Hello, the Drupal 6 release is imminent.
We've done a good job building up some of our marketing capabilities over the last several months. We need a push over the next few days.
1) We need an official press release.
2) We need to familiarize ourselves with http://drupal.org/drupal-6.0.
3) Robert Douglass is going to lead the Digg and Reddit publishing effort. We need a document explaining how to add social news widgets to your blog.
4) We need Drupal 6 videos, I believe they are already in production.
5) We need to notify local user groups that Drupal 6 is about to be released so they can schedule Drupal 6 related meanings.
6) We need to identify key industry analysts who we want to know about the Drupal 6 launch. These are the people that everyone in the industry turns to get an opinion on what Drupal 6 means.
7) We need to get quotes from showcase sites. What does Drupal 6 means for happy existing users etc. Getting quotes from the showcase sites would help.
8) Andreas and I have created a list of all the Drupal planet bloggers. We will be sending an email to them in the next day or two.
9) We've identified 72 hosting providers who are active in http://drupal.org/hosting we are preparing an email to them. We could do with some help to get them ready for Drupal 6 and start promoting they have Drupal 6.
10) We need to send targeted mailings to the Drupal mailing lists to rally our base and get the Community ready for Drupal 6. dev, themes, documentation, consulting
The launch should happen within days, but I've set the meeting to Wednesday to give people a chance to arrange their schedules. Let's not wait until Wednesday to start taking on tasks. There's already over 17 000 blog posts mentioning Drupal 6, according to Google Blog search. Let's make sure we keep up the good momentum.
The meeting will be in IRC. Network: irc.freenode.net, Channel #drupal-marketing. Please read: http://drupal.org/node/108355. Mac IRC client:http://colloquy.info, Windows IRC Clients: http://www.ircreviews.org/clients/platforms-windows.html
If you don't know how to use IRC, contact me via Skype: civicspacenet, and I'll get you set up.
Cheers,
Kieran
Comments
the announcement
2) We tried to have a format for the announcement which is catchy as well as easy and inviting for newcomers as well. We have been doing lots of back and forth at http://groups.drupal.org/node/8059 and it looked like the time to move that to http://drupal.org/drupal-6.0 Further editing on the groups wiki is not really convinient, since the drupal.org version has inline styles, links to screencasts and other goodness, so I am not sure about the right workflow to integrate feedback and show the up to date version to beginners at the same time.
Los Angeles call to action
Thank you for providing an agenda for our local meeting tomorrow night. I'll work with our group to contribute towards this effort and marketing/PR 'calls to action' down the line.
Gus Austin
PepperAlley Productions
Gus Austin
Partial notes from the meeting
These are really intended to be notes for myself, but it may help provide a scattered recap for this mornings meeting - http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dg9292rd_88g5wn6qp4
If anyone want's to access/clean up my notes, i'll certainly grant you access to edit the doc.
Gus Austin
PepperAlley Productions
Gus Austin
Action items for the meeting
Marketing meeting:
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Maximizing exposure for a grassroots media campaign
Recommended plan from Rain City Studios
"Home" post should include usable quotes and useful items (hi-res photo and links to background info) but MUST be not written as a press release, (that's what the press release is for) this must be written by someone close to the project who is also a skilled writer. (This can be accomplished with the help of a writer to craft message and enhance the personality.)
DON'T MISS EARTH'S LARGEST GATHERING OF DRUPAL PROFESSIONALS!
Drupalcon Boston 2008 · March 3-6, 2008
Learn more at http://boston2008.drupalcon.org
Affordable sponsorship packages available
videos ready
The videocasts section of the handbook is updated to include a section on Drupal6 specifically and I've got a blog post ready to go on my site which includes the videos, links to their drupal.org handbook pages, and the html code to embed them into another site inside of a little textbox. I've also update the main release at drupal.org/drupal-6.0 to include the links to the handbook pages for the videos.
If someone wants to write some jquery that targets the .node textarea and when clicked will select all the html I would love it.
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