On 03/08/2010 11:23 AM, Colin Zwiebel wrote: > Hi, my name is /Colin Zwiebel/ and I live in /Needham, MA/ (near > Boston). My Fedora Account System (FAS) username is /computercolin/, and > my IRC nick is /computercolin/. > > I learned about the Fedora Marketing team through /Mel Chua, /and am > interested in joining because /I love OSS, would like it to expand with > average users, and am interested in seeing how it is being marketed/. > > I worked last year on OLPC for a period of time, organizing a Jam-style > event. Though I've used many Linux variants, and submit bug reports > regularly, this is my first time really contributing to a FOSS community. > > This is the first Marketing project I have worked on! > > My skills, which I hope to utilize in Fedora Marketing, include: > > (Marketing Skills) - _Graphics, event organization_ > (Other Skills) - _web-application development_ > I'd also like to learn /strategy and big picturing thinking/. > When I'm not working on Fedora, I am /playing at F. W. Olin College of > Engineering/. > > A couple of goals I have for the Fedora Project are > /reach more "average" users and/ > /Better inspire hackers and developers to create great OSS software/. > > I would also like to see > /Fedora and OSS in general become a more natural community for young > tech-oriented people to join (IE, the Facebook generation)/ > > I am wondering about > /the focus of F13 and how this gets set/ > /how projects are organized within Fedora, who designers, developers, > leaders interact./ > > If you have any tips for exploring the community, let me know! > > Colin > http://zonion.org Welcome, Colin! Great to see you here. I've approved your FAS membership, and you'll be seeing a firehose of information over the next few weeks as we continue cranking out deliverables (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing#Release_deliverables) for the upcoming F13 release. Feel free to dive in, ask questions, etc - that's how we all started, and how we all learn. We often hang out on IRC (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/IRC) in the #fedora-mktg channel on irc.freenode.net. Folks - Colin is going to be starting by helping us with marketing of http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Summer_Coding_SIG activities over the next 2 weeks (mostly the week after this one, during spring break). We'll see him around IRC once school gets out. :) --Mel -- marketing mailing list marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing
