This Weekend?
by Jack Aboutboul
Hey Guys,
I was wondering if anyone had anything interesting they planned on doing
over the weekend and whether anyone needs help.
Let us know,
Jack
15 years, 3 months
About the 4 Fs
by Francesco Ugolini
Hi,
I see the fedoraproject.org logo was updated with 4 Fs. I was just
wondering if putting the 4Fs' icons instead of the words could give a
more interesting behaviour to the logo (maybe pointing to the 4fs
logos meaning).
I know there are more important discussion on the table and I don't
want to take more time that this proposal need. I wanted to let you
know what I feel after I saw the "new" logo.
Regards
Francesco Ugolini
15 years, 3 months
Red Hat's Plymouth Sees New Work
by Rahul Sundaram
Hi
http://www.osnews.com/story/21090/Red_Hat_s_Plymouth_Sees_New_Work
"Plymouth is a freedesktop.org project to create a flicker free
graphical bootup system designed and developed by Red Hat and included
in Fedora 10. Red Hat has been working on Xorg drivers and within the
Linux kernel to improve and enhance the kernel mode support needed for
Plymouth. Fedora 10 included support for many ATI cards and this is
being developed further in Fedora 11 to cover Intel and Nvidia cards as
well. Plymouth supports a flexible and powerful plug-in system which can
be used to create Plymouth themes. Fedora includes several of them
including a simple progress bar and the solar plugin. Now additional
work is being done to improve many things and this will land up in
Fedora 11 as well."
Rahul
15 years, 3 months
Re: [Ambassadors] Fedora marketing needs you!
by Gabriel PREDA
<http://www.magentocommerce.com/wiki/doc/webservices-api/api/catalog_produ...>Hi
all,
I do not think that smolt statistics have the absolute truth to consider
when determining the language usage... I do know that there are a lot of
people (including me) that do not use their mother tongue for the OS
interface... and choose English.
I'm developing in English and after that translate into other languages
including my native...
I do agree that there needs to be a "pilot" phase for this... but I think in
very short time you should extend this using any person that volunteers...
Taking in consideration the economic background for this period we should be
pushing more and more press releases into as much languages as we can... and
also hit "traditional" media: TV, radio, newspapers... probably most of them
will be discarded but any rise in articles about Fedora is welcomed...
So all in all... when you're including Romanian... please count on me !
Gabriel PREDA
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On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 6:06 PM, Steven Moix <steven.moix(a)axianet.ch> wrote:
> Hello dear Fedora Ambassadors,
>>
>> During the last couple of weeks, the Fedora Marketing [1] group has done
>> some serious internal reorganization, most of which you probably don't
>> care about very much right now ;)
>>
>> One important thing to notice is the apparition of something called the
>> "News Distribution Network" [2]. This is where we need you, the
>> Ambassadors!
>>
>> The News Distribution Network is a joint effort between the marketing
>> group and the ambassador group to effectively push Fedora news to the
>> media. As you can see on [2], we are currently searching 2-3 people for
>> each of the following languages:
>>
>> * English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Hindi and Italian
>>
>> Your role will be to help us spread news. If you read the whole page
>> [2], it should be pretty clear what we expect from you :)
>>
>> If you are interested, feel free to contact me so we can discuss your
>> candidature during the next IRC marketing meeting next Tuesday.
>>
>> 1: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing
>> 2: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_news_distribution_network
>>
>> Have a nice day
>>
>> Steven Moix - Fedora marketing group
>>
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>>
>
15 years, 3 months
Status of the picture book
by Ian Weller
stabus report/slight rant time now -- it looks long but please read :)
1) Blocking on release forms. I'm assured RH Legal is working on it. In
the meantime if you're willing to take photos of people and have
their contact information so you can hunt them down with a New and
Improved Release Form then there's no reason stopping you; you just
can't upload them to the wiki yet.
