Ubuntu Weeks Planning and Promotion

This document is to help assist those who are planning and promoting Ubuntu Weeks or Online Classroom events.

Start of New Cycle

• Decide Dates and Times of *Ubuntu Week
• Decide on Planners
• Identify Tasks
• “Assign” Tasks to various planners
• Decide dates for various milestone emails/conversations/meetings with planners to make sure everything is on track
• Set up Calendar for Event and Share with all planners involved

Basic Organization

Basically the organisation of the event can be broken down into the following areas:

• 10 weeks ahead: start finding speakers

• 9-4 weeks ahead: get timetable, bios, summaries for event sessions in place (before announcements)

• 3 weeks ahead: prepare announce

• 2 weeks ahead: announce, spread the news

  • Forward an official press release to various press sources (Template for Official Press release can be found here)

  • Fedora Maintains a great press release list it can be found at here

  • Don’t forget about Linux User Groups

  • Don't forget about the LoCo Contacts Mailing List - loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com

  • Schedule (if possible) people who blog across the community (or just release the press release on their blog)

• the week itself: blog summary, inform people about sessions on IRC

Timeline for Planning and Promoting Ubuntu Weeks

Ubuntu Developer Week

Ubuntu Open Week

Ubuntu App Developer Week

Ubuntu Classroom User Days