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

[Jay Edwards]

On 4/9/07, Simon Phipps <webmink at sun.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Apr 9, 2007, at 09:16, Ben Rockwood wrote:
> > I'd personally oppose "Advocates".  Partly because we're describing
> > an act, thus the plural noun "Advocates" seems inappropriate...
> > instead, I _greatly_ prefer Evangelism.  To my mind it better fits
> > the marketing community and UG goals and actions more clearly.  For
> > instance, I'm a Core Contrib of the "Marketing Community"... but
> > I've never "Marketed" OpenSolaris nor have I advocated it (meaning;
> > to represent, support or promote on behalf of another), I've
> > evangelized it.
>
> I cant't agree with this. I used the job title of "Evangelist" for
> many years (I pretty much introduced it into IBM after seeing how
> well it worked for Guy Kawasaki) and when it was novel and needed
> explanation it was an effective conversation-starter. I stopped using
> it as a job title a few years ago when it became clear that it was
> too closely associated with "tele-evangelists" and with religious
> fundamentalism (and, again, been there, done that). If we are to be a
> global community we need a name for this role that has positive
> connotations. That's why I advocated "advocates" and still think it's
> the best term to describe a group of people promoting OpenSolaris.


Yes, yes, and it reminds me of lawyers. This is just bikeshed painting. Take
a show of hands and move on.

Jay.
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