One big YES from me! :-) (except for books being better than coffee :P) Ryan On Wed 27 January 2010 7:46:41 pm Robyn Bergeron wrote: > 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 -- Ryan Rix == http://hackersramblings.wordpress.com | http://rix.si/ ==
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