Ryan said today, or yesterday, or possibly, technically, the day before yesterday, that he was hoping to not be stuck next to a sleeping old lady on the plane. Well guess what! It may be me. :D Anyway, moving along... Since I can't sleep, I was going through emails and such on my crackberry, and I came across poelcat's latest marketing schedule brief that he sends out (So Awesomely, I might add). Which got me thinking, which got me out of bed, and to this list of ideas. As always, just suggestions, feel free to tell me if I'm insane (quite possible after absolutely no sleep). We can probably do some of this stuff at the FAD (in our copious spare time, of course). John, if you're interested in going over / talking about #3 below - can you let us know a convenient time for you? :) 1) Can poelcat possibly add links (not necessarily hyperlinked, although that would be cool too) for each item on the schedule to the appropriate SOP? For example: Start End Name Tue 02-Mar Tue 30-Mar Feature Profiles http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Feature_profiles_SOP Thu 04-Mar Mon 08-Mar Create Alpha Announcement (Marketing & Docs) http://etc, etc (not sure if we have an SOP for this?) 2) Have a place in each SOP we create where we can reference the item's place in the schedule. Also, describe any serious hard dependencies, or what the previous items are that we depend on being done to start that particular schedule item... or if it has no dependencies at all. I think it would be great for newcomers who are working on deliverables to be able to easily reference the broader scope of this item's place in the schedule. 3) Marketing schedule SOP. How does this magic happen? Link to John's descriptions / schedule pages / etc. Who to contact if schedule has issues that need to be resolved (in the event John passes this task to others). 4) Stickster: Your magic template action. For reference: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Release_slogan_SOP#Create_the_release_slogan_page a) Can you possibly give us a rundown at the FAD on how these magic templates (the {{subst:Slogan}} part) work, how to create one, etc.? b) Maybe we could magic-template, somehow, John's schedule to feed into a {{subst:MarketingSchedule}} (I have no idea if that's correct), that we could link into each SOP? Not sure how / if this would work. 4) Let's knock out any remaining SOPs. Feature profiles is one of them. 5) Completely unrelated to SOPs / scheduling stuff: Spins. I was thinking that since we're doing feature profiles... maybe we could do some Spins interviews? Either with the SIGs creating them, or perhaps a different take would be with someone who uses them. Maybe this would help to address the item in this mail (http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-February/013639.html) - "Little support by marketing: Was there ever done any marketing for the spins?" as well as some of the things discussed in ever-so-epic "Getting Fedora out of the if-then loop" thread on FAB-list. (Incidentally, I offered up the opportunity in an email in that thread (http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/advisory-board/2010-February/008108.html) to open up discussion on what the spin folks would like to see done in terms of marketing - created a wiki page and referenced it for people to populate it with their ideas. As you can see, there were no bites. Wiki page here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_support_brainstorm But I think we should maybe discuss what we can do there, since obviously there is the perception that nothing is being done.) Thoughts, comments, suggestions - if anyone thinks this stuff is useful, I'll go ahead and add these somewhere in the FAD schedule. After I sleep. :D MARKETING FAD! WOO-WOO! Here we come. -Robyn -- marketing mailing list marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing
