On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 10:16:25PM +0100, Max Spevack wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'd like to take a moment to talk a little bit about our Marketing and > Press plans for FUDCon Berlin and LinuxTag, which is taking place in > June. > > Last week, Red Hat issued a press release about the event, but that is > just the first in what is going to be a larger marketing campaign. > > Because we are partnering with LinuxTag this year for FUDCon, they have > agreed to allow us to use their press contacts in Germany and other > parts of Europe to help spread the word about the event. > > Henrik Heigl has agreed to take responsibility for helping to craft our > plan for bringing as much exposure as we can to FUDCon Berlin and > LinuxTag this year, and I will be working with him to roll out further > announcements about the daily schedules, speakers, and other highlights > of FUDCon Berlin. > > Because a task like this requires lots of teamwork and collaboration > (both on this mailing list and also with other parts of Red Hat, with my > serving as a go-between) to be done correctly, I wanted to take a moment > to "officially" introduce him to the list, though many of you already > know him, and to thank him for taking this important leadership role. > > Our goal is to have the most agressive pre-FUDCon marketing strategy > ever seen, that can set the template for how we advertise all future > FUDCons. > <shamless_plug> If we can also take this time to start recruiting photographers (with decent cameras) to take photos for the Fedora Picture Book[1], that would be awesome. Since the release forms are finally done I think we can have a ton of great photos from the contributors in that region. I think advising people of this on the wiki page would be great. [1]: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Picture_book -- Ian Weller <ianweller@xxxxxxxxx> http://ianweller.org GnuPG fingerprint: E51E 0517 7A92 70A2 4226 B050 87ED 7C97 EFA8 4A36 "Technology is a word that describes something that doesn't work yet." ~ Douglas Adams
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