Advocacy Todo

This is a list of items needing attention for Postgres Advocacy.

•   - marks ordinary, incomplete items
• [E]   - marks items that relatively quick and easy to complete
• [D] - marks items that are done

Planning

 Budget

Develop budget for where to spend $20K annually on advocacy tasks

 Spokespeople

Designate official spokespeople for analyst and press briefings. quotes, and interviews

Events

 Events Listing (ongoing)

Keep global PostgreSQL events list updated. Find new events we should be at and add them. Discuss, flag events where we need a PostgreSQL presence and don't already have one.

 HOWTO Booth

Finish How To Booth wiki pages. Draft any required documents/templates associated.

User Groups

 HOWTO PUG

Complete "how to PUG" set of wiki pages. Also create documents for PUGs.

[E]  PUG Cards

Create a template for "business cards" for local PUGs so they can hand out at events.

 pugs.postgresql.org

Upgrade site to Drupal 7 or some other newer platform which is easier to use and useful to PUGs. Ideally, create something which would create an event calendar which allowed RSVPs

Developer Community

[E]  Facebook Page

Create and maintain an official PostgreSQL Project Facebook page.

 PostgreSQL Media Channel

Create and broadcast more videos & podcasts of PostgreSQL material. Organize media and see that it's carried onto other channels (twitter, etc.)

PR & Releases

 Regional Contacts

Update/maintain list of Regional Contacts. Recruit new regional contacts. Ideally, we need a dedicated RC master who can do just this.

 Release Marketing Deputy

Josh to train 2nd person on how to do the PR around a major release. Need dedicated volunteer.

 Interview Users

Create and maintain a short list of big PostgreSQL users whom press can call for interviews. Ideally, create one in each language. Would be related to Reference Users below.

 Press List

Update and maintain our list of English-langauge press contacts. Remove the ones from the current list who are no longer working, and find and add new ones, including good+popular bloggers.

Collateral

 Collateral List

Create a page/application which tracks all of our swag and printed materials. Aggresively pursue people about updating this page when stuff gets shipped around or used.

 Case Studies

Produce several new case studies, finish them and post them. Will probably break down into sub-tasks.

[E]  What is PostgreSQL?

Create a new/better "what is PostgreSQL?" flyer using OSS tools, like Scribus or Inkscape

Website/Software Development

 References App

Create a postgresql.org web application to track all of our user references and display them in a pleasing, searchable way. Should cover names, quotes, and links to articles and/or case studies. Would replace both the "featured users" and "quotes" pages.

 Release Candidate App

Create a postgresql.org web app to maintain the release candidate list

 Sponsors App

Create a postgresql.org web app so that we can maintain a list of everyone who has financially contributed to the project or our constituent nonprofits for a "financial sponsors" page.