On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 15:58 -0500, Mel Chua wrote: > 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 Looks like its working pretty well -- marketing mailing list marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing
