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[Lisandro Vaccaro <lisandro.vaccaro@xxxxxxxxx>]

A couple of days ago somebody suggested we should try a more traditional
approach to marketing, to join efforts with the more common "grows
organically" approach.

I propose we do it, but we first have to know our cards. They are the
radios, video channels, LoCo Teams and social sites, all the people trying
to market Ubuntu on their own initiative, the LoCo teams are easily
reachable but what about the rest? They are all scattered, and sometimes is
hard even to know who is the contact of a certain site.
We have to gather all the people behind Ubuntu mass communication tools, so
that we are able to give a sense of direction to everyone.

To do it we should contact all the admins we can and make a list of all the
ones willing to help, with their name, mail and the link to the site,
channel or whatever they manage; then we could do a lot of things.

First and most importantly we could offer a guideline for people wishing to
promote Ubuntu since many sites make common mistakes, that really don't help
Ubuntu.

Second we should offer updated material and news to use on the sites,
including artwork and revised information about Ubuntu.

And finally we could contact them periodically to publish communicates
across all the sites, we could gather them on launchpad or even facebook!
and have all the admins meet and also it would give us the tool to reach
them all easily. Once we reach this step, we would finally have the tool to
organize all the sites on the net, and we could do a lot of things, if we
organized everyone we could forward whatever we wanted to get it
published simultaneously on all the sites.

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Lisandro H. Vaccaro