On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 8:52 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? While I'd like to come up with -something- that is relating to our theme - it seems like we're having a hard time finding something appropriate that ties in that fits with the requirements (call to action, strong verbs, etc etc). I have a few suggestions that I've come up with, which I will drop into a new thread; however, I'm happy to reach out to number 2 if we don't see anything jumping out at us by Tuesday. -Robyn > > -- > Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ > gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 > http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ > Where open source multiplies: http://opensource.com > -- > marketing mailing list > marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing > -- marketing mailing list marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing
