(wherein Mel reveals a soft spot for new contributors, having been through the "whoa! everything is new and confusing!" stuff not all that long ago - almost exactly two months, actually. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2009-May/msg00236.html.)
We've got a lot of new people this month. Welcome to...
* Ely (https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2009-July/msg00006.htm...) * Rob (https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2009-July/msg00027.htm...) * Martin (https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2009-July/msg00079.htm...) * Andrew (https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2009-July/msg00096.htm...) * Rangeen (https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2009-July/msg00126.htm...)
New folks: can you make it to our next marketing meeting (on IRC)? https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing/Meetings - if you can show up 15 minutes early, or stay 15 minutes afterwards, I'm sure folks would be glad to talk with you about how you might be best able to jump in. (I'll be there, anyway. I want some help with all the stuff I'm working on ;)
Honestly, it's all about doing what *you* want to do - but sometimes figuring out what you want to do is hard when you're new to a project. And it's sometimes nice to be able to pick up on something small and specific while you're learning what is out there or could be out there. So we should try to find nice on-ramp projects.
For instance:
* Rangeen, I saw you work on FEL - does FEL need marketing? * Martin, you're volunteering for the Red Cross, which is *ridiculously* good at marketing and also managing volunteers - what practices have you seen there that we should do in here? * Rob, you're going to LUGradio: what can we do with radio? I know there have been podcast interviews for Fedora in the past, is that something you'd be interested in helping with? * Ely, you're studying in Brazil, which I hear has some *AWESOME* Ambassadors stuff going on that... for instance, since I only read English fluently right now, I have no idea what is going on there, and I think a lot of others here may be in the same situation. Can you think of some way the English speaking community and the Latin American community can stay in touch better? * Andrew, you wanted to help with Fedora Insight, so we should... talk. Are you on IRC? I am mchua in #fedora-marketing.
In other news, people working on stuff who can throw concrete "please help!" statements out there, the list of names above are the people you should be talking with.
--Mel
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 8:15 PM, Mel Chua wrote:
- Rangeen, I saw you work on FEL - does FEL need marketing?
Well I'll answer that,
yes we actually need marketing.
FEL is a robust platform for design electronic hardware and many small companies have deployed "logic design" solution of FEL, while small universities have deployed the analog portion of FEL for research and development.
From what I noticed during LinuxtagBerlin2009, many opensource
hardware developers still don't know about FEL. I would appreciate if you find FEL articles roaming somewhere on the internet that you tweet it with the tags #fedora and #EDA . Corporate bloggers are following the tags #EDA, so the more they find #fedora with #EDA the more they will talk about #fedora as well.
I think what is missing with FEL's exposure is its presence in wikipedia. Wikipedia has surprisely attracted corporate engineers which are looking for alternative solutions. Can anyone step in please and and write text about FEL into wikipedia please ?
I'll try to find time to blog about new features which we are implementing for F-12.
As usual we need more contributors :) A dynamic todo list can be found here : https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-electronic-lab/report/1
Kind regards, Chitlesh
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