[osol-mktg] Re: [ug-discuss] Community Consolidation -- Marketing & UGs

[Patrick Finch]

I think that "marketing" is a broad term and one that is clearly emotive 
for many people on OpenSolaris.org.  If we understand marketing to mean 
things like advertising, clearly Sun is able to do that for itself.

So what is needed beyond Sun's own "marketing" of the project?  I'd 
suggest that it is precisely the ability of community members to 
evangelise at the grassroots level, both face-to-face (attending 
conferences, and especially UGs) and also online.  I think that people 
need to be able to contribute to what we used to call "OpenSolaris 
marketing" in a more bazaar-like manner.

A chap started posting to this list a couple of weeks ago and wanted to 
get involved, wanted to spread the word.  We didn't really have any 
programmes for him to join.  This lead me to think that we should have a 
community that lets the interested and enthusiasts become more effective 
and responsible evangelists, and that's why I'm supportive of the proposal.


Patrick




Alan DuBoff wrote:
> On Monday 02 April 2007 08:25 pm, Jim Grisanzio wrote:
>> I'd like to propose that we merge the Marketing Community and the User
>> Group Community:
> 
> I don't think it makes sense.
> 
> What are you trying to accomplish by doing such?
> 
> User Groups are grass roots to me, and marketing is driven by a bottom line, 
> and implies such.
> 
> Maybe I wouldn't mind if it was called something else, because marketing makes 
> me itch...
>