Marketing goals, revisited: the 4 Foundations

2010-01-04 Thread Mel Chua
Last month, Robyn sent out a brilliant email about how to frame our tasks into 
goals centered around the Four Foundations: 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2009-December/msg00070.html

This happened to be the day after FUDCon when a lot of us were totally 
exhausted, so I think it got lost in the shuffle... but now is a good time to 
revisit it. 

 Greetings marketing friends,
 
 As some of you have probably read, I've been doing some thinking on
 not just our specific, measurable goals for F13, but also the
 marketing team's wider objectives and mission.  In other words, we may
 have this list of fabulous tasks we've brainstormed for F13, but what
 are our end goals?
 
 I've come up with an idea I'd like to propose and/or get feedback on.
 It may not be the perfect solution, but I think that it might get us
 on the path to being more mission-oriented in future releases, if we
 (a) decide to go down this route, and (b) decide at the end of F13
 that it was a worthwhile effort.
 
 The concept is to organize the tasks we work on around the four
 foundations of Fedora - Freedom, Friends, Features, First (please see
 https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Foundations if you want the big
 explanation on all of these things - I know they are each
 intentionally easy-to-grasp concepts, but the bigger picture behind
 each one is worth reading).  For our team, what this would mean is
 that each of our tasks should be focused on furthering one (or more)
 of each of these foundations.  Not to pin us in, necessarily - ideas
 of all types will fall into one of these categories, generally - but
 to make sure we aren't forgetting to focus on anything.

Personally, I think this is a great idea - it immediately makes it clear how 
the things we're working on tie directly into the larger mission and goals of 
the entire project, points out a whole bunch of areas we could potentially 
expand into, and is (hopefully) an easier way for new folks with marketing 
backgrounds to engage with the project (easier than look, a pile of 
potentially connected tasks - want to take one? in any case).

 I've written a bit down about each foundation - this is of course just
 me brainstorming a bit, I would love to hear more ideas on solidifying
 these if other team members think it is a good idea.  (And by
 solidifying, I mean into slightly more concise statements :D ) Under
 each one, I've listed some of the tasks that might fall into that
 category. (The task lists aren't comprehensive - I've just typed
 things in here, so don't get mad if your idea isn't here!)
 
 
 Freedom:  Use FOSS tools as much as possible (or practical) in
 production of Marketing materials, and do our best to support
 solutions that may work in the future. (Side note: See mizmo's post to
 the marketing list on making the fedora video - it wasn't entirely
 practical, but bugs were filed, discussions are ongoing, this is GOOD!
 And awesome video btw, I know you've heard it already but I'm just
 sayin' it again :D.)  Give marketing contributors the freedom and
 knowledge to work on projects as they choose.  Practice openness, and
 give process more transparency.
 - HOWTO's on how to make all Marketing deliverables
 - translations and i18n workflow for marketing stuff
 - Cross-training of team members for things like Zikula

Design does something similar, and there's been some conversation in the Docs 
team about making that explicit in the Docs mission statement as well (see 
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Talk:Docs_Project_mission_statement) - I think 
making sure that there's a FOSS toolchain with which *anyone* can do open 
source marketing is a great idea and we should specifically call out the things 
in that toolchain at some point - it might make a good presentation at a 
marketing conference, for instance.

 Friends: Continue to develop and extend not only the Fedora marketing
 community, but also the Fedora community in general.
 - Grow the number of marketing contributors
- teach Marketing classes in Classroom to grow the depth of the Fedora 
community's knowledge about marketing, what it is, how to do it, etc.
 - Convert 100 users of non-Fedora distros to Fedora as their primary desktop 
 OS
Personally, I find the next goal far more interesting...
 - Encourage 100 college students to sign up as Fedora contributors and
 each contribute at least one thing.
I'd love to get a marketing class working on this - actually, I would love to 
see a case study (see http://www.hbs.edu/mba/academics/casemethod.html) on 
Fedora.
- FUDCon
- Talk up Fedora at at least 20 different LUG meetings worldwide
This one's Ambassadors, imo - but the two groups should continue to find ways 
to work more closely together.
- Marketing FAD
- RH Summit
Yep, we should find out what's going on with this - not having been to one of 
these before myself, I'm not sure what the opportunities here look like, or how 
we fit in, but I think it's definitely worth exploring. Mo and 

Re: Marketing goals, revisited: the 4 Foundations

2010-01-04 Thread Paul W. Frields
On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 01:27:12AM -0800, Mel Chua wrote:
[...snip a bunch of brilliant stuff with which I agree...]
  I've written a bit down about each foundation - this is of course just
  me brainstorming a bit, I would love to hear more ideas on solidifying
  these if other team members think it is a good idea.  (And by
  solidifying, I mean into slightly more concise statements :D ) Under
  each one, I've listed some of the tasks that might fall into that
  category. (The task lists aren't comprehensive - I've just typed
  things in here, so don't get mad if your idea isn't here!)
  
  
  Freedom:  Use FOSS tools as much as possible (or practical) in
  production of Marketing materials, and do our best to support
  solutions that may work in the future. (Side note: See mizmo's post to
  the marketing list on making the fedora video - it wasn't entirely
  practical, but bugs were filed, discussions are ongoing, this is GOOD!
  And awesome video btw, I know you've heard it already but I'm just
  sayin' it again :D.)  Give marketing contributors the freedom and
  knowledge to work on projects as they choose.  Practice openness, and
  give process more transparency.
  - HOWTO's on how to make all Marketing deliverables
  - translations and i18n workflow for marketing stuff
  - Cross-training of team members for things like Zikula
 
 Design does something similar, and there's been some conversation in
 the Docs team about making that explicit in the Docs mission
 statement as well (see
 https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Talk:Docs_Project_mission_statement)
 - I think making sure that there's a FOSS toolchain with which
 *anyone* can do open source marketing is a great idea and we should
 specifically call out the things in that toolchain at some point -
 it might make a good presentation at a marketing conference, for
 instance.

We always use 100% FOSS to the greatest possible extent, exclusively
as possible.  In areas where we have to deviate, we should be open
about that as well.  Marketeers realize there is a huge audience we
can't reach without making materials available in ways they can
digest.  (Think MP3 for podcasts, and using Twitter or Facebook as
examples of Web platforms where we can send out material.)  Wherever
possible we should use 100% FOSS *tools* even if they are a conduit to
a platform that's not completely free.

Hopefully it's a given that we should try and drive attention to and
interest in the free alternatives! :-)  This comment was maybe a
little off topic but it often comes up when talking about marketing
tools.  We should hit the topic head-on when documenting marketing
tools though.

  Friends: Continue to develop and extend not only the Fedora marketing
  community, but also the Fedora community in general.
  - Grow the number of marketing contributors

 - teach Marketing classes in Classroom to grow the depth of the
 Fedora community's knowledge about marketing, what it is, how to do
 it, etc.

  - Convert 100 users of non-Fedora distros to Fedora as their primary 
  desktop OS

 Personally, I find the next goal far more interesting...

  - Encourage 100 college students to sign up as Fedora contributors and
  each contribute at least one thing.

 I'd love to get a marketing class working on this - actually, I
 would love to see a case study (see
 http://www.hbs.edu/mba/academics/casemethod.html) on Fedora.

What would be really interesting is feeding back the process for
meeting this goal into a discovery of what worked to captivate and
motivate college students to follow through with a contribution.
Maybe that's what you mean by the case method?  It's hard to tell from
the page in question, it's a bit vague but I'm guessing you have some
experience with or knowledge about the method yourself.

  - FUDCon
  - Talk up Fedora at at least 20 different LUG meetings worldwide

 This one's Ambassadors, imo - but the two groups should continue to
 find ways to work more closely together.

Agree, Marketing's goals include production of material that helps
Ambassadors present Fedora effectively.

  - Marketing FAD
  - RH Summit

 Yep, we should find out what's going on with this - not having been
 to one of these before myself, I'm not sure what the opportunities
 here look like, or how we fit in, but I think it's definitely worth
 exploring. Mo and Paul and several others on this list have been at
 the Fedora booth at RH Summits before (I think Mo and Paul went to
 the one this past summer) but that's about all I know.

This is a great topic now, while planning is underway for that event
(refer to http://redhat.com/summit for details on the 2010 Summit).
There will be a Fedora presence at the event, and it will depend
somewhat on who can be available in Boston to staff the booth.  That
presence will not be a FUDCon, although we may endeavor to do more
than simply have a booth.

At the last Summit in Chicago, we organized setup, booth duty,
etc. based on the available time of Fedora 

Re: Marketing goals, revisited: the 4 Foundations

2010-01-04 Thread Mel Chua
(I'm pulling out one section of the thread for a moment, but hope 
discussion continues on the other ideas brought up as well.)



I'd love to get a marketing class working on this - actually, I
would love to see a case study (see
http://www.hbs.edu/mba/academics/casemethod.html) on Fedora.


What would be really interesting is feeding back the process for
meeting this goal into a discovery of what worked to captivate and
motivate college students to follow through with a contribution.
Maybe that's what you mean by the case method?  It's hard to tell from
the page in question, it's a bit vague but I'm guessing you have some
experience with or knowledge about the method yourself.


What I think you're talking about is a case study - documenting what we 
do as a way to make it easier for others to follow. I think we should be 
a case study of how open source projects can interact with the case 
method of teaching, which is a particular thing.


The case method is a particular way of teaching that I believe is mostly 
associated with MBA programs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Case_method. 
Most of the cases I've seen come from Harvard, which has an extensive 
collection of them 
(http://www.hbs.edu/mba/academics/howthecasemethodworks.html, 
http://www.hbs.edu/learning/case.html - for an example, see 
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5466.html for an explanation and 
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5466.html for the abstract to an actual case.)


Think of a case as... an .rpm for curricular content for MBAs. It's a 
format and delivery mechanism schools are used to. (Someone who actually 
has an MBA may want to step in and correct me at this point.)


There's one on Red Hat, though it's 10 years old by now: 
http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/web/product_detail.seam?R=69-PDF-ENGconversationId=630649E=35930


There's also one called Linux in 2004: 
http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/web/product_detail.seam?R=705407-PDF-ENGconversationId=630649E=45690


Here's the interesting opportunity: these cases are written about 
companies - there are no cases (yet!) about communities doing many of 
the same things The Open Source Way.


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Re: Marketing goals, revisited: the 4 Foundations

2010-01-04 Thread Neville A. Cross
On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 9:57 AM, Mel Chua m...@redhat.com wrote:
 (I'm pulling out one section of the thread for a moment, but hope discussion
 continues on the other ideas brought up as well.)

 I'd love to get a marketing class working on this - actually, I
 would love to see a case study (see
 http://www.hbs.edu/mba/academics/casemethod.html) on Fedora.

 What would be really interesting is feeding back the process for
 meeting this goal into a discovery of what worked to captivate and
 motivate college students to follow through with a contribution.
 Maybe that's what you mean by the case method?  It's hard to tell from
 the page in question, it's a bit vague but I'm guessing you have some
 experience with or knowledge about the method yourself.

 What I think you're talking about is a case study - documenting what we do
 as a way to make it easier for others to follow. I think we should be a case
 study of how open source projects can interact with the case method of
 teaching, which is a particular thing.

 The case method is a particular way of teaching that I believe is mostly
 associated with MBA programs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Case_method. Most
 of the cases I've seen come from Harvard, which has an extensive collection
 of them (http://www.hbs.edu/mba/academics/howthecasemethodworks.html,
 http://www.hbs.edu/learning/case.html - for an example, see
 http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5466.html for an explanation and
 http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5466.html for the abstract to an actual case.)

 Think of a case as... an .rpm for curricular content for MBAs. It's a format
 and delivery mechanism schools are used to. (Someone who actually has an MBA
 may want to step in and correct me at this point.)

 There's one on Red Hat, though it's 10 years old by now:
 http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/web/product_detail.seam?R=69-PDF-ENGconversationId=630649E=35930

 There's also one called Linux in 2004:
 http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/web/product_detail.seam?R=705407-PDF-ENGconversationId=630649E=45690

 Here's the interesting opportunity: these cases are written about companies
 - there are no cases (yet!) about communities doing many of the same things
 The Open Source Way.


I have been teaching in business and had to take a seminar on case
study writing. Case studies are usually wrote to demonstrate and
exercise some concepts that were discuses on class. That's why case
studies are usually business focused.

A new trend have emerge where companies think that if some one wrote
about them can be a way of marketing. This has led to some documents
that are half case-study half white-papers. White papers in the sense
of a success story.

There are new needs for academics papers as there are a lot of new
programs for NGO management were classical business case study does
not fit. For instance, MBAs does not deal on how to recruit and
motivate volunteers, which can be very important for NGO and for us.

A good case-study, white-paper or mixture, should be a nice to read
composition. It that sense, this case studies can have broader use.


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Re: Marketing goals, revisited: the 4 Foundations

2010-01-04 Thread Robyn Bergeron
On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 9:26 AM, Neville A. Cross nacr...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 9:57 AM, Mel Chua m...@redhat.com wrote:
 (I'm pulling out one section of the thread for a moment, but hope discussion
 continues on the other ideas brought up as well.)

