From: "Paul Frields" <stickster(a)gmail.com>
To: "Chris Collings" <cpcollings(a)yahoo.co.uk>, "Larry Cafiero"
<larry.cafiero(a)gmail.com>
Cc: "Fedora Marketing team" <marketing(a)lists.fedoraproject.org>,
"Larry Cafiero" <lcafiero(a)fedoraproject.org>
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(a)yahoo.co.uk>
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(a)redhat.com> 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(a)gmail.com>
>>> To: marketing(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
>>> Cc: "Larry Cafiero" <lcafiero(a)fedoraproject.org>,
rendsley(a)redhat.com
>>> 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(a)redhat.com>
>>> > 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.)
>>>
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