HardyRelease

Situation

The release of Hardy Heron is currently scheduled for April 24th. This good news needs to be spread!

Mission

The Ubuntu Marketing Team will promote the release of Hardy Heron.

Execution

  1. The team will assist members of the Ubuntu developer team in preparing the release notes and announcement.
  2. The team will coordinate the translation of the official Canonical press release.
    1. Cody, Nick, and Martin will provide approved Ubuntu Members of loco teams with the press release to translate.
    2. Cody, Nick, and Martin will maintain a list of individuals who have received the press release and what language they are translating in annex A.
    3. After the embargo is lifted, the marketing team with the help of LoCo teams will publish and spread the press release.

  3. The team will promote and encourage bloggers, website maintainers, etc. at large to display the Ubuntu Hardy release countdown widget.
  4. The news team will cover the development and release of Hardy Heron in the UWN.

Services & Support

  1. The ubuntu wiki (http://wiki.ubuntu.com)

  2. E-mail
  3. Team IRC Chat room (#ubuntu-marketing on irc.freenode.net)

Command & Signals

  1. Nick Ali and Martin Albisetti will lead this campaign.
  2. Cody Somerville will assist Nick and Martin in running this campaign.
  3. Cody, Nick, and Martin will be responsible for approving individuals who received the embargoed Canonical press release.
    1. This effort will be lead by Nick.

Annex A

This annex describes who has been granted access to the Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron press release from Canonical.

Translators

The following individuals have received the press release for translating.

Full name

IRC Nick

LP ID

LoCo Team

Language

Status

Nick Ali

boredandblogging

nali

???

???

In progress

Martin Albisetti

beuno

""

Argentina

Spanish

In progress

Cody Somerville

cody-somerville

""

Canada

French Canadian

In progress

Jonathan Carter

highvoltage

jonathan

S. African

Afrikaans

In progress

???

???

???

???

German

In progress

Szilveszter Farkas

phanatic

""

Hungarian

""

In progress

Paolo Naldini

Hattory

""

Italian

""

Completed

Siegfried Gevatter

RainCT

""

Catalan

Catalan

In progress

Timo Jyrinki

Mirv

timo-jyrinki

Finland

Finnish

Completed

André Gondim

Andre_Gondim

andregondim

Brazil

pt_BR

In Progress

Mark Van den Borre

???

markvdb

Netherlands

Dutch

In Progress

Russell John

???

bangladesh

Bangladesh

Bengali

In Progress

Sławek Czerkas

_RAM

???

Polish

""

In Progress

Daniel Nylander

yeager

yeager

Swedish

""

In Progress

Mehdi Hassanpour

mehdi2

mehdi

Iranian

Farsi

In Progress

Sri Ramadoss M

???

amachu

???

Tamil

In Progress

Andi Darmawan

Belutz

belutz

Indonesian

Indonesian

In Progress

Soren Hansen

soren

shawarma

Danish

Danish

In Progress

Proof Readers

The following individuals are authorized to receive the translated material on or after April 21st for proof reading.

Full name

IRC Nick

LP ID

LoCo Team

Language

Status

Josep Sànchez

papapep

papapep

Catalan

Catalan

April 21st

If for any reason the embargo is broken, please contact Cody Somerville or another member of the Marketing Team immediately. You may call him toll free during working hours (Atlantic time) with the 1-877 number provided in the e-mail you received.

MarketingTeam/Campaigns/HardyRelease (last edited 2008-08-06 16:23:38 by localhost)