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Thornton</B> + <A HREF="mailto:mageia-marketing%40mageia.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BMageia-marketing%5D%20Licking%20my%20wounds...&In-Reply-To=%3C4F7AB251.4080809%40NorthTech.US%3E" + TITLE="[Mageia-marketing] Licking my wounds...">Bradley at NorthTech.US + </A><BR> + <I>Tue Apr 3 10:18:25 CEST 2012</I> + <P><UL> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="000781.html">[Mageia-marketing] The Planets +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="000809.html">[Mageia-marketing] Licking my wounds... +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#782">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#782">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#782">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#782">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + <HR> +<!--beginarticle--> +<PRE>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- +Hash: RIPEMD160 + + + +On 03/17/2012 06:29 PM, Patricia Fraser wrote: +><i> Hi Bradley, +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Hopefully you're feeling completely recovered! +</I> +Thank you so much for your well wishes Trish :) Thanks to Sebastian and +others too who expressed empathy. The major invasive stuff is completed, +and I don't think I have to endure anymore grinding. + +I have an appt tomorrow LOL, so we'll see, but certainly nothing like +what I went through the last time. The cutting is done, now for the +paste, so to speak :) + +But I digress. Getting back on topic. + +I've been reading, lurking, flagging, and compiling sites to include on +the wiki in the meantime. + +The level of noise on the list as such that no sooner did I turn around +then we had about fifty new posts on the copy for the install screens on +the list here, and it fatigued me, having to ask myself why people +either weren't paying attention to what had transpired or consulted the +archives, as rda correctly requested that people do in the future. + +Oh, how many pages of install screens do we have? (Joking, of course). I +found that funny because there were no less than four times that +question was asked by different folks lol ;) + +><i> +</I>>><i> There's a few contact points I can add to the notification list. I'll +</I>>><i> dig those up over the next couple of weeks, and Trish, if you can +</I>>><i> shoot me on over any scraps of dangling release announcement copy to +</I>>><i> add to my scratch pad that would be nice to have as a reference too. +</I> +Quoting myself here, but before I put up any of these on the wiki I need +some clarification/direction on the matter. + +We have a budget. And some of these sites are not free (Nor should we +expect them to be). Some of the sites have *some* free services, and +some are actually free. + +Each has varying targets. + +We spent around $2500.00 on stickers and such, so I can't imagine that +an allocation of say, ten percent of that would be asking too much to +earmark for MarCom's budget in this regard. + +I need to hear back whether we're going to have this support and that +there is a potential to release this *neccessary* funding for us. + +If we can spend ten times this amount of stickers and t-shirts, then I +believe it is prudent to allocate the pittance I'm asking for to reach +millions in the mainstream - not just a few hundred or so at a couple of +conventions. + + +><i> +</I>><i> I don't have any copy, alas, but we need to get three general things +</I>><i> started: +</I>><i> +</I>><i> 1. the Mageia blog post for release +</I>><i> 2. a generic release announcement/press release for distribution +</I>><i> 3. interviews with people who use Mageia, and/or solicited reviews - +</I>><i> for these, we need to get together a list of the kinds of questions +</I>><i> people would like answers to. +</I> +Okay Trish has hit the nail on the head with respect to the priorities +we should be focusing on above. Let's move off the infinite loop of the +install screens now that it's a dead issue for the time being and take +up the reigns of the tasks above that Trish has laid out for us :) + +wrt 1.) I think perhaps a good way to start is to get from Anne, an +example of an announcement that she, as our spokesperson, might issue. + +We can nip in the butt any possibility that we'll be caught off guard +again and embarrassed, by taking this proposed sample statement that she +envisions releasing, fixing it, and then, as her teleprompter returning +it as the statement we actually ARE going to issue. + +2.) This I've addressed above. I want to know what our budget is going +to be, and zero is not acceptable considering the monies spent on +schwag, that I pointed out above (Nothing wrong with scwhag, but I don't +recall that marketing expense ever coming through our team for approval, +nod, consensus, etc.). + +3.) Very good milestone to achieve. How might we "solicit reviews", and +what are many of the questions we're seeing on the forums that we can +draw from for this, aside from... + +"What sets Mageia apart from other major Linux distros?" That's question +number one IMO :) + +Kindest regards, + + +- -- +Bradley D. 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