[Mageia-marketing] Back to work - meeting proposal

Mon Mar 7 19:14:19 CET 2011

Hi Patricia, Marcello, all,
+
+thanks a lot for keeping on all this!
+
+On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 19:29, Patricia Fraser <trish at thefrasers.org> wrote:
+> Our vision is...
+>
+>    * To nurture a vibrant, collaborative Community of innovation...
+>    * To create powerful, reliable technology by and for our greatest asset, people...
+>    * To deliver a usable, Open Source software platform for novice
+>      and power users alike.
+>
+> But they can *all* use work. Could we maybe go over to the marketing
+> wiki and have a really good stab at getting a final draft Vision
+> Statement done before the meeting? There's loads of discussion there
+> to help us work out what we should be achieving - and there's the
+> Core Values to check to see if they agree (they must).
+
+Yep. And really, each point shows a different, yet crucial bit of the project.
+
+On a side note, about the coming alpha2: we are going to release it on
+next Tuesday and all that will go into it must be freezed by this
+coming Friday evening.
+
+What relies on some marcom work is, among other things, the main
+message under which this alpha2 will be released: it's still an alpha,
+unstable, still for contributors/testers but it has fixes from the
+previous one, more packages included, better artwork. This message is
+crucial as it will be used for the website, on the blogs, and so on.
+It's not only about announcing the alpha2 release in itself than about
+announcing the alpha2 milestone in Mageia 1 build process (that is,
+there are other releases coming and there is room for contributors).
+
+In this short timeframe, if we are quick enough, we can still insert a
+few screens during the installing process, to promote the project, the
+product and the contribution process (Alexn83 will produce the screen,
+but what goes into it exactly and how we welcome users/contributors on
+the start page is still to be done).
+
+So what needs to be done?
+ - try to attend this evening Council meeting for those who can (19:30
+UTC on #mageia-meeting)
+ - please push your ideas and whether you want to take on some
+coordination work with the artwork team
+ - try to attend marcom meeting this Thursday to square the message
+for the release
+
+
+Cheers!
+
+Romain
+