Hi everyone, my name is James Blake (but you can call me Jimmy) and I live in Kent in the United Kingdom. My Fedora Account System (FAS) username and IRC nick is jimmyblake. I learned about the Fedora Marketing team through the Join Us page, and I am interested in joining because I've long been a consumer of FOSS and it is about time I gave something back to the community and as I can't really code for toffie my marketing skills are probably of more use! This is the first FOSS project I have worked on but I have several years worth of experience in product marketing and product management within commercial environments. My background has a definate information security and business continuity slant and I currently work as the Chief Security Officer for Mimecast, a global cloud services vendor specialising in email management that utilises a lot of Red Hat / Fedora / CentOS instances. I am hoping that my experience in the articulating the value of technical products and how they can be used, as well as the FOSS model and its place in cloud computing, will prove a benefit to the Fedora marketing team. At work I spend a lot of my time assessing risk on our combined Linux, Mac OS and Windows real estate, I am particularly interested in how FOSS (including initiatives such as OWASP) can produce more secure software than commercial models. As I said, this is my first step in contibuting to a FOSS project, so I don't really know my way around but I am keen. Jimmy -- marketing mailing list marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing
