Hi, I believe you, Natalie, may have access to some of the Flock speakers ahead of flock. Perhaps some articles like are written on opensource.com before conferences where you interview a speaker would be useful. Obviously it depends on who you have access too.
An email to [email protected] might yield a bigger response too. regards, bex > On Jul 21, 2016, at 1:20 AM, Justin W. Flory <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 07/20/2016 06:54 PM, Natalie Ardasevova wrote: >> Hi Justin, >> >> wooow, thank you so much for the tips! That is very helpful and sounds >> promising, I just wrote to the Flock staff people. :) >> >> I would definitely like to make a wrap-up; those daily reports would be a >> big help for that. >> >> Thanks for the idea about the What's coming post. The last info about Flock >> I found at the Magazine was posted on May 20th. >> >> What would be the value of the pre-event article? Say more about the >> content, give tips for watching live (if there is an option), promote the >> written coverage...? Is that enough? :) >> >> Natalie Ardasevova >> [email protected] >> Marketing Communications Specialist >> > > Yep, no problem! > > I think a pre-event article would be useful in giving our greater user > audience an idea of what's coming. Flock is definitely the biggest event in > Fedora of the year, and many of the decisions and collaboration that happen > there end up being reflected in the future of the distribution. One of the > most interesting talks, in my eyes anyways, is FPL Matthew Miller's "State of > Fedora" talk, where he gives the low-down on how the project is doing with > some statistics and numbers, and puts his own personal feel for where the > project is headed. In short, I think communicating this to our user > community, albeit a little bit more abstractly, would be helpful. > > Covering some of the content in terms of both the technical talks and the > hands-on workshops where contributors are making changes would be a good > angle to cover. I'm not sure if there will be streams (best to assume not > unless given direct confirmation there will be because of bandwidth issues). > But *definitely* highlighting the coming of daily updates on the Community > Blog would be useful. > > It would be really cool to see some active journalism happening *during* > Flock too, from my eyes. That would be nice to help generate some more buzz. > :) > >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Justin W. Flory" <[email protected]> >> To: [email protected] >> Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2016 12:16:40 AM >> Subject: [Marketing] Re: Trip to Flock >> >> On 07/20/2016 04:51 PM, Natalie Ardasevova wrote: >>> Hi guys! >>> >>> I'd like to ask for your input: I would like to go to the Flock conference >>> in Krakow at the beginning of August. I need to write a proposal for my >>> (Red Hat) managers to show them the benefits of this trip. >>> >>> I'm wondering, do you have any journalists on your behalf that will be at >>> Flock? Could I be of any use there to you and write some report/article(s) >>> for your magazine? >>> >>> Thank you! >>> >>> Natalie Ardasevova >>> [email protected] >>> Marketing Communications Specialist >>> >> >> Hi Natalie! Thanks for reaching out again. >> >> I'm not personally aware of any professional journalists or other news >> sources that would be at Flock other than some of the people on this >> list. :) In terms of getting an answer specifically to that, you'd >> probably want to reach out to the Flock staff organizers. You can reach >> them at [email protected]. Usually, it's a pretty quick >> turnaround on a reply, and they should be able to help tell you >> specifically about any needs for press coverage at Flock. But, to the >> best of my knowledge, there is not anything in line right now. >> >> In other replies, you asked about where you could publish a daily >> report. As far as that would go, the Fedora Community Blog would be the >> best place for daily updates. You can find that here: >> >> https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org >> >> It would also probably be nice to have a big wrapper post at the end of >> the conference covering the event as a whole. That would definitely be >> best for the Magazine (or maybe even something *before* the event too, >> as a precursor to what's coming)! >> >> Hope this info helps. If you have any other questions, feel free to ask! >> >> -- >> Cheers, >> Justin W. Flory >> [email protected] >> > > -- > Cheers, > Justin W. Flory > [email protected] > > -- > Fedora Marketing mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/[email protected]
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