[Battlemesh] Promote WBMv6: ENDORSEMENTS?

[Mitar]

Hi!

(And all this are just ideas with hope to be useful. Feel free to ignore
them. I do not want to make more work for you or complicate things. Just
some ideas.)


Mitar

> Il 01/23/2013 08:11 PM, Mitar ha scritto:
>> Hi!
>>
>>>  2. what are organizations and communities I should get in touch with?
>> You should maybe make the text in a way (or at least a version of it) so
>> that we can forward it? For example, to networks in Croatia
>> (http://krugoval.net/,
>> http://krugoval.net/2013/01/05/wireless-battle-mesh-v6/).
> 
> Yeah sure.
> 
>>
>>>       * Freifunk
>>>       * Ninux
>>>       * Wlan Slovenja
>>>       * Guifi
>>>       * AMWN
>>>       * Altermundi
>>>       * OpenWRT
>>>       * Funkfeuer
>> http://servalproject.org/
>> http://villagetelco.org/
>> http://oti.newamerica.net/
>>
>> I am missing projects from USA, Canada, UK, some hacker spaces, Chaos
>> Computer Club?
> 
> I was thinking about the endorsement thing.
> 
> Maybe we should distinguish between 2 types of endorsements:
> those who support the battlemesh and those who also participate
> actively; those communities who participate actively by bringing some
> people at the event should have their logo featured on the poster, wiki
> or whatever, this because so people can see who is coming and why they
> should also come.
> 
> I mean we can't put all the logos of all those who will want to formally
> endorse the battlemesh, we should focus on those ones that will really
> be there or at least have usually been there; do you get what I mean?
> Immagine 100 communities wanting to endorse it.. that would not be
> beneficial to the PR campaign. What would be beneficial is to have a few
> logos of well known communities.
> 
>> Probably you cannot really make a list of all and take responsibility of
>> contacting on yourself. You should just start the thing and leave it to
>> be viral (with some deadline until when you are accepting endorsements
>> to put it on the poster, while online endorsements can be ongoing - in
>> general we could have a list of all such on our wiki, so not just for
>> WVMv6, but for Battlemesh in general).
> 
> I agree.
> 
> Federico
>