[marketing] Partnership opportunity with freenode!

[Justin W. Flory]

Hey everyone,

A few weeks back, you may have received an IRC notice from the freenode 
staff about their community team and a blog post they had authored on 
their website.

     https://freenode.net/news/community

In short, the freenode community team is looking for more ways to engage 
with the open source communities throughout freenode and to showcase the 
awesome work happening throughout freenode. I reached out via email to 
their community team to see if Fedora could try to help pilot something 
with regards to these new outreach efforts. Fortunately, the freenode 
folks have been more than kind to help provide us with some awesome 
opportunities! This is exciting because I think we will be helping drive 
this effort throughout the entire freenode community as positive role 
models.

There's two things they were hoping to work with us on:

1) Articles about the Fedora Project, the Fedora community, or other 
exciting news about Fedora for the freenode blog and other platforms
2) Hosting an AMA on IRC to accompany a blog post for community members 
across freenode to ask questions about Fedora and engage with the project

They were also interested in having general articles about open source, 
IRC tips, etc. that could be a good opportunity to showcase technical 
expertise from Fedora community members for sharing across freenode.

One of the first things I would like to help put together for this is a 
general, introductory article about Fedora for a broad open source 
audience. It seems like an obvious thing to do, but I was having 
troubles locating any kind of "usual spiel" on this. Since it's 
something fundamental to identifying Fedora in the open source 
community, I wasn't sure if there was any kind of content like this 
available already we could pull from? If not, I would be happy to try 
writing something up and getting feedback from the rest of the team, but 
I figured I would ask first before accidentally duplicating work.

Thanks everyone! If you have any questions, feel free to ask. Also, feel 
free to idle in their channel as well (#freenode-community).

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Cheers,
Justin W. Flory
jflory7(a)gmail.com