I still want a Fedora coffee table book, and you are going to help me make one.

[Colby Hoke]

Ian Weller wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 08:32:34AM -0500, Jack Aboutboul wrote:
>   
>> I propose that we go ahead with the idea, moving swiftly.  I will be at  
>> FUDCon as will Colby (RH A/V Guru) and we can begin taking pictures and  
>> video/audio there as well.
>>
>> Right now, I have set up a blank wiki page so we can start aggregating  
>> everything around this effort.  It can be found here:  
>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing/Fedora_Picture_Book
>>
>>     
> Oh my God, I love you two :)
>
>   
>> Lisa, can you please post up what you have in this email on that page.   
>> Also, are you available to attend the marketing meeting this Thursday at  
>> 3 Eastern, 12 Pacific?
>>
>>     
> Lucky me, I won't have school for this week's marketing meeting! Can
> somebody make sure this is on whatever task list is necessary for the
> mktg meeting?
>
>   
>> I think the first step is to get pricing from somewhere, and according  
>> to that figure out how many pages the book should be.  Ideally, I would  
>> think we should aim for 200 pages.  What do y'all think?
>>
>>     
> I'll look at some places online. I was thinking 100 pages at the most,
> but we can discuss it later.
>
> I think I'm going to take Jeff's messages to heart (from his reply down
> the thread): we need to get this done. We can do multiple editions, so
> I'm not sure if we need to worry too much about "getting" everybody in
> the book.
>
> We'll also need to determine the format of the book -- first, what
> "trinket" or whatnot we'll use to represent Fedora (something where we
> can, by holding it, proclaim "I am Fedora", whether obvious or not) --
> and second, if we want to do a small interview with them and grab a
> quote out of it that speaks well of them and Fedora. I'd like to come up
> with a draft design for the book cover and the individual pages sometime
> this week.
>
> Also, Lisa -- you've taken this idea and already done beautiful ideas
> with it. I welcome you happily to the marketing list and I'd love to
> see what this turns out to be!
>
>   
Having missed Jack's previous message (ahhhhhh so much to do!), I will 
say that I'm going to try to do as much possible for all of this stuff 
while I'm up there. I'll bring my camera and I'll also be shooting some 
I am Fedora stuff with Máirí­n as well as just capturing the event and 
sessions, etc. So, any help we can get rounding up people to make this 
go smoothly would be awesome. It gets a little crazy sometimes when you 
try to do this stuff.

I think it would be absolutely awesome to have a coffee table book.

-- 
Colby Alexander Hoke

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