Task title
Create a list of actionable tasks to bring drupal to a wider audience

Task description
Drupal is gaining widespread popularity very fast. Growth rates in terms of downloads, forum posts, and contributions in general are all up. Drupal is however most commonly known as a bloggers tool, a forum tool and a platform for advocacy (http://groups.drupal.org/node/6876). Only recently has Drupal gained corporate attention. There are still more things the community can do to market drupal and this task is to create a list of marketing actions . Actions which are simple to execute and simple to measure its effectiveness .

Deliverables
A list of actionable items which can be executed by any user or developer that are meant to market drupal among a wider audience

Resources
See threads here: http://drupal.org/node/46899, http://www.nicklewis.org/node/831
See drupal group here: http://groups.drupal.org/drupal-marketing

Primary contact
[tbd]

Comments

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aclight CreditAttribution: aclight commented
Status: Active » Needs work

A few comments:
1. I'm not sure I agree that "Drupal is however most commonly known as a bloggers tool, a forum tool and a platform for advocacy." That's not terribly relevant to the task and I'm not really a Drupal "outsider", so perhaps I don't have the proper perspective to judge this.

2. "A list of actionable items" sounds a little corporate speak to me and I'm not really sure what that means. Could you try to be a bit more descriptive.

3. Your deliverables section is slightly vague, in the sense that you don't specify how many items you expect the student to come up with. You don't need to give an exact number, but I think a range or goal would give students an idea of how difficult the task will be.

4. The threads you list in the references section are almost 2 years old. I wonder how much of that is still true today?

5. We need a primary contact, probably one with some marketing knowledge.