Welcome, Pascal - I know that seems a little odd to say since you've been around for some time, but it's great to hear some of your background details. :D I'm going to add you into FAS right now :) Thanks, Robyn On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Pascal Calarco <pcalarco@xxxxxx> wrote: > Hi marketing folk -- > > My name is Pascal Calarco (FAS:pcalarco)[1]. I am interested in > participating with the Marketing team in Fedora, because the good folk > here are a dynamic and enthusiastic bunch and we have been collaborating > over the past few months on getting Fedora Insight[2] configured, > developed and moving forward for an expected F13 launch. I think by > being an explicit member of the Marketing team, this will help this > collaboration further. > > I have been a member of the Fedora Ambassadors team for a couple years > and also have been a editorial team member of the Fedora Weekly News > since issue 133 (July 5, 2008) and as a writer since before that. I > have been a daily user of Fedora as my primary personal & work computing > environment since Fedora Core 2, and since then have thought that Fedora > is absolutely the best Linux distro for me as a technical manager and > power user. I have used Red Hat Linux, Mandrake/Mandriva, Ubuntu and > OpenSUSE at various points in the past and keep coming back to Fedora. > Fedora to me is a great blend of cutting edge desktop experience, a > vibrant community that I can contribute to and collaborate with others > very meaningfully, and an excellent way for me to keep up my technical > skills cred with my career. Fedora's professed values of "Features, > Freedom, Friends, First" really resonates with me as I am also a > librarian by profession, as we value open access to information, > intellectual freedom, collaborative empowerment, service and lifelong > learning, so the Fedora Project is a natural professional "second home" > for me in a very real sense. When I am not working at Fedora, I am > working as department head for our Library Information Systems group of > 10 in the Hesburgh Libraries at the University of Notre Dame[3]. I am a > genealogy nut, an avid reader, a radio DJ for a weekly jazz program on > campus, a cyclist commuter, and father and husband. > > I see the Fedora Weekly News[4] as a very natural extension of the > Marketing Team. Everything we do with FWN is to inform, influence and > enthuse those who use, develop, enhance and manage Fedora Linux and > demonstrate why we are a great technology community that deserves our > daily use, participation, and support. With Fedora Insight, I think we > can strengthen this relationship between the Weekly News and Marketing > teams, making our combined efforts even more obvious and impactful. > > What I can bring to the Fedora Marketing team is the perspective of a > Fedora power user, a faculty member on a college campus, light project > management skills and dedication to the Fedora Project. > > [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:pcalarco > [2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Insight > [3] http://www.library.nd.edu/ > [4] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN > > --------------------------- > Pascal Calarco > Editor, Fedora Weekly News > Fedora Ambassador, Indiana, USA > -- > marketing mailing list > marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing > -- marketing mailing list marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing
