On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 9:52 AM, Paul W. Frields <stickster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 05:57:10PM +0100, Luke Slater wrote: >> On 19 August 2010 16:45, Jared K. Smith <jsmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> > On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Jared K. Smith >> > <jsmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > > Our "Plan B" slogan was also approved. Our second choice slogan was >> > "Evolve". >> > >> > Actually, I jumped the gun on this one as well :-( >> > >> > In going back through my email this morning to double check, I see >> > that the backup slogan was *not* approved. So please don't announce >> > anything until I get my act together. >> > >> > Sorry for the confusion. >> >> I like evolve better anyway :) > > Unfortunately, that's the Plan B slogan that was not approved. > > We should come up with a plan to deal with this -- it's far from > catastrophic, just something we need to discuss and then execute. We > have a couple options, it seems to me: > > (1) Go back to the drawing board. At the public Marketing meeting[1] > there weren't any other slogans in the proposal list that generated > enthusiastic response. So we could try to come up with one or more > here, and try again with Legal. > > (2) Put aside the slogan for F14, and use whatever space we reserve > for the release-specific slogan to instead reinforce (for example) the > 4 Foundations. > > We can probably have a separate discussion about the long-term value > of a release-specific slogan, and whether we feel it's worthwhile to > continue that practice. For now, let's concentrate on what to do for > F14 specifically. Which of the above options do people feel has the > most value right now? > I will go with 1 if there is marketing manpower. I am not sure how response has been, but if after a call for team up and solve this there is no more people... then we should move to option 2. Tempe may be a good time to chat about the practice and value of a slogan for each realease. Best regards -- Neville https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Yn1v Linux User # 473217 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Check: http://www.clickmanagua.com - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- marketing mailing list marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing
