Note: This is a test of the new template at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Introduce_yourself_to_the_marketing_group, which is part of the Join process, https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Joining_the_Fedora_marketing_project. It's a rewrite of my own self-introduction (http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2009-May/010230.html) using the new format, so this is the email as I would have written it in May 2009. Join me in testing the template! ;) -------- Hi, my name is Mel Chua and I live in Boston, MA, USA (but I travel a lot). My Fedora Account System (FAS) username is mchua, and my IRC nick is also mchua. I learned about the Fedora Marketing team through Jack Aboutboul, Max Spevack, and Greg DeKoenigsberg, and am interested in joining because it seemed like an interesting place to really start contributing to Fedora (though I've been a user for years, and have worked in downstream and upstream projects before). I've worked in open source and/or Free Software in the past. Some of the projects I've worked on, or communities I've been involved with, include OLPC (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Mchua) where I did QA, support, and community-organizing work, and Sugar Labs (http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Mchua) where I do more of the same. This is the first Marketing project I have worked on! My skills, which I hope to utilize in Fedora Marketing, include: Marketing skills: * None to speak of, really. I had to look "Marketing" up on Wikipedia, actually... my background is in engineering, so I wasn't quite sure. That's what I'm here to learn. ;) Other skills: * mediawiki ninja. I keep/make pages good-lookin', spam-free, well-linked, content-o-riffic, and push stuff that should be on the wiki, to the wiki. * documentation nerd. teach me something and I'll write it up so well you'll never have to teach it to anyone else again. * hackathon/event wrangling. I've run unconferences, hackathons, workshops, and most kinds of grassroots events you can think of, and can do it well enough to teach others. * breaking things. I used to be in QA, and my specialty is breaking things (technology and content) like a very creative newbie might. Point me towards something and I will get confused and tell you exactly why. I'd also like to learn: How to spark up the open-source mentality in academia through working on stuff like http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/POSSE. Fedora is a great example of a learning ecosystem that's done way better than academic institutions at creating folks who can Make Real Stuff For Real people, so figuring out how that happens and how to spread the word of it is the first thing I'll be hurtling towards. Not sure exactly what that means yet, but I'll listen for a while and let you know. When I'm not working on Fedora, I work with the Community Architecture team at Red Hat. (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Community_Architecture) A couple of goals I have for the Fedora Project are to have the Marketing team have more people with marketing backgrounds participating in it (I know my presence doesn't help that statistic much ;) and to be able to do something with all the data we gather (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Statistics) but don't seem to use to shape our future actions very much. I would also like to see a Marketing FAD and a Join-Process FAD happen in Fedora. I am wondering about what has been done in Marketing in the past. Please help me get started! --Mel -- marketing mailing list marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing
