Unfortunate articles

[Andrew Hudson]

Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote:
> 
>> On Sat, 20 Aug 2005, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>>
>>  
>>
>>> Remember that many of the opinionated people have a lot of energy 
>>> which means that you can convince them to be constructive critics or 
>>> even voracious participants. Pay more attention to any valid 
>>> criticism that you might getting and try to address that directly. So 
>>> the action plan is pretty neat
>>>   
>>
>>
>> This is incredibly important for all of us to keep in mind.
>>
>> Marketing Fedora is more than just telling everyone "Fedora is wicked
>> cool, use it."  It's also about creating Wild Raving Lunatic Fedora 
>> Supporters -- and one of the surest ways to do that is to start with a 
>> Wild Raving Lunatic.  :)
>>
>> The passion of open source advocates is sometimes a pain in the ass, but
>> it can be turned to *tremendous* advantage.  And as Rahul notes, one of
>> the best ways to do it is to find the valid criticisms, acknowledge 
>> them, and fix them.
>>
>> --g
>>
> While we are at it, let me bring in some good news.  Andrew Hudson alias 
> Andy who is the co-author of Fedora 4 Unleashed and the reviewer of 
> Fedora Core 4 in Linux format magazine and has somehow read my request 
> to have a copy of the review in the response to a Fedora forum posting 
> that was pointed out earlier has contacted me off list and asked whether 
> I would want a copy. Of course, I promptly said yes and got a PDF soon 
> enough. (I am not allowed to redistribute in a public website without 
> permission. Interested community marketing members can get a copy on 
> request offline) and also expressed his interest to participate in the 
> Fedora Docs project after clarifying some details from Sams publishing. 
> I am reading through the interesting review now and will respond back to 
> him and this list in detail later.
> regards
> Rahul
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Hi Rahul and Fedora marketeers in general!

I'm Andy, the guy who wrote 'that' review and also co-authored FC4 
Unleashed.

I've had the go-ahead from Sams to work on the FDP which is good news 
for me, and hopefully the FDP.

As for marketing, well I work for one of the largest specialist interest 
publishers in the UK, Future, and they have a range of computing titles 
which could potentially cover Fedora in their tutorials. I'm guessing 
that this would be something that you guys might be interested in pursuing?

Let me know and I can contact a few editors to sound them out...

Thanks,

Andy