Fedora-sponsored specials: All Things Open

[Paul Frields]

http://www.linux-magazine.com/Resources/Special-Editions/18-Free-From-XP

This is the issue in question IIRC, right Rikki?

I guess we missed our opportunity for SEAGL, since I don't have any
address for them; it would need to come from Larry. Larry, please
check that your @fedoraproject.org email address is correct -- I think
I got some sort of bounceback yesterday from a gmx.net address for
you.

Paul


On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 5:47 PM, Chris Collings <cpcollings at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Have we any photos or articles explaining more information about these?
> I'm just wondering if I could use these locally
>
> Rikki Endsley <rendsley at redhat.com> wrote:
>>Ruth is sending some to OLF this week (I think she's in the shipping room now), and SEAGL is also a great idea.
>>
>>Joe Brockmeier is organizing a lot of our LISA presence, and I'm not attending it this year so I'm not sure what we've arranged with them. I'm in RDU w/him now, so I'll give him a heads up on this thread so he can chime in.
>>
>>I think that even when F21 comes out, these won't be "dated" - the target audience is first-time Linux users (people moving from Windows XP). Still, it would be best to distribute these all by the end of 2014 so they are "new" (and not taking up storage space).
>>
>>And one final note: Linux New Media is eager to do more partnerships with us. So brainstorm on that.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>Rikki Endsley  | Community Evangelist
>>Open Source and Standards (OSAS), Red Hat
>>
>>http://community.redhat.com/
>>Twitter: @redhatopen | @rikkiends
>>
>>
>>
>>----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Paul W. Frields" <stickster at gmail.com>
>>> To: marketing at lists.fedoraproject.org
>>> Cc: "Larry Cafiero" <lcafiero at fedoraproject.org>, rendsley at redhat.com
>>> Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2014 1:13:57 PM
>>> Subject: Re: Fedora-sponsored specials: All Things Open
>>>
>>> On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 10:36:39AM -0500, inode0 wrote:
>>> > On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 7:41 AM, Rikki Endsley <rendsley at redhat.com> wrote:
>>> > > Is it too late to distribute these at registration or other common areas
>>> > > at the event?
>>> >
>>> > I would seriously consider sending all or most of them to LISA. Once
>>> > F21 is released we can still distribute these but they won't have the
>>> > same appeal.
>>>
>>> John,
>>>
>>> What about sending a few hundred sent to SEAGL?  That seems like
>>> another good event with enough time still for these to arrive.  cc'ing
>>> lcafiero in case he's interested, since we have a few days still to
>>> get them to him if so.
>>>
>>> I like your idea about LISA.  I recall mattdm saying the audience of
>>> attendees there (more professionals) tends to have a significant bump
>>> in CentOS/RHEL awareness and use.  Putting modern Fedora in their
>>> hands sounds like a very good idea.
>>>
>>> Do we need to file a FAMNA ticket or anything else to get this
>>> underway?  We don't want these magazines to age out while we muse
>>> about what to do with them.
>>>
>>> Rikki, is there someone from OSAS at LISA who would take ownership of
>>> the magazines on site, and putting them in attendees' hands at the
>>> booth?  (2K is a lot of magazines -- it sounds difficult for them to
>>> all land at the booth when the show starts.)
>>>
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