Rebel Marketing
May 22nd, 2009 — red_alertI wonder if we should create a ‘rebel’ group within the Fedora contributors’ community. They do things Ambassadors and Marketing likely wouldn’t.
First idea goes like this: a small group of some ‘rebels’ walks through a train with lots of people with laptops (e.g. intercity between Bern and Zurich). Everyone sitting in that train with a laptop in front of himself get a Fedora LiveCD (i.e. thrown on his keyboard without any further comment).
Whenever that group sees someone already running Fedora (not necessarily easy to detect when walking by), that person gets a Fedora t-shirt or another Fedora-branded nice-to-have thing.
(this is not really a serious post, but why not do it anyway? – more ideas welcome, anyway)
May 22nd, 2009 at 12:33:24
The “first idea” is a bit too rebel, since advertising actions are not allowed on Swiss trains…
May 22nd, 2009 at 14:25:28
I always thought it would be fun to go into a big box computer retailer and slip live discs into their computers, and then reboot….
May 22nd, 2009 at 19:50:56
Could be risky, perhaps we need a disclaimer stating that we do not represent fedora, but are anonymous individuals practicing free speech.
Anyways, i’m in.
May 23rd, 2009 at 00:16:20
Fantastic idea. :)
May 23rd, 2009 at 00:32:47
That is a very neat idea. I think it can be handy to come up with independent ideas for advertising something worthwhile.
Ever hear of street teams in the US? Not too common, but clever.