[ubuntu-uk] ubuntu-uk-marketing

[alan c]

Alan Pope wrote:
> Hi Alan,
> 
> On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 23:02 +0100, alan c wrote:
>> > 
>> > Why not contribute to the existing marketing team? Why "fork"?
>> 
>> The existing marketing team is not UK specific. The UK media, 
>> temperament, retail environment etc are all specific to uk.
>> 
> 
> Sure, but that doesn't mean you can't discuss uk based issues on the
> main marketing list. You could for example just put [UK] in the subject
> line of messages to the main marketing list - which to be fair isn't
> exactly a busy list anyway. Forking to a separate list would mean that
> people from other regions would miss out on the great work you guys do.
> You would also miss out on suggestions from others.

Unfortunately the 'inappropriate' response I had from usa recently was 
a distraction, and counterproductive. I do not believe that the sort 
of uk specific items that are arising here now for example would be 
appropriate for the global marketing list.

It is good to know what the serbian team have done, but to get it 
happen in UK would need arrangements of a different nature, some quite 
detailed. I do not think such things go well on a global list. Some 
time ago I was on a berkshire radio progarm (for age concern 
computers) on a paul daniels show (non-magic, he is a disk jockey too) 
It seems he has quite an interest in computers and I had toyed with 
the idea of finding out if he used open source, Ubuntu, etc. Again 
this is uk marketing, not global. I would not even have mentioned it 
in the global list, people's agendas are so diverse.

Putting uk in each subject might work to some extent, but it would be 
better to be a uk list. I have no problem if this ubuntu-uk itself 
carries marketing discussion, as it is doing right now, we could 
continue here without a separate list maybe.

I like the energy of the marketeers who are appearing. A specialist 
list allows enthusiasm to develop and focus.
-- 
alan cocks
Kubuntu user#10391