<div>Hi, my name is <i>Colin Zwiebel</i> and I live in <i>Needham, MA</i> (near Boston). My Fedora Account System (FAS) username is <i>computercolin</i>, and my IRC nick is <i>computercolin</i>.</div><div><br></div><div>I learned about the Fedora Marketing team through <i>Mel Chua, </i>and am interested in joining because <i>I love OSS, would like it to expand with average users, and am interested in seeing how it is being marketed</i>.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I worked last year on OLPC for a period of time, organizing a Jam-style event. Though I've used many Linux variants, and submit bug reports regularly, this is my first time really contributing to a FOSS community.</div>
<div><br></div><div>This is the first Marketing project I have worked on! </div><div><br></div><div>My skills, which I hope to utilize in Fedora Marketing, include:</div><div><br></div><div>(Marketing Skills) - _Graphics, event organization_</div>
<div>(Other Skills) - _web-application development_</div><div>I'd also like to learn <i>strategy and big picturing thinking</i>.</div><div>When I'm not working on Fedora, I am <i>playing at F. W. Olin College of Engineering</i>.</div>
<div><br></div><div>A couple of goals I have for the Fedora Project are</div><div><i>reach more "average" users and</i></div><div><i>Better inspire hackers and developers to create great OSS software</i>.</div>
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<br></div><div>I would also like to see </div><div><i>Fedora and OSS in general become a more natural community for young tech-oriented people to join (IE, the Facebook generation)</i></div><div><br></div><div>I am wondering about</div>
<div><i>the focus of F13 and how this gets set</i></div><div><i>how projects are organized within Fedora, who designers, developers, leaders interact.</i></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>If you have any tips for exploring the community, let me know!</div>
<div><br></div><div>Colin</div><div><a href="http://zonion.org">http://zonion.org</a></div>