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bimberiHm, there has been some discussion about the Marketing Team's purpose.  Probably not for the first time I'll wager.  Mailing List discussion doesn't seem to work for it (to me anyway).  Perhaps a /Purpose wikipage to workshop and discuss it.  Thoughts?02:46
Burgundaviabimberi: I don't the purpose is what we are lacking. I think we are lacking concrete projects02:47
BurgundaviaI don' think, rather02:48
bimberiBurgundavia: others say we are lacking data - so the purpose, initially, should be to collect that02:48
Burgundaviadata is hard to collect02:48
Burgundavianot saying we shouldn't, but there are clear things we can do02:49
bimbericlear?02:50
Burgundaviafor the corporate/institutional side, create case studies and similar content02:51
Burgundaviafor the home user, expand our network of non-tech reporters and court them02:51
bimberiyep, collect data on them ;)02:52
Burgundaviadifferent kind of data02:52
bimberiyes, ok, data collection in parallel then02:56
BurgundaviaI still just don't see the data for data collection02:57
Burgundaviathe ROI is just too low02:57
bimberi?02:57
Burgundaviathe amount of time you would spend on it, vs what you get from it just isn't worth it02:57
Burgundaviabetter to spend that time on what I mentioned above02:58
bimberithe first step to marketing is Understanding though02:58
Burgundaviawe *know* those are areas where we are weak02:58
bimberiyes, but are they effective marketing tools02:58
bimberi?02:58
Burgundaviayes02:58
Burgundavialarge organizations demand case studies02:59
Burgundaviaand home users need to simply know about us02:59
bimberiok, we should do them then02:59
bimberiwe need to know what home users want though02:59
Burgundaviawe already know that02:59
bimberiwhere?02:59
bimberii think i know btw03:00
Burgundaviahome users want a toaster03:00
bimberiplease...03:01
Burgundaviathey want something that does what they want and doesn't have the issues their curent machine has03:01
Burgundaviaan appliance, not a computer03:01
bimberiyes, but with what features to differentiate from the other toasters03:02
Burgundaviahome users don't want "features"03:02
Burgundaviathey are sick of "features"03:02
bimberibenefits then03:02
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Burgundaviasorry, hit ctrl-w03:03
bimberiah :)03:03
Burgundaviawatch your parents for about half an hour and what will tell you what 50% of home users want03:03
Burgundaviawhat I am saying is that finding out data is not hard and we already have most of it03:05
BurgundaviaI just don't think we realize it03:06
BurgundaviaI will write an email tonight about it03:06
bimberiok03:06
bimberifeatures isn't the right word btw.  products are different and it is in the differences that they compete03:08
bimberiso it is the differences that home users want and value that we must find and emphasise (if we have them)03:09
bimberii think lots of them are obvious - annoyances regarding viruses/spyware is a big one03:11
bimberibut there might be others we (as the apparently more computer literate) don't realise03:12
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matthewrevellmorning09:59
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matthewrevellI've just changed Launchpad team memberships to never expire.03:06
mdke(evil laugh)03:07
elkbuntuw00t03:12
matthewrevellIt didn't serve any purpose, that I could see, to automatically expire people's memberships after 30 days.03:14
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elkbuntumatthewrevell, i agree03:23
matthewrevelldarkmatter_: Connection problems? :)03:25
matthewrevellelkbuntu: cool :)03:25
darkmatter_nope... dbus problems... think they're mostly fixed now03:27
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matthewrevellWhat can Launchpad team admins do that members can't?05:10
matthewrevellApart from changing the team description, member status etc05:10
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matthewrevellmdke: Didn't want to ask such a basic question in there.05:20
matthewrevellI'm just thinking of how to reply to Sladen's suggestion that I make Vid an admin so she can sort people's membership expiry05:20
matthewrevellI'm not against doing that, just want to know the full implications05:21
adamant1988Hey all05:26
adamant1988Guess what, I am getting 100 Ubuntu disks in the mail :)05:27
matthewrevellCool, what do you plan to do with them?05:37
mdkematthewrevell: maybe assign bug contacts and similar tasks, not sure05:37
mdkeasking in #launchpad would be justified i think05:37
matthewrevellmdke: righto, cheers.05:41
adamant1988matthewrevell: you remember the local shop I was telling you about05:44
adamant1988I'm going to distribute them there.... I'm working with a local printer to get small documentation to hand out with each disk.05:44
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