marketing October 2005

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Fedora user testimonials
by John Mahowald 06 Nov '05

06 Nov '05

I propose collecting user testimonials as a way to promote Fedora. Actual people commenting on their experience can be a powerful persuader. Of course these would have to be anonymous unless otherwise specified. Ways of collecting them could include an email address, web forum/comment form, etc.

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Fedora at FOSS.in/2005
by Tejas Dinkar 05 Nov '05

05 Nov '05

Hey all, I have registered to give a talk on the Fedora Project at foss.in/2005 (http://foss.in/2005). If I can get the slides of previous talks on Fedora from somewhere that would be really useful. Also, if people would tell me what people usually talk about as the positive parts of fedora, that would be REALLY helpful. Hell, I may need a mentor on this. (to at least torture in #fedora-mktg and check rough drafts of my slides). As this is an indian event, the audience will be more pro debian than usual. I have ot get a draft of the slides in by wednesday night Thanks for any help Tejas Dinkar

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Missing meeting today
by Colin Charles 27 Oct '05

27 Oct '05

In all likelihood, I'll be missing the meeting today. Someone, please take minutes, thanks -- Colin Charles, http://www.bytebot.net/

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Guerilla Marketing
by Joshua Wulf 25 Oct '05

25 Oct '05

Hot on the heels of the "Community Building not Marketing" post.... a guerilla marketing idea. Colin and I were brainstorming the other day about things you can do when you have no money and no official support (LCA2006 here we come), and we came up with "M*A*S*H Bug Triage". You get a wireless router, an extension cord, a set of army surplus fatigues, a stethoscope and a surgical mask, then you set up wherever you can - a room, an open space, whatever, and people can come along and bring their laptops to do bug triaging. The lack of facilities is all part of the ambience - I mean, "C'mon, this is M*A*S*H Bug Triage! Where's the room??? Where's your camo?" --josh (i hope it doesn't come to that, but we're ready for it)

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Fedora Community Building
by Joshua Wulf 25 Oct '05

25 Oct '05

Over the last few days I've been thinking that perhaps another way of thinking of things is to think of "Fedora Community Building" rather than simply "Fedora Marketing". Marketing is a monologue. Community Building is a conversation. Just a thought. --josh

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Meetings
by Colin Charles 23 Oct '05

23 Oct '05

Ok, here's a proposal since last week's attendance while low (we got far) Do we rotate between 15:00 and 18:00 UTC on a weekly basis? As the project grows, this will enable *more* people from around the world to attend. I don't expect everyone to attend every meeting, but with a varying timescale, it can be better Thoughts? And to not confuse folk, we could publish a calendar (webcal), and you can import it into your favourite webcal application (Evolution has good support for this; there are a few webcalendar things, kiko?, and i think iCal defintely supports it if you use OS X, and if you're using Windows, I'm sure there are solutions, like Sunbird (cross-platform) :P) -- Colin Charles, http://www.bytebot.net/

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Presentation Card Deck
by Joshua Wulf 23 Oct '05

23 Oct '05

The other day I got a couple of packs of cards - the red deck and the black deck - from sales and marketing at Red Hat. They have frequently asked questions and responses on them for making sales pitches for RHEL. They pretty much r0ck, and are a useful resource. I think it could be quite useful for the cmc program if we had something like that. It's a small deck of cards with the frequently asked questions and important differentiating points for making presentations with clarity and focus. It empowers cmc's to answer inquiries with succinct and correct answers. Especially in a situation where you are being interviewed for web, radio, or television, or even print, the soundbite is king. A pithy, prepared response is essential. --josh

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CMC
by Rodrigo Padula de Oliveira 23 Oct '05

23 Oct '05

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CMC Program Relaunch: Fedora Ambassadors
by Alex 22 Oct '05

22 Oct '05

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing/Ambassadors Please click through and amend where necessary. I have removed the content from the old page http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing/CommunityMarketingContacts There is a link to the new page on the old CMC page. If you know of any links pointing to the old CMC page, please change them to point to the new Ambassadors page. Thanks, a -- New content on FUDCon page! http://fedoraproject.org/fudcon FUDCon: Fedora Users and Developers Conference

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Marketing Fedora Worldwide
by David Barzilay 21 Oct '05

21 Oct '05

Hi Folks, There are a lot of well-intended people here, so allow me to suggest a more organized approach towards the subject matter, then we can optimize our resources. Let start from the beginning! We gotta be able to respond some basic questions: 1) APPEALS: what are FC's appeals? reduced IT costs (software, hardware), collaborative work philosophy, reliability, bleeding-edge technology...., reducing digital divide.... Who can benefit from these? 2) TARGET: who should we promote FC to? There might be two or more different audiences here, interested in different sort of benefits i.e. developing countries decision makers, the computer-savvy masses, secondary school, lobbyists, IT students.... What do we know about them? If we have more than one defined audience, we might consider splitting the next questions, and having different strategies for each. 3) OPPORTUNITIES to meet with target(s) in appealing occasions: local user groups meetings, events, partnerships with universities, seminars, open source projects, govmt events, etc Questions: What are the commonalities between "the opportunity" and FC? How do we relate FC with "the opportunity" goals? Leverage from there, focusing on the answers for the questions above, and elaborating "tailor-made" material for event. 4) FEDORA-MKTG ORG: a bit of a brainstorming here... Obviously, we cannot centralize everything to cover the globe, so maybe CMCs can create their little organizations, specially dedicated to their markets. Local CMCs can organize an effective FC presence in local events in advance, so we make sure they get enough material (as mentioned in an earlier email); can also talk to universities, distribute FC LiveCDs, invite more people to take part on open source projects, talk to teachers......organize LUGs.... Responsibilities can be shared among local organizations i.e. one looks after events, another looks after local universities, a third might lobby with govmt, a fourth might look after the Fedora users website in his language... Let's take the collaborative work spirit to the Marketing field! Thoughts? -- David Barzilay Brazilian Portuguese Technical Translator Red Hat Asia-Pacific

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