09:02:24 Meeting opened
Attending: lxmaier: AlexMaier tchung: ThomasChung GeroldKa: GeroldKassube ke4qqq: DavidNalley MrTom: ThomasCanniot [sasquatch]: JonFautley gja: TejasDinkar abompard: AurelienBompard kushal: KushