Quoting Mel Chua <mel@xxxxxxxxxx>: Mel, I'll do this accordingly. Stay tunned. nelson. > > 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 > -- marketing mailing list marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing
