Re: [gNewSense-users] libre people

[Sam Geeraerts]

Ali Davoodifar schreef:
> On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Sam Geeraerts <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > Can you explain why you think it's not proper? It seems to be the common
> > term with other distributions:
>
> To me, It brings to mind a sense of commercial business interest as
> the primary goal. It commodotizes gNewSense, losing sight of its
> socio-political underpinnings in the process.
>
> That's how I view it.

Wiktionary describes marketing as:

The promotion, distribution and selling of a product or service; 
includes market research and advertising

We don't do market research, but we might in the future. We don't sell 
gNewSense, but we don't mind if other people do. We should even 
encourage hardware resellers to sell their machines with gNewSense. We 
might sell merchandise if we ever need more funds (or just as part of 
our promotion effort), but that doesn't mean commercial business 
interests will be our primary goal.

I don't see a need to call it anything else but Marketing Team. I'd say 
it's mostly for internal use anyway. It's about promoting gNewSense, not 
about the team that promotes it.

A snazzy name that sticks in people's minds couldn't hurt, of course. In 
that respect Advocacy Team or Promo Team are not better than Marketing 
Team. Libre People would get noticed because it's not a standard term, 
but I feel it still doesn't have the ring to it that would make people 
turn their heads. A really good name would be something equivalent to 
"Playboy Bunnies".