On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 01:43:29PM +0100, Chitlesh GOORAH wrote: > On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 12:55 AM, Paul W. Frields wrote: > > Hi Marketing team, > > > > Chitlesh continues to feel very bereft of the ability to market the > > FEL spin through our Talking Points page. Originally the Talking > > Points were conceived as a way of marketing features, innovations, and > > changes in the Fedora Project to a general audience. Although new > > Spins arguably fit into that definition, changes to existing Spins > > might not. > > > > What you failed to understand that neither the following fall into the > _general audience_. > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_Talking_Points#For_administrators > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_Talking_Points#For_developers > > Therefore, you have not given me proper reason why FEL's ONE paragraph > should be deleted. Something, I spent time to write in order to fit > the general audience target. I've realized that the general audience of electronics engineers who could make the dream of open hardware a reality is at least as large as these groups. Therefore, removing that paragraph was a mistake, and I want to rectify it for future marketing cycles. > > However, I'd rather *expand* that coverage than make contributors feel > > we're trying to keep their work from reaching Ambassadors, which was > > never our intent. The expanded marketing potential of the spins.fp.o > > site may not be enough to suit everyone. > > > > In our next meeting, could we add an item to agree that we'll include > > a single 2-3 sentence bullet point in our Spins section in the talking > > points, for any Spin that wants to add one? I would like to add these > > to the information we're already planning to include in the talking > > points about new Spins. > > Dear Marketing Team, > > I would like to know why should this item be even brought into a > discussion since it should be done by default (and for any spin). > Fedora Spins are Fedora, and Work done behind those spins are to > improve Fedora software portfolio and deserves to tell the world, this > and that has been done, and this and that can be expected by the > Fedora user. [...snip...] The reason I brought this to the list was for two reasons: (1) transparency now, and (2) the ability to document the decision for later marketing people, so we don't make the mistake again. -- 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
