2005 Promotion Activities
During the week we will be developing Puppians new forum∞ (start using it now) to take pressure off the main forum and also trying to develop the developers forum∞. We will be encouraging Puppys in the use of IRC and voicemail. We will be suggesting ways to inform other Penguins and Windows users of the benefits of Puppy. We are going to have fun. Other ideas welcome. Guests and new Puppys welcome.
Hosted events:
18:00 GMT Friday Oct 14 Welcome drink∞ bring your own refreshment (host Lobster)
18:00 GMT Monday Oct 17 Virtual Pub Crawl Starting on IRC we will try out various communication channels, including: Chatzy, Yahoo, ICQ, Skype (host Lobster)
Please add and host an event
Aims
Vote on new webhost (Barry's comment∞)
Vote on and set up admin access to new server (Barry's comment∞)
to double forum membership (includes two new forums)
Set up Email forum (and explain about more)
Raise $1000 for a Puppy Server
Set up a Ajax/jabber Puppy forum with gauranteed help (and explain about more)
Develop Foundation
Develop Documents
Develop Collaboration
Develop Foundation Committees blog∞
Develop Mantis Bug tracker
Vote on new webhost (Barry's comment∞)
Vote on and set up admin access to new server (Barry's comment∞)
to double forum membership (includes two new forums)
Set up Email forum (and explain about more)
Raise $1000 for a Puppy Server
Set up a Ajax/jabber Puppy forum with gauranteed help (and explain about more)
Develop Foundation
Develop Documents
Develop Collaboration
Develop Foundation Committees blog∞
Develop Mantis Bug tracker
Hosted events:
13:00 GMT Friday Oct 14 German Language Puppy with MU (Mark) Virtual bar room∞
18:00 GMT Friday Oct 14 Welcome drink∞ bring your own refreshment (host Lobster)
21:00 GMT 4-5 PM EDT IRC Saturday Oct 15 How to do HTML Help (HD installation of Puppy as Example)∞ with Raffy
5:00 PM EST (GMT -5) until whenever on Sunday afternoon
ok, it looks like I can do a chat about Web site design/HTML and Graphic Design in Puppy Linux from . I would have done this chat later in the week so I could promote it at school, however my work schedule didn't work out as I had hoped. That's ok though as I really do need the hours at work.
18:00 GMT Monday Oct 17 Virtual Pub Crawl Starting on IRC we will try out various communication channels, including: Chatzy, Yahoo, ICQ, Skype (host Lobster)
Some additional readings: FoundationDiscussion | FoundationProcess
Can you facilitate and organise one of these? - usually just means turning up on IRC for an hour of your choice
- Ban the Peach
- Newbie Natter (Host Alucard_the_dex)
- Voicemail extravaganza - sending voicemail, pawedcasting, Radio Puppy (Host Klh)
- Cat herding for Puppys (development interchange)
- New Puppy Ideas
- Leash your Puppy - Heel and security for Puppys (Host Alucard_the_dex)
- Tutorials - (MU and Wink) add a topic
- Puppy Graphics (Nathan Host)
- HTML and web design for Puppy (Host Puppian)
- Puppy programming
- Bow Wow - How to speak Puppy
- Linux
- Migrating from Windows
- Puppy documentation (Host Ian Mul)
Marketing ideas
1. The Puppy Pack - all converge at a specific place to extoll Puppy virtues - a smart mob for Puppy
2. Sell on E-Bay - donate to the Foundation
3. Sponsorship and commercial donors - are they all mouth and no $
4. Using VYM brainstormer
5. Puppy gift pack - list of addresses were you can send a non-money gift to
2. Sell on E-Bay - donate to the Foundation
3. Sponsorship and commercial donors - are they all mouth and no $
4. Using VYM brainstormer
5. Puppy gift pack - list of addresses were you can send a non-money gift to
Suggestions: Barry Kauler, P.O. Box 359, Perenjori, WA 6620, Australia
6. Translating / creating a wiki page in another language
"Puppy link in my E-mail signature (I participate in several dozen lists across a broad variety of topics, some of them have over 1,000 members).
Repeatedly recommend Puppy any time a recommendation is requested for a preferred Linux distro on a discussion list.
Recommend to developers of task-specific Linux apps that they consider linking their app to Puppy (at least one, an accounting app, has joined the Puppy forum).
Put a link to Puppy on my Web page."
Lobster suggests... See the Forum post∞
If we wanted quickly to spread the use of Puppy and extol its virtues - and let people have a chance to use it without the palaver of downloading (which may put some off to start with), how about this for an idea?
If every Puppy user burnt 5 CDs (cost these days is peanuts) and then gave them to selected friends/ family/ colleagues, we could increase the user base by a potential of 5 times!
I would be happy to produce a jpg CD cover (both the round CD cover and front CD case sheet) for people to put on their CDs if they want them to look more corporate with the Puppy house style (we already have this) - new ones welcome . . . [ Insert by RaffyMn: See the work by TheBabbs]
Ubuntu propagates their distro by sending CDs free of charge to anyone who requests them. I dont think we could do that, but we could network spread Puppy.
If those new users became enchanted like the rest of us, we could do other Give away a Puppy weeks in the future.
Idea by Mazzo
If every Puppy user burnt 5 CDs (cost these days is peanuts) and then gave them to selected friends/ family/ colleagues, we could increase the user base by a potential of 5 times!
I would be happy to produce a jpg CD cover (both the round CD cover and front CD case sheet) for people to put on their CDs if they want them to look more corporate with the Puppy house style (we already have this) - new ones welcome . . . [ Insert by RaffyMn: See the work by TheBabbs]
Ubuntu propagates their distro by sending CDs free of charge to anyone who requests them. I dont think we could do that, but we could network spread Puppy.
If those new users became enchanted like the rest of us, we could do other Give away a Puppy weeks in the future.
Idea by Mazzo
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