On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 12:21:07AM -0500, Justin O'Brien wrote: > On Wed, 2010-01-27 at 21:35 -0800, Ryan Rix wrote: > > 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! > > > > > One big YES from me! :-) > > > > (except for books being better than coffee :P) > > > > Ryan > > I hate to be the illiterate mouth breather but I read a book every 6 > months if I'm lucky :) > > I would however love to sit in on the discussions and see what was > learned I also have a lot less time to read "real books" these days. Most of the reading taking up my time is email, social media, and RSS feeds. :-) But the schedule could be adjusted so even we slowpokes could participate. Quarterly maybe? Just a thought. -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ Where open source multiplies: http://opensource.com -- marketing mailing list marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing
