idea! - Fedora Marketing Book Club

[Ryan Rix]

One big YES from me! :-)

(except for books being better than coffee :P)

Ryan

On Wed 27 January 2010 7:46:41 pm Robyn Bergeron wrote:
> Greg's blog post today
> (http://gregdekspeaks.wordpress.com/2010/01/27/fedoras-goals/) has
> rekindled (no amazon pun intended, i swear!) a thought I had a while
> back on starting a marketing book club.  Mchua and I had discussed it
> a bit on irc sometime late last year, but I think we were focused on
> something else at the time, and the idea was lost.
> 
> Until now! I would like to propose that we have a "book club" for
> marketing-reading-material, but of course, not limited to marketing
> team members.
> 
> The basics of what I'm thinking are:
> 
> * We start with a book in March.  One book per month - at the end of
> each month, we have an IRC discussion on what we've learned, and how
> we can apply it to Fedora and what we're working on.  Hopefully,
> everyone will want to do things like blog about what they've read and
> learned, or write about it to the fedora-mktg mailing list, or add a
> review to the book club wiki.
> 
> * Everyone is welcome to join.  Nobody is -required- to join.
> 
> * Books are on our own individual dime (books are good for you! better
> than coffee!) - we should do our best to pick things that are likely
> available at the library (ie: not just freshly released last week).
> If budget for a book is a problem and it can't be found, we should try
> to accommodate people so they can participate.
> 
> The goal here (yes, I bang that goal drum a lot!) is to increase our
> collective knowledge about All Things Marketing,  provide a forum for
> discussing what we've learned, and provide us with some brainstorming
> and inspiration on things we can do to improve Marketing.
> 
> Thoughts? Feedback? :)  I've made a wiki page to get the ball rolling
> - hopefully we can work out the minor details (things like, "I have no
> clue how to run a book club discussion, do you?") between now and
> March.  This is meant to be fun / enriching - not MORE WORK! - so I
> hope people are interested, and if anyone thinks that one book a month
> is too much, please say so.
> 
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Book_Club
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> -robyn

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Ryan Rix
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