Hello, farsighted designers of our marketing strategy. I have a really vague idea about Marketing, and i'll be lurking on the list for some months until i get reality of how could i contribute something specific at your mission. By the way, i want you know me and some ideas i want to share. My name is Jesús E. Franco Martínez and i'm a recent Fedora Ambassador from México. I joined Fedora because i have a project, named "Educar en Libertad" in which i'm spreading the word not about just software freedom, but a real OpenSource education too much necessary for breaking down the barriers of ignorance, poverty and hopeless. I've found in Fedora the best FOSS project for contributing and growing in knowledge to outreach more effectively my people. I work as teacher at an k12 school in a suburb of Mexico City, and i'm currently doing some translations on the wiki and a couple of guides. Also, i'm co-working with people of edusol.info (at the UNAM, our biggest university), writing the contents of an introductory course to GNU/Linux for illiteracy on ICT folks. I have another project too with Máirín Duffy and Tatica (maybe soon we join some brazillian folks) to translate the Mizmo's lessons of Inkscape and deliver it as an online or presencial workshops. I've not finished the translations and maybe i won't be able to deliver it with the edusol people, but anyway this could be a fine start for a project in draft for a Fedora School on FLOSS tools for Fedora users and collaborators. I think it could be a great way to share with people as Edna Rheiner and Damaris Trujillo from Guatemala who has made an awesome work with girls of Junkabal: http://www.fedora.org.gt/ Finally, i want to share with you some ideas borrowed from my mentor Tatica, about her idea for Fedora Social Network, mixed with my own experience as user of a social network developed by RiseUp Networks, Crabgrass: Please take a look: http://tzkmx.wordpress.com/2010/10/14/cool-and-useful-fedora-social-network-by-tatica/ I hope some of these ideas can be useful for the team, anyway i'm open to any kind of feedback (seriosly, any kind) ;) In solidarity, and in love of our core values: Freedom, Friends, Features, First Jesús E. Franco Martínez Fedora Ambassador from México http://identi.ca/tzk http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Tezcatl -- marketing mailing list marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing
