Greg's blog post today (http://gregdekspeaks.wordpress.com/2010/01/27/fedoras-goals/) has rekindled (no amazon pun intended, i swear!) a thought I had a while back on starting a marketing book club. Mchua and I had discussed it a bit on irc sometime late last year, but I think we were focused on something else at the time, and the idea was lost. Until now! I would like to propose that we have a "book club" for marketing-reading-material, but of course, not limited to marketing team members. The basics of what I'm thinking are: * We start with a book in March. One book per month - at the end of each month, we have an IRC discussion on what we've learned, and how we can apply it to Fedora and what we're working on. Hopefully, everyone will want to do things like blog about what they've read and learned, or write about it to the fedora-mktg mailing list, or add a review to the book club wiki. * Everyone is welcome to join. Nobody is -required- to join. * Books are on our own individual dime (books are good for you! better than coffee!) - we should do our best to pick things that are likely available at the library (ie: not just freshly released last week). If budget for a book is a problem and it can't be found, we should try to accommodate people so they can participate. The goal here (yes, I bang that goal drum a lot!) is to increase our collective knowledge about All Things Marketing, provide a forum for discussing what we've learned, and provide us with some brainstorming and inspiration on things we can do to improve Marketing. Thoughts? Feedback? :) I've made a wiki page to get the ball rolling - hopefully we can work out the minor details (things like, "I have no clue how to run a book club discussion, do you?") between now and March. This is meant to be fun / enriching - not MORE WORK! - so I hope people are interested, and if anyone thinks that one book a month is too much, please say so. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Book_Club Cheers! -robyn -- marketing mailing list marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing
