Thanks for your opinions Robert, but in my opinion Marketing List and
Ambassadors list should go side-by-side having inter-list interaction,
so that the community could get ideas from the public, refine them in
private list (Ambassadors List) and create a common marketing plan. I
don't think that ambassadors need to join greater marketing list. And
ambassadors do not take all decisions in private, all the policies and
strategies are made keeping the public in view.<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; May be someone from the SC will talk to you in detail.<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
Abhishek Singh<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/11/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Robert 'Bob' Jensen</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:marketing-list@fedoralinks.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
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Hi All,<br><br>Sorry I am cross posting this between the marketing list and ambassadors<br>list. Please reply on the marketing list if you would.<br><br>I am of the opinion that the marketing project has been allowed to die
<br>and be carelessly replaced by the Ambassadors project that was born from<br>the marketing project.<br><br>I see that we can do things several ways. We can continue on ignoring<br>the Fedora community posting requests for input to the private
<br>ambassadors list that a small number will ever see or we can be sure to<br>become active in the marketing list involving the community as a whole<br>in how Fedora is marketed.<br><br>Why have the private list?<br><br>

The privacy of the Ambassadors list has a purpose and should be<br>maintained in my opinion. One of the things it was designed to do is<br>help protect the limited advertising resources of the Foundation by<br>preventing the pilfering of media and other goodies like t-shirts.
<br>However much of the &quot;noise&quot; on this list in the past could have been<br>better with community input from the marketing list.<br><br>What can the marketing list bring that the ambassadors can not?<br><br>The marketing list can bring greater visibility from the community by
<br>being a public sounding board for ideas. Many of these ideas can be<br>hashed out in public, refined in private and still have the &quot;splash&quot;<br>that may be desired. I would urge all ambassadors to be part of the
<br>greater marketing list and also to avoid cross posting of information<br>between the lists unless it is absolutely needed.<br><br>Fedora is a community driven project, in fact community may very well be<br>the most important part of Fedora. If the Ambassadors are to take over
<br>all the marketing in private we are in my opinion destined for failure.<br>We will have removed the community from the drivers seat and made it a<br>second class passenger.<br><br>--<br>Robert 'Bob' Jensen &lt;<a href="mailto:marketing-list@fedoralinks.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">

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