press team

[Sean McCann]

Everyone

Its a good discussion. I agree with Rory about not stopping people who
are passionate from writing about stuff they love. 

Paul is also correct in saying that it makes sense to leverage the
already existing resources available. There is probably not enough
people to form a press release team, but like most things once someone
gets the ball rolling others will join in. It might be more of an ad hoc
thing. 


Sean



On Wed, 2009-03-18 at 12:00 +0000, ubuntu-ie-request at lists.ubuntu.com
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> Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 14:41:08 +0000
> From: Rory McCann <rory at technomancy.org>
> Subject: Re: Formation of a press release team
> To: Maciej Danielski <mdanielski at ubuntu.com>
> Cc: Ubuntu Irish Team <ubuntu-ie at lists.ubuntu.com>
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> Although I don't think we *need* an explicit Press Release team, I don't
> really think it's my place (or anyone's) to stop people following their
> interests.
> 
> If you're interested in doing press stuff, and writing up all that, then
> do it!
> 
> Paul has some very good practical advise aswell. Feel free to thown some
> thoughts into a wiki / pastebin and start asking people for advise.
> 
> 
> Rory
> 
> 
> On 17/03/09 08:59, Maciej Danielski wrote:
> > It might be correct what you're both saying, but I think it doesn't
> > change the fact that we should be more pro-active with ubuntu advocacy
> > and FOSS in general.
> > 
> > This is also a great resource: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoMediaCoverage
> > 
> > "Make our case appeal to reporters. Tie the issue to other topics of
> > interest. What are the financial issues? Is taxpayers? money being
> > wasted? Are jobs being lost? Are the alternatives to proprietary
> > software better for the economy? Make it interesting to someone who
> > doesn?t give damn."
> > 
> > The question remains: What are we going to do?
> > 
> > Kind regards,
> > Maciej Danielski aka Mean-Machine
> > 
> > http://www.ubuntu-ie.org/
> > 
> > On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 7:55 PM, Laura Czajkowski <laura at lczajkowski.com
> > <mailto:laura at lczajkowski.com>> wrote:
> > 
> >     I've to agree with paul here also. No point in spreading ourselves thin.
> >     Concentrate on doing things in a small group. We can link to large
> >     groups such as the links Paul suggested.
> > 
> > 
> >     You don't need to create sub groups to promote ubuntu here, we have the
> >     mailing list, irc and wiki, maybe more face to face meets ups are in
> >     order instead of creating these kinda things.
> > 
> > 
> >     just my 2 cents on the job.
> > 
> >     Laura
> > 
> > 
> >     Paul O'Malley - gnu's not unix - wrote:
> > 
> >     > Shane Fagan wrote:
> >     >
> >     >> Hi all,
> >     >>
> >     >> >From talk on #ubuntu-ie on IRC we have decided to make a press
> >     team for
> >     >> ubuntu-ie. Getting Ubuntu known around Ireland is the main idea
> >     behind
> >     >> the team. If anyone is interested in volunteer either reply to this
> >     >> email or ask on the IRC channel all ideas and imput welcome.
> >     >>
> >     >
> >     > this seems slightly identical to the function of ubuntu-ie
> >     >
> >     > there are not enough people to justify a separate grouping as far as I
> >     > can see
> >     >
> >     >
> >     https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ActivismGuide?action=show&redirect=ActivismHowTo
> >     <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ActivismGuide?action=show&redirect=ActivismHowTo>
> >     >
> >     > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MarketingTeam
> >     >
> >     > just linking into a bigger group who are doing more might benefit more
> >     >
> >     > note the meetup date on the "activisim loco" there should be a change
> >     > soon enough
> >     >
> >     >
> >     >
> >     >
> >     >
> >     >
> > 
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