Fedora Marketing TNG: Project FooBar

[Jack Aboutboul]

Hey Everyone,

Just wanted to keep people posted as to what's going on in Marketing and 
the outcome of my trip to Westford last week.  As many of you know, I've 
been thinking about what the next steps we need to take in Fedora 
Marketing should be.  I feel that we have come along way in terms of 
improving process and that we can go even further while also putting a 
fresh spin on things.  For some time there has been discussion of a 
"Fedora Magazine" concept; this goes back a couple of years.  I really 
liked the idea and it sort of stuck in my mind all these years and I was 
thinking we can centralize things around that format.  I had a few rough 
ideas for kickstarting this, but mainly my motivations were to solidify 
policies and process for what content Marketing creates, who we create 
it for, the content creation schedule, and how we distribute it.

Last week, I went up to Westford to and I met with Mo and Mel and 
Stephen Smoogen who was in the house for a visit.  We ran through a 
bunch of ideas and goals for Marketing's future and the idea of a Fedora 
journal/magazine type setup.  The results can be found here:  
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing/Project_FooBar.  Mo came up 
with the name, lol.

There are 5 main goals that we are striving for as you can read on the 
wiki page.  Centralization of Content, well scheduled, recurring and 
prepared content, design which is consistent with the philosophy of the 
Design team, standardized "official" feeds for distribution of different 
forms of content, mechanisms for localization and sharing the media with 
press or on social news sites.

Feel free to read the wiki page and add/edit, etc.  I would like to know 
what people think of this type of format, and I know people will have 
many question so I would like those to be voiced now so that we can 
answer them and make sure we are working to build something that is 
useful for the community with input from the community.

If anyone has any comments, please feel free to email me/respond to list.

Jack