On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 10:21:36AM -0400, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > > Then you'd rather avoid marketing. > There might be a deep truth to that. I'm intimately aware that I might > be a poor fit for this part of the project. If my ideas are contrary > to the momentum and direction of activities, I'll gladly fade into the > background in this part of the overall fedora project effort and let > others play a strongly role. Maybe. On the other hand, I sense a resistance to *marketing* Fedora at all -- promote the technology and we have, be straighforward about what doesn't really work, and don't particulary *worry* about *making* Fedora appeal to anyone. I'm not sure that's the best approach, but I strongly feel that it's a valid voice and shouldn't just fade into the background. > Indeed. My issues are more about the tone of the engagement than the > effort to engage. I'm wary of a goal that is narrowly defined to be "Get > people interested in Fedora" I would be much happier if the goal was "Get > people interested in trying linux, including Fedora" This is a whole different thing. :) How about "Get people interested in trying Linux, *via* Fedora, because that's what we can do anything about?" I don't think this and more targetted marketing are necessarily exclusive. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> Current office temperature: 78 degrees Fahrenheit. -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list
