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

[Brian Monroe]

+1 on the videos. I remember requesting that like 2 years ago

Also: as an FYI we found USB drives for $2.50-$4.00 depending on the
capacity when we were researching them for purchase. There's been a lot of
wild numbers flying around that are much higher and I wanted to set the
record straight.

On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 2:44 AM Ankur Sinha <sanjay.ankur at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 2015-06-16 at 19:55 -0400, Andrrew Ward wrote:
> > I have brought this up many times in the past and was basically told
> > this wasn't my
> > responsibility and it belonged to marketing. Many FAMNA meetings I
> > discussed
> > having some flyers and distributable items containing information on
> > the
> > product.
> > Even a small presentation that we could use at events that shows the
> > various
> > products.
> >
> > I tried to get a feel for what the ambassadors were looking for in
> > Media, both
> > written propaganda on whats new with the latest version of Fedora,
> > what is
> > upcoming, etc.....
> >
> > I got nothing from anyone in marketing. When I started as an
> > ambassador
> > the event box was packed with flyers (produced by Marketing) with
> > different
> > features currently included in the latest distro. So what happened
> > since
> > then.
>
> The usual pretty much - the people that were working on it got busy and
> no one else took stepped in :)
>
> >
> > Presentation at events is 99% of what we do. A good presentation
> > draws
> > people. The human is a visual animal first, then you can appeal to
> > the mind.
>
> We do have presentations and templates for them, but not a generic
> release presentation, if that's what you're referring to. I've added a
> section here with the info I could find on presentations:
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing/For_Ambassadors#Presentations
>
>
> > >snip>
> >
> > In my experience with events shows that if you have a presentation
> > whether it be
> > a laptop running something that shows abilities/slideshows/videos on
> > what
> > Fedora is all about you will start a ripple effect of those who ask
> > questions.
> > With printed media on features, programs, etc.... you can give the
> > person
> > visual, mental, and reference-able answers.
>
> We do have a videos SIG, so we could work with them to make release
> videos? Added this to the ideas list:
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ankursinha/Marketing_Collateral_Ide
> as
>
> --
> Thanks,
> Regards,
> Ankur Sinha "FranciscoD"
>
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