Progress call: 17:00 UTC
- Marketing team
- What to do in marketing:
- Resolve confusing message
- Marketing communications infrastructure
- For fund raising and recruiting
- Sales (find out what success is, reach out to people, keep ideals like freedom in context)
- Step 0: Create a funnnel for more marketing help
- Create a constant onramp for marketing/volunteers
- Create a page on the website - a call to action page
- Pick a group to target on initially
- Get to know the community (listent form them with surveys etc.)
- Give higher profile to talks and other efforts, etc.
Encourage people to reach out and talk about FreedomBox
- Provide them with the slides, etc.
- Oursourcing marketing with funding
- Sponsoring podcasts, etc.
Upstream software projects promoting FreedomBox
Hardware vendors promoting FreedomBox
- FSF RYF Certification
- Social Media, Reddit
- Produce short explainer videos about specific topics
- Identify areas for improving the software
- Engage with non-government organizations
- Discussion from 2 years ago
Madiha from FreedomBox Foundation, Profetik and Paul Allen to become the initial team and point of contact for marketing effots
- Others to helpout (including sunil)
- Kickstarting the team
- Official communication through Foundation only
- Hardware partnerships etc. through Foundation only
- A workflow will be discussed
- Have as little road blocks to the team as possible
- Trust the team to excericise caustion and restraint and empower them fully
- Other channels like mailing list, Reddit, forums, etc can be taken up community
- What to do in marketing:
- Other topics:
- Release plan for Bullseye freeze (James)
- v21.1 release on Jan 25th
- Upload to buster-backports on Jan 29th
- tahoe disabled, tt-rss still enabled
- If any critical bugs are found, we can make a point release.
- Bullseye soft freeze Feb 12th
v21.2 release on Feb 8th -> move a few days earlier
- Later releases
- Small fixes on debian/bullseye branch
- Normal releases: Upload to experimental until Bullseye release
- Milestone
- v21.1 release on Jan 25th
- Release plan for Bullseye freeze (James)