Marketing FAD 2010

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

Post-F13 Alpha
This event occurs shortly after the Fedora 13 Alpha release. Consult the schedule for details.

Logistics

Duration

We will be meeting for 4 days. The dates are Saturday, March 13, 2010 - Tuesday, March 16, 2010. Out-of-towners will fly in Friday, March 12.

Location

We will be meeting in Raleigh, NC.

Accommodations

If you can host visitors, list yourself here, and what you can provide (should guests bring a pillow? certain gender? only couches available? parking? pets? how far are you from the RH office?)

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	Where will you be during the FAD?
1	Mel Chua	Raleigh
2	Henrik Heigl	Raleigh
3	Ryan Rix	Raleigh
4	robyn bergeron	Raleigh
5	MaxSpevack	Raleigh
6	Kara Schiltz	Raleigh
7	Pascal Calarco	South Bend, IN
8	Paul W. Frields	Raleigh
9	John Poelstra	Portland?
10	Rahul Sundaram	India
11	Ben Williams	Raleigh
12	Russell Harrison	Raleigh (tentative)
13	Neville A. Cross	Raleigh
14	Susan Lauber	Raleigh (tentative)

Buttons

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

Other Things we need

• coffee
• place to sleep
• place for work

Agenda

We have four days scheduled for working.

Day 1 (Saturday, March 13)

Strategy and Research. Owner is robyn bergeron. This day will be used for:

• Discussing market research data results from upcoming Fedora users survey
• Looking at short-term and long-term strategy, life cycle
• Revisiting (the) Marketing Plan
• Reviewing F12 process, successes etc.

Part of the morning will also likely be used for introductions, figuring out internet access for people, generally getting settled, etc.

Day 2 (Sunday, March 14)

Brand book. We can go two ways on this - if we have enough people we'll split into two teams and pursue both.

Option 1: Working on resources, guidelines, templates, slogans, texts and examples for people creating Fedora marketing materials - drawing from Logo and Legal:Trademark guidelines, etc. as content sources.

Option 2: Something like this - drawing from User:Sankarshan/FedoraHandbook,, Foundations, etc. as content sources.

Rahul Sundaram is sending a vision draft to the marketing list.

Day 3 (Monday, March 15)

Interviews and filming. Owner: Max Spevack

Possible activities:

• interviewing local developers for feature profile videos
• a "What is Fedora?" video explaining the project's community and ecosystem

Day 4 (Tuesday, March 16)

PR. Owner: Henrik Heigl, with remote backup from Sakis Samaras.

See action items from Kara's "how to monitor PR for a release" class

Possible activities:

• Fotoshooting for press-photos and picturebook
• writing some press texts, backgrounder and press-kit
• putting together some kind of marketing plan

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.

Ideas

• storytelling
• what is open source marketing?
• events we should go to (as Ambassadors as well)?
  • marketing conferences
  • RH Summit (Boston)
• FI articles brainstorming
  • idea: each article should be tagged with at least one of the four Foundations.
  • Fedora-contributions-to-upstream profile(s)
  • user stories

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?!
• trifold brochure

Budget

We have a $3k budget for this FAD.

Flights

Name	Coming from	Budget needed	Flight constraints	Status
Mel Chua	PIT (coming from another conference)	$0	arriving Delta 4198 11:48pm, departing Delta 1591 10:45am	Funded via another budget, leaving up here for reference.
Henrik Heigl	Germany, Saarbrücken (SCN)	$852.34	Arriving US Airways 1917 7:59pm Thursday 3/11, departing US Airways 768 3:45pm Wednesday 3/17.	PURCHASED
Robyn Bergeron	PHX	$285.40	Arriving Southwest 621 10:35pm Friday 3/12, departing Southwest 296 3:05pm Wednesday 3/17	PURCHASED
Ryan Rix	PHX	$285.40	Arriving Southwest 621 10:35pm Friday 3/12, departing Southwest 296 3:05pm Wednesday 3/17	PURCHASED
Neville A. Cross	MIA	$199.40	Arriving AA 1004 12:40pm Friday 3/12, departing AA 1541 7:25pm Tuesday 3/16	PURCHASED
	Total so far:	$1622.54
Your name	Your location	Approximate cost of plane ticket (overestimate, pls)	What's the earliest you can leave and the latest you can return?	pending approval

Housing

Pretty decent hotel rooms in the Raleigh area can be had for $60 a night or less for a double.

Roommate 1	Roommate 2	Check-in	Check-out	Nights	Cost ($60 x $number_of_nights)
Mel Chua	Robyn Bergeron	3/12 (Fri)	3/17 (Wed)	5	$300
Ben Williams	Ryan Rix	3/12 (Fri)	3/17 (Wed)	5	$300
Paul Frields	Neville Cross	3/12 (Fri)	3/16 (Tue)	4	$240
Henrik Heigl	David Nalley	3/11	3/17	6	$360
Name	Name	Date	Date	Nights	Cost
			Total so far:	20	$1200

Other expenses

Expense	Cost	Status
SuperShuttle for Henrik from RDU to hotel, as he's coming Thursday night.	$18.00	PURCHASED (needed to go with plane, and under budget)
Gas for Paul (driving instead of flying)	$50.00	APPROVED
Gas for Ben (driving instead of flying)	$50.00	APPROVED
Total so far:	$118.00

FAQ

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

• map

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.