More Marketing Stuff

Ho Ho Ho it’s the Christmas holidays and on Saturday I’m going away for a few weeks with my family While I’m away, however, I won’t have much net access so I’ve thrown a load of ideas about Fedora marketing stuff onto the mailing list tonight for people to think about and for anybody to pick up if they think it’s worthwhile. Just in case there are people who might be interested in helping out, but not subscribed to the lists, here’s the contents I put out there:

No 1 - Interviews for Fedora 9:

I was thinking about starting to get organised for the Fedora 9 series of interviews soon. I probably won’t start drawing up questions for these until the new year as I’m not going to have much net access for the next few weeks, but I figure I’d draw up a hit list of interviews that would be cool to do. If anyone wants to pick any of them up that would be awesome - and if anybody is interested but would like some advice, I can probably help out here too (there’s probably people on the list who can do a better job at this than me!!)…

• RPM Fusion (not an official Fedora project, but it’s going to rock and be very important to the community)
• K12 Linux
• Games Spin (Thanks Nicu)
• KDE 4
• Package Kit
• Update X-Server/One second X
• Virtual Authentication/Virtual Manager Policy Kit/Virtual Storage
• ext4
• Clock applet improvements
• Install related stuff (partition resizing etc - Thanks Jeremy!)
• Artwork

I think that’s all I can see for now but should keep us busy. There are other features, such as Bluetooth, which we featured for F8 but maybe we want to revisit them as well?

No 2 - Non-release specific things:

Trying to get things out before I go away for people to look over and think about.

I think it would be cool to do some features/interviews about non-release specific stuff. The obvious thing that jumps to my mind is Fedora People (people.fedoraproject.org) as something that is unique to Fedora and definitely a huge benefit to our community. Also worth looking at could be things like Hosted and possible deployment of
Transiflex?

What form do people think these would work best in? To my mind they’d be the perfect things to go on a news.fedoraproject.org domain as blog posts/stories/articles whatever you want to call them. How’s this coming along? Is it something we can realistically hope for in the near future?

No 3 - FUDCon Marketing:

While it seems it’s too late to put much effort into promoting this Re: attendence, I think we definitely need to get together some coverage of the event itself! I can’t make it, a trip across the atlantic seems a little excessive, so to anybody who’s going to be there:

Would you please make notes, record the highlights, have chats with people leading the sessions…whatever you think might be useful and/or interesting for people to read/watch after or during the event! I think particularly interesting should be the results of the hackfests…

Then we can try and spin this into a useful form, maybe similar to the Release Summary (We could link out to more detailed pages from the main summary). I think this worked really well for the actual release and gave the press something to focus on (at least from what I hear!) and something similar could work for FUDCon - well, is worth a try anyway?

No 4 (this wasn’t on the lists):

Max has said he’s going to stand down as Fedora Project leader soon. Might it be good to get a goodbye interview of some sort?!

I don’t know if anybody else thinks any of these things are worthwhile or not. If you think they’re useless, let us know why so a) we don’t waste our time and b) we can come up with good ways to spend our time and better ways to market Fedora! And if you think they’re good and would like to help out, why not sign up to the fedora-marketing-list and get going
Best wishes all!