Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 19:33:31 +0100 From: "Stacy Olivas" <olivas@digiflux.org> To: <advocacy@freebsd.org> Cc: <bsd-advocacy@daemonnews.org> Subject: Draft: Proposed FreeBSD PubRel project Charter Message-ID: <002601c2c7c4$ed66cd10$0502000a@sentinel>
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Ok,
Here is what I promised earlier.. Please look it over and rip it apart.. :)
Once this gets hammered out, we can ask someone (maybe Micahel Lucas) to
present this and
get this officially approved to be part of the project.
-Stacy
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(Proposed) FreeBSD Public Relations Project Team Charter (Draft):
The following document is a draft of the FreeBSD Public Relations project
charter.
1. Purpose. The purpose of the FreeBSD Public Relations project (called
PubRel) is to
inform the world about the existance of the FreeBSD Operationg system. It
will be the
primary point of contact on all publicity matters for the FreeBSD OS.
2. Responsibilities. The FreeBSD PubRel team will be responsible for:
a. Coordination of all press releases for the FreeBSD project (on-line,
print, etc).
b. Maintain an up-to-date press kit on FreeBSD, which will allow any
technical or
non-technical person understand the advantages FreeBSD has over other
OS's.
c. Act as the primary point of contact on all FreeBSD advocating
activities,
to in include (but not limited to): organizing of booths or other
public
presentations, sponsoring presentations given by various
individuals/organizations,
etc.
d. Recruting new people as advocates for the FreeBSD OS.
e. Monitoring all media outlets (to their best of their abilities) and
collecting
any information found on FreeBSD for use in press releases, etc.
f. Promoting a positive image of FreeBSD to the world.
g. Act as the primary points of contact with all media outlets for the
FreeBSD project.
h. Work with the other parts of the FreeBSD project (core team, release
engineering team, etc)
and with the FreeBSD foundation in developing promotional materials
for distribution.
3. Organization.
a. The PubRel team will consist of not less than four (4) core team
members.
b. Each of these core team members will share an equal vote on all
matters
related to the project.
c. One member will be designated as the "head" of the PubRel project,
and as
such be able to push the project in a given direction to help keep
from
forming a deadlock.
d. Each core team member will have specific responsibilities assignem to
them. These responsibilities
are as follows:
(1) Team Head
(a) Overall project management and primary point of contact\
(b) Responsible for press releases to on-line media outlets
(including Slashdot)
(2) Team member #1
(a) Rrcruting new advocates and providing assistance to advocates
(b) Responsible for press releases to Magazines (print, exclusing
trade publications)
(3) Team member #2
(a)
(b) Responsible for press releases to Newspapers
(4) Team member #3
(a)
(b) Responsible for press releases to Trade Publications
e. New core team members can be added only upon a unanimous vote from
all current team members.
f. Team members can only be removed upon a unanimous vote from all
current team members and
a minimum of 3 votes from the current FreeBSD project core team.
4. Reporting requirements. The PubRel team will be directly responsible to
the FreeBSD core team and, as such
will be required to provide the core team with quarterly updates on their
activities. Invluding (but
not limited to:
a. Number of press releases that were released (and to what type of
media outlet)
b. Number of press releases that were used (who and when)
c. Progress on any current projects.
d. Submit copies of all press releases via send-pr with a copy posted
to the -advocacy list
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