An advisory board conversation that might be of interest

[Mel Chua]

Marketing folks - if you want a meditative breather from working on 
release deliverables, there is a conversation on the f-a-b list that 
might be of interest, in terms of thinking about the context of the big 
picture that we work within.

The subject line is "What is the Fedora Project?" and it starts at 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-advisory-board/2009-October/msg00002.html. 
It's quite long (109 messages as of this writing), so wrap up whatever 
deliverables you're working on first (for me, it was a couple FUDCon 
tickets) and then settle back with a cup of tea to read and have a good 
think. After reading, if there are any insights that you'd like to 
share, please share them on f-a-b so they become part of the main 
conversation - I'm looking forward to hearing what people have to say. 
If you want to stay quiet and watch, listen, and learn, that's totally 
fine as well (that's what I'm doing now). It's an amazing conversation, 
and an ongoing, very-long-term thing, and there's much to think about in 
terms of how we want to lead and shape our own work in the here and now.

I also wanted to call out a specific question from John that seemed 
relevant to the discussions we've been having on 
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_research lately:

"CALLING ANY EXPERTS OR INDUSTRY FOLKS: Are there any product marketing 
or brand people out there that can suggest some good methodology or an 
approach to defining a target audience that is more efficient than our 
approach thus far?

IOW, what is the simplest way to define and explain our "target 
audience" without creating a wiki page that is 15 paragraphs long and 25 
questions to answer?" (from 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-advisory-board/2009-October/msg00148.html)

So if folks here have some thoughts on that, that may be a particularly 
useful thing to chime into the f-a-b discussion with.

Cheers,

--Mel