{"id":1349,"date":"2005-12-07T13:02:39","date_gmt":"2005-12-07T11:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/2005\/12\/marketing-stuff\/"},"modified":"2005-12-07T13:02:39","modified_gmt":"2005-12-07T11:02:39","slug":"marketing-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/2005\/12\/marketing-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"Marketing stuff."},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe Marketing Working Group is progressing quite well, and it has been received well by the
\ncommunity it seems – judging by the number of requests we’re getting. Putting infrastructure in
\nplace and creating a list of TODOs have been two of the issues that we’ve been working on. In the
\nmeantime, we’re reading “This is a job for the Marketing Working Group”<\/em> nearly every day.
\nI’m happy with people recognizing the Marketing Working Group and knowing at least one possible
\nplace to go to with all kinds of issues. Sadly, “Marketing Working Group” does not mean that there’s
\nsuddenly a 1000 monkeys doing all kinds of promo work. This will be the major focus of the Marketing
\nWorking Group: Building a community that is able to do more work than what’s possible at the moment,
\nbacking that work up with coordination and structuring it. Helicopter view, maybe. At this moment,
\nthe most important thing is getting spreadkde<\/a> in shape,
\nhaving a decent taskmanagement<\/a> set up to
\nbe able to route work to volunteers.\n\t<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the background, work on market segmentation has started off. Getting to know who you’re
\ntargeting with KDE as a product<\/em> is a requirement to be able to do meaningful work.\n\t<\/p>\n

\n\tAh, and business cards. Can of worms freakin’ business cards. Most current status of that is
\nthat we’re trying to get hold of the designer who’ll be working on it, defining a roadmap and
\ngetting him to start working really soon now.\n\t<\/p>\n

\n\tAnd then there’s documentation, we all love it (translates to everybody needs it, only a handful
\nof people actually write it). Documentation in the case of the marketing team means writing a
\nhandbook of best practice guides, conserving knowledge, making it easier to compensate contributors
\nshifting away from KDE and putting new volunteers in their place. To improve our practises, we need
\nto care that the knowledge gets preserved for KDE. Examples are a release promotion guide, a guide
\nthat lists important things and has checklists for visiting fairs and events, simple practical
\nthings as well as structural and strategic measures to improve current performance and make
\nvolunteer’s efforts more efficient.\n\t<\/p>\n

\n\tWhile we’re at it, any webdevelopers or graphics designers around who’d like to help out? :-)\n\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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