Marketing/BrainDump/Membership

= Fedora Membership / Fellowship =

What Members will get

 * 2 releases at the release day. Free of charge (without Download) only DVDs !
 * Member magazine 2 or 3 time a years (like Red Hat Magazin) -> Fedora Supporter Magazine
 * Exclusiveness


 * Membercard (Fedora Logo, Support-Number & Name)
 * Special releases of Fedora (Christmas Edition, Eastern Edition)
 * Special Wallpapers (a job for the Art Team)
 * Webspace and/or E-Mail alias


 * Special invitation for special events


 * FADs
 * free entry for FUDCons
 * Meet the Developer-Events


 * Some goodies


 * FUDCon rubber band
 * Mug
 * T-shirt (-> I am a Fedora supporter)
 * Cap
 * Pen
 * Sticker
 * Poster (like Red Hat Kernel 0.0.1)
 * Mouse pad (example Red Hat Magazin Fedora Mouse pad)


 * O'Reillys benefits
 * RHCT/RHCE benefits
 * Webshop benefits

-> only stuff that can NOT be bought (in the webshop nor anywhere else)

Membership costs
per year $/E


 * 25 standard
 * 50 standard +


 * light blue and deep blue membership


 * Option for companies (see below)
 * Option for only paying and no DVDs
 * Option to get a respin 3 month after release (+ 10 $/E, 4 DVDs a year)

Business part

 * Automatic membership for sponsors
 * no goodies but invitations for events
 * listed in the "Fedora Supporter Magazine" or announcements as a sponsor

-> they will get the Magazine or what ever

Names

 * fedora-supporter.org
 * fedorasupporter.org
 * fedoracontributor.eu
 * fedoracontributor.org

Communication

 * Mailing list

Webshop

 * Members and public (Shirts, Caps, DVDs (Packages i386 & x86_64, ppc & ppc64))
 * located in europe (postal fees)
 * integration in Red Hat Cool Stuff Store ?

https://www.redhat-coolstuff-store.com/index.php?o=4274

!!! Without Red Hat there is no way to do something like this because none of us has enough marketing experience or the knowledge of handling a large ammount of subrscribers.