Dag Wieers schrieb:
On Mon, 16 Jun 2008, wonderer wrote:
Dag Wieers schrieb:
On Mon, 16 Jun 2008, wonderer wrote:
I read over the ToDo List and have some points to mention and hope its ok:
Certainly, I made that list to encourage anyone to help out. So I guess you were my target audience :)
The following tasks needs one or more owners:
- Create appealing screenshots for the website, articles or events
additional: take pictures from events...
Right, we have pictures of events taken, but none of them have been put online in a structured manner :) So where do we want to put those ?
A Gallery within the wiki, if this are not to many pictures they can put in directly, etc.
Is the wiki a good place to put a few photo's of every event ?
For the first shot, yes! Then we can see if there is a need for a more and more structured Picture Archive. My experiences with other OpenSource Projects told me there will be up to 3 or maybe 5 Images per Event that fit in an "Online Gallery of the Event"... But as you say: if nobody do it, it would not be done ;-)
We need to mail all the people involved in previous events that may have pictures.
done here, soon over other chanels.
Also, it would be nice if we could make a wiki-template with some basic information, a photo, responsibilities, etc, and encourage every Wiki contributor to provide that information. And then have some sort of Team or Community page that lists all of them including the picture.
It would bring some human touch into the wiki. People sometimes forget this is made by inviduals like themself.
ACK.
I think we should do education more than promotion. Most people have no clue what Enterprise Linux is and why they should pay attention to it.
Thats the other part: some ideas on articles or better HowTos:
- wich Enterprise Linux should I choose - why, how?! (HowTo and
Presentation for Event)
- how to use CentOS for Business (Presentation for Events)
- how to build a CentOS Intranet (HowTo)
- what do I need for my personal CentOS Desktop?
- any other ideas?
- how to build a media-center/voip/home automation
So many other interesting things that first need a knowledgable presenter and only secondly a good presentation :)
i made the difference between presentation and HowTo. For a Presentation the Speaker does not have the knowledge in deep, that should be handled in the wiki-HowTo and on irc or other support chanel.
- Contact magazines for CentOS related articles or include CentOS
media
Therefore CentOS should have ready made press kit (could work out something).
Yes, we need a press-kit.
Ok, I will work a draft version out, ok?! :-) Therefore I need maybe some more infos about CentOS itself. Who can I "interview" about that?
Depends on what information you need. Why not ask the questions here and get the responsible people involved ?
Done ;-)
- Contact publishers (of Fedora/RHEL books) to include CentOS on
cover, in print or as media
additional: contact Writers and ask to work out the CentOS related parts.
Right, go over the current RHEL and Fedora books and make sure we can improve the part about CentOS.
Additional question: Do we have a ready made VMWare Image elsewhere online? If not shall we build some and put it on VMWare?
VMware has a repository of images, I guess it belongs there. The point is, what is the image used for. All use-cases would have their own image.
Not necessary. I mean http://www.vmware.com/appliances/ . There could be a standard VMWare Image (or also Xen, but I did not know such a place for Xen Images...) with VMWare Tools installed and some other packages. For promotion very good, because the CentOS Logo and other information could be implemented....
- Create and maintain pages about how to install CentOS on your
laptop
additional: Install CentOS under VMWare.
Yes, both are probably not really part of the promo SIG but I considered it important :) I started it, but it is not as successful as it could be. Maybe new additions to the Laptop page could make it to CWN as well to drive that a bit too ? :)
Yes :-)
Ok, I see a bit clearer. So my thought is (I hope I'm right about that) that there are several parts to deal with (I did'nt think that my little question will make such waves..)
- Artwork SIG: make some more Pics like
http://fedora.nicubunu.ro/centos/ -> Question: can we move these banners over to CentOS (wiki)?
We should definitely ask him. On the other hand, there was some negative criticism that this is NOT the CentOS logo and therefor should NOT be used.
The problem in our community is this: Since we have no real voting mechanism, a negative voice often blocks a proposal while a positive voice may not be heard.
As long as we have no rules for decision-making, there is no decision-making...
So, there is a need for it I see ;-) Styleguide is in work ;-)
- Promotion: make an updated ToDo List with prioritys and people who
can work on it
Go ahead.
dont have write permissions at this time ;-) I'l post it later here ...
- work on presentations and promo stuff
We are doing that everytime there is a need for it. We could use more people doing more presentations and adding more content.
The subsentence "there is no need for it" I did not read here ;-) There is ALWAYS need. The question is when and how much ;-)
- Flyers, Posters
We need people that want to help with the Artwork SIG. That one is dead for some time now. Also, a better planning in between events would help get better promotional material in time for events.
I build up an event checklist.Suggestions ...
We often want to do a lot, but because we are all volunteers our time is limited. We have been doing a good job until now, but we definitely could do better in the future. If you look at the progress we made, I think LinuxTag 2008 shows how we improved, both with the booth as well with presentations.
I know that ;-) ... Better as you think...
Are there any "Projects" for / with CentOS we can promote more? any Cluster or school project or so?
As the promotional team we should encourage people to set up projects and report back about it. A cluster-related SIG or a school-related SIG would be nice, but it would also require a lot of resources/volunteers to be competitive in those areas.
If somebody in a company has the idea to work out a project they do not think necessary to speak to the CentOS Team... We do not need for all Projects SIGs and THATs ...Its a matter on how stuff works: - Mister xyz build up a CentOS Server, buidl a nice package or script, make a blog entry or whatever - Promo SIG read about it, hear about it - Promo SIG asks a) Mister xyz how CentOS can help (if projects at first steps) or how CentOS can promote the project - Promo in progress
So, ALL the readers here should have this in mind i guess and if elsewhere something happens a Mail here comes in...
Another point is the "how could I help" area. I did'nt read about it elsewhere on the main CentOS Website, nor the wiki... - how can I donate - how can I participate - how can I help Therefore: areas, Buttons, Benefits?
cheers Henrik
P.S.: have only dag and I a dialog here ;-) ?