Matthew Revell

The past few weeks have been interesting for the Ubuntu Marketing Team. We’ve brought the mailing list to life, thrown a few ideas around and now begun to actually do things.

If you’re interested in marketing and free software, now is a good time to join. The team feels a little like the young Earth: a chaotic surface with churning lava but the first signs of order appearing. You’ve got a great opportunity to make your mark.

We need people who share our love both of free software and Ubuntu and, preferably, understand what marketing is or are willing to find out. Ideally, we’d love to have some professional marketers on board. This is a great opportunity to feed back into the community, learn and meet some cool people.
There is no grand structure to the team: it’s all about personal initiative - (s)he who does, wins … or something. That’s not to say that the wider Ubuntu community will accept all our efforts and suggestions. As a new and changing team, we have a lot to prove.

Current projects include:

• some initial research
• providing content and ideas for the Fridge news website
• contributing to Ubuntu Weekly News.

We’re also discussing other ideas, including:

• producing Ubuntu case studies
• SpreadUbuntu - a way to encourage grass roots advocacy and marketing
• Ubuntu Magazine.

If you’re interested, join us in #ubuntu-marketing on irc.freenode.net and subscribe to the team mailing list.