Marketing for Xubuntu Lucid

[Vincent]

On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 11:10 PM, Pasi Lallinaho <open at knome.fi> wrote:

> Hello everybody,
>
> I've been planning the Xubuntu Lucid marketing quite a bit and here's my
> current thoughts. The marketing would be one big entity, which would
> consist several parts:
>
> 1) POSTERS
> Real-life, touchable posters. Few designs. B&W also. Get people to print
> them and place them on the walls all over the world.
>
>
Sounds fun, not sure if it'll really work though. I'm also not sure whether
Xubuntu's community is large enough for this.


> 2) WIDGETS
> Web widgets or something like that. Something a bit more than just a
> countdown banner. We had the idea of some "special" banner frames for
> some days, maybe use that idea?
>
>
I don't know exactly what you're talking about, but this could definitely be
a success.


> 3) MICROSITE – THE BIG IDEA
> A microsite for the LTS release. Link to all the poster sources and
> widgets. Tell about new releases and the LTS concept. Add more content
> at least weekly (remember that this content can be ready before it's
> published, so we don't have to rush when we are near to the release).
> Maybe some "developer interviews"? Maybe even ask Mark to answer some
> questions? How to get the voice of users to show? Some interactive parts?
>
>
Cool, but as said, time is too tight for me to be able to contribute ;-)


> 4) EVENTS?
> Some events to lift Xubuntu to even higher level. Ubuntu Developer Week?
> Ubuntu Open Week (plan beforehand)!
>
> I'm trying to redesign the website for Lucid also. What are we going to
> do for the "developer blog" idea?
>
> I need help if we are going to follow this plan, especially 3). Comments?
>
> --
> Pasi Lallinaho
> Xubuntu Marketing Lead
> Web-designer, graphic artist
> IRC: knome @ freenode
>
>
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Vincent
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