distributing Fedora-sponsored magazines - what's the plan?

[Rikki Endsley]

Forgot to add - GHC is expecting 8k attendees this year (doubled from last year). 
http://gracehopper.org/news/2014-grace-hopper-celebration-achieves-record-registration-expands-capacity/

I'll be there on a press pass and will help at the RH booth some.


----- Original Message -----
> From: "Paul Frields" <stickster at gmail.com>
> To: "Fedora Marketing team" <marketing at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2014 9:41:12 PM
> Subject: Re: distributing Fedora-sponsored magazines - what's the plan?
> 
> One solution would be to ship them to a few key, very large events.
> According to the Events, page there are two very large events coming
> up in October:
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY15_Q3_.28Sept_2014_-_Nov_2014.29
> 
> Grace Hopper Celebration - October 8-11
>   (Ambassador seems to be "User:open" -- Not sure if this means no
> one's covering, or someone with username "open" is.) :-)
> Ohio Linux Fest - October 24-26
>   (Ambassador contact: Andrew Ward)
> 
> Between them, probably 3-5K attendees. There's no further calendar
> entries, but I imagine there might be at least one more large event in
> Q4 to which to ship?
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 2:53 PM, Rikki Endsley <rendsley at redhat.com> wrote:
> > I will say that the magazines are HEAVY and I think they arrived on a
> > pallet (not individual boxes), so shipping to a location and then to other
> > locations could get spendy.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Paul W. Frields" <stickster at gmail.com>
> >> To: marketing at lists.fedoraproject.org
> >> Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2014 1:48:42 PM
> >> Subject: Re: distributing Fedora-sponsored magazines - what's the plan?
> >>
> >> Since Rikki's on the OSAS team, I think we can safely assume OSAS
> >> wants the Fedora community to make a plan here. ;-)
> >>
> >> What about working with key regional coordinators on the Ambassadors
> >> team, so Rikki (or someone) would only have to ship these to a few
> >> places for wider distribution?
> >>
> >> Paul
> >>
> >> On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 08:18:28PM -0400, Chris Roberts wrote:
> >> > I did not know these even existed, I am sure we can get them to our
> >> > NA ambassadors very easy. Is OSAS planning to do anything with them,
> >> > or are they for us to give to ambassadors. I don't want to start
> >> > figuring out what to do with them, if they are for OSAS.
> >> >
> >> > - Chris Roberts
> >> >
> >> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> > From: "Rikki Endsley" <rendsley at redhat.com>
> >> > To: "Fedora Marketing team" <marketing at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> >> > Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2014 6:46:14 PM
> >> > Subject: distributing Fedora-sponsored magazines - what's the plan?
> >> >
> >> > Greetings,
> >> >
> >> > Do we have a plan in place to make sure the 2k Fedora-sponsored
> >> > print magazines (w/Fedora 20 DVD) in the Raleigh office are
> >> > distributed to Fedora booths? If not...what's the plan to make the
> >> > plan?
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Rikki Endsley  | Community Evangelist
> >> > Open Source and Standards (OSAS), Red Hat
> >> >
> >> > http://community.redhat.com/
> >> > Twitter: @redhatopen | @rikkiends
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