[Ambassadors] Marketing requirements - what do the ambassadors need?

[Striker Leggette]

On 06/15/2015 01:56 PM, Jiri Eischmann wrote:
> Hi Ankur,
> it's a bit sad that you haven't received any reply because we -
> ambassadors - have been complaining about lack of marketing materials
> for a long time.
>
> What I would definitely like to see are materials with some
> content/message. Giving away materials with Fedora logos is fine, it
> supports branding, but it doesn't address new users.
> I'd love to have something that I can give to someone who stops by our
> booth, knows nothing about Fedora, and would like to learn more.
> DVDs served well in these situations, but fewer and fewer computers
> have DVD drives and they're less and less useful. And we don't have
> anything else which we can give them and which make them learn more
> about Fedora and give it a try. It's all stickers, badges, pins,...

One thing I would like to see here are more USB Live drives.  Having
Live Workstation drives are nice, but if we could get drives with
different DEs and have them sitting next to a machine where people could
play with the different DEs (like what Southern_Gentleman did at 2015
SELF) would be nice.  It is simple to 'dd' a Live ISO to a USB stick,
that's not the hard part.  Having different sticks with [Fedora Gnome],
[Fedora KDE], etc. printed on them is the more cost-related issue.

>
> Flyers are definitely a good idea. I've also been playing with an idea
> to make a "Getting Started with Fedora" booklet. It would have 10-20
> pages and it would serve as a starting point and would answer questions
> like "what is Fedora?", "what can it offer to me?", "where do I get
> it?", "how do I install it?", "how can I start using it?",...

I like this idea, and would like to add other things to the list.  We
should get some statistics about what new users ask about the most
(besides bug-related issues) and put those on the list in the Flyer.

>
> BTW release specific flyers is no issue for us in EMEA. I can have them
> printed in one day and in any quantities, we're quite flexible in that,
> so we can do stuff that will be relevant just for one release.
>
> Jiri
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