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[Paul Tagliamonte <paultag@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey NGO Team! LoCOhio!

Looks great Steve,

I'll contribute whatever you need from the Ohio LoCo / what I can give.

-Paul ( paultag )

On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 11:25 AM, Stephen Michael Kellat
<skellat@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Greetings to the NGO and Ohio teams.
>
> Over the course of e-mails back and forth with Laura Czajkowski and Paul
> Tagliamonte, an interesting idea is starting to crystallize.
>
> Under the blueprint action area for external advocacy by the NGO team,
> the idea being batted about is preparing a promotional program
> presenting real users who use Ubuntu.  The promotional piece would be
> geared to an audience of non-specialist computer users at NGOs.  As the
> Ohio team is looking to launch its own podcast in 2010, this provides
> members of the Ohio team a chance to practice in recording their own
> audio and putting together material for others to consume.
>
> The target time for the promotional bit is about 15-20 minutes.
>
> Some of the roles that potentially need to be undertaken in this effort
> include:
>
> * Community Council member(s) speaking about why they use Ubuntu and how
> it benefits others
> * MOTU who can speak to why they went with Ubuntu over other options
> * General users speaking about what they do practically with Ubuntu
> (i.e. Make presentations with OO.o or KOffice, crunch numbers in
> Gnumeric, etc.)
> * NGO team members talking about current work of packaging and the
> "continuous improvement process" being started that is called paper jams
> * People to copy edit
> * People with an ear for design to make the soundscape appealing
> * People to remind those pitching in that they are only human
>
> The timeline for this is to start in early January and have something
> ready for release on 14 February 2010.
>
> Some of the thoughts from the Shot of Jaq episode "The Clueful ISP
> Opportunity" are relevant to this.  Discussion of this is probably going
> to be beneficial.
>
> SMK
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