 I'd love to get a marketing class working on this - actually, I
 would love to see a case study (see
 http://www.hbs.edu/mba/academics/casemethod.html) on Fedora.

 What would be really interesting is feeding back the process for
 meeting this goal into a discovery of what worked to captivate and
 motivate college students to follow through with a contribution.
 Maybe that's what you mean by the case method?  It's hard to tell from
 the page in question, it's a bit vague but I'm guessing you have some
 experience with or knowledge about the method yourself.

 What I think you're talking about is a case study - documenting what we do
 as a way to make it easier for others to follow. I think we should be a case
 study of how open source projects can interact with the case method of
 teaching, which is a particular thing.

 The case method is a particular way of teaching that I believe is mostly
 associated with MBA programs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Case_method. Most
 of the cases I've seen come from Harvard, which has an extensive collection
 of them (http://www.hbs.edu/mba/academics/howthecasemethodworks.html,
 http://www.hbs.edu/learning/case.html - for an example, see
 http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5466.html for an explanation and
 http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5466.html for the abstract to an actual case.)

 Think of a case as... an .rpm for curricular content for MBAs. It's a format
 and delivery mechanism schools are used to. (Someone who actually has an MBA
 may want to step in and correct me at this point.)

 There's one on Red Hat, though it's 10 years old by now:
 http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/web/product_detail.seam?R=69-PDF-ENGconversationId=630649E=35930

 There's also one called Linux in 2004:
 http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/web/product_detail.seam?R=705407-PDF-ENGconversationId=630649E=45690

 Here's the interesting opportunity: these cases are written about companies
 - there are no cases (yet!) about communities doing many of the same things
 The Open Source Way.


 I have been teaching in business and had to take a seminar on case
 study writing. Case studies are usually wrote to demonstrate and
 exercise some concepts that were discuses on class. That's why case
 studies are usually business focused.

 A new trend have emerge where companies think that if some one wrote
 about them can be a way of marketing. This has led to some documents
 that are half case-study half white-papers. White papers in the sense
 of a success story.

 There are new needs for academics papers as there are a lot of new
 programs for NGO management were classical business case study does
 not fit. For instance, MBAs does not deal on how to recruit and
 motivate volunteers, which can be very important for NGO and for us.

 A good case-study, white-paper or mixture, should be a nice to read
 composition. It that sense, this case studies can have broader use.


I think either way - the first step is to actually work on some ways
to get college students contributing in a bigger way, before we can
start case-studying/whitepapering our successes :)  And I'd -really-
like to see something where we're not just tapping engineering
departments for braains, but also marketing students, English
/ technical writing students, art / design, journalism,
foreign-language, and I'm sure we could probably find something for
the students in the physics department to do, perhaps bending time and
space to increase time to be a 28-hour day... :)

There are a few routes we could take, not including all the ways I
haven't thought of:

- A basic in-school ambassador program (of sorts) where students are
going out and getting other students to use Fedora, and possibly
contribute to whatever they want

- Mini-projects: Find university departments who have students who
want to free-intern on something.  Foreign language students can work
on translation type things; IT departments with students who are
interested in learning about infrastructure support.  Groups of
students can work on either on-going, continuous things, or taking on
project launches.

- Larger projects: Get a student leader at a school (we'll call her
a mini-stickster!) who may be on an official internship, paid with
small stipend or unpaid, maybe with bonus goodies (we'll send you to a
conference!).   A project where there might be marketing students
working on a marketing plan for some new feature that the engineering
students are working on, foreign-language students doing translation
of what the english / technical writing students are pumping out for
documentation.  In other words, a real, honest-to-goodness, cross-team
project.

I'm just braindumping, of course - Mel also sent an email a while 

Re: Marketing goals, revisited: the 4 Foundations

2010-01-04 Thread Sebastian Dziallas

Paul W. Frields wrote:

On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 01:27:12AM -0800, Mel Chua wrote:
[...snip a bunch of brilliant stuff with which I agree...]


[snip some more stuff to focus on the summit]


- RH Summit


Yep, we should find out what's going on with this - not having been
to one of these before myself, I'm not sure what the opportunities
here look like, or how we fit in, but I think it's definitely worth
exploring. Mo and Paul and several others on this list have been at
the Fedora booth at RH Summits before (I think Mo and Paul went to
the one this past summer) but that's about all I know.


This is a great topic now, while planning is underway for that event
(refer to http://redhat.com/summit for details on the 2010 Summit).
There will be a Fedora presence at the event, and it will depend
somewhat on who can be available in Boston to staff the booth.  That
presence will not be a FUDCon, although we may endeavor to do more
than simply have a booth.

At the last Summit in Chicago, we organized setup, booth duty,
etc. based on the available time of Fedora contributors.  It was
sometimes ad-hoc because many of the available people were actually
attending the show on their own (or company's) time, but overall the
booth work was very well spread out, everyone pitched in admirably,
and we had a *LOT* of visitors.

With a Boston-located Summit, we will have the potential benefit of a
large number of Fedora contributors from the area who can help out at
a booth, organize a series of campground talks (which are essentially
ad-hoc, volunteer speaker sessions), and so on.

I will start asking the organizers now about:

* Booth passes for volunteers who are interested in helping out --
   these might be limited to show floor only but it's still a valuable
   opportunity

* A reserved room of some sort for Fedora and related next-generation
   technology talks


I don't know whether it would be appropriate for such a reserved room or 
rather directly the summit, but I've thrown some ideas in the wiki on a 
possible session I'd be interested in giving and wanted to toss it up 
for comments  thoughts. Shoot! :)


https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Sdz/Summit_Session_Ideas


The more we get into show representation, the more we probably want to
migrate this specific topic over to the Ambassadors list to include
all the right folks.

Some Marketing specific deliverables might also include production of
special show-timed flyers that give people general information about
Fedora, and/or production of a Fedora 13 Live USB key for the event.


Would be happy to help especially with the latter part!

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Re: Marketing goals, revisited: the 4 Foundations

2010-01-04 Thread Frankie Mangoa
I am agreeing more with Robin's idea.
I now a few people at my university that wold love to work on fedora
project..marketing...codingdocumantation and spreading the
word..even though it is at a minimal fee...the most important thing
though is not the fee...remember NOT the fee...they are looking for
something to show on their C.V that they once did something for you.
If you access this.you are good to go.


I am a computer science student at university and trust me when I say
we do have some god skill in that campus that could be used.
There is only one weak point.How do u get to know on what criteria
these people are chosen.If we can set a standard and make sure this
standard is followed then we have succeeded.if not then we shall be in
a big problem.





On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 9:07 PM, Sebastian Dziallas sebast...@when.com wrote:
 Paul W. Frields wrote:

 On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 01:27:12AM -0800, Mel Chua wrote:
 [...snip a bunch of brilliant stuff with which I agree...]

 [snip some more stuff to focus on the summit]

 - RH Summit

 Yep, we should find out what's going on with this - not having been
 to one of these before myself, I'm not sure what the opportunities
 here look like, or how we fit in, but I think it's definitely worth
 exploring. Mo and Paul and several others on this list have been at
 the Fedora booth at RH Summits before (I think Mo and Paul went to
 the one this past summer) but that's about all I know.

 This is a great topic now, while planning is underway for that event
 (refer to http://redhat.com/summit for details on the 2010 Summit).
 There will be a Fedora presence at the event, and it will depend
 somewhat on who can be available in Boston to staff the booth.  That
 presence will not be a FUDCon, although we may endeavor to do more
 than simply have a booth.

 At the last Summit in Chicago, we organized setup, booth duty,
 etc. based on the available time of Fedora contributors.  It was
 sometimes ad-hoc because many of the available people were actually
 attending the show on their own (or company's) time, but overall the
 booth work was very well spread out, everyone pitched in admirably,
 and we had a *LOT* of visitors.

 With a Boston-located Summit, we will have the potential benefit of a
 large number of Fedora contributors from the area who can help out at
 a booth, organize a series of campground talks (which are essentially
 ad-hoc, volunteer speaker sessions), and so on.

 I will start asking the organizers now about:

 * Booth passes for volunteers who are interested in helping out --
   these might be limited to show floor only but it's still a valuable
   opportunity

 * A reserved room of some sort for Fedora and related next-generation
   technology talks

 I don't know whether it would be appropriate for such a reserved room or
 rather directly the summit, but I've thrown some ideas in the wiki on a
 possible session I'd be interested in giving and wanted to toss it up for
 comments  thoughts. Shoot! :)

 https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Sdz/Summit_Session_Ideas

 The more we get into show representation, the more we probably want to
 migrate this specific topic over to the Ambassadors list to include
 all the right folks.

 Some Marketing specific deliverables might also include production of
 special show-timed flyers that give people general information about
 Fedora, and/or production of a Fedora 13 Live USB key for the event.

 Would be happy to help especially with the latter part!

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Re: Marketing goals, revisited: the 4 Foundations

2010-01-04 Thread Neville A. Cross
On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 12:36 PM, Frankie Mangoa frankieman...@gmail.com wrote:
 I am agreeing more with Robin's idea.
 I now a few people at my university that wold love to work on fedora
 project..marketing...codingdocumantation and spreading the
 word..even though it is at a minimal fee...the most important thing
 though is not the fee...remember NOT the fee...they are looking for
 something to show on their C.V that they once did something for you.
 If you access this.you are good to go.


 I am a computer science student at university and trust me when I say
 we do have some god skill in that campus that could be used.
 There is only one weak point.How do u get to know on what criteria
 these people are chosen.If we can set a standard and make sure this
 standard is followed then we have succeeded.if not then we shall be in
 a big problem.



There is already something on progress:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Campus_Ambassadors

Going back to papers (case studies/white papers) ... We can look what
we have achieve a case study on strength and weakness for our
community would be of interest for any organisation or people dealing
with that. Technology assessment can be another topic. Then we can
plan ahead for future topics that we are working now, so we document
it as we go... non-commercial marketing may be a good topic.


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Re: Marketing goals, revisited: the 4 Foundations

2010-01-04 Thread Larry Cafiero
On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 11:30 AM, Neville A. Cross


 There is already something on progress:

 http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Campus_Ambassadors


Thank you for bringing this up, Neville.  There has been talk in
#fedora-ambassadors and on the campus ambassadors mailing list about
resurrecting this program which, essentially, has been dormant for several
months.  We'd welcome the participation of folks from marketing in this
endeavor.

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Re: Marketing goals, revisited: the 4 Foundations

2010-01-04 Thread Frankie Mangoa
hi,
i must ask for forgiveness in my ignorant part.So I have read the part
where it claims you register so that one can get to be one of them.but
this has not been clearly defined.Is ever ambassador a campus one.
I know this can go through in my university but i would like some
assistance in knowing maybe how one person set this up so I can go
ahead.Do I get any assistance from fedora and in what form?

please let me know.

thanks,
frankie

On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 10:30 PM, Neville A. Cross nacr...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 12:36 PM, Frankie Mangoa frankieman...@gmail.com 
 wrote:
 I am agreeing more with Robin's idea.
 I now a few people at my university that wold love to work on fedora
 project..marketing...codingdocumantation and spreading the
 word..even though it is at a minimal fee...the most important thing
 though is not the fee...remember NOT the fee...they are looking for
 something to show on their C.V that they once did something for you.
 If you access this.you are good to go.


 I am a computer science student at university and trust me when I say
 we do have some god skill in that campus that could be used.
 There is only one weak point.How do u get to know on what criteria
 these people are chosen.If we can set a standard and make sure this
 standard is followed then we have succeeded.if not then we shall be in
 a big problem.



 There is already something on progress:

 http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Campus_Ambassadors

 Going back to papers (case studies/white papers) ... We can look what
 we have achieve a case study on strength and weakness for our
 community would be of interest for any organisation or people dealing
 with that. Technology assessment can be another topic. Then we can
 plan ahead for future topics that we are working now, so we document
 it as we go... non-commercial marketing may be a good topic.


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Re: Marketing goals, revisited: the 4 Foundations

2010-01-04 Thread Frankie Mangoa
Hi guy,
someone needs to look at that campus ambassador page carefully.
According to the instructions it claims one is supposed to first get
an account thus register as an ambassador.that is okay.
the second phase is where the problem comes.register as a campus ambassador
Is this a different program because one the link to do this is not
given.according to this one just has to like show their interest like
by mailing fellow ambassadors and telling them more or less informing
them.please correct me if i am wrong as maybe I am overlooking some
issues.



thanks


On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 10:38 PM, Larry Cafiero larry.cafi...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 11:30 AM, Neville A. Cross


 There is already something on progress:

 http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Campus_Ambassadors


 Thank you for bringing this up, Neville.  There has been talk in
 #fedora-ambassadors and on the campus ambassadors mailing list about
 resurrecting this program which, essentially, has been dormant for several
 months.  We'd welcome the participation of folks from marketing in this
 endeavor.

 Larry Cafiero


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