Getting down to business

[Jonathan Darton]

I think it might be useful to have case studies or testimonials from users
about how they use Fedora. This might help people understand the project and
its potential to be used in various ways. And of course more users = more
potential contributors to the project. :)

Just a thought!

-Jonathan Darton

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Today's Topics:

   1. Getting down to business (Greg DeKoenigsberg)
   2. Re: Getting down to business (Chris Negus)


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Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 17:05:42 -0400 (EDT)
From: Greg DeKoenigsberg <gdk at redhat.com>
Subject: Getting down to business
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Folks,

As Fedora continues to become more and more real, it's clearly time to
figure out what role the Fedora marketing team needs to play.  There will,
of course, be some issues to be negotiated around what the Fedora
marketing team can and cannot do based on Red Hat policy -- but:

a. There's plenty of things that a Fedora marketing team *can* do, now;
b. Fedora marketing should be pushing Red Hat to help define those limits.

So.  Since Colin Charles is the owner of this list and one of its
originators, I've asked him to start putting together the pieces, to make
Fedora marketing its own project.

Good luck, Colin.  Take us to the promised land.  :)

--g

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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005 09:44:30 -0500
From: Chris Negus <cnegus at mwt.net>
Subject: Re: Getting down to business
To: Discussions on expanding the Fedora user base
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On Tue, 2005-05-31 at 17:05 -0400, Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote:
> As Fedora continues to become more and more real, it's clearly time to
> figure out what role the Fedora marketing team needs to play.  There will,
> of course, be some issues to be negotiated around what the Fedora
> marketing team can and cannot do based on Red Hat policy -- but:
> a. There's plenty of things that a Fedora marketing team *can* do, now;
> b. Fedora marketing should be pushing Red Hat to help define those limits.

I'd like to offer my help. I certainly don't have a good feel for the
total scope of what Fedora marketing should be doing. However, I was
thinking recently about gathering up information on:

* What Fedora is
* When Fedora is appropriate as opposed to RHEL
* How can someone get involved with the project:
     As someone using Fedora (user, admin, programmer)
     As someone packaging their software for Fedora
     As someone who has other skills to offer (writer, marketer, etc.)

By putting this together in the form of a presentation, I was thinking
that it would help us all sing from the same sheet music (so to speak).
Also, busy people wouldn't have to start from scratch if they just
wanted to give a talk on Fedora to the local LUG.

I also think that it's possible to have a story about what Fedora is
that is respectful of Red Hat Inc. and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Clarity
will help everyone, I believe. Thoughts?

-- Chris Negus



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