Marketing FAD 2010

Fedora Marketing Activity Days 2010

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The mktg-FAD 2010 is an event intended to plan the marketing' activities in 2010 and to have some fun together.

Organization

Duration

Not sure how many days are needed.

• when?
  • Mel had suggested March as a timeframe.
  • March 13 - 21 dates work out well for Ryan Rix and User:rbergero due to spring break timing, but is not a requirement for either.

Location

Suggestions include:

• Hawaii (it never hurts to dream)
• Coast cities make for less plane-hopping, although other cities have direct flights as well.
  • Portland (an open-source friendly city!)
  • Seattle
  • Vancouver
  • Atlanta
  • Boston
• Phoenix/Tempe, AZ: Europeans can take a nice direct flight from LHR to PHX which makes for GREAT sleeping time! Also where Ryan Rix and Robyn Bergeron live, more or less.
• Las Vegas, NV: Cheap rooms! Cheap food! Conference space abounds! Also, engineering marvels like the Hoover Dam, and natural wonders like Zion National Park, are nearby for sightseeing purposes, in case your eyes just couldn't get enough in Vegas.

Attendees

Do not forget your ear plugs if more then one bed in room where you sleep...

Please fill in your details .

#	FAS Name & Full Name	Hotel	Friday's Dinner	Arrival	Departure	Comment
1	Mel Chua	yes	yes	day, time	after end	Boston, MA (...mostly)
2	Henrik Heigl	yes	yes	day, time	day, time	Germany
3	Ryan Rix	yes	yes	day, time	day, time	Phoenix, AZ
4	robyn bergeron	yes	yes	day, time	day, time	Flagstaff, AZ
5	MaxSpevack	yes	yes	???	???	Raleigh, NC
6	Kara Schiltz	yes	???	???	???	Raleigh, NC
7	Pascal Calarco	no	no	remote	remote	South Bend, IN
8	Paul W. Frields	yes	yes	day, time	day, time	Fredericksburg, VA
9	John Poelstra	??	??	??	??	Portland, OR ; interested-- like idea of western states!
9	Rahul Sundaram	Yes	Yes	??	??	Anywhere in US is probably a 20 hour flight. So make it useful is all I can say!

Buttons

For blogs, signatures and the like: buttons! -> later work for artwork ;-)

Other Things we need

• coffee
• place to sleep
• place for work

Agenda

Business

The list below is just the collection of items we will discuss about and does not say anything about the time or order they're discussed about.

• F12 - what did we do there
• F13 - how far we are
  • Start of release cycle
  • Alpha
  • Beta
  • GA
  • Start of release cycle
• upcoming releases
• measurement
• build up an press and picture archive
• everything else

=> goal: have a big picture of a possible marketing plan we could use during Fedora cycles.

Sideline

• How about something like a conference-Package, T-Shirt or basecap or some other kind of "reminder" of that event? ... maybe there are some RH Backpacks (max carring around some nice ones ;-) ) or other bags laying around in some office with some cool nice tiny black notebooks and some pens with laserpointer or so in it <- makes a nice package ?!
• make some pictures for the picturebook (photoshooting -> theme)

Fun

depends on where we are (e.g. springbreak, bikeweek, etc.)

Workshops

• how to write press releases
• overview over PR in Opensource (talk from Henrik Heigl ).
• Fedora Handbook - Rahul Sundaram
• ideas?!

Budget

• hotel
• flights
• eating
• fun part

FAQ

• How many days do we have for work?
• some leisure day? ideas for the fun parts...

Media

Here is a Place where anybody can place the media from the Event (Blogentrys, press texts, flickr Photostream, etc.). If your BlogEntry or Photo is missing here, please add it.