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Date:      29 Jan 2003 10:40:12 -0800
From:      Peter <pfak@telus.net>
To:        Stacy Olivas <olivas@digiflux.org>
Cc:        advocacy@freebsd.org, bsd-advocacy@daemonnews.org
Subject:   Re: Draft: Proposed FreeBSD PubRel project Charter
Message-ID:  <1043865612.677.0.camel@sharpie>
In-Reply-To: <002601c2c7c4$ed66cd10$0502000a@sentinel>
References:  <002601c2c7c4$ed66cd10$0502000a@sentinel>

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That sounds great. Probably would get accepted.

On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 10:33, Stacy Olivas wrote:
> 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
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> -------------
> 
> (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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