphere of influence of the DocTeam; its future as a Docteam project to
> probably be decided at the DocTeam meeting in a few hours.
>
> To go a bit OT for the DocTeam list, but one idea that floating
> briefly on the marketing list last week (I think originally from
> Jerome) was to come up with a standard series of slides about Ubuntu.
> A sort of expanded QuickTour using slides to describe and sell Ubuntu
> to be given to LoCo teams for translation and use in their local sale
> pitches (I would assume something in he order of a 10-15 minutes
> presentation)  I think this project for Ubuntu (and the corresponding
> set for Kubuntu) could be a nice complement to the Dapper Quicktour
> html/pdf document itself.  But all this should probably be discussed
> on the marketing list instead of here.
>
>
> --
> Daniel Robitaille
Must have been my mistake on the marketing team.  Anyways I have uploaded it 
to svn already this morning, so feel free to hack away at it.