Sponsored Media

[Greg DeKoenigsberg]

So Sponsored Media has been doing well lately -- they've managed to 
fulfill 100% of the requests that have hit their queue.  Looks like 
they're ready to take a more prominent role.

Anyone have any good ideas for publicizing their capabilites?

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[Steven James Drinnan]

Sorry, I have not been keeping up with this area, what sort of volumes
and in which territories.

Have you thought of getting corporate advertising to further expand this
area. I.E including documentation / advertising from companies like HP
and Dell or even small independents which do have system that are
designed to run fedora or similar systems.

Locally I have been thinking about promoting in Hong Kong particularly
Sham Shui Po (a very big computer centre in HK).

Or have i missed what your meaning.

Steven.
 

On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 20:35 -0400, Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote:
>  So Sponsored Media has been doing well lately -- they've managed
> to 
>  fulfill 100% of the requests that have hit their queue.  Looks like 
>  they're ready to take a more prominent role.
>  
>  Anyone have any good ideas for publicizing their capabilites?
>  
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[Alex]

We're talking about the Sponsored Media project, in which people can
donate installation media for other people, who are on the waiting
list for free media. They can do so by paying 100 per cent or a
fraction of the cost of the actual media and/or shipping (domestic or
international).

For further details, please refer to
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Distribution/SponsoredMedia

Cheers,
a

On 7/13/06, Steven James Drinnan <steven(a)easytec.com.hk&gt; wrote:
>  Sorry, I have not been keeping up with this area, what sort of
> volumes
>  and in which territories.
>
>  Have you thought of getting corporate advertising to further expand this
>  area. I.E including documentation / advertising from companies like HP
>  and Dell or even small independents which do have system that are
>  designed to run fedora or similar systems.
>
>  Locally I have been thinking about promoting in Hong Kong particularly
>  Sham Shui Po (a very big computer centre in HK).
>
>  Or have i missed what your meaning.
>
>  Steven.
>
>
>  On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 20:35 -0400, Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote:
>  > So Sponsored Media has been doing well lately -- they've managed to
>  > fulfill 100% of the requests that have hit their queue.  Looks like
>  > they're ready to take a more prominent role.
>  >
>  > Anyone have any good ideas for publicizing their capabilites?
>  >
>  > --g
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[Alex]

And yes, of course, congratulations, everybody involved, and
especially Karlie Robinson, who initiated this project!

Cheers,
a

On 7/13/06, Greg DeKoenigsberg <gdk(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote:
>  So Sponsored Media has been doing well lately -- they've managed to
>  fulfill 100% of the requests that have hit their queue.  Looks like
>  they're ready to take a more prominent role.
>
>  Anyone have any good ideas for publicizing their capabilites?
>
>  --g
>
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>  

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[Karlie Robinson]

Alex Maier wrote:
>  And yes, of course, congratulations, everybody involved, and
>  especially Karlie Robinson, who initiated this project! 
Thanks Alex.

Some things I've noticed about what is working...

* Project endorsement with "Give the Gift of Fedora" at 
http://www.redhat.com/fedora/ That was the point where the sponsorships 
really took off.

* Stars at OnlineVendors - When ThomasChung updated the list and added 
the gold stars info at the top of the page, my site stats showd a 
significant increase in traffic coming from 
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Distribution/OnlineVendors
While the stars were there when SponsoredMedia started, the symbol key 
stating what it meant was at the bottom of the page.  The star's move to 
the top of the OnlineVendors page brought the numbers of visitors from 
OnlineVendors to just about equal those coming from SponsoredMedia.

So we know those two things are working.  The question... Is there a way 
to duplicate this outside of the RH/Fedora Brand areas?

If not, what should we try?

Because what's happening, is the people who are starting their search 
for Fedora are catching a little 'good-will'

'Free as in Freedom' is hitting home.  Many users now understand the 
financial burden many projects carry.  As such, they are choosing to 
support FOSS at an ever increasing level. And while Fedora doesn't ask 
it's users to cover operational costs it seems the users are willing to 
support the Fedora Project by sponsoring FreeMedia (thus removing the 
financial burden from the individual Ambassadors)

How can we get more people aware of the good filling FreeMedia requests 
does for Fedora as a whole?  (by increasing the installed base... 
creating new fans..etc)

As a side note, and something we may not be able to duplicate, was Max's 
suggestion to eliminate the half and full share choices at On-Disk.com. 
  The only choice is to order two FC5s - one for them, one for 
FreeMedia.  It makes it easier for people to become generous - no 
cop-outs.  You can read more about how we're doing it by visiting 
http://on-disk.com/content.php?citem=on-disk/2006/Fedora-FreeMedia.php

~Karlie

[Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay]

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Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote:

>  Anyone have any good ideas for publicizing their capabilites? 
o Blogs
o Some insert into Linux magazines (I can see if one can get it into
LinuxForYou here :))

:Sankarshan



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[Thomas Canniot]

Le vendredi 14 juillet 2006 à 10:26 +0530, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay a
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>  Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote:
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>  > Anyone have any good ideas for publicizing their capabilites?
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>  o Blogs
>  o Some insert into Linux magazines (I can see if one can get it into
>  LinuxForYou here :)) 
Only suggestions, but don't forget slashdot, digg, fedoranews,
fedoraforum and all the international community websites :)

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>  :Sankarshan
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[Rahul Sundaram]

Thomas Canniot wrote:
>  Le vendredi 14 juillet 2006 à 10:26 +0530, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay a
>  écrit :
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> > Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote:
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> >> Anyone have any good ideas for publicizing their capabilites?
> > o Blogs
> > o Some insert into Linux magazines (I can see if one can get it into
> > LinuxForYou here :))
>  
>  Only suggestions, but don't forget slashdot, digg, fedoranews,
>  fedoraforum and all the international community websites :)
>   
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing/SpreadingNews

Rahul

[Chitlesh GOORAH]

On 7/14/06, Greg DeKoenigsberg <gdk(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote:
>  Anyone have any good ideas for publicizing their capabilites? 
I was thinking about when sending a dvd to someone , Let's Mr A., we
ask Mr. A to make a free copy of the DVD for his lug .

Why?
(publicity) - When Mr A will give and inform the lug that others can
copy the DVD (as it is ofcourse), he will talk about Fedora to the
others in the lug.

(building communities) - let's say that three members of the lug
copied and tried Fedora, they will talk more about Fedora on the lug's
ML and meetings, whether technical or their expericiences. Possibly
this will increase the chance of creating Fedora Users Group in local
linux communities. When there will be linux events in their cities,
perhaps they will participate as Fedora Ambassadors. Hence more chance
of having more man power for Fedora on FedoraEvents.

How can we realise it ?
During his request to FreeMedia, he verifies whether his lug is listed
on a page and if listed he will ask the lug directly. Then MrA
receives the DVD quickly. and less work for FreeMedia project. We can
even use this as an option during the request.


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