Hi Pasi,<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Pasi Lallinaho <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:open@knome.fi">open@knome.fi</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Hello everybody,<br>
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I've been planning the Xubuntu Lucid marketing quite a bit and here's my<br>
current thoughts. The marketing would be one big entity, which would<br>
consist several parts:<br>
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1) POSTERS<br>
Real-life, touchable posters. Few designs. B&W also. Get people to print<br>
them and place them on the walls all over the world.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I think in most cases I would feel pretty "meh" about this idea, but I think you'd probably come up with something that would look awesome.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Personally, I had been thinking of Xubuntu tshirts. How come there are no Xubuntu tshirts? :) Might that be more doable than posters? I think we'd probably be able to get more "oomph" from shirts than posters, but maybe I'm wrong. </div>
<div><br></div><div>No offense to the Ubuntu tshirt designers, but the designs haven't always seemed particularly attractive to me. I bet we (our artwork folks?) could come up with a tshirt design that more people would want to wear. </div>
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2) WIDGETS<br>
Web widgets or something like that. Something a bit more than just a<br>
countdown banner. We had the idea of some "special" banner frames for<br>
some days, maybe use that idea?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I'm not sure what this would entail. What is a web widget? When I think of widgets, I think of things like gdesklets or Google gadgets. Would these be something like sidebar banners and buttons that people could place on their sites to show their Xubuntu love?</div>
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3) MICROSITE – THE BIG IDEA<br>
A microsite for the LTS release. Link to all the poster sources and<br>
widgets. Tell about new releases and the LTS concept. Add more content<br>
at least weekly (remember that this content can be ready before it's<br>
published, so we don't have to rush when we are near to the release).<br>
Maybe some "developer interviews"? Maybe even ask Mark to answer some<br>
questions? How to get the voice of users to show? Some interactive parts?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>It sounds like this idea would coincide with the developer blog (at least there is some overlap). </div><div>
<br></div><div>In terms of the voice of users, perhaps some user interviews would be good. One person who comes to mind is <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12px; ">Elizabeth Krumbach. She is a member of the community council and a Xubuntu user. Also, aren't there a few businesses that run Xubuntu? I seem to recall a group that worked with dolphins (??) who sent a couple of emails to the xubuntu-users ML. I think there's also a web development company in Montana that uses Xubuntu. </span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12px; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12px; ">I'm not quite sure I get the focus on just the LTS portion of it, but I do like expanding things out a bit. I think I could help with user interviews, if people thought that was a good idea.</span></div>
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4) EVENTS?<br>
Some events to lift Xubuntu to even higher level. Ubuntu Developer Week?<br>
Ubuntu Open Week (plan beforehand)!</blockquote><div><br></div><div>If either of them would be up for it, one thing that comes to mind is perhaps having Lionel or Cody (or both of them) lead a Xubuntu development session during developer week. Maybe talk about the key components / packages of Xubuntu and how our development process works. Talk about some of the development needs of Xubuntu and how developers can contribute.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I suggest that because it would be good to get more development contributors, and because I don't think we've done any kind of Xubuntu development session before.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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I'm trying to redesign the website for Lucid also. What are we going to<br>
do for the "developer blog" idea?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I still think the developer blog is a good idea, but have no major opinion on how it should be configured. </div><div><br></div><div>As a side note, Pasi, thanks for putting up the blog note about the Alpha 1 release of Xubuntu. And thanks to Charlie for testing!! </div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Jim</div><div> </div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>