Spreading the word about FUDCon Berlin

Ian Weller ianweller at gmail.com
Mon Mar 2 21:32:49 UTC 2009


On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 10:16:25PM +0100, Max Spevack wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'd like to take a moment to talk a little bit about our Marketing and  
> Press plans for FUDCon Berlin and LinuxTag, which is taking place in  
> June.
>
> Last week, Red Hat issued a press release about the event, but that is  
> just the first in what is going to be a larger marketing campaign.
>
> Because we are partnering with LinuxTag this year for FUDCon, they have  
> agreed to allow us to use their press contacts in Germany and other  
> parts of Europe to help spread the word about the event.
>
> Henrik Heigl has agreed to take responsibility for helping to craft our  
> plan for bringing as much exposure as we can to FUDCon Berlin and  
> LinuxTag this year, and I will be working with him to roll out further  
> announcements about the daily schedules, speakers, and other highlights  
> of FUDCon Berlin.
>
> Because a task like this requires lots of teamwork and collaboration  
> (both on this mailing list and also with other parts of Red Hat, with my  
> serving as a go-between) to be done correctly, I wanted to take a moment  
> to "officially" introduce him to the list, though many of you already  
> know him, and to thank him for taking this important leadership role.
>
> Our goal is to have the most agressive pre-FUDCon marketing strategy  
> ever seen, that can set the template for how we advertise all future  
> FUDCons.
>
<shamless_plug>

If we can also take this time to start recruiting photographers (with
decent cameras) to take photos for the Fedora Picture Book[1], that
would be awesome. Since the release forms are finally done I think we
can have a ton of great photos from the contributors in that region. I
think advising people of this on the wiki page would be great.

[1]: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Picture_book

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