Hey Jeff! > Moved by my own appreciation of Fedora, I too have decided to join and contribute in any way I can. This will be the first Open Source project of which I've officially sought to be a part of. Welcome to the opensource community! :) You have a lot of skills which are brilliant and extremely useful for the marketing team. We're happy to have you here! I think you'll be able to help us out a lot in terms of the education sector since you've got tons of experience there. Other than that, Fedora also has a community blog [1] which you'll also be able to help tell stories about how opensource is within your school and Fedora related things that has the school is doing or has done. Fedora community blog is aimed at telling community stories and events. Back to the marketing areas, here are some items that you might want to review the following links that can help you get started: - https://fedoramagazine.org/writing-an-article-for-the-fedora-magazine/ - https://fedoramagazine.org/writing-a-new-pitch/ Can't wait to see your article! Let us know if you need anything else! Have a great weekend. :) [1] - https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/ Best Regards, Woo Huiren Fedora Ambassador & Marketing | Open Organization Ambassador https://twitter.com/woohuiren On 24 July 2016 at 05:33, Jeff Abbott <jdabbott51@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Saludos de New Mexico! > > My name is Jeffery Abbott (Jeff for short) and I live in the state of New > Mexico in the United States of America. My FAS username is jdabbott5100 and > my IRC alias will be #jdabbott5100 (although I have yet to sign on yet). > > I learned about the Fedora Marketing team by reading the How do you Fedora? > feature on the Fedora website, in which one of contributors proclaimed to > love the Fedora community. Moved by my own appreciation of Fedora, I too > have decided to join and contribute in any way I can. This will be the first > Open Source project of which I've officially sought to be a part of. > > My Skills, which I hope to utilize in Fedora Marketing, include: > > Promotions – I was the assistant director of Circulation and Audience > Development for the Santa Fe New Mexican newspaper for several years in > which I oversaw several promotions to help expand readership. > > Writing – I have a bachelors of arts in Literature, with a concentration in > Spanish and Latin American literature. I've had several columns in English > and articles translated to/from Spanish published in the Santa Fe New > Mexican Newspaper. My first writing project out of college was with a small > newspaper in Quito, Ecuador where I worked as an intern for several months. > > Graphic Design – My three go-to programs are GIMP, Inkscape and Scribus (a > great program I don't think is ever mentioned enough). I've created > advertisements and promotional materials for both print and web. > > Web Design – I am proficient in HTML/CSS. I've also been an avid user of the > Drupal Content Management System since 2011. > > > Currently I work for the Special Education Department for Santa Fe Public > Schools as a Coordinator for Parent and Educator Resources. I am incredibly > fortunate to be put in a position to support students, teachers and families > of students who have special needs. Personally, I have a son who was born > with Special Needs, something which has opened my eyes, I feel, to the > incredible wonder that it > is to be a sentient human being. In using Fedora and the vast array of Open > Source offerings, at work I'm known as the guy capable of doing a lot with > little. My heart often breaks when I see such institutions like public > schools pay so much money for the licensing of software of which I know > there is a perfectly good open source alternative. My chief interest in > joining the Fedora Marketing Team is to promote Fedora as a viable > alternative for nonprofits and public institutions. I currently use Fedora > on an eight year old laptop that was discarded and reported to be “old and > broken” but that worked superbly once I put a Fedora Spin of LXDE on it. > I've also spent time with my son navigating the joys of Sugar on a Stick. > > Being a father of a child with special needs, a husband to my beautiful wife > Katia, and a coordinator in the public schools often means I can be a bit > busy. I may not be the first to respond to collaboration initiatives but > that doesn't mean I won't be paying attention. I'll gladly chime in and > contribute whenever possible! :) > > Thanks so much for the opportunity and please consider including me on your > marketing team! > > Kindest regards, > > -- > Jeffery Abbott > > > -- > Fedora Marketing mailing list > marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- Fedora Marketing mailing list marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
