Marketing

This is what MeeGo Marketing offers you:

• http://meego.com
• Marketing materials: slides, videos, merchandising, examples of co-branding.
• Events: MeeGo Conference, calendar, participation in events, organization contacts.
• Local MeeGo Networks: list of existing networks & how to create one in your area.

Contents 1 Promote MeeGo 2 Get involved 3 Strategy 3.1 Goals 3.2 Audiences 3.3 Tactics 4 Teams & roles

Promote MeeGo

Some ideas to become a MeeGo promoter:

• Spread your preferred MeeGo blog and microblog posts. Also the Facebook page.
• Become a MeeGo Greeter and give to newcomers a first great impression.
• If you like Wikipedia then you can help improving this page in any language.
• Join your closest MeeGo network.
• Introduce MeeGo to your community, your organization, your customers.
• Submit MeeGo related proposals to conferences and events.
• Encourage the developers of your preferred apps to target MeeGo.

Get involved

• Become a regular MeeGo betatester. Dual-booting in your laptop and handset is also a good start.
• Join the meego-community mailing list to follow and discuss MeeGo marketing activities.
• Scan meego.com and report website bugs and enhancement requests here.
• Blog about interesting stuff happening in your preferred MeeGo channel and get your blog aggregated.
• Improve the MeeGo marketing materials and submit your proposals.
• Sponsor or volunteer in MeeGo activities at events.

There are more tasks looking for volunteers at the Community Office backlog. See also Contributing to MeeGo.

Strategy

Read this to be on the same page.

Goals

• Strongest OS candidate for any mobile device vendor.
• Praised platform for mobile application development.
• Neutral project developed openly by multiple stakeholders.
• Worldwide community of individuals, non-profits, and companies.
• Great help to marketing activities of MeeGo stakeholders.

Audiences

• Device and OS vendors.
• Application developers and ISVs.
• Platform and community contributors.
• Media.

Tactics

• In a Nutshell - Provide the information needed by device and OS vendors to choose MeeGo.
• Open Project - Consolidate open roadmapping, open development, and open governance.
• Industry Support - Engage other companies, especially chipset vendors and handset manufacturers.
• News Channel - Continuous highlights of new products, current development, and community activities.
• Developer Reference - Provide vendor agnostic developer documentation across UX verticals.
• Commercial Developers - Attract developers and content providers with compatibility/portability paths with Symbian, Android, and iOS.
• Community Developers - Attract the free software communities with paths to free mobility.
• Publish & Sell - Offer the tools and channels to publish apps and content across architectures, manufacturers, and operators.
• Handshake Network - Seed local outreach activities, especially in North America, Europe, and Eastern Asia.
• Your MeeGo - Help organizations using and producing MeeGo materials and project resources.

Teams & roles

The MeeGo project marketing is organized within the Community Office. Our main marketing activities are:

• meego.com: Quim Gil (coordination), Noel Arnold (Technical writing support), Mike Shaver (Webmaster support). See the content owners at Web_infrastructure/Meego.com#Team.
• Promotion
• Events - sponsoring events, supporting speakers and more.

Coordination and filling gaps: Quim Gil