idea! - Fedora Marketing Book Club

Paul W. Frields stickster at gmail.com
Thu Jan 28 14:16:34 UTC 2010


On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 12:21:07AM -0500, Justin O'Brien wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-01-27 at 21:35 -0800, Ryan Rix wrote:
> > On Wed 27 January 2010 7:46:41 pm Robyn Bergeron wrote:
> > > Greg's blog post today
> > > (http://gregdekspeaks.wordpress.com/2010/01/27/fedoras-goals/) has
> > > rekindled (no amazon pun intended, i swear!) a thought I had a while
> > > back on starting a marketing book club.  Mchua and I had discussed it
> > > a bit on irc sometime late last year, but I think we were focused on
> > > something else at the time, and the idea was lost.
> > > 
> > > Until now! I would like to propose that we have a "book club" for
> > > marketing-reading-material, but of course, not limited to marketing
> > > team members.
> > > 
> > > The basics of what I'm thinking are:
> > > 
> > > * We start with a book in March.  One book per month - at the end of
> > > each month, we have an IRC discussion on what we've learned, and how
> > > we can apply it to Fedora and what we're working on.  Hopefully,
> > > everyone will want to do things like blog about what they've read and
> > > learned, or write about it to the fedora-mktg mailing list, or add a
> > > review to the book club wiki.
> > > 
> > > * Everyone is welcome to join.  Nobody is -required- to join.
> > > 
> > > * Books are on our own individual dime (books are good for you! better
> > > than coffee!) - we should do our best to pick things that are likely
> > > available at the library (ie: not just freshly released last week).
> > > If budget for a book is a problem and it can't be found, we should try
> > > to accommodate people so they can participate.
> > > 
> > > The goal here (yes, I bang that goal drum a lot!) is to increase our
> > > collective knowledge about All Things Marketing,  provide a forum for
> > > discussing what we've learned, and provide us with some brainstorming
> > > and inspiration on things we can do to improve Marketing.
> > > 
> > > Thoughts? Feedback? :)  I've made a wiki page to get the ball rolling
> > > - hopefully we can work out the minor details (things like, "I have no
> > > clue how to run a book club discussion, do you?") between now and
> > > March.  This is meant to be fun / enriching - not MORE WORK! - so I
> > > hope people are interested, and if anyone thinks that one book a month
> > > is too much, please say so.
> > > 
> > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Book_Club
> > > 
> > > Cheers!
> > > 
> > One big YES from me! :-)
> > 
> > (except for books being better than coffee :P)
> > 
> > Ryan
> 
> I hate to be the illiterate mouth breather but I read a book every 6
> months if I'm lucky :) 
> 
> I would however love to sit in on the discussions and see what was
> learned

I also have a lot less time to read "real books" these days.  Most of
the reading taking up my time is email, social media, and RSS
feeds. :-)

But the schedule could be adjusted so even we slowpokes could
participate.  Quarterly maybe?  Just a thought.

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