SFD2008:Marketing
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Introduction
This team is dedicated towards maintaining Public Relations, Media Outreach, and other marketing issues. Hence this team may be denoted as Marketing, Media, or Public Relations.
Objectives
- To spread words about FOSS Nepal and the celebration of Software Freedom Day 2008 at Nepal
- To act as a local representative for the FOSS Nepal/SFD organization team to various identities/organizations
- To coordinate with Finance Team to opt for sponsorship
- To handle relationship with media houses of Nepal (may be abroad as well)
- To organize Press Conference and issue Press Release documentations
- To coordinate with College Representatives and coordinate with various colleges
Team Members
- Sharad Bhusal
- Anil
- Srijana
- Sujit Shrestha (Advanced)
Activities
This team adheres to various overlapped and/or parallel activities to make the celebration visible to a large domain of public/audience and hence tend to invite more and more people to the celebration.
Spreading Words About FOSS Nepal
This stage involves making voices regarding FOSS Nepal Community, its activities, Free and Open Source Software, Software Freedom Day, and other related issues. This may involve gathering and publishing article in newspapers/magazines, airing programmes related to FOSS and/or SFD in various radio programmes and making public comments on these issues.
Working with College Coordination Committees
This stage involves working in tight coordination with the College Coordination Committees(CCCs) and/or FOSS Communities at various colleges and monitoring their progresses. This may involve various rounds of meetings with the CCCs and the college administration as well of how to foster FOSS and involve maximum number of interested students in the celebration.
Organizing Press Conference
(This section needs thorough discussion). This stage involves organizing the Press Conference regarding SFD '08 and inviting media houses in order to have a consistent media coverage of the event, and as well to appeal for participation. Moreover, it is an essence to prepare the Press Release documentation to submit to the media houses.
Press Releases
- Press Release announcing the celebration
- Press Release after the Celebration on 20th
- Press Release after winning the Best Event Award
Media Coverage
This stage/activity involves covering news and featured articles in newspapers and magazines regarding FOSS and Software Freedom Day 2008.
Only the coverage done by national (not necessarily government) news media are provided here.
- "Cyber Sanchaar" magazine - Coverage on SFD 08: Scan 1 and Scan 2
- 10th October 2008 - Another interview with Bibek Paudel, 8:30-8:45 PM (Hamro FM, Bharatpur, Chitwan)
- 26th September 2008 - Interview with Bibek Paudel, 8:30-8:45 PM (Hamro FM, Bharatpur, Chitwan)
- 26th September 2008 - Coverage on "Free or Freeze" by Saptahik weekly.
- 25th September 2008 - Repeat telecast from 8-9 AM of the FOSS special "Khabar Bhitra ko Khabar" in Avenues TV (worked upon by the Documentary Team)
- 24th September 2008 - A special one hour show on Free Software from 8-9 PM at "Khabar Bhitra ko Khabar" in Avenues TV(worked upon by the Documentary Team)
- 22nd September 2008 - Software Freedom Day observed (The Kathmandu Post/City Post)
- 21st September 2008 - Fifth international Software Freedom Day held (Nepalnews.com)
- 20th september 2008 - Air-ed in Gorkha FM from morning till the night in hourly news bulletin
- 20th september 2008 - Ujyalo FM
- 20th September 2008 - Free Software Freedom day celebrated in Nepal (ekantipur)
- 20th september 2008 - Sagarmatha TV News
- 20th september 2008 - Avneues TV Nepali News - nicely presented- Prime Time News
- 20th September 2008 - ABC TV Nepali News: Video on Youtube
- 20th September 2008 - Kantipur TV Nepali News (Prime Time): Video on Youtube
- 20th September 2008 - FOSS come, FOSS served (The Kathmandu Post)
- 20th September 2008 - Interview with Kulchandra Adhikari (Radio Sagarmatha)
- 20th September 2008 - Interview with Bibek Paudel (Kantipur FM, CyberTime)
- 19th September 2008 - FOSS activists organise rally, candlelight vigil (ekantipur)
