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Andrew Rodaway about Marketing Canonical/Ubuntu

 
“A lot of money will come into the open-source movement over the next few years and that drives the marketing agenda.”

Andrew Rodaway is Director of Marketing, Canonical. He joined Canonical in July 2008 and previously worked at a company selling proprietary software. In this interview he talks about what changed for him when switching from a proprietary to an Open Source company. He furthermore discusses why a lot of money will come into the Open Source movement and how that will drive the marketing agenda.

 

Stormy Peters about Marketing GNOME

 
“One of the things that the community needs help with is reaching out to the very end-users, the ones that don’t already know about open-source software.”

Stormy Peters is Executive Director, GNOME Foundation, since July 2008. Working with the Board of Directors, Advisory Board, and the GNOME Foundation members, Stormy helps strengthening the Foundation by attracting new industry members and community contributors.

In this interview she talks about reaching consensus on marketing-related decisions with a community-driven project such as GNOME, how she plans to position GNOME, how to attract more donators, and more.

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