Archive:Marketing/Meetings/2005-07-14

Meeting of 2005-07-14
Let's hope all this made sense... --colin

Present: Bob-Laptop foosball Matthew Miller Craig Anderson Thijs_H Matt Frye Karsten Wade Gregdk w0ndersp00n Alex Maier Elliot 'sopwith' Lee Jeremy Hogan

suggests: "Fedora is a series of projects. The central project is Fedora Core, which is a leading Linux distribution, sponsored by Red Hat and supported by the community."
 * how do we explain fedora? I.e. facilitating explanation. Greg


 * Who maintains copy about Fedora at Distrowatch?


 * How do we come up with a (release) name for Fedora Core 5


 * How do we incent contributors to less sexy projects like Bug Team?

a page for Fedora logos (this is step 1). Step 2 - solicit more ideas Step 3 - Cull the best ideas, and get RH creative review/refinement
 * Logos - hats, periodic tables, puppy. Bob-Laptop has decided to create

Greg will take us thru Step 3, community marketers to push till Step 2

get recognised. Budget is miserable, but there's a supply of caps (~200), t-shirts (~500) and RH Bumper Stickers (~tonne :P) at RDU. We don't want levels of contributors, as it discourages folk. All contributors are equal.
 * Swag/goodies - we want to make sure people making small contributions

Colin will do it). Jeremy Hogan talks about a fulfillment site. Both Hogan and MattF to work together
 * Swag distribution is a problem. Matt Frye to do this (failing which

notes, easter eggs in the OS, @fedoraproject.org aliases (action: colin/seth), recognition in RH Magazine (Karsten Wade and Matt Frye are going to try and get 2-3 interviews of Fedora contributors in each issue of RHM - ACTION: write mail to Tammy Fox, cc'ing greg and colin), sending a personal letter of thanks, about:my_name_here in Firefox (ask Chris Aillon about this), possibility of mention in the *RHEL Release Notes*
 * How else can we allow contributors to be rewarded? Mention in release

scheme? Like FUDCon   (i.e. FUDCon London 2005). Will coincide with LWE in London (no weekends, save on budget). LWE UK will support FUDCon 3 with in-kind donations (go Alex!); Alex to work on FUDCon London 2005 page on the wiki. We need to get speakers next.
 * FUDCon 3 in London - hats off to Alex Maier. Do we want a new naming