Hy there,
short after todays marketing meeting some came with an the idea that are crawling around some heads for quite a while: We want to have a Marketing FAD!
Theme: Fedora Marketing - What is, what will be * build up our "new" marketing plan for F13 / F14 and work on that * work and grow our Marketing Team * have fun
Here are some questions we start to work on: * Where do we want to have it (location)? * when (date) ? * who (attendees) ? * work schedule (plan) ? A first throw-in I would say "how about hawaii, first march week 2010, some hotel around". For all other things around we have also a wikipage [1] for filling with suggestions and facts. Please have a look, add your name to the list if you are interressted or already say "YES, I want to be there" because we must know your preferences to plan further on.
[1] = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_FAD_2010
mit freundlichen Grüßen / best regards Henrik Heigl - wonderer@fedoraproject.org
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I'll add this to the wiki, but just wanted to throw this out there -
I know there is probably (a) a budget of sorts, and (b) budgets for a lot of us who wouldn't have "corporate sponsorship" from our employer (ie - students and such) - so while Hawaii does sound absolutely fabulous, a ticket from Phoenix to Hawaii during that time (which is spring break here in the US for a lot of folks, meaning travel prices are higher) is in the $650 range, and from Boston to Hawaii is even uglier (think more like 800).
So as much as it pains me to say it.... since it does sound reeeeeeeallly nice... we should probably consider something, you know, slightly less exotic in the spirit of allowing more people to come participate and/or saving that budget for allowing people to come / participate in fudcons of the future. :)
That said: Las Vegas will have somewhat pleasant weather in March (better than, say, Boston, I'd venture); an abundance of decently priced hotel rooms, food options galore, conference space galore, a lovely international airport with cheap transportation, and plenty to do/see (even for our underage friends!).
Otherwise, I'd suggest a coastal city with a Big Airport for ease of travel for any international friends we may have; Boston, Atlanta, Seattle, Vancouver come to mind.
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 3:24 PM, wonderer wonderer4711@gmx.de wrote:
Hy there,
short after todays marketing meeting some came with an the idea that are crawling around some heads for quite a while: We want to have a Marketing FAD!
Theme: Fedora Marketing - What is, what will be
- build up our "new" marketing plan for F13 / F14 and work on that
- work and grow our Marketing Team
- have fun
Here are some questions we start to work on:
- Where do we want to have it (location)?
- when (date) ?
- who (attendees) ?
- work schedule (plan) ?
A first throw-in I would say "how about hawaii, first march week 2010, some hotel around". For all other things around we have also a wikipage [1] for filling with suggestions and facts. Please have a look, add your name to the list if you are interressted or already say "YES, I want to be there" because we must know your preferences to plan further on.
[1] = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_FAD_2010
mit freundlichen Grüßen / best regards Henrik Heigl - wonderer@fedoraproject.org
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On Tue, 8 Dec 2009, Robyn Bergeron wrote:
I know there is probably (a) a budget of sorts, and (b) budgets for a lot of us who wouldn't have "corporate sponsorship" from our employer (ie - students and such) - so while Hawaii does sound absolutely fabulous, a ticket from Phoenix to Hawaii during that time (which is spring break here in the US for a lot of folks, meaning travel prices are higher) is in the $650 range, and from Boston to Hawaii is even uglier (think more like 800).
We'll certainly set aside budget for this event from our "Premier Fedora Events" bucket, and given the nature of the event, most of that budget will probably be spent on travel/lodging sponsorships.
I'm pretty sure that Henrik was joking with his suggestion of Hawaii. :)
I think the best way to start thinking about a location is to first build up an idea of who *wants* to attend, and then figure out a few different date options for the event, and see which one is best.
Given what we've done at FUDCon, we know that it's possible for remotees to participate fairly extensively in the event as well, with gobby, streaming, or Fedora Talk.
It looks like we're already starting to build up a roster on the wiki page. Right now it's only 4, though. When the wiki comes back up, I'll add myself.
--Max
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 12:05:04AM -0500, Max Spevack wrote:
On Tue, 8 Dec 2009, Robyn Bergeron wrote:
I know there is probably (a) a budget of sorts, and (b) budgets for a lot of us who wouldn't have "corporate sponsorship" from our employer (ie - students and such) - so while Hawaii does sound absolutely fabulous, a ticket from Phoenix to Hawaii during that time (which is spring break here in the US for a lot of folks, meaning travel prices are higher) is in the $650 range, and from Boston to Hawaii is even uglier (think more like 800).
We'll certainly set aside budget for this event from our "Premier Fedora Events" bucket, and given the nature of the event, most of that budget will probably be spent on travel/lodging sponsorships.
I'm pretty sure that Henrik was joking with his suggestion of Hawaii. :)
I think the best way to start thinking about a location is to first build up an idea of who *wants* to attend, and then figure out a few different date options for the event, and see which one is best.
Given what we've done at FUDCon, we know that it's possible for remotees to participate fairly extensively in the event as well, with gobby, streaming, or Fedora Talk.
It looks like we're already starting to build up a roster on the wiki page. Right now it's only 4, though. When the wiki comes back up, I'll add myself.
I was thinking about adding myself but was worried about swelling the ranks and budget. If I came I'd keep my FPL hat on for purposes of doing "Great Karnac" impressions, but would mostly be there in the same "Get Stuff Done" mode as everyone else.
It looks like we're already starting to build up a roster on the wiki page. Right now it's only 4, though. When the wiki comes back up, I'll add myself.
I was thinking about adding myself but was worried about swelling the ranks and budget. If I came I'd keep my FPL hat on for purposes of doing "Great Karnac" impressions, but would mostly be there in the same "Get Stuff Done" mode as everyone else.
I'd say we should get a good a gauge of interest as we can, and if we have more people than we can take, that's a *great* problem, and we can split into subsprints, or have a virtual component for folks who can't make it there in person, etc.
So yeah, sign up, sign up!
--Mel
On 11/12/09 09:53 AM, Mel Chua wrote:
It looks like we're already starting to build up a roster on the wiki page. Right now it's only 4, though. When the wiki comes back up, I'll add myself.
I was thinking about adding myself but was worried about swelling the ranks and budget. If I came I'd keep my FPL hat on for purposes of doing "Great Karnac" impressions, but would mostly be there in the same "Get Stuff Done" mode as everyone else.
I'd say we should get a good a gauge of interest as we can, and if we have more people than we can take, that's a *great* problem, and we can split into subsprints, or have a virtual component for folks who can't make it there in person, etc.
So yeah, sign up, sign up!
--Mel
Mel, I'm going to sign up as well, as I think there will be further iterations of FWN and Fedora Insight that I think I can contribute to, but I will likely participate remotely as the spring is going to be particularly busy for me!
- pascal
On 12/09/2009 10:11 AM, Robyn Bergeron wrote:
I'll add this to the wiki, but just wanted to throw this out there -
I know there is probably (a) a budget of sorts, and (b) budgets for a lot of us who wouldn't have "corporate sponsorship" from our employer (ie - students and such)
I would be interested but is there a point in adding myself? I didn't see anyone outside US.
Rahul
I would be interested but is there a point in adding myself? I didn't see anyone outside US.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_FAD_2010#Attendees
Henrik is in Germany, everyone else is spread as far apart across the USA as you can go (Poelstra and I are about 3,000 miles apart), and we will definitely be having a remote participation component for Pascal. Go for it!
--Mel
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