2008/11/10 Paul W. Frields <stickster@xxxxxxxxx>: > On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 02:14:14PM +0000, Jonathan Roberts wrote: >> > The feature list definitely *has* improved uptake from journalists, I >> > can tell you from personal experience talking to them. >> >> I didn't say it hadn't. > > I didn't take it that way, either. :-) I think we're in violent > agreement. Awesome. > >> What I was saying is that when I contacted editors this time six >> months ago, the ones I spoke with didn't know it existed. I think >> it's a superb tool, but it's hardly much use if we don't tell >> anybody about it. My point was that we need to take more concrete >> actions that are visible to everyone. It's great having a feature >> list, and it's great having a marketing plan, but in what ways do >> these documents encourage and help people from the community to >> actively market releases? From my point of view, it seems like >> there's very little support for community marketing >> activities... (discounting the ambassadors project, who I think do a >> great job and seem to receive plenty of support). > > I'm going to be in RDU later this week and will brainstorm with some > of the Marketing people on whom I can get my hands there. (Why > internal? In this case it may be necessary to get them to do a little > more external participation.) > > In the context of making a new Fedora release: > > * What are the definite actions we can take to market Fedora and its > features better? > > * Alerts to specific venues and aggregators? Yes, I think Rahul even talked about automating this somehow, though I'm not sure. > > * Add stories and links to personal blogs? Not sure what you mean here? > > * Watch and reply to stories around release day? Definitely. Is good to try and catch misconceptions early. > > When should we do those things? In other words, a schedule and an SOP > that is similar to the way some of the community technical groups like > Infrastructure work. I proposed this around 4 months ago: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing/BrainDump/Time_Based_Schedule It's a draft of a time based schedule for Marketing that makes suggestions for what activities we should be engaged in at different parts of a release cycle, also suggesting different areas of the project we'd like to highlight at different times, as Fedora isn't just about the distribution. (obv) I sent it to the list for discussion, as I know all of the suggested content and time frames aren't realistic/need fleshing out. Still waiting for feedback :p > I didn't mean to imply in any way that marketing should solely be on > Red Hat properties I know you didn't, what I was saying is that this is something we really need to work towards fixing. It's something I've tried to fix pushing for a Fedora Magazine project, but failed quite miserably at so far. > think the schedule of concrete tasks should > include a variety of venues on which we can get our message out. That > should include any Fedora properties like the Fedora magazine site, > and also leverage the already existing draw of channels like Red Hat's > press blog. +1 Jon -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list
