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Marketing + Ambassador Cross Pollination
Ambassador Core Events
- PyCon http://us.pycon.org/2013/ March 13-21
- Northeast GNU/Linuxfest (NELF) http://northeastlinuxfest.org/ March 16-17
- LinuxFest Northwest (LFNW) http://www.linuxfestnorthwest.org/ April 27-28
- Texas Linux Fest (TLF) http://2013.texaslinuxfest.org/ May 31-June 1
- SouthEast LinuxFest (SELF) http://www.southeastlinuxfest.org/ June 7-9
- Red Hat Summit http://www.redhat.com/summit/ June 11-14
- OSCon http://www.oscon.com/oscon2013 July 22-26
- Indiana LinuxFest (ILF) http://www.indianalinux.org/ July 26-28
- LinuxCon NA http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/linuxcon September 16-18
- Ohio LinuxFest (OLF) http://www.ohiolinux.org/ September/October
- Grace Hopper http://gracehopper.org/2013/ October 2-5
- Central PA Open Source Conference (CPOSC) http://cposc.org/ October
- SCALE http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale11x February
Notes
- NELF is now 2 days long, CFP open
- LFNW CFP open
- TLF is about a month earlier than usual, CFP open
- OSCon CFP open
- ILF is 1-2 months later than usual
- LinuxCon CFP open
- Ambassadors want to increase their presence at events.
- Have increased budget for events and collateral in FY14 budget being submitted to FAmSCo.
- What additional events does Fedora want a presence at?
Future Event Results
1. How do we help/encourage people to speak at events about Fedora?
2. Scale11x
- A lot of confusion as to who is actually making the decisions about Fedora's presence here
- Is there a Fedora FAD or not? Or is it a Fedora social event (what ever that is)?
- No Ambassador ticket, no funding as of yet
3. PyCon
- We don't have a booth here because we started planning too late and missed the free OS booth window
- Toshio is the event owner, he distributes media as a floating ambassador
- The attendees may try to do a Fedora meetup during the conference
- Ambassador ticket with notes: #48
4. NELF
- Mario will pay half sponsorship cost at bronze level and NELF admin say we'll get Gold level (contract?)
- Numerous Fedora talks planned and given by Mario
- Full day Fedora Camp, which is social/marketing oriented on both days
- Need people from Harvard area to help
- Mario is recruiting some students to assist
- Ambassador ticket with notes: #49
FUDCon 2013 meeting
Create collateral for the following audiences
- Python collateral
- Tim F, Kevin Fenzi
- Prep for Pycon
- SysAdmin collateral
- Tim F, Kevin Fenzi, Dennis Gilmore
- Could this material be worded to do double duty for the DevOps crowd? Check with Robyn and Al Stone
- ARM - on hold
- Cloud - not needed
- Maker/DIY
- Ruth and Spot
- Waiting on 3D printer to be built
- Prep for Penguincon
- HAM radio
- Nick B, Eric C.
- Prep for Dayton Hamfest
- Ruby
- On hold until a few more key features get updated and released
Embedded systems
- Need to find out where this audience gathers (if they gather)
- Ask John Lowe at next DOSUG/DJUG meeting
Collateral to update
- Design/Graphics brochure
- Photography brochure
- Video
- Musician
Fedora Magazine
- Smooge set up URL redirect
- Ruth to track down Dan Walsh for content
- Sarah: check out Red Hat mag and Fedora mag wikipage