2) As far as I'm concerned we'll be using Lightning Source Inc. (LSI)
for publishing. It'll be on-demand, woo. We've yet to make a decision
on whether to print color or grayscale pages, and what page size we
want (I think I'm leaning towards 8.5" square). Any objectors should
reply to this email.
3) I have no clue how we're getting initial funding. I made some
original contacts with gregdek and spevack but I'm so confused about
it. Somebody who knows what they're talking about with relation to
this (community architecture, etc) please reply to this message or to
me personally.
4) The original plan of publishing four of these books at the very start
seems to be getting... less and less feasible per day. Right now I'm
at the idea of publishing one, 80-page book and selling that. We can
get at least 200 photos in there (more than one per page).
Understanding that we got about 20 or so photos from the wonderful Mo
Duffy at FUDConF11, this will make the target much more feasible.
5) We've got a great number of volunteers on our wiki page[1] but we
could still use more regional photographers. Keep in mind that if you
own a nice camera (generally a D-SLR) and you might have extra time
we'd absolutely love you to volunteer as a regional photographer.
6) Does anybody know what we do to convert bitmap images to CMYK with
free software?
7) Are there any currently unanswered questions people have?
[1]: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Picture_book
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15 years, 3 months
Fedora participation in UKUUG's summer Technical Conference?
by Tom Callaway
Niall Mansfield is organizing the UKUUG's summer Technical Conference in
August
(6/7/8-Aug-2009, in Birmingham UK).
He wrote me to ask if we would be interested in participating, specifically:
"There are about 5 or 6 projects who are interested in getting
involved, either running a stream in the conf. or running
as a mini-conf. Someone suggested that Fedora have never had a significant
presence at UKUUG, and that maybe the Fedora folks could tag
a UK or Euro Fedora get-together onto Summer."
Obviously, I'm a bit too far away for this one, but I know we have
ambassadors in the UK and Europe who might be interested in running
something like this.
Niall's email is nmm(a)uit.co.uk. If someone is interested in organizing
this, please feel free to contact him directly.
~spot
15 years, 3 months
pub id and contact info
by Chitlesh GOORAH
Hello there,
Is there any Publication ID naming guidelines for any Tech Note or
Tech Report for Fedora Project ?
JefSpaleta wanted me to write a Position Paper for FEL and I wanted to
do it the right way : tetex-IEEEtran
Example :http://ctan.osmirror.nl/macros/latex/contrib/IEEEtran/IEEEtran_HOWTO.pdf
As you can see on the footer, there is a publication id of the
document with respect to the organisation.
Can we adopt a publication id protocol for Tech Note, Tech Report,
White Paper and Position Paper ?
The advantage of such protocol/guidelines will help us avoid copy
paste contents in various papers and just cite the paper.
Example: F0%{ver}-SIG-NUM --> F011-FEL-01
It seems to me that the Contact Info of the regional ambassadors group
(fedora-fr, fedora-india,.....) could also be added to a White Paper.
An industry example:
http://cp.literature.agilent.com/litweb/pdf/5988-6820EN.pdf
Thereby, local humans will be nearer to their respective ambassadors
and at the same time we are doing a marketing in a professional way.
cheers,
chitlesh
15 years, 3 months
Re: Picture Book Mockup
by Ian Weller
On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 01:41:43PM -0800, Máirín Duffy wrote:
> Let the games begin! :) My concept for the theme of the book here is a guide on how to be Fedora. There would be 4 chapters, freedom, friends, features, first. The photos for each chapter will have the model's perspective on the chapter's four f, talking about how that f affects their life and affects their role in Fedora. Then below that, per picture, we could suggest to the readers how they can bring that into their own life with a suggestion. Kind of a call to action.
>
Can we organize all the mockups here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Picture_book_mockups
Just add [[Category:Picture book mockups]] to the description of the
uploaded PNG on the wiki. You can upload the SVG too, but link to it
from the PNG's description; don't include the category tag on SVGs.
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