Introduction: Colin Zwiebel

[Nelson Marques]

Welcome Collin.

I'm Nelson, Marketing Management student from Portugal.

nelson.


On Mon, 2010-03-08 at 11:23 -0500, Colin Zwiebel wrote:
> Hi, my name is Colin Zwiebel and I live in Needham, MA (near Boston).
> My Fedora Account System (FAS) username is computercolin, and my IRC
> nick is computercolin.
> 
> 
> I learned about the Fedora Marketing team through Mel Chua, and am
> interested in joining because I love OSS, would like it to expand with
> average users, and am interested in seeing how it is being marketed.
> 
> 
> I worked last year on OLPC for a period of time, organizing a
> Jam-style event. Though I've used many Linux variants, and submit bug
> reports regularly, this is my first time really contributing to a FOSS
> community.
> 
> 
> This is the first Marketing project I have worked on! 
> 
> 
> My skills, which I hope to utilize in Fedora Marketing, include:
> 
> 
> (Marketing Skills) - _Graphics, event organization_
> (Other Skills) - _web-application development_
> I'd also like to learn strategy and big picturing thinking.
> When I'm not working on Fedora, I am playing at F. W. Olin College of
> Engineering.
> 
> 
> A couple of goals I have for the Fedora Project are
> reach more "average" users and
> Better inspire hackers and developers to create great OSS software.
> 
> 
> I would also like to see 
> Fedora and OSS in general become a more natural community for young
> tech-oriented people to join (IE, the Facebook generation)
> 
> 
> I am wondering about
> the focus of F13 and how this gets set
> how projects are organized within Fedora, who designers, developers,
> leaders interact.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> If you have any tips for exploring the community, let me know!
> 
> 
> Colin
> http://zonion.org
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