On 6/17/07, Dimitris Glezos <dimitris@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
O/H Karlie Robinson έγραψε: > I haven't gotten much feed back from the Fedora Community on ways to > boost capacity (even just keep up with..) Free Media. First of all, a big 'bravo' for all those who have helped the Free Media project so far. I belive these new, mostly off-broadband users who have received a free media have probably spread the word about Fedora more than many others who simply downloaded it. I've met some ambassadors who would be very interested in helping out, but found the whole FreeMedia project a bit complicated for them to participate. They prefer localized efforts, which sounds rational. They'd prefer if they received an email for each request in their language isntead of the web form. Also, I believe that eg. a greek user would prefer requesting a media from his local group of ambassadors instead of our (english) website. I haven't studied in depth the current approach for sending media, however I'll jump straight to a suggestion. Probably some of the parts following are already happening. It's better than keep it in one's mind I guess, so the following is my 2 cents to the Free media program. 1. Let's find a way to have *translatable* web page with information for which countries we could send media to, and which members of the community can handle the requests. Probably a Google map? "Find your closest Fedora shop!" This shouldn't be on the wiki. 2. How very easy-to-understand, minimal-content pages on "How to request". Should be as easy as: "Fill in this form, choose the closest *person* to you from the following list". 3. Have a very easy-to-understand page on how to become a volunteer. Should be as easy as "Fill in this form. Say how many requests you expect from your country/region. Say how many CDs per week you can send." 4. Send this person a package with X CDs inside, envelopes, some money to buy stamps and a poster or hat as a "thanks". He will buy stamps from his local post office, and for each request, put a CD in an envelope, stick a stamp, write an address, and slip it in the mailbox. 5. Have him register on a wiki page where he sent the CDs and how many stamps he put on the envelope. In the question "who will code the website?", the answer could be "with clear enough specs, we can put a request to fedora-websites and someone could jump right in. Besides, we are on coding spree in coding new applications lately. :-) My $.02 -d -- Dimitris Glezos
Hi Dimitris, Thank you for your feedback on FreeMedia Program. It's a little off topic for this thread so I would like you to join FreeMedia Program and we can improve the program together. To join, please see refer to following page: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Distribution/FreeMedia/Contributors Regards, -- Thomas Chung http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ThomasChung -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list
