Sponsored Media Marketing (& a brief progress report)

[Karlie Robinson]

Good morning, all. 

Pure Marketing stuff for you this morning!  Sponsored Media is beginning 
to pick up steam, but it could still use your help to get the word out 
(the marketing part). 

A couple of days ago, Sponsored Media was given some very valuable 
webspace [1], and it's beginning to pay off. 

We've shipped 6 sponsored discs in the last two days, which is just 
about as many as we have done since the beginning of the program. 

You can see from the May tracking page [2], that there are still many 
requests that need to be filled to get us on track for continual 
fulfillment. 

So, Please, continue to talk about Sponsored Media whenever you see a 
slight opening.  It doesn't have to be a sales pitch or anything 
spectacular.  Just toss the Sponsored Media link around [3] when you see 
anyone saying anything about ways to contribute to Fedora. 

You can also Digg the news about Sponsored Media. 

There is an article about Sponsored Media [4] already on Digg.com and 
could use some diggs to bring it out of obscurity. 

If you're not familiar with Digg.com, it's a system by which the 
community at large decides what's news and what's not. 

[1] http://www.redhat.com/fedora/
[2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Distribution/FreeMedia/FC5DVD/May
[3] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Distribution/SponsoredMedia
[4] http://digg.com/linux_unix/Donations_to_the_Fedora_Project_-_Sorta

-- 
Karlie Robinson
Owner, Webpath Technologies
On the Web at:
http://webpath.net
http://on-disk.com
http://portal.on-disk.com

[Thomas Chung]

On 5/20/06, Karlie Robinson <karlie_robinson(a)webpath.net&gt; wrote:
>  Good morning, all.
>
>  Pure Marketing stuff for you this morning!  Sponsored Media is beginning
>  to pick up steam, but it could still use your help to get the word out
>  (the marketing part).
>
>  A couple of days ago, Sponsored Media was given some very valuable
>  webspace [1], and it's beginning to pay off.
>
>  We've shipped 6 sponsored discs in the last two days, which is just
>  about as many as we have done since the beginning of the program.
>
>  You can see from the May tracking page [2], that there are still many
>  requests that need to be filled to get us on track for continual
>  fulfillment.
>
>  So, Please, continue to talk about Sponsored Media whenever you see a
>  slight opening.  It doesn't have to be a sales pitch or anything
>  spectacular.  Just toss the Sponsored Media link around [3] when you see
>  anyone saying anything about ways to contribute to Fedora.
>
>  You can also Digg the news about Sponsored Media.
>
>  There is an article about Sponsored Media [4] already on Digg.com and
>  could use some diggs to bring it out of obscurity.
>
>  If you're not familiar with Digg.com, it's a system by which the
>  community at large decides what's news and what's not.
>
>  [1] http://www.redhat.com/fedora/
>  [2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Distribution/FreeMedia/FC5DVD/May
>  [3] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Distribution/SponsoredMedia
>  [4] http://digg.com/linux_unix/Donations_to_the_Fedora_Project_-_Sorta
>
>  --
>  Karlie Robinson
>  Owner, Webpath Technologies
>  On the Web at:
>  http://webpath.net
>  http://on-disk.com
>  http://portal.on-disk.com 
Thank you Karlie,
Here is another related blog by Paul W. Frields
http://marilyn.frields.org:8080/~paul/wordpress/?p=666
Cheers!
-- 
Thomas Chung
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ThomasChung

[nicola .:kOoLiNuS:. losito]

Hi people,
on the Media distribution i'd like to remember a "program" started by
the FedoraItalia.org [1] community where a bunch of people, dislocated
all over Italy, give away the installation cd/dvd at the bare cost of
the support + shipping.

we had a list of people declaring:

who     where          available FC release          type
me      Rome (ie)    FC1, FC2, FC3, FC4, FC5   cd + dvd

Personally i've sent a dozen discs all over the year, while at the
moment the service is stopped for a number of internal reasons.

Now, i have to re-read the Sponsored Media Marketing thing again but, if
buying a copy of that discs doesn't give directly money to Fedora, then
i think that also other communities could "copy" the italian one's.

Also i'd like to add a thought, it has occurred to me to prepare a bunch
of disks to give away in some African countries (since some of my
friends have done some lesson "in loco"). And while a 3.6GB disc was
welcome i fear that the average amount of data we download at each
update is overkill for them (and even to some particular locations or
countries where the connection to internet is made over pstn lines or at
best some ISDN). Maybe we should also think at implementing "diff"
updates, like SuSE did some time ago ... but that's a topic for another
list (maybe)

-- 
nicola .:kOoLiNuS:. losito 
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