I had a cool Idea why don't we put on an artshow!

[Justin O'Brien]

On Mon, 2010-02-15 at 20:48 +0000, Nelson Marques wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 2010-02-15 at 15:40 -0500, Justin O'Brien wrote:
> > On Mon, 2010-02-15 at 14:10 -0600, Neville A. Cross wrote:
> > > On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 2:02 PM, Justin O'Brien <three at threethirty.us> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hello all:
> > > >
> > > > I had an idea Brainstorming in #f-mktg. We were trying to come up with
> > > > ways to extend our reach. Getting Free Software/Linux people is awesome
> > > > but who else might be interested in Fedora? so I thought why don't we
> > > > put on a Fedora Project artshow?!?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Here is what I was invisioning...
> > > >
> > > >  * we somehow procure a gallery
> > > >  * Fedorians bring in some art they had done
> > > >  * we invite people from the art world to see it
> > > >  * try to get written up in art mags (do they exist, if so which ones)
> > > >  * thought this would be an awesome way to show that art and
> > > > freesoftware are great partners
> > > >  * thought this would be a way that people could parade out that one
> > > > desgin they had for $fedoraVersionInThePast that just didnt make it
> > > >  * would be a way to see the creative side of people we didnt know had
> > > > one (how many coders/marketing people/legal etc are also painters,
> > > > sculpters, etc)
> > > >
> > > > If anyone likes this idea let me know and maybe we can make this
> > > > happen :)
> > > >
> > > >
> > > 
> > > 
> > > At Nicaragua, Free Software has team up with Free Culture as we have a
> > > lot of commons interests. As Free Software community we have organized
> > > Free Music concerts.
> > > 
> > > To me your idea makes sense. What I see as something to work out is a
> > > geographical location to gather all fedora art. What about a virtual
> > > gallery as a starting point?
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > > Neville
> > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Yn1v
> > > Linux User # 473217
> > > 
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> > > Check: http://www.clickmanagua.com
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> > I didn't think about the Geo issue... My brain is US specific :/ 
> > 
> > Maybe each interested Region could do one...
> > 
> > The virtual gallery is a cool idea but I think it wouldn't attract the
> > groups that we were wanting to attract...
> > 
> > any thoughts?
> > 
> > also I'll have to resend this to the design list becuase I wasn't subed
> > and got denied :)
> > 
> 
>  Hi,
> 
>  Though I'm new to the list, I would consider the following:
> 
>  # Communication is important when addressing to international
> communities or minorities. This is something that needs to be very well
> thinken off.
> 
>  # I've seen a survey link (not active though) on the fedora marketing
> resources page. I would prioritize this, as information is power, and
> having such tool would eventually help us. If we have a 10 million user
> spec, we only need 1064 valid questionnaires to grant a 5% error.
> Segmenting our targets would allow us to develop more attractive
> communication.
> 
>  # I would recon that if your objective is massification of Fedora
> GNU/Linux, we aim exactly to the points where it does matter to end
> users:
>  - Ease of use
>  - Productivity (Educational/Corporate targets)
>  - Support
>  - Eye Candy / Technology
> 
>  There is no base on this suggestions (such as surveys or studies), but
> I would eventually characterize those as some of the most important
> things that newcomers and migrating users would value.
> 
>  Nelson.
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Nelson:

Those are all good points but how does that work into getting
contributors to other areas of the Fedora Project? 

The plan with this art show was to show the art community that there was
room for them in the project.  And then we can spread the
knowledge/usage of Free Software tools and Free Culture Licensing to a
group of people that arent really interested in programming or software
in general.