Ideas for Fedora 13 Marketing
Feel free to comment on, and expand upon, any of the ideas presented below.
Many of these brainstorms are courtesy of 1Dec2009 Marketing meeting.
Fedora Print Magazine
Discussed briefly was an idea for a print magazine per Fedora_print_magazine.
User Stories
Fedora-tour
Fedora-tour is a project from Ryan Rix and User:ankursinha to create an application which, optionally, will be launched after firstboot and present a user with a comprehensive guide to their newly installed system, and the community as a whole.
Non-tech press coverage
Corey Mulls<reference>http://fpaste.org/Z813/</reference>, looking at the project from a new user perspective, sees that we are doing a good job marketing to users who are already Fedora users, or generally more technical people, but users who may be new to GNU/Linux or not even know about it aren't getting the necessary press coverage.
- One key thing we should be promoting is the kind of things the Windows or MacOS X have been touting as new features, and how many of them have been around for a long long time in many Fedora releases.
<coreymull> But the whole idea of piggybacking on a competitor's announcement is part of that
- To expand on this idea, it was presented in IRC that we have no page like [1] in our arsenal. Such a page is a really helpful thing for all teams involved in recruiting new users, and we should have more pages like these.
- We should be spending more efforts, even as unofficial marketing, to make it easy to contribute, to break the stigma that you have to be a 133t h4x0r to contribute.
Fedora Insight
With any luck, Fedora_Insight will be released soon after/at FUDcon.
Red Hat Summit
There will be a Red Hat summit this July that we want to get some coverage at.