#fedora-fad Meeting

Meeting summary

1. 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marketing_plan (mchua, 13:57:38)
   
   
2. introducing the RH brand guys (mchua, 14:08:47)
   1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Logo/History (spevack, 14:13:23)
   2. Q. How did you determine the fundamentals of the RH brand? What was that proces like? How long did it take? Is it at a steady state now? Where did the Red Hat "Brand Book" stuff come from? How was it created? (stickster, 14:17:57)
   3. Q. What is the Fedora brand, IYHO? How does it fit in Red Hat's brand strategy? Do the four foundations make sense? Do they provide a strong foundation? What shold we consider when growing the Fedora brand? (stickster, 14:18:31)
   4. Q. What is the relationship between branding and marketing? (stickster, 14:18:45)
   5. Q. How do you measure success of a brand? (stickster, 14:18:53)
   6. Q. How do you message a brand? Does that change in a many-voices community setting vs. a few-voices corporate communications setting? (stickster, 14:19:13)
   7. Q. What questions do you have for us? What things can we do in Fedora that might be different from those things you can do in Red Hat? (stickster, 14:20:48)
   8. http://darkmattermatters.com/2009/07/29/sharing-your-brand-story-and-heres-ours/ (mchua, 14:24:01)
   9. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User_base (mchua, 14:56:24)
   10. http://www.ubuntu.com/system/files/u1/server_report_v2.pdf (rbergeron, 15:39:53)
   
   
3. brainstorm (mchua, 16:19:22)
   
4. BREAK TIME (mchua, 16:42:24)
   1. http://talk.fedoraproject.org:8000/status.xsl (hiemanshu, 17:12:30)
   
   
5. BRAINSTORM TIME WOOO (mchua, 17:17:59)
   1. mchua gears up for the brainstorm (hiemanshu, 17:18:39)
   2. http://fedoraproject.org/awstats/ (spevack, 17:59:01)
   3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Gobby (mchua, 18:00:00)
   4. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Foundations (mchua, 18:41:18)
   5. http://maps.google.com/maps/place?hl=en&um=1&ie=UTF-8&q=holiday+inn+express+raleigh&fb=1&gl=us&hq=holiday+inn+express&hnear=raleigh&cid=9356236414151401026&ei=GzqdS5uwG4L78AbemYGiDg&sa=X&oi=local_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CBIQnQIwAg (spevack, 19:34:50)
   6. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Foundations (mchua, 19:36:09)
   7. http://www.neoformix.com/Projects/TwitArcs/TwitArcs.html (spevack, 20:53:10)
   8. http://www.neoformix.com/Projects/TwitterVenn/view.php (spevack, 20:53:14)
   9. http://www.neoformix.com/Projects/TwitterStreamGraphs/view.php (spevack, 20:53:18)
   10. http://search.twitter.com/search?q=fedora (spevack, 20:53:44)
   11. ACTION: mchua bring livecds to allegheny (mchua, 20:55:33)
   12. ACTION: mchua get allegheny students to write like/don't-like first impressions (mchua, 20:55:45)
   13. ACTION: mchua get Allegheny students to clean up user-facing wiki pages (mchua, 20:56:41)
   14. ACTION: mchua see if Allegheny students can write scripts for us (mchua, 20:56:50)
   15. ACTION: mchua see if Allegheny students can run makeshift usability tests (mchua, 20:56:58)
   16. ACTION: mchua see if Allegheny students can gather any of the metrics that we've specified today, and write papers on them (mmm papers) (mchua, 20:57:17)
   17. tomorrow at lunch mchua will be making my way through our giant brainstorm doc and making tickets for EVERYTHING and anyone who wants to join in the ticket party (not just the mktg queue, the engr services queue and etc) is very welcome (mchua, 21:11:30)
   18. goal for tomorrow: (1) hear about how Fedora PR is done (largely by the FPL and RH's PR dept) right now (and what/whether/how we can community-ize any of it now or later) (mchua, 21:21:15)
   19. goal for tomorrow: (2) draft f13 press kit - Paul will make sure that we do this (mchua, 21:21:29)
   20. http://spevack.livejournal.com/102109.html (spevack, 21:26:17)
   21. leave hotel tomorrow at 8:45am (mchua, 21:31:01)

Action items

1. mchua bring livecds to allegheny
2. mchua get allegheny students to write like/don't-like first impressions
3. mchua get Allegheny students to clean up user-facing wiki pages
4. mchua see if Allegheny students can write scripts for us
5. mchua see if Allegheny students can run makeshift usability tests
6. mchua see if Allegheny students can gather any of the metrics that we've specified today, and write papers on them (mmm papers)

Action items, by person

1. mchua
   1. mchua bring livecds to allegheny
   2. mchua get allegheny students to write like/don't-like first impressions
   3. mchua get Allegheny students to clean up user-facing wiki pages
   4. mchua see if Allegheny students can write scripts for us
   5. mchua see if Allegheny students can run makeshift usability tests
   6. mchua see if Allegheny students can gather any of the metrics that we've specified today, and write papers on them (mmm papers)

People present (lines said)

1. mchua (405)
2. ke4qqq (119)
3. rrix (99)
4. stickster (92)
5. nmarques (68)
6. heffer (36)
7. spevack (31)
8. hiemanshu (30)
9. herlo (25)
10. VileGent (18)
11. smooge (17)
12. wonderer4711 (14)
13. threethirty (12)
14. rbergeron (9)
15. ianweller (8)
16. azneita (8)
17. zodbot (5)
18. wonderer (2)
19. pcalarco (2)
20. rharrison (2)
21. yn1v (1)
22. quaid (0)