[Marketing] Re: Hi, I am Sumantro!
Hey Justin!
No issues at all. It will be awesome to work with you and the whole team. I have drafted
a post at https://fedoramagazine.org/release-validation-testing-fedora/
Can anyone review it?
Thanks
Sumantro
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Justin W. Flory" <jflory7(a)gmail.com>
> To: "Fedora Marketing team" <marketing(a)lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Cc: "Sumantro Mukherjee" <sumukher(a)redhat.com>
> Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2016 8:05:24 AM
> Subject: Re: Hi, I am Sumantro!
>
> On 05/12/2016 08:02 AM, Sumantro Mukherjee wrote:
> > Hey Justin
> >
> > I am Sumantro Mukherjee , joined Red Hat as an Intern. Before joining I
> > contributed to Wikipedia by running the local chapter [1] and Mozilla as
> > community builder and participation leader from my area [2][3]. I am in
> > FOSS for last 3 yrs now and I would like to start off by writing posts for
> > Fedora Magazine ( I have already started contributing to
> > developers.redhat.com as a content writer)[4]. I am writing to you if you
> > can help me getting started. I have a testday[5] coming and I intend to
> > announce it on Fedora Magazine.Previously, I have written a mail
> > introducing myself in the list and asking any moderator/admin to review it
> > since that didn't happen. I thought of directly writing to you this time.
> >
> > [1]https://www.facebook.com/Wikipediakolkatachapter/
> > [2]https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/SumantroMukherjee/
> > [3]https://reps.mozilla.org/u/sumantro/
> > [4]http://developers.redhat.com/blog/author/sumantrorht/
> >
[5]https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2016-05-16_Workstation_Graphica...
> >
> > Thanks
> > Sumantro
> >
>
> Hi Sumantro!
>
> Somehow, this email was lost in my inbox and I'm only just now seeing
> it. Super sorry for the late response, but I think we can get you
> bootstrapped and familiar with how the Magazine works. I'm going to
> include the Marketing mailing list in my reply so the rest of the team
> can know that you are interested in writing too.
>
> Firstly, when getting started with writing for the Magazine, you should
> check out this great intro post about how to write for the Magazine.
>
> https://fedoramagazine.org/writing-an-article-for-the-fedora-magazine/
>
> This page has a lot of details and pointers for getting started you may
> find useful. Something that page mentions is writing a pitch for your
> article. A pitch is the first step for writing for the Magazine, and
> it's how the rest of the editing team can get the gist of what you're
> writing about. A link explaining how to write the pitch is below.
>
> https://fedoramagazine.org/writing-a-new-pitch/
>
> Hopefully this should be enough to get you started. Seems like we
> probably missed the test day, but for any future articles you want to
> write about, we'd be happy to see anything you come up with! If you have
> questions, please let us know. If you need help resolving your mailing
> list issues, you can reply directly to me in an email - otherwise, try
> to use the public mailing list.
>
> Sorry again for the late response, and welcome!
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Justin W. Flory
> jflory7(a)gmail.com
>
>