"Red Hat Releases Fedora 18 Beta"

[Stephanie Wonderlick]

Hi Paul (and everyone),

Stephanie from Red Hat corp comms here. We are on the distro, and have 
been reading everything. You've hit the nail on the head re: the 
symbiotic relationship. And as both you and Robyn have reassured 
everyone, there was certainly no malintent here. It was a mistake, and 
it won't happen again.

And yes, Anna Eusebio, who manages Fedora PR efforts is also on this 
thread. She weighed in earlier, responding to this string, but in case 
it didn't get through to everyone, here's what she said:

>         -------- Original Message --------
>         Subject: 	Re: "Red Hat Releases Fedora 18 Beta"
>         Date: 	Wed, 28 Nov 2012 10:06:44 -0500 (EST)
>         From: 	Anna Eusebio <aeusebio at redhat.com>
>         Reply-To: 	Fedora Marketing team
>         <marketing at lists.fedoraproject.org>
>         To: 	Fedora Marketing team <marketing at lists.fedoraproject.org>
>
>
>
>         Hey everyone,
>
>         I have been following the marketing thread since yesterday,
>         and I apologize again for sending our reporters a subject line
>         that was misinterpreted. I was excited to make sure the Beta
>         release received a lot of good coverage, and I will definitely
>         make sure the same thing doesn't happen again, especially with
>         the upcoming GA.
>
>         Sincerely,
>         Anna Eusebio


-Stephanie


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On 11/28/2012 05:24 PM, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 12:28:04PM -0600, inode0 wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 12:08 PM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson"
>> <johannbg at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>> Any reason why our own marketing community cant start creating and
>>> maintaining our own extensive database of contacts so on and so forth and we
>>> simply stop dealing with/through Red Hat PR or any other third party or
>>> sponsor?
>> One guess: no one so far thinks it is worth their time to duplicate
>> the work already being done by a sponsor who is willing to let us
>> leverage the work they do continuously.
> [...snip...]
>
> There is cachet that comes from Red Hat's involvement here which is
> valuable to journalists as well, i.e. a symbiotic relationship.
> Unfortunately that sometimes results in an error, but overall this has
> been getting steadily better over the last several years.
>
> Does anyone know if the Red Hat PR person who was assisting in this
> case (I'm sorry, stuck in an interface without access to name right
> now) hangs out on this mailing list?  I wonder if the tenor of this
> conversation at numerous points would have been inhospitable to a
> newcomer.  I also hope this person knows we all make mistakes from
> time to time and the good effort deserves notice.  I'm drawn once
> again to the community tenet "Assume good intentions."  Have we done
> that?
>
>
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