Its all about one thing - use The Open Source Way to cause change in other fields of knowledge and craftmanship. You see it happening in Music with Jamendo, sellaband. You see it in art with etoy.com. And you see it in literature with CC books. You see it in education. We effectively "just" need to be catalyst and guidance. Take ego out and focus on goals. Jan -- Jan H Wildeboer | EMEA Open Source Affairs | Office: +49 (0)89 205071-207 Red Hat GmbH | Mobile: +49 (0)174 33 23 249 Technopark II, Haus C | Fax: +49 (0)89 205071-111 Werner-von-Siemens-Ring 11 -15 | 85630 Grasbrunn | _____________________________________________________________________ Reg. Adresse: Red Hat GmbH, Technopark II, Haus C, Werner-von-Siemens-Ring 11 -15 85630 Grasbrunn, Handelsregister: Amtsgericht Muenchen HRB 153243 Geschaeftsfuehrer: Brendan Lane, Charlie Peters, Michael Cunningham, Charles Cachera _____________________________________________________________________ GPG Key: 3AC3C8AB Fingerprint: 3D1E C4E0 DD67 E16D E47A 9564 A72F 5C39 3AC3 C8AB ----- Original Message ----- From: marketing-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <marketing-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: For discussions about marketing and expanding the Fedora user base <marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wed Feb 17 03:54:12 2010 Subject: Re: [SPAM] Re: I had a cool Idea why don't we put on an artshow! On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 10:02 +0200, Nicu Buculei wrote: > The large majority of the Design Team is based outside North America > (true, our greatest star *is* from NA), with strong presence in Europe > and South America, but we also have contributors from Middle East and > Far East. > This should/would be open to anyone in the project that did anything artistic > Beyond being a community, Fedora is software so the works are mostly > digital... there is little need for shipping. However, flying people in > North America... this is difficult. > The art wouldn't and should all be Fedora related, I wanted to show off that were crative artistic people, people could show paintings, sculptures, drawing, interpretive dance and digital works. > > I think doing this in IRL gives "regular people" to the chance to walk > > into a building and without even knowing it be exposed to freesoftware > > and the culture that loves it. > > Having a "real" gallery with rooms and printed works is going to be > *expensive*. > lesser know galleries shouldn't be as expensive and may do it for the publicity. Also there could be people inside the project that run a gallery or know someone who does... I'm not above begging :) > PS: we weren't able to put together even the Picture Book - > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Picture_book, despite having > budget and photographers. Failing once shouldn't kill new ideas. If we want our community/contributors/userbase/etc to grow we need to think outside of the box and work on building up ideas insead of tearing them down. We will never grow as a Project or as people if we just keep doing the samething. All of the Concepts I've seen so far https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F13_Artwork#Concepts.2C_WIP_Designs are all about reaching for the stars. But is that what we are really doing? Yes, I'm a noob so I don't have past failures looming over me, but neither should anyone else, try something. Go for it. The advise given to all Open Source projects is the release early and relase often, why don't we fail early and fail often. Bad ideas are only bad once they don't work. Anyone who is interested in seeing where this could go lets brainstorm the crap out of it here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/IRLartshow -- marketing mailing list marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing -- marketing mailing list marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing
