Fedora 9 Marketing plan?

[Colby Hoke]

Colby Hoke wrote:
> Karsten 'quaid' Wade wrote:
>> On Sat, 2008-02-02 at 19:00 -0600, Mike McGrath wrote:
>>  
>>> I was wondering not only about what we're going to say but how we're
>>> going
>>> to say it.  How are we going to get people to know about the features
>>> in
>>> our alpha?
>>>     
>>
>> +1
>>
>> That is the crux of the subject of this thread.  We are working on a
>> plan, yes, and it has already missed the first deadline.  Unfortunately,
>> when setting the schedule for the marketing plan, we focused on the
>> final release.  This is typical thinking that applies to RHEL, for
>> example, where we do not advertise the beta/release candidates.
>>
>> Jon - perhaps you want to turn what you wrote into a press release
>> format?  We can then run it by the PR gurus and ask them to actually
>> release it to businesswire, etc.
>>
>> - Karsten
>>   
> Which deadline would that be?
>
> Unfortunately, I'm stuck doing things for FUDCon and JBoss World right 
> now, so my attention is split - with very little left over for Fedora 
> at this time. I'd invite anyone to check out 
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing/Tasks and pick something up to 
> help us out.
>
> Maybe make a page for suggestions or link the release notes to us? 
> Anything would be appreciated.
>
Well, I'm currently unable to even do anything to the linked page right 
now... maybe it's me, but it looks like fedoraproject.org is 
reeeeeaallly slow today.

I tried updating stuff from John, but I keep timing out. Bah!

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Colby A. Hoke

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