Hi all, I and other Italian guys are organizing the Italian Linux day (fedora side), in particular, what and how to do to promote fedora during Linux day, which will be October 25th 2008.
Italian Linux day has a short complication: is distributed on about 100 events in all around the country, depends on how many LUGs decide to participate (a dynamic events map, here [1]).
Having more than 100 events all around Italy is quite complexed to manage with classical methods (send CDs, t-shirt, and so on), we decided to bet on innovation.
Last year was the "USB key year" (fedora is the first distribution which allow a usb creation), so this Linux day will be the "fedora station usb creation" Linux day. With Francesco Crippa suggestion, we want to create a new product called for example "fedora starter kit" or "fedora creation station", "fedora distribution station" (the name is still WIP, and we need fedora-marketing help to find the best attractive and nice name).
This product is composed of various part to build a fedora creation station [2]: * a manifest * a personalized box * two, three t-shirt * a usb cable * a CD/DVD with a fedora live + some ISOs + kobold * Stickers to attach to created usb keys (which will be provided by users)
We need few things: - find a name for product - create artwork: * artwork for the box (we can print a personalized box), we need a log for this product * artwork for CD/DVD
This product is designed to be a geek product and if person receive that box with a product to build, is more enthusiastic and interesting than receive something difficult to use and no attractive.
We are collecting information and, as first step we are trying to understand how much for each box.
If you have any suggestion about any aspect of my report, tell me ;-)
Luca
[1] http://www.linuxday.it/ [2] http://flickr.com/photos/lfoppiano/2427673878/in/set-72157604636767577/
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2008/7/26 Luca Foppiano luca@foppiano.org:
Hi all, I and other Italian guys are organizing the Italian Linux day (fedora side), in particular, what and how to do to promote fedora during Linux day, which will be October 25th 2008.
Italian Linux day has a short complication: is distributed on about 100 events in all around the country, depends on how many LUGs decide to participate (a dynamic events map, here [1]).
Having more than 100 events all around Italy is quite complexed to manage with classical methods (send CDs, t-shirt, and so on), we decided to bet on innovation.
Last year was the "USB key year" (fedora is the first distribution which allow a usb creation), so this Linux day will be the "fedora station usb creation" Linux day. With Francesco Crippa suggestion, we want to create a new product called for example "fedora starter kit" or "fedora creation station", "fedora distribution station" (the name is still WIP, and we need fedora-marketing help to find the best attractive and nice name).
This product is composed of various part to build a fedora creation station [2]:
- a manifest
- a personalized box
- two, three t-shirt
- a usb cable
- a CD/DVD with a fedora live + some ISOs + kobold
- Stickers to attach to created usb keys (which will be provided by
users)
We need few things:
- find a name for product
- create artwork: * artwork for the box (we can print a personalized box), we need a log
for this product * artwork for CD/DVD
This product is designed to be a geek product and if person receive that box with a product to build, is more enthusiastic and interesting than receive something difficult to use and no attractive.
We are collecting information and, as first step we are trying to understand how much for each box.
If you have any suggestion about any aspect of my report, tell me ;-)
Luca
[1] http://www.linuxday.it/ [2] http://flickr.com/photos/lfoppiano/2427673878/in/set-72157604636767577/
Thank you for this update.
From a FAmSCo perspective it's important to understand the resource
you need to better cover the costs and try to find the best solution.
The idea sound cool and, from my point of view, it could be a way to make real marketing alongside catching people attention.
Best regards
Francesco Ugolini
On Sat, 2008-07-26 at 14:13 +0200, Luca Foppiano wrote:
If you have any suggestion about any aspect of my report, tell me ;-)
Did anybody (who live outside Italy) read my mail? No feedback?
Luca
Luca --
I can't provide any feedback regarding Fedora, other than I think the "kit" idea is a good one, but as far as the project in Italy goes, I have been in contact with Ercole Carpanetto (who blogs as Ercolinux) during the course of our Lindependence 2008 project in Felton, California. Ercole is organizing Mappano Open Days, and you may know where that is moreso than I do, which is part of the 100 events on that September weekend
In Lindependence (which is Linux + Independence = Lindependence), we provided three days of FOSS and GNU/Linux to one town of 6,000 in the Santa Cruz Mountains in California.
To do what you are doing in Italy in 100 towns is 100 times the effect of Lindependence. That is clearly awesome
Or: +100
My (Fedora) hat is off to you all.
Larry Cafiero http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Lcafiero
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 3:53 PM, Luca Foppiano luca@foppiano.org wrote:
On Sat, 2008-07-26 at 14:13 +0200, Luca Foppiano wrote:
If you have any suggestion about any aspect of my report, tell me ;-)
Did anybody (who live outside Italy) read my mail? No feedback?
Luca
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