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

[Stephen Potter]

<quote who="Jim Grisanzio">
> * Ambassador Community
> * Advocates Community
> * Evangelism Community or Evangelization Community
> * Outreach Community

I've been quietly following this discussion since Jim proposed it.  I was
initially completely against the idea of the merger of the communities,
because the marketing community always seemed a little more "formal" and
"controlled" (although I've always felt my contributions were encouraged,
welcomed, and accepted, it still felt like mostly a "corporate" community
to allow outside input and there seemed to be lots of internal things
going on that the community couldn't really be involved in).  The user
groups on the other hand were grass-roots and informal, more of a real
external community.

I feel the recent proposal to broaden the user-group community into more
of an outreach community makes a whole lot of sense.  I still don't think
the marketing community should be part of the outreach community, but I do
think they should have close ties.

As to naming opinions, I agree that Ambassador might be confusing (it also
sounds kind of official, which may be off-putting to new contributors),
and Evangelism evokes the whole OS religion problem.  I personally think
Advocates is the wrong form, that it should be Advocacy (which only
mirrors Approachability), but Advocates parallels communities such as
Immigrants, System Administrators, Chinese Users, so it seems there is
some precedent.

-spp
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