On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 12:47:16PM -0700, Robyn Bergeron wrote: > On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 12:41 PM, Paul W. Frields <stickster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Let me see if I can do a bit of a rewrite of this statement. What I > > thought we agreed in the meeting was that we wanted people to take a > > look at *our* prospective talking points, and comment on them, adding > > where necessary. This is subtly different than having a wide-open > > blank slate in terms of gaining consensus, but important. > > > > We also need to be clear about how the talking points will be decided, > > i.e. the list is limited in size, and the Marketing team will make the > > final calls necessary. This will prevent someone being surprised if > > his or her particular favorite point ultimately isn't used. > > > > I had thought the table Mel was creating was going to codify the > > groups of points we'd already zeroed in on as a group (both in the > > previous page version and suggested changes on the list). Will the > > current format of the page support better consensus, or is it > > operating more as a blank slate? > > > > On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 02:16:14PM -0800, bhutto aamir wrote: > >> TalkingPoints are key features of the new release that we want to > >> point out they are meant to answer the question "so what cool stuff > >> is in the latest release of Fedora?" So we are inviting *everyone* > >> active/inactive to participate in writing the talking points of > >> "Fedora 13" > >> > >> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_13_Talking_Points > >> > >> Feel free to add-in features that you think should be a talking > >> point and the reasons( if you see a feature and want it to be a > >> talking point, put down the reasons why ) You can follow the Talking > >> point SOP https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Talking_Points_SOP if you > >> want to know how we are making talking points for Fedora 13. > > > > Here's my take: > > * * * > > > > Talking points are key highlights of the new release. There are > > different types of talking points for different types of people: > > general desktop users/everyone, developers, and sysadmins. They are > > meant to provide a short, effective answer to the question "What cool > > stuff is in the latest release of Fedora?" They are compelling, not > > necessarily comprehensive > > > > Tge Marketing team compiles a short list of approximately three > > talking points for each of these audiences for an upcoming release. > > For Fedora 13, they're found here: > > > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_13_Talking_Points > > > > If you have a talking point that you feel meets the criteria found on > > the talking points SOP page at > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Talking_points_SOP, please add it to > > the the table on the F13 page with supporting information. > > I don't know if we talked at all about this in the marketing meeting, > but: Do we want to be more specific about encouraging ONLY wiki > postings of additional talking points, or also allow postings to the > fedora-mktg mailing list? > > It's not really specified in the SOP (at least that I can find in a > fairly quick glance). If we want to head off the world's longest email > thread, should we specify not emailing the list? Great point, Robyn. Having to track multiple areas of input is really hard -- case in point, my email of potential changes here instead of just editing the wiki. ;-) How about adding: "Please make your changes to the wiki page, so that the Marketing team can efficiently capture and consider your input." > > The Marketing team will make final adjustments to the list of talking > > points at their meeting on February 23, which will be announced on the > > marketing list and is open to everyone. -- 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
