* Full legal name Neville Alberto Cross Vogl, but as stated on subject will suffice. * City, Country Managua, Nicaragua * Profession or Student status Business Degree (from Nicaragua) plus MSc. in Organisational Change and Development (from UK) * Company, School, or other affiliation Hotel Mansion Teodolinda (day work/family business) http://teodolinda.com.ni Central American University (part time lecturer on business and tourism) http://uca.edu.ni * Your goals in the Fedora Project - Have fun! I have some boring thing to do as day job. An atmosphere filled with opportunities and challenges stimulates my brain. - Learn. Since I started using GNU/Linux and free software I learned a lot every single day. I need new things to keep up the learning process. - Give back. I have been given a lot in this community and I think is fair to return. - Find my niche. As I am not a technical person I still struggle a bit to fin my place within the community. I am already helping in Ambassadors and Freemedia. - Build a strong community in Central American countries (Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama). Perhaps run a "mini" FUDCon or FAD * What do you want to talk about? - Applications: There is a lot of software in Fedora repos that is useful and is not promoted. Non technical people does not see the beauty on the OS, they look for a tool to solve a task. I want to say to every one that Fedora has those tools. * What would you like to see in Fedora? - more stuff with fedora logo, like coffee mugs, disk-wallets ... probably I am dreaming but I think that using our logo shows our pride and convince people to use fedora, or at least give it a try. -more ordinary people tales using Fedora. Show that you don't need to know every byte of Fedora to be able to use and contribute. * Anything else you'd like to do? - Share my experience dealing with local newspapers, so we can increase world wide media hits. - Help improve fedora distribution program. * Historical qualifications I have ran the family business for some years (2001-2005), among other task I have to decide about marketing, advertisement, promotions and sales. Now I have give sapce to my sister to lead, but still involved in marketing efforts. * What other projects or marketing efforts have you worked on in the past? (List what you think is relevant) - When the University launched the Tourism degree, I was hired as consultant. Among a lot of designing teaching programs I had to represent the faculty and tour high schools promoting this class program. - I have been working with local user groups, we have earned the distinction of best Software Freedom Day event world wide two years in a row. We were expecting get the third but event competition was delayed and not awarded. - I have been running a promotional web site listing night events for my city: http://clickmanagua.com - I maintain the local fedora page (yes, another fedora page!) http://fedora.org.ni * What level and type of marketing skills do you have? - I can write (I do it better in Spanish!), I can teach, I like to think in roles and try to be on some one else's shoes to see if the concepts proposed are compelling. I can structure objectives, goals and monitor performance. I have been working conceptualizing web sites and worked as consultant for a system usability assessment. * What other skills do you have that might be applicable? - I have a amateur radio licence, I am following fedora amateur radio SIG. As I am a Fedora Ambassador, I already created my FAS account and signed the CLA agreement. -- Neville https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Yn1v Linux User # 473217 -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list