Dear all, I know I was refered to the Ambassadors list in the past regarding this. But from my scope this is a Marketing issue. I have Rodrigo Padula as my Mentor as well. I have a meeting with my institute Administration to present the project and get their support for place and logistics. I am working on a document in Portuguese to present them, which is also a base for another document to be presented to some institutions which are local/national/international Industry leaders, such as Portugal Telecom to be involved on this event. This is meant to be a Fedora/Red Hat promotion event to national IT industry and to the Portuguese Community. I have got nice information from Rodrigo about possibly launching the Fedora Community in Portugal and I was informed that Red Hat has already got the domains. This is a good time (the event will occur in end of may or june, most like last weekend of may) to hit hard with the release of Fedora 13. My question is directed to everyone, engineering personal, marketing, artists, etc. We are trying to gather more people to become involved on fedora, not only just my institute, but other contributors like artists, packagers, etc. What has been done in the past? Anyone wants to share some experiences they had previously? If my institute gets involved, I'm hitting the national industry (over 240.000 small/medium business, and the heavy weights as well, like Portugal Telecom), and I will have cooperation for communication campaign and such. How can we envolve the Fedora community on this? What do we want to safekeep? And how can the Marketing Team get involved, because after all, I am a Marketing student, and I want to promote open source marketing as well. My image is on stake here, between my friends at school, before my own institute and before the local industry. What materials do we have that can be used? Can we establish a link with someone on the artwork team wishing to help us? From my scope, I am planning to document everything for future usage by whoever wants to organize such an event. If my institute gets involved, this means I have the opportunity to work with Marketing Professionals from my institute and rally support on teachers for the campaign. There a lot we all can learn. And if Fedora can provide a Marketing Team speaker to give a conference on Open Source Marketing, this would be great. I will approach soon (once I have the dates) the Aveiro City Hall, so that this Fedora event is a part of the City's cultural program (free advertisement ;)), as I am approaching some Hotel's so that they can sponsor the event (would be great at zero cost, if not, I'll try to get special prices for anyone traveling here). Yes I am motivated! Yes I want to shake this country! Yes I want to promote open source! Yes I want to succeed as a future marketing professional! And yes, I do have lots of eyes looking at me already ;) Nelson. -- marketing mailing list marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing
