On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 9:17 AM, Stephen John Smoogen <smooge@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 8:28 PM, Karsten Wade <kwade@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 08:31:49PM -0600, Clint Savage wrote: >>> > * FISH? (Fedora Interning Students Helping) >>> >>> +1 >>> >>> Seems very appropriate since that's really what it's all about. >>> Teaching them, and not doing for them. >> >> I have a concern about acronyms that include Fedora in the cleverness, >> as tempting as it is. For example, my FUDCon shirts do not feature >> the Fedora brand -- they have a FUDCon sub-logo instead. This is good >> for the FUDCon brand, but not as much for the Fedora brand. >> >> Fedora FISH, for example, could it. Bonus if we can get a double >> acronym that is nice to work with - Fedora ISH, or something, but >> sounds kind of dorky. :) >> >> What think ye, fellow marketing-minded folks? Should we avoid things >> that make acronyms that disguise the Fedora name? >> >> Another option is to go in a different direction from clever acronyms: >> >> Fedora University >> Fedora College >> College of Fedora >> Fedora Tree of Knowledge >> Fedora Library of Alexandria > > Be careful of terms like College or University. Depending on where > they are, they can be regulated and thus only able to be given to > accredited organizations. Also Fedora University College and > Knowledgebase is out of the question. Oh, smooge, you just made my day :D > > -- > Stephen J Smoogen. > “The core skill of innovators is error recovery, not failure avoidance.” > Randy Nelson, President of Pixar University. > "We have a strategic plan. It's called doing things."" > — Herb Kelleher, founder Southwest Airlines > -- > marketing mailing list > marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing > -- marketing mailing list marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing