Welcome Collin. I'm Nelson, Marketing Management student from Portugal. nelson. On Mon, 2010-03-08 at 11:23 -0500, 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 > -- > marketing mailing list > marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing -- marketing mailing list marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing