Updates to the F13 Marketing schedule
by Mel Chua
Hi, John!
Can you (at some point - not terribly vital and can wait until after the
holidays) make these changes to the Marketing schedule
(http://poelstra.fedorapeople.org/schedules/f-13/f-13-marketing-tasks.html)?
1. Delete tasks 13 and 15, which refer to a deliverable (the tour) we've
deprecated in favor of the one-page release notes (which serve the same
intended purpose).
2. Add a task called "Brief Ambassadors on upcoming release" to start on
3/30 and end on 4/6.
I think this should pretty much take care of the "we must do them!" task
list for Marketing for F13 - there's a much longer log detailing more
plans for the release cycle at
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-mktg/2009-12-22/fedora-mktg.2009-...,
but they're more in the area of "areas of opportunity we want to keep an
eye on at these points in time," so I think we'd rather keep the
Marketing schedule relatively sparse for the time being.
Once we finish the SOPs for each deliverable, and pick the talking
points and feature profiles, we might want to add more detail for the
middle month (between Alpha release and Beta release), but this is what
we have for now.
Thanks,
--Mel
13 years, 8 months
F13 Schedule - question!
by Robyn Bergeron
On poelcat's F13 draft schedule (see:
http://poelstra.fedorapeople.org/schedules/f-13-draft/f-13-marketing-task...),
tasks 13 and 15 are to update / freeze the Fedora tour page. Since
we're doing the one-page release notes in lieu of the Fedora tour
page, should we remove those tasks from the schedule (I'm assuming
so...)? Should the one-page release notes draft / completion dates be
rearranged to be more in line with when the Fedora tour pages were
done, or are we comfortable with those dates and how they fall into
the grander scheme of things?
Also - shall we put a note on https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Tours
reflecting that we now do one-pg release notes instead of Tours, so
that anyone looking for a Tour isn't wondering why the heck we didn't
have one for F12 (or F13, and so forth)?
-Robyn
PS. I may have asked this already... I looked through my mail and
didn't see anything about it. Apologies if I already brought it up :D
13 years, 8 months
FAD and some other stuff
by Ryan Rix
Hi,
Attached is a ODS of plane fare for the Marketing FAD compiled from me lazily
searchingk kayak... They are only rough estimates and will probably get more
expensive as time goes on... looks like the cheapest place for us to meet is
DC, followed by Boston. Personally, I'm leaning towards Boston or Raleigh
(which is third) if only because of the Red hat offices there... Mel Robyn and
I talked a while last night (this morning? who knows, I don't...) and came up
with some ideas for what we could be doing at the FAD... Some of it relies on
there being a contingent of engineers on hand either in person or remotely, so
the RH offices would probably be a pretty cool place.
Here's the zodbot log... I'll post more details when I'm conscious tomorrow, I
think. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-mktg/2009-12-28/fedora-
mktg.2009-12-28-08.50.log.html Sorry for being so terse, clock downstairs just
struck 3:30am ;)
Yours from under a warm blanket...
Ryan Rix
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13 years, 8 months
Self-Introduction: Neville Cross
by Neville A. Cross
* Full legal name
Neville Alberto Cross Vogl, but as stated on subject will suffice.
* City, Country
Managua, Nicaragua
* Profession or Student status
Business Degree (from Nicaragua) plus MSc. in Organisational Change
and Development (from UK)
* Company, School, or other affiliation
Hotel Mansion Teodolinda (day work/family business) http://teodolinda.com.ni
Central American University (part time lecturer on business and
tourism) http://uca.edu.ni
* Your goals in the Fedora Project
- Have fun! I have some boring thing to do as day job. An atmosphere
filled with opportunities and challenges stimulates my brain.
- Learn. Since I started using GNU/Linux and free software I learned a
lot every single day. I need new things to keep up the learning
process.
- Give back. I have been given a lot in this community and I think is
fair to return.
- Find my niche. As I am not a technical person I still struggle a bit
to fin my place within the community. I am already helping in
Ambassadors and Freemedia.
- Build a strong community in Central American countries (Guatemala,
Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama). Perhaps run
a "mini" FUDCon or FAD
* What do you want to talk about?
- Applications: There is a lot of software in Fedora repos that is
useful and is not promoted. Non technical people does not see the
beauty on the OS, they look for a tool to solve a task. I want to say
to every one that Fedora has those tools.
* What would you like to see in Fedora?
- more stuff with fedora logo, like coffee mugs, disk-wallets ...
probably I am dreaming but I think that using our logo shows our pride
and convince people to use fedora, or at least give it a try.
-more ordinary people tales using Fedora. Show that you don't need to
know every byte of Fedora to be able to use and contribute.
* Anything else you'd like to do?
- Share my experience dealing with local newspapers, so we can
increase world wide media hits.
- Help improve fedora distribution program.
* Historical qualifications
I have ran the family business for some years (2001-2005), among other
task I have to decide about marketing, advertisement, promotions and
sales. Now I have give sapce to my sister to lead, but still involved
in marketing efforts.
* What other projects or marketing efforts have you worked on in
the past? (List what you think is relevant)
- When the University launched the Tourism degree, I was hired as
consultant. Among a lot of designing teaching programs I had to
represent the faculty and tour high schools promoting this class
program.
- I have been working with local user groups, we have earned the
distinction of best Software Freedom Day event world wide two years in
a row. We were expecting get the third but event competition was
delayed and not awarded.
- I have been running a promotional web site listing night events for
my city: http://clickmanagua.com
- I maintain the local fedora page (yes, another fedora page!)
http://fedora.org.ni
* What level and type of marketing skills do you have?
- I can write (I do it better in Spanish!), I can teach, I like to
think in roles and try to be on some one else's shoes to see if the
concepts proposed are compelling. I can structure objectives, goals
and monitor performance. I have been working conceptualizing web sites
and worked as consultant for a system usability assessment.
* What other skills do you have that might be applicable?
- I have a amateur radio licence, I am following fedora amateur radio SIG.
As I am a Fedora Ambassador, I already created my FAS account and
signed the CLA agreement.
--
Neville
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Yn1v
Linux User # 473217
13 years, 8 months
Contributor Spotlight Podcast
by Ryan Rix
Hey all,
At a few weeks' ago marketing(may have been ambassadors?) meeting, I drug Paul
Mellors (cc'd) into a discussion with Max Spevack and I about creating a
podcast where various Fedora contributors would be interviewed by the host(s)
about what they do in the project, how they found Fedora, why they are a
member, etc etc etc...
Well, I think that such a thing would be a good marketing project, and think
that the new year would be the perfect time to start it up. Max said he had
some ideas on the podcast, and so did Paul, so I think it would be a good idea
to start up this discussion again, in a mailing list. I don't know if Paul is
a member of this list (I think so) but hopefully he doesn't mind joining in on
the discussion :)
Mine are, in essence, that first paragraph, it's a pretty straightforward
idea, I think. We'd brainstorm a list of contributors; not just big names, but
a lot of the newer developers, too. This has, I think, a two-fold effect: It
gets new developers who get featured -really- excited and the chance to
promote $project of theirs, and it shows people who may be thinking about
contributing just how easy it can be.
Thoughts?
Ryan
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13 years, 8 months
Brand Fuel Baseball Cap manufacturer
by Ryan Rix
Hey Max, all,
Ambassadors were discussing in IRC about ordering some Fedora embroidered
baseball caps for event swag, and the general consensus was that the Brand
Fuel caps were really nice, and it would be cool if we could get them ordered
from their manufacturer.
Do you (Max) or anyone on either marketing or ambassadors have any details on
the manufacturer that Brand Fuel uses and how we could get in contact with
them?
Thanks all,
Ryan Rix
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13 years, 9 months
