Re: I still want a Fedora coffee table book, and you are going to help me make one.

2008-12-18 Thread Colby Hoke
Ian Weller wrote: On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 04:21:27PM -0500, Jack Aboutboul wrote: Well both. We will brainstorm on IRC and then hopefully to help get some artistic perspective at FUDCon. Artistic perspective can also be achieved in #fedora-art or on fedora-art-list ;) I think pl

Re: I still want a Fedora coffee table book, and you are going to help me make one.

2008-12-18 Thread Colby Hoke
Ian Weller wrote: On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 04:21:27PM -0500, Jack Aboutboul wrote: Well both. We will brainstorm on IRC and then hopefully to help get some artistic perspective at FUDCon. Artistic perspective can also be achieved in #fedora-art or on fedora-art-list ;) I think pl

Re: I still want a Fedora coffee table book, and you are going to help me make one.

2008-12-17 Thread Ian Weller
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 04:21:27PM -0500, Jack Aboutboul wrote: > Well both. We will brainstorm on IRC and then hopefully to help get > some artistic perspective at FUDCon. > Artistic perspective can also be achieved in #fedora-art or on fedora-art-list ;) > I think planning will go on in phase

Re: I still want a Fedora coffee table book, and you are going to help me make one.

2008-12-17 Thread Jack Aboutboul
Ian Weller wrote: Or should we brainstorm on IRC and get most of the picture-acquiring at FUDCon? Well both. We will brainstorm on IRC and then hopefully to help get some artistic perspective at FUDCon. I think planning will go on in phases based on what point we are at, so FUDCon might

Re: I still want a Fedora coffee table book, and you are going to help me make one.

2008-12-17 Thread Ian Weller
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 12:14:33PM -0500, Jack Aboutboul wrote: > Colby Hoke wrote: >> Having missed Jack's previous message (ahh so much to do!), I will >> say that I'm going to try to do as much possible for all of this stuff >> while I'm up there. I'll bring my camera and I'll also be sh

Re: I still want a Fedora coffee table book, and you are going to help me make one.

2008-12-17 Thread Jack Aboutboul
Colby Hoke wrote: Having missed Jack's previous message (ahh so much to do!), I will say that I'm going to try to do as much possible for all of this stuff while I'm up there. I'll bring my camera and I'll also be shooting some I am Fedora stuff with Máirí­n as well as just capturing the e

Re: I still want a Fedora coffee table book, and you are going to help me make one.

2008-12-17 Thread Colby Hoke
Ian Weller wrote: On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 08:32:34AM -0500, Jack Aboutboul wrote: I propose that we go ahead with the idea, moving swiftly. I will be at FUDCon as will Colby (RH A/V Guru) and we can begin taking pictures and video/audio there as well. Right now, I have set up a blank wi

Re: I still want a Fedora coffee table book, and you are going to help me make one.

2008-12-16 Thread Nicu Buculei
Lisa Brewster wrote: I actually wondered if that was still the current message. Can someone give me a link to existing 4f's marketing materials and artwork? Here: http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/collateral/fourfs/four-fs-four-posters.png And more: http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/collateral/fo

Re: I still want a Fedora coffee table book, and you are going to help me make one.

2008-12-16 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 11:26 AM, Máirí­n Duffy wrote: > How about the "I am Fedora" sticker? > That works just fine, and its easily fabricated no matter where you are. So people don't have to wait for an event to contribute a candid. -jef"Instead of printing out a sticker I just want to open

Re: I still want a Fedora coffee table book, and you are going to help me make one.

2008-12-16 Thread Ian Weller
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 04:39:45PM -0500, Jack Aboutboul wrote: > It's already there... > Thanks. -- Ian Weller http://ianweller.org GnuPG fingerprint: E51E 0517 7A92 70A2 4226 B050 87ED 7C97 EFA8 4A36 "Technology is a word that describes something that doesn't work yet." ~

Re: I still want a Fedora coffee table book, and you are going to help me make one.

2008-12-16 Thread Jack Aboutboul
Ian Weller wrote: Lucky me, I won't have school for this week's marketing meeting! Can somebody make sure this is on whatever task list is necessary for the mktg meeting? It's already there... Jack -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.co

Re: I still want a Fedora coffee table book, and you are going to help me make one.

2008-12-16 Thread Ian Weller
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 12:25:15PM -0800, Lisa Brewster wrote: > Added original proposal text to the wiki page. > Thanks, this will help keep track of things. Those who notice things would probably have noticed that I have moved the page to [[Picture book]] as per the naming guidelines. -- Ian

Re: I still want a Fedora coffee table book, and you are going to help me make one.

2008-12-16 Thread Ian Weller
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 03:26:28PM -0500, Máirí­n Duffy wrote: >> We'll also need to determine the format of the book -- first, what >> "trinket" or whatnot we'll use to represent Fedora (something where we >> can, by holding it, proclaim "I am Fedora", whether obvious or not) > > How about the "I

Re: I still want a Fedora coffee table book, and you are going to help me make one.

