> How can we involve the Fedora community on this? By doing exactly what you're doing now, and continuing to do it - keep working on it yourself, talking publicly about what you're doing and what you're thinking about, and putting out requests for help and calls-to-action whenever possible. It doesn't guarantee that people will help - but it increases the chances that they will, eventually, pitch in. Sometimes, continuing to "work out loud" is the most important thing you can do; people are watching, even if they don't speak, and it is *very* hard to predict what the magic words are that will trigger an individual contributor to jumping in - so just keep telling us what you're doing, telling us what you're doing, and telling us what you're doing, and when we can help, we will. > 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. You could always help the Marketing students and professionals there join the team and find something to work on. ;) Getting them on IRC, the mailing list, getting them to introduce themselves and ask questions about how they can help - we'll find something for them to do. > What materials do we have that can be used? > Can we establish a link with someone on the artwork team wishing to > help us? Yep. The Design team has a mailing list (https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/design-team), and also an IRC channel (#fedora-design) and if you ask there you may be able to find someone to help out. I know I'm saying things like "may be able to find someone to help" a lot - this isn't to be discouraging, or to say people *won't* help - they probably will - but since we're generally volunteers around here, I can't guarantee the participation of anyone other than myself. ;) Think of it as popping your head into a room of friends and saying "hey, does anyone want to help out with this?" They might, they might not, but if you keep on popping in and asking, and showing that you're working towards this on your own ("hey, I'm halfway done - who wants to help me finish?" "Hey, this person came and joined me and now we're 80% done, who wants to help us finish?") people become more likely to step up and join you over time. Momentum builds momentum. > 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. Excellent! This is great, Nelson - please keep us in the loop! > And if Fedora can provide a Marketing Team speaker to give a conference > on Open Source Marketing, this would be great. I'd take this to the Ambassadors list, and tell them the dates of the event, and that you're looking for a speaker. Alternatively, I'm sure we'd be happy to coach you on this list if you'd like to put together a presentation of your own. ;) --Mel -- marketing mailing list marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing
