Fwd: short slogans for fedora workstation ad to run (for free!) on stack exchange?

Matthew Miller mattdm at fedoraproject.org
Thu Jan 22 15:43:37 UTC 2015


I meant to cross-post this, but failed. So here's a forward -- see
below. I like Joe's ""Built for everybody, perfect for developers."
best of the suggestions so far. What do you think?

----- Forwarded message from Matthew Miller <mattdm at fedoraproject.org> -----

> Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 09:49:04 -0500
> From: Matthew Miller <mattdm at fedoraproject.org>
> To: marketing at lists.fedoraproject.org
> Cc: worksation at lists.fedoraproject.org
> Subject: short slogans for fedora workstation ad to run (for free!) on stack
> 	exchange?
> X-Bogo25: H 0
> 
> The Stack Exchange QA site runs free advertising for open source 
> projects -- see
> http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/12/free-vote-based-advertising-for-open-source-projects/
> 
> With Fedora 21, I'd like to have separate ones for Workstation, Server,
> and Cloud, and particularly would like to run the Workstation one on
> the main Stack Overflow developer Q&A site (and Server on
> sysadmin-focused Server Fault). I think we'll try some with just the
> new logos and label, but I'd also like to see the response to some with
> a basic slogan. For Server and Cloud, I think the top-line text from
> https://getfedora.org/en/server/ and https://getfedora.org/en/cloud/
> will work, but for workstation, the slogan is:
> 
>   This is the Linux workstation you've been waiting for.
> 
> which I also like, but, alone right next to "[logo] Workstation",
> having workstation in the text itself is awkward. Additionally, since
> the site is developer focused, I'd like to play up the developer target
> angle.
> 
> Anyone have suggestions for something that short or shorter which
> doesn't reuse the word workstation? We could even try one that has the
> more-general-user slant of the existing slogan along with one that's
> really tuned to the developer audience.
> 
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> Matthew Miller
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