[Marketing-wg] Open Source for America - Marketing team meeting

[Terri Molini]

I have embedded a few items below in *red text*.

Best,
terri

On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 5:03 PM, Deb Woods <Deb.Woods at ingres.com> wrote:

>  Below are the minutes from our team meeting for Jan 28. Please send any
> corrections to deb.woods at ingres.com
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> *Ideas discussed centered around three key topics:*
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> *Membership Growth Activities*
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> Social media use - take advantage of twitter/ facebook accounts.
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*We also have a LinkedIn account.  *
*Go to LinkedIn
Group*<http://www.linkedin.com/e/XzEnbVo1QKWIL0S3NdEJj1UqFK/blk/I1775668291_2/3wTc3kQcz8Lq6tSbOYWrSlI/vgh/>
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> Team to post more frequently about activities
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> Newsletter - Nik suggested we use the newsletter to pull recent content
> from the web and send out to members, rss feed. (Nik Kalyami owner)
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> *Content Creation*
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> We need content that shows govt use of open source vs success stories of
> individual companies. We discussed how some success stories could be
> rewritten to fill this need and ask various individuals to look at their
> respective collateral libraries to find examples that can be repurposed.
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> We decided to work on two white papers for the library
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> Cost benefits of open Source (will look to pull cost benefit info of open
> source examples into a single paper)- Nik Kalyami and Deb Woods agreed to
> work on this  (if others interested please let Deb.woods at ingres.com know )
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> Open Source in Government (this paper will focus on a collection of example
> use cases of open source in govt situations) (need an owner / contributor
> for this paper)
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> Podcasts are a good source of information- We need individuals that will
> volunteer to do a podcast, can interview various open source leaders in the
> space (Please let Deb or Brock know if interested)
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*The folks at Novell have been very involved with the creation of our
podcast and have offered to assist in the continued effort. Who should I
connect with to discuss? *
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*http://opensourceforamerica.org/podcasts*

> We also discussed how to share documents and work in progress materials
> amongst the team and decided to utilize google docs. (Nik Kalyami to set
> this up for the group)
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> *Metrics*
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> Everyone agreed that we need to put metrics in place to track where we are
> and how successful the various activities are.
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> Metrics to include - page views, number of downloads, Membership (Mel
> mentioned that Ian Schlezer has web site metrics and Deb will reach out to
> get such information and share with the group)
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> *The best way to get this information would be to work with the
infrastructure team.*
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*infrastructure at opensourceforamerica.org** *

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> We would like to do as much over email as possible – please share your
> ideas and which projects you would like to work on to this list. We would
> like to get the group back together next week. Look for a calendar invite.
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> Kind Regards,
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> Brock Edmiston
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> Deb Woods
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Terri Molini
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