2008-12-16 Thread Jack Aboutboul
Awesome great, we will work from there. It's gonna be a fun project for us... Jack Lisa Brewster wrote: Man, now I wish I could go to FUDCon!! There's a slight chance I'll be able to get work to send me, but the economy's got budgets really tight. And I've got a meeting on Thursday that wi

Re: I still want a Fedora coffee table book, and you are going to help me make one.

2008-12-16 Thread Máirí­n Duffy
Ian Weller wrote: We'll also need to determine the format of the book -- first, what "trinket" or whatnot we'll use to represent Fedora (something where we can, by holding it, proclaim "I am Fedora", whether obvious or not) How about the "I am Fedora" sticker? http://www.flickr.com/photos/mair

Re: I still want a Fedora coffee table book, and you are going to help me make one.

2008-12-16 Thread Lisa Brewster
Man, now I wish I could go to FUDCon!! There's a slight chance I'll be able to get work to send me, but the economy's got budgets really tight. And I've got a meeting on Thursday that will take up half the day, so I won't be able to make it to the marketing meeting. Added original proposal text t

Re: I still want a Fedora coffee table book, and you are going to help me make one.

2008-12-16 Thread Ian Weller
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 08:32:34AM -0500, Jack Aboutboul wrote: > I propose that we go ahead with the idea, moving swiftly. I will be at > FUDCon as will Colby (RH A/V Guru) and we can begin taking pictures and > video/audio there as well. > > Right now, I have set up a blank wiki page so we c

Re: I still want a Fedora coffee table book, and you are going to help me make one.

2008-12-16 Thread Lisa Brewster
Comments continuing below... On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 4:01 AM, Nicu Buculei wrote: > Lisa Brewster wrote: > >> Fedora: The Book >> >> Objectives >> Driven by the Fedora Ambassadors, the goal of this photo project is to >> communicate what Fedora means to us and our communities. Images should sho

Re: I still want a Fedora coffee table book, and you are going to help me make one.

2008-12-16 Thread Jack Aboutboul
Hello Lisa, Welcome to the team and thanks for all the awesome input and feedback. I propose that we go ahead with the idea, moving swiftly. I will be at FUDCon as will Colby (RH A/V Guru) and we can begin taking pictures and video/audio there as well. Right now, I have set up a blank wiki

Re: I still want a Fedora coffee table book, and you are going to help me make one.

2008-12-16 Thread Nicu Buculei
Lisa Brewster wrote: Fedora: The Book Objectives Driven by the Fedora Ambassadors, the goal of this photo project is to communicate what Fedora means to us and our communities. Images should show a Fedora user holding an object that symbolizes how the software empowers him or her in the Fed

Re: I still want a Fedora coffee table book, and you are going to help me make one.

2008-12-16 Thread Jeff Spaleta
2008/12/15 Ian Weller : > > > An entire release ago (6 months) Jeff Spaleta made the proposal to this > list[1] for Fedora to produce a (virtual?) coffee table book containing > candid pictures of Fedora contributors all holding a specific trinket > that could represent what the community stands f

Re: I still want a Fedora coffee table book, and you are going to help me make one.

2008-12-16 Thread Max Spevack
On Mon, 15 Dec 2008, Lisa Brewster wrote: D'oh, this is the marketing list. There are so many projects and ideas and excited people that I'm having trouble keeping up with everything that's going on! But yeah...new ambassador, noob mistake, nice to meet you, etc etc etc. =] Happy to see s

Re: I still want a Fedora coffee table book, and you are going to help me make one.

2008-12-16 Thread Lisa Brewster
My apologies for hijacking this thread with multiple posts, but I started brainstorming on my way home from work and wasn't able to stop until I wrote all my thoughts down. Questions / discussion points are in brackets. Provided this idea generates some halfway creative submissions, I see it turn

Re: I still want a Fedora coffee table book, and you are going to help me make one.

2008-12-15 Thread Lisa Brewster
D'oh, this is the marketing list. There are so many projects and ideas and excited people that I'm having trouble keeping up with everything that's going on! But yeah...new ambassador, noob mistake, nice to meet you, etc etc etc. =] On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 10:51 PM, Lisa Brewster wrote: > I lo

Re: I still want a Fedora coffee table book, and you are going to help me make one.

2008-12-15 Thread Lisa Brewster
I love this idea! But instead of using a specific item across all photos, I think it would be great to embrace the vast number of cultures involved in Fedora and let each person pick something unique that symbolizes their contribution or what Fedora means to their community. This is a great proje

I still want a Fedora coffee table book, and you are going to help me make one.

2008-12-15 Thread Ian Weller
An entire release ago (6 months) Jeff Spaleta made the proposal to this list[1] for Fedora to produce a (virtual?) coffee table book containing candid pictures of Fedora contributors all holding a specific trinket that could represent what the community stands for (perhaps something as simple as