[Epo-marketing] Where from here?

[J. Shirley]

On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 11:09 AM, Chris Prather <perigrin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 1:39 PM, Mike Whitaker <epo at altrion.org> wrote:
>
>>    - do we release all at once or over a few days?
>
> Depends on how well you think we'll be able to follow up with more
> (visible) activities. If we make a big splash up front (release all at
> once) and then go dark for six months, we look bad ... but if we
> follow up with next week/month with more flurries ...we're okay..
>
>>    - who do we release to? PerlBuzz, use.perl.org for two. Other thoughts?
>
> TPF Blog, EPO Blog/News, /., digg, reddit ...
>
>>    - I'm inclined, for the two working group releases, to not name names
>> yet, as ideally we'd like to recruit more members. Is it an idea to at least
>> nominate notional /heads/ of WG's for the release, and work from there?
>> Thoughts?
>
> About that, looking at the rules laid out
> http://www.enlightenedperl.org/rules.html do WG members *have* to be
> full EPO members? It *looks* like you only need to be a Full member if
> you're gonna vote on a WG's output to become a recommendation
> (stealing from teh W3C process here).  If the total membership of a WG
> needs to be a full member, let's pick two chumps... er volunteers ...
> announce those two as the Chairpeople and go with that. Otherwise name
> as many names as we have and annouce we're still looking to fill out
> the groups.
>

I'll be happy to be one of the Chumperson of the marketing WG.  It is
capturing my interest at the moment, and parallels with my overall
interest in the Perl community.

>> - What else do we want to announce/do? I'd like to keep a reasonable stream
>> of announcements going, as it keeps us visible?
>
> I think that the next part here is for the Working Groups to start
> making announcements on their own. And start moving forward. The
> groups should reasonably soon (two weeks, month at the latest)
> announce a schedule for when their respective output will be
> published. And then follow that schedule. As much as teh W3C is bogged
> down with bureaucracy now ... that's I think the best model for what
> we want to achieve with our (EPO) goals.
>

Does this mean we're going to have #epo-{group} channels and separate
mailing lists for everything?  I would like that, but perhaps a
tracking system like Redmine is in order as well (or Google Doc group
at the very least).

-J