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 page so we can start aggregating
everything around this effort. It can be found here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing/Fedora_Picture_Book
Lisa, can you please post up what you have in this email on that page.
Also, are you available to attend the marketing meeting this Thursday at
3 Eastern, 12 Pacific?
I think the first step is to get pricing from somewhere, and according
to that figure out how many pages the book should be. Ideally, I would
think we should aim for 200 pages. What do y'all think?
Thanks,
Jack
Lisa Brewster wrote:
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 turning into a great grassroots marketing campaign.
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 Fedora principles of infinity,
freedom, or voice [is principles the right word to use here?].
Submissions should include a short description (250-500 words) of how
the subject uses the software and how this photo demonstrates one of
the principles.
Photographers are open to interpret this theme as concretely or
abstractly as they like. For example, you could choose to photograph
something as straightforward as a teacher you encouraged to use Fedora
in the classroom holding an apple with a Fedora sticker on it, or you
could have someone photograph you holding a personal item that
symbolizes what inspired you to join the project. Feel free to
brainstorm for whimsical ideas as well, such as a developer covered in
peanuts (because you have to be "nuts" to work for free, right?).
Group photos are also acceptable, such as a group of ambassadors
holding stacks of livecds to be distributed or XO's in the wild.
One photo per week will be posted on $website. Once enough
submissions are collected [one year's worth = 52?], selected photos
will be published in a collectable book available for purchase. All
proceeds will be donated to $cause.
Requirements
Images should be of high quality and at least $x-resolution by
$y-resolution. You don't have to be a professional photographer, but
composition, focus, and lighting are vital to communicating a strong
message. If in doubt of your photography skills, feel free to ask a
friend or post your idea to $mailinglist to see if we can find someone
in your area who's willing to help [maintain a wiki page for volunteer
photographers?].
Images must contain at least one person holding an object. The
criteria defining both person and holding is flexible and
could incorporate using hands, feet, or items resting on the body of
people, robots, statues, animals, or other creative interpretations as
long as it applies to Fedora and you can explain how it demonstrates
infinity, freedom, or voice. The subject's face does not have to be
visible. [Legal: do we need model release forms?]
Images must be licensed in a manner that allows derivative works [and
commercial? Not sure what's required for "proceeds go to charity"
use]. The Fedora logo and editorial text based on your description
will be superimposed on the image, and it may be adjusted for color,
brightness, contrast, etc. [Legal: what else is needed here?]
Inspiration
Want to contribute to The Book but aren't sure where to begin? Read
over the following list of power words to see if any experiences of
how you've enriched someone's life because of Fedora come to mind:
* success stories
* empowerment
* pride
* culture
* diversity
* strength
* knowledge
* community
* extraordinary people
* solutions
* freedom
* sharing
* adoption
* innovation
* contribution
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 10:58 PM, Lisa Brewster
<sophistechate@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:sophistechate@xxxxxxxxx>> 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. =]
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 10:51 PM, Lisa Brewster
<sophistechate@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:sophistechate@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
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 project that
can evolve over time through a photoblog, and once enough
submissions are gathered we could look at different publishing
options.
I suggest establishing some kind of guidelines to establish
visual unity (or at least an unobtrusive watermark for photos
used on the web). Anyone else wanna pick up the brainstorming
stick here?
As a photographer willing to travel in the Southern California
area, I'm in!
PS: This is also my first contribution to the ambassadors'
mailing list. Hi!
2008/12/15 Ian Weller <ianweller@xxxxxxxxx
<mailto:ianweller@xxxxxxxxx>>
<braindump>
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 a Fedora logo) -- or with speech bubbles
containing a single
word that the contributor thinks encompasses the
purpose/meaning/whatever of Fedora in their native language.
Seeing how we're coming up upon a major NA FUDCon, with an
EMEA FUDCon
around the corner (... right?) should we make an attempt
to start this
concept back up again?
It'd be nice to be able to sell a physical book and donate
the proceeds
to OLPC or something. (Not sure if this is even viable
because of the
high number of Fedora contributors[2].)
The key things that need to be done to get this rolling
again are
1) decide on a trinket (or something else to tie the whole
production
together, i.e., speech bubbles)
2) start taking photos at FUDConF11[3]
Other brain dumps or thoughts to follow?
</braindump>
[1]:
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2008-May/msg00315.html
[2]: Not that I'm saying this isn't good!
[3]: We can't limit this to attendees of FUDConF11, of course.
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