DIYWebsite
What is the DIY Website?
Well, it isn't this page: ["DIYMarketing"]
Current Dev version is viewable here: http://diy.devubuntu.com
Roadmap
Get the diy.devubuntu.com site to a stage of completeness where it can be used as a platform for the project. By implementing marketing concepts to the website, we can reach something similar to what MarketingTeam/SpreadUbuntu was originally meant to be.
Document current DIY Material projects on the site, including Stickers #1 (Jenda), Stickers #2 (MenZa-Jenda), Posters #1 (HanZo-Jenda), T-shirts (Madpilot-Jenda)... For my projects, I will include financial data on the projects, to inform possible participants of the procedure. Could include a step-by-step howto, as well (Research the market - Research suppliers and shipping options - Get the artwork - contact suppliers, ask for quote - check with market - market). It would be great if people who bought the material could review it here.
- Collect DIY resources from around the web, sort, describe, attribute, host, link.
- Conceive a way how to lay this on the community: we want you to make DIY material for the community. It will involve a lot of work and some financial risk, but is fun and can generate a profit you can decide what to do with.
- This is where _your_ ideas come in. My next point: wishlist. People can request artwork, and the artworkers can see what people are looking for. It should be possible for artworkers to submit artwork. To consider: cooperation with the ubuntuforums.org artwork subsection, on-site submitting, on-site feedback
- And my last point for this stage of the project: A database of Marketing HOWTOs - a list of things you can do to spread ubuntu.
Growth. Probably some elements from MarketingTeam/SpreadUbuntu as well.
- Please submit your ideas to the mailing list ツ
Site Content
Planned
Marketing HOWTOs
- Here, we will try to gather recipes on how to spread Ubuntu effectively. I think we should rate them in terms of:
time required - both free time to organise and time it takes to arm, fire & forget (ie. an Ubuntu Day can take hours to prepare and is over once it's over as opposed to a [http://www.freedomtoaster.co.za/ freedomtoaster] type project, which can take less time to prepare but lasts almost permanently - requires maintenance too).
- cost to organiser, other expenses
- ingredients (40 pcs Ubuntu CDs, 2 pcs T-shirts needed, 1 pcs metropolis, etc. - doesn't need to take this form either)
DIY Marketing Material
- Downloadables, printables, shipabbles. This site should offer material in a more accessible way than the DIYMaterial page, in both digital and printed form.
Producer section
- A section for people who would think of creating and distributing material themselves.
Proposed
Emergency Window Removal Toolkit
...this idea currently marked for inclusion in another part of the Ubuntu web universe - the forum? community docs?
- A list of tested (and untested) methods and materials for rescuing a user from a faulty OS once the viruses/malware take hold. Given how the average Windrowse user is hesitant to be rid of their safety net, we should be prepared to make the current system dual-boot.
- software, including Live CD's and partitioning apps
- hardware, including external HD for instant backup
- facial tissue, for tears of joy
Your Idea