We CANNOT sell these. We should help Linux New Media by promoting these: http://fedoramagazine.org/free-from-xp-with-fedora/ Here's the background: Additional notes: > > > > * We can't sell these magazines or do anything that could affect Linux New > > Media magazine sales - they are intended for ambassadors & employees to > > give away at booths/meetups/etc. > > * We cannot post the content online; however, LNM folks are very > > reasonable, and if we wanted to use some of our content on the Fedora > > wiki, for example (with links to the magazine, etc.), I could probably > > talk them into that. In any case, I'm sure they'll let us post all of our > > content on our sites after the magazine sales have died down (~6 months > > after publishing), but we need to get that in writing if we want to do > > that later. > > * As part of our agreement, we are supposed to help promote the magazine > > and ideally help sales - this is good for us, too, because it raises the > > visibility of Fedora as an option for people who are moving away from XP, > > etc. We'll want to tell ambassadors to let attendees know that they can > > get extra copies online or newsstands if they have > > friends/relatives/colleagues who see their copies and want to purchase > > additional ones. Also, if anyone is interested in buying bulk copies > > (professors, for examples), LNM would work out discount pricing. Their > > customer service folks can arrange that or I can help forward requests to > > the right people. Rikki Endsley | Community Evangelist Open Source and Standards (OSAS), Red Hat http://community.redhat.com/ Twitter: @redhatopen | @rikkiends ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Chris Collings" <cpcollings@xxxxxxxxxxx> > To: "Rikki Endsley" <rendsley@xxxxxxxxxx>, "Fedora Marketing team" <marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: "Larry Cafiero" <larry.cafiero@xxxxxxxxx>, "Larry Cafiero" <lcafiero@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2014 1:53:46 PM > Subject: Re: Fedora-sponsored specials: All Things Open > > Thank you Paul and Rikki, > > That book looks great for people switching from xp, it's just the sort of > thing I was looking for a couple of years back. How many of these are we > looking to distribute? Are we looking to make $15.99 on each?, and do we > have any advertising budget? > I agree with Rikki that ideally we need to have these with users be the end > of the year and also that we should be looking for people New to linux > > Chris > > Rikki Endsley <rendsley@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >----- Original Message ----- > >> From: "Paul Frields" <stickster@xxxxxxxxx> > >> To: "Chris Collings" <cpcollings@xxxxxxxxxxx>, "Larry Cafiero" > >> <larry.cafiero@xxxxxxxxx> > >> Cc: "Fedora Marketing team" <marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Larry > >> Cafiero" <lcafiero@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > >> Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2014 8:58:04 AM > >> Subject: Re: Fedora-sponsored specials: All Things Open > >> > >> http://www.linux-magazine.com/Resources/Special-Editions/18-Free-From-XP > >> > >> This is the issue in question IIRC, right Rikki? > >> > > > >Yes, that's it. > > > >> I guess we missed our opportunity for SEAGL, since I don't have any > >> address for them; it would need to come from Larry. Larry, please > >> check that your @fedoraproject.org email address is correct -- I think > >> I got some sort of bounceback yesterday from a gmx.net address for > >> you. > >> > >> Paul > >> > >> > >> On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 5:47 PM, Chris Collings <cpcollings@xxxxxxxxxxx> > >> wrote: > >> > Have we any photos or articles explaining more information about these? > >> > I'm just wondering if I could use these locally > >> > > >> > Rikki Endsley <rendsley@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> >>Ruth is sending some to OLF this week (I think she's in the shipping > >> >>room > >> >>now), and SEAGL is also a great idea. > >> >> > >> >>Joe Brockmeier is organizing a lot of our LISA presence, and I'm not > >> >>attending it this year so I'm not sure what we've arranged with them. > >> >>I'm > >> >>in RDU w/him now, so I'll give him a heads up on this thread so he can > >> >>chime in. > >> >> > >> >>I think that even when F21 comes out, these won't be "dated" - the > >> >>target > >> >>audience is first-time Linux users (people moving from Windows XP). > >> >>Still, > >> >>it would be best to distribute these all by the end of 2014 so they are > >> >>"new" (and not taking up storage space). > >> >> > >> >>And one final note: Linux New Media is eager to do more partnerships > >> >>with > >> >>us. So brainstorm on that. > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> >>Rikki Endsley | Community Evangelist > >> >>Open Source and Standards (OSAS), Red Hat > >> >> > >> >>http://community.redhat.com/ > >> >>Twitter: @redhatopen | @rikkiends > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> >>----- Original Message ----- > >> >>> From: "Paul W. Frields" <stickster@xxxxxxxxx> > >> >>> To: marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > >> >>> Cc: "Larry Cafiero" <lcafiero@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, rendsley@xxxxxxxxxx > >> >>> Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2014 1:13:57 PM > >> >>> Subject: Re: Fedora-sponsored specials: All Things Open > >> >>> > >> >>> On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 10:36:39AM -0500, inode0 wrote: > >> >>> > On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 7:41 AM, Rikki Endsley <rendsley@xxxxxxxxxx> > >> >>> > wrote: > >> >>> > > Is it too late to distribute these at registration or other common > >> >>> > > areas > >> >>> > > at the event? > >> >>> > > >> >>> > I would seriously consider sending all or most of them to LISA. Once > >> >>> > F21 is released we can still distribute these but they won't have > >> >>> > the > >> >>> > same appeal. > >> >>> > >> >>> John, > >> >>> > >> >>> What about sending a few hundred sent to SEAGL? That seems like > >> >>> another good event with enough time still for these to arrive. cc'ing > >> >>> lcafiero in case he's interested, since we have a few days still to > >> >>> get them to him if so. > >> >>> > >> >>> I like your idea about LISA. I recall mattdm saying the audience of > >> >>> attendees there (more professionals) tends to have a significant bump > >> >>> in CentOS/RHEL awareness and use. Putting modern Fedora in their > >> >>> hands sounds like a very good idea. > >> >>> > >> >>> Do we need to file a FAMNA ticket or anything else to get this > >> >>> underway? We don't want these magazines to age out while we muse > >> >>> about what to do with them. > >> >>> > >> >>> Rikki, is there someone from OSAS at LISA who would take ownership of > >> >>> the magazines on site, and putting them in attendees' hands at the > >> >>> booth? (2K is a lot of magazines -- it sounds difficult for them to > >> >>> all land at the booth when the show starts.) > >> >>> > >> >>> -- > >> >>> Paul W. 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