On 28 November 2012 17:21, Jiri Eischmann <[email protected]> wrote:
> Francisco Manuel Sánchez píše v Út 27. 11. 2012 v 19:59 +0100: > > Hi, my name is Fran and I live in Barcelona, Spain. My Fedora Account > > System (FAS) username is sugar, and I am new to IRC and would like > > help getting started! > > I learned about the Fedora Marketing team through the Fedora wiki, and > > am interested in joining because I am studying marketing and business > > administration and I think I will be able to help you in a near > > future. > > > > This is the first FOSS project I have worked on and I have to > > recognize that I have not worked in Marketing either. But I have > > managed my own business and I have some experience dealing with some > > of the typical issues of marketing (I am an architect) > > > > My skills, which I hope to utilize in Fedora Marketing, include: > > > > * Creativity (in fact, creativity is needed in my daily work) > > * People skills. > > * Work capacity and commitment > > > > When I'm not working on Fedora, I am working as an architect and > > studying business administration at the University. > > > > I would like to spread the knowledge of the Fedora Project in the area > > where I live and to learn to work in an environment of teamwork as > > well. > > > > Please help me get started! > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > > Fran > > > > PS I know I have to improve my English too, but that's something I'm > > working on now. > > Hi Francisco, > welcome to the team! I'm happy to see someone who is enthusiastic about > marketing because Fedora Project attracts mostly people that are > interested in technical aspects of Fedora and not in marketing and > promotion which are also important. > There is a large field for creativity. > > If you'd like to get some hits what to focus on: > * I've been calling for better coordination of our presence in social > media. I'm currently running Fedora Project's page at Google+, which > works fine, but we don't really have any official account at Facebook > for example. > I can do Facebook and Pinterest :) > * I'd love to see more leaflets with information about Fedora. We've > made leaflets about free graphic tools (GIMP, Inkscape,...) that you can > find it Fedora, but I'd like to see more. For example leaflets about > Ruby, Java, Python,... in Fedora with information why Fedora is a great > platform for developing in a particular language. We could take such > materials to conferences such as EuroPython, RuPy to promote Fedora > among developers. This task would require coordination between our > language team (to provide info what advantages and tools Fedora > provides) and our design team to put the info together and create > leaflets. > > Marketing activity and coordination in EMEA would be great, too. When > you get oriented in Fedora Project and want to execute your ideas, I'll > be more than happy to help you. > > Jiri > > > -- > marketing mailing list > [email protected] > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing > -- Bogomil "Bogo" Shopov Open(Web) Thinker and doer. http://talkweb.eu ++ Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. -- Nelson Mandela
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