[Ambassadors] Event report: Fedora 14 lunch in Paris

[Pierros Papadeas]

On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 4:39 PM, Kévin Raymond
<shaiton at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> Hi there !
>
> I am happy to announce you that we had a release party on Saturday
> December 4th in Paris!
> There where about 70 people, 2 talks (Puppet and LaTeX) and one
> workshop (our accessibility group manage to fill some Paris
> OpenStreetMap datas).
> We were also interviewed by a french radio during more than 1 hour
> about Open Source, GNU/Linux and Fedora.
>
> We distributed many Live CD and dispatch many other to french
> ambassadors (about 300 Live CD). Pictures could be seen here[1] and
> there[2].
>
> Our goal was to interact with interested people, to install Fedora
> when they brought their laptop or showing them how to make a LiveUSB
> (and how to use it).
>
> We also had people interested in OLPC, it was a pleasure to explain
> the project, speak about the XO, and of course Sugar on a stick!
>
> For this event, Renaudt has joined us. It is studying communications,
> therefor we had some good tools:
> * The event page[3] was there to organize the event,
> * The communications plan[4] was there to focus our communication
> * we have just added the results of our communications plan on its page[4]
>
> We also wrote a press release targeting the written press, and a press
> kit which was sent to very famous french blogs (followed by *many*
> peoples). Alright, we sent this too late to be very efficient, but we
> have got the template for next release!
>
> Next time, we will start communicating 3 months before the event,
> using a new communications plan based based on this one.
> We also plan to have a two days event, where the second day would be
> mostly contributors and experienced users oriented.
>
> [1] http://www.flickr.com/photos/56646296@N06/sets/72157625401325229/with/5231690604/
> [2] http://www.flickr.com/photos/22290618@N08/sets/72157625403346125/with/5232555952/
> [3] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Rencontres_Fedora_14_%C3%A0_Universciences
> [4] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communications%2Bplan%2BF14

Awesome report! I especially like the part of outreach concerning the
"radio interview" and the posts around blogs

It seems like you have done quite a job on the wiki page! I believe we
can learn from that, try to consolidate it a little bit and be part of
our F15 Release Party How-to.

Keep up the good work!

~π

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