Marketing

As you may or may not be aware, the DA recently approved the charter to create a Branding and Marketing Committee for Drupal. They are now looking for a permanent chair to lead the effort.

Check out this post by Vesa Palmu (wesku) with all the details, including links to the charter and committee Chair job description. The search is running from now to Sunday, June 3rd. You can follow the news on Vesa's Twitter account (@wesku).

At the May meetup, I did a lightning talk to suggest and gauge interest in a lightning talk series dedicated to translating Drupal terms and concepts into language non-Drupal folks can understand--evaluators, project owners, business side, new Drupalers, non-Drupal devs and sysadmins, etc.

I ran out of time last night and ended up rushing through the end, plus I have a feeling there may be people in the group who may be interested but don't generally attend meetups. Wanted to take a moment to post the important bits.

What's happening

I asked this question on my Facebook page. The results are based on too few numbers to be much more than anecdotal, but I still think it underpins some of the challenges.

http://alickmighall.com/post/12594630963/drupal-for-your-business

Whilst the wonderful Philip from Larchmont Films edits the video I've been busy making a card for the end of the video showing details of our Drupal Discovery Day next week along with sponsor logos.

Anyone can make one of these and put it onto the end of the video once it's released and use it for their own marketing uses, thought I'd post the card here so you can see! (yes, it conforms to the drupal logo 'exclusion zone' detailed here!)

After attending Drupalcon London and listening to Dries keynote I decided to look into one of the points of opportunity for Drupal - better marketing (Hi group). I've found the process a bit confusing and it's raised a number of issues that I think might be preventing people from getting involved.

As a result of doing a bit of voluntary help with the Brighton Chamber of Commerce on their Drupal stuff they're helping us get the word out about our Drupal Discovery Day. As the current text is still a bit geeky for those who don't know what Drupal is we need to make some more words for 'normal' business people ;)

The Chamber have asked for three reasons why people should attend. At the moment I've been trying to work on one which is that Drupal enables access to Enterprise-level technology at SME prices, but that's still a little fluffy as what is Enterprise technology?!

Today (and night it seems!) I've been setting up a copy of COD - the Conference Organising Distribution for our Drupal Discovery Day in Brighton on 16th September and working on copy for the site and promotional material. It's 1am so thought I'd post up what I've got so far before I crash for the night in case anyone wants to give any feedback. Ignore the formatting for the minute (especially seen as I can't seem to get the ULs and LIs working nicely ;) and just think about the words and the kind of people we're trying to attract to this event.

Un nuevo episodio del super podcast de drupal, esta vez platicamos con Juan Camilo Lema, Colombiano que vive en Peru y que esta muy metido en el negocio de las estrategias de comunicación, de distribuciones, de como vender drupal, no vendiendo Drupal, también platicamos sobre redes sociales, facebook, google plus.

Los invitamos a escuchar este nuevo podcast y comentarnos que les parece!

http://www.poderato.com/superpodcastdrupal/super-podcast-de-drupal/comun...

Hi,

We needed to get the details in by the end of the day today which I've just managed to do so thought I'd post here so you all know what's going on, hopefully some of you will come along / help out / spread the word!!! We have some interest from sponsors already (us three so far lol) - I'm also going to apply for https://association.drupal.org/grants which would be cool!

This is a great opportunity for us to spread the word about Drupal and be part of a month-long celebration of digital stuff in Brighton - an opportunity not to be missed! http://brightondigitalfestival.co.uk/