[Mageia-marketing] marcom + artwork + web => atelier ?

Mon Jun 11 14:53:16 CEST 2012

Ok time to reply, read RDA's email very soon after it was sent, but let 
+other people reply first.  Also I wondered straight away how atelier was 
+even pronounced.
+
+First of all I don't like the name Atelier. Unless it's just a short 
+name that isn't going to be used in talks in front of lots of people for 
+example :) or on pod casts for example, when telling people about 
+Mageia.  For example last month when I did my Mageia Lightning Talk in 
+front of 100 to 200 or so people,  when I introduced myself, I used the 
+full position, deputy leader of the Mageia marketing and communications 
+team, I also said I was on documentation and artwork.
+
+Oh by the way thinking of putting the video up on Youtube soon 
+possibly.  Already shown some people it.  Also I think there might be 
+another video as well that someone else took.
+
+Now imagine if I had said something like, I am the deputy leader of the 
+Mageia Atelier team.  I expect most people in the audience would have 
+sat there thinking, what's that?  Then obviously in a short talk don't 
+want to spend time explaining the meaning of names.
+
+So if Atelier is just the short internal name like Marcom for example, 
+that is unlikely to be used when explaining about Mageia to other people 
+that don't really know about it, I think that's ok.  However we need a 
+proper external name in that case as well, for example: Mageia 
+presentation team,  Mageia artwork, web, and marketing and 
+communications team.
+
+Also Mageia may be a French distribution really, but Mageia exists in a 
+tech world where people are usually expected to know English who are 
+part of it, as a result Mageia also is meant to be promoted in the 
+English speaking world, as a result it's a good idea to have team names 
+and Mageia positions, that instantly make sense to English speakers, 
+when describing about Mageia.
+
+Patricia Fraser typed:
+  Not to put too fine a point on it, at the moment it looks like you, 
+Max and me. Anyone else putting their hands up? Not that I've seen... 
+and that's not just for leading, that's for *participating*.
+
+When I found out about this team nearly straight away I thought about 
+how, I have quite a lot of time at the moment, and so, I would have 
+enough time to deputy lead the team, or possibly lead it even, if it's a 
+good enough team, where we actually work properly together.
+
+Also this may be quite a good idea, to have a leader and deputy leader 
+that is in charge of the team as a whole, but also to possibily have sub 
+team leaders, so for marketing, artwork, and webteam, for example.
+
+Or here's another idea, don't bother with this team merge idea, just 
+have a joint meeting for all three teams, and possibly just do one 
+mailnig list and one IRC channel for all three teams, but still have 
+them as separate teams.
+
+Sebastian
+