Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 12:42:38 +1000 From: Sam Lawrance <boris@brooknet.com.au> To: Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net> Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Media coordinator? [was: Re: ZFS committed to the FreeBSD base. (fwd)] Message-ID: <D7E44073-DF77-489E-904B-A615C88C9BEF@brooknet.com.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.4.64.0704090739060.9417@glacier.reedmedia.net> References: <20070406054948.J30801@fledge.watson.org> <933A84DB-0654-43B9-93DE-F8762C41AC44@brooknet.com.au> <Pine.NEB.4.64.0704090739060.9417@glacier.reedmedia.net>
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On 09/04/2007, at 10:48 PM, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > On Sun, 8 Apr 2007, Sam Lawrance wrote: > >> Would it be worthwhile to form a "media coordinator" role? I can >> think >> of two areas of value for this role: announcement coordination and >> media >> liaison. > > FreeBSD has a media coordinator -- it is made up of marketing > professionals, book authors, active announcement and/or press release > writers, freelance writers and a few others. > >> Announcement coordination would be provided as a service to our >> developers and the community. For example, before committing or >> MFC'ing >> some hot new feature, people can ask the media coordinator for >> assistance with the announcement. This might involve helping to >> draft >> the primary announcement, writing articles for submission to news >> sites, >> the sort of information described above by Robert. The work can be >> delegated, the key is simply to provide all the right information >> to the >> right people and channels when an announcement is made. > > This is frequently done, but usually the marketing team contacts the > developers. We do need to remind developers to contact the marketing > team. > > Also the marketing team doesn't have defined goals or any set > schedule -- > and also no single person to accept responsibility. Nevertheless, the > volunteer marketing team has done a good job over past couple years -- > take note of the several press releases distributed. (In a few cases, > press release writing and distribution has been paid for. Also I have > personally contacted many print publications for several news > stories over > past couple years.) The effort is apparent - I think that most people here would have seen it, whether or not they recognised it as a product of the marketing team :-) Has the marketing team considered developing and working to a charter? Similar to portmgr, secteam, releng, and doceng? I noticed that the team is listed on freebsd.org/administration.html. There's no visibility from freebsd.org/marketing, which is where you may expect to find it.
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