Meetings, activities and status

Our meetings happen in the #ubuntu-marketing channel on the FreeNode IRC network.

2009

Our project is now in beta.

Meeting Q2

We are holding a meeting on Thursday 18th of June. See the header for your time zone

Agenda

• SpreadUbuntu: a little intro

• Defining SpreadUbuntu:

  • Do-It-Yourself Marketing repository site?
  • Campaign epicenter for Ubuntu Marketing?
  • Advocacy site?
  • A combination?
• Drupal6 move before the 9.10 release
  • Our site runs on Drupal5 right now. We must fix that!
  • Most modules we use (besides copyright/licenses) are already available
  • Using the Ubuntu-Drupal code as the base should ease our work
  • LP-Drupal integration will help us deliver the best possible user experience
  • We need hands-on cooperation for development of the site!
  • A roadmap to get the spreadubuntu.com and spreadubuntu.org domains
  • Canonical Hosting with community code review in advance?
• Include the Global Ubuntu community:
  • Create a Global marketing materials recollection system

  • Something that ALL LoCos want to and can use

Meeting Q1

Assistants: AliTabuger7, huayra, michelleribeiro, popey, shahriar86, trmanco Minutes from meeting 2009-01-31 and a continuation 2009-02-01. We talked about:

General about the site

• Localization of the site and material. We have decided to go for the Rosetta based approach since it gives the advantage of using the Ubuntu translation community.
• Moving to Drupal6, it's pros and cons. Is there a point on doing SU a Drupal module?

Introducing the project and overview of our plans

• Introducing ourselves and the SpreadUbuntu Project: As a site with 2 parts

  • A Do-It-Yourself marketing material repository for the guerrilla marketeer

  • And a Community site playing a strengthening role into becoming a UbuntuSpreader while you are still excited about Ubuntu

• SpreadUbuntu needs to go back to the spring of its inspiration:

  • Use the SpreadFirefox site (the one that is in the works) as our inspiration. Go something like Welcome to Spread Ubuntu - Home of the Ubuntu Marketing Community

  • Use this as a opportunity to move to Drupal6 and finally integrate our site to Launchpad. See this link for an example of that integration.

  • We have a testing site for this. If you want to contribute and need access (to the server and the drupal instance) contact me directly

• Our aim should be to make the DIY site the official www.ubuntu.com before the release of the Karmic Koala

Welcoming new contributors

• We need to be better at welcoming new contributors by making it clear that there are several way to contribute:
  • As a marketing person
    • Marketing side works on development of the marketing platform, campaigns and marketing content quality
  • As a technical person
    • Technical part of SU concentrate on DIY, Launchpad integration and concentrate on automatizing the platform as much as possible
  • General non-tech, non-marketing-fancy, advocating person

    • Our community is infite if we let it be so. Let's just empower our UbuntuSpreaders with a platform and they will bring Ubuntu to every single corner of the world where our community exists.

  • And then we all must aim towards this: cooperate, exchange ideas, implement them together creating thus a real marketing community based on a technical platform.

• Make proper use of our wiki and make it simple to access: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SpreadUbuntu

  • Make changes that our wiki shows people the project needs and make it obvious for people where they can help our project out on the spot!
  • Restructure our project in order to ease the time used from hearing about it and getting excited to actually contributing

Marketing

• Work on campaigns to promote Ubuntu and the site. Campaigns should concentrate on festivities and also be as much as possible connected with the Ubuntu release cycle
• Implement an event section (or use one that exists already like the one from the Fridge)

• Upload this compilated material to the site

• SpreadUbuntu spreading in identi.ca and other social sites

Technical Changes

• Adapt the site for campaign use (maybe adding tags or a campaign filed to the material pages and then sorting them somehow out?)

• Contact the Canonical SysAdmins for a Rfc regarding the www.spreadubuntu.com and www.spreadubuntu.org domains and hosting

2008

For details on the project and its releases this far see our Launchpad Page

September 2008

• Minutes from meeting 2008-09-14: Defined some goals:

  • How will the SU architecture be like? <- Flannel gave us a nice image to visualize it

  • SU should have a working prototype by the time Intrepid comes around (October 30th). (I will announce the availability of the site in Planet Ubuntu by that time - huayra)

  • AliTabuger7 has joined our team and is going to work in the Drupal 5 Theme

  • huayra and ShahriarTariq will work with the DB population and document compilation

  • Flannel is working with the structure and design of the DB and the python "farther backend"

July 2008

Some conversations we have had until this point:

• Marketing Team meeting discussing the team and defining the idea of SU as one of the main goals for the whole team

• Elaborating on admin policy, viral marketing and a SU logo (mainly English, but some Spanish too) - pep, meisok and hubuntu

• Elaborating on the DIY website and how it relates to the DIY part of SU - Flannel and owh

• Discussion at #ubuntu-marketing on the team setup and elaborating some more in the DIY idea for SU

• Clarifying the issue for the Spanish Speaking colaboration project and making plans for the SU DIY site and how it will work. '''mainly Spanish''' - Asked Beuno,part of the DIY website team, what it was and why it failed to materialize.