[Mageia-dev] Art, Logo and Branding

Fri Sep 24 21:49:50 CEST 2010

On Friday 24 Sep 2010 12:38:41 Michael Scherer wrote:
+> Le vendredi 24 septembre 2010 à 12:04 +1200, Graham Lauder a écrit :
+> > Who do I talk to about setting up a Marketing Mail list
+> 
+> We postponed the mls creation until we have a clear delimitation and
+> understanding about the various sub groups who will need one, and until
+> we can find what we can offer to those subgroups to collaborate ( ie,
+> wiki, elgg, or any kind of tools, depending on the need, what is
+> available and so on ).
+> 
+> Marketing and communication somehow overlap if we look at the
+> description on http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=marketing and
+> http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=communication,
+> communication and webteam may overlap ( as the web site is
+> communication ), so could webteam and design, or design and
+> communication.
+> And webteam and sysadmin may also overlap too or at least, will require
+> to discuss.
+
+My first reaction was "NOOOO, I want my exclusive MARKETING LIST!!"
+(note caps and 2, yes two, exclamation marks.  So restrained ;)  )
+
+But then my consideration is that you are right.  We (people) tend to package 
+things in terms of job descriptions.  This is a hangover from our offline work 
+environment.
+
+Marketing, website, education, documentation, graphic design: all are 
+communication, so lets put them under a single mail list.  The more I think 
+about it the more i like the synergies that would come out of that.
+   
+
+> 
+> So we thought that too much mls in the first place would be ineffective,
+> as this would get too messy too soon.
+
+The only problem I have is that important stuff can get buried in noise.  For 
+instance if a group of us were working on a mission statement, the thread 
+would not be busy and would disappear off the bottom in really short order.  
+The ideal solution of course would be a Email Subject/title convention, but 
+noone ever sticks to those in an open source project, it's hard enough to get 
+them to stop top posting!  :D  However a single Comms list would mitigate that 
+to a degree
+
+> 
+> I can understand the need to have a list as it somehow act the creation
+> of the team, but I think we can do better than a ml to do that, except
+> that we do not have the definite infrastructure for this ( but we are
+> working hard on it ).
+> 
+> > I'll set up a pirate pad in any case.
+> 
+> I have been pondering on installing gobby on the server, because it is
+> packaged, and wait on https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Etherpad_FAD to
+> adapt the package for our current host ( running Mandriva ), since
+> etherpad is rumored to be quite complex to setup properly.
+
+OK, they're horrible bloody things in many ways from a usage pov,
+
+> 
+> In the mean time, yes, a piratepad would be a solution.
+
+ I would prefer collaboration on google docs but pirate pads realtime update 
+is a killer feature at this point and so I'll put up with the other 
+irritations.
+
+I will have breakfast and get into it 
+
+
+-- 
+Graham Lauder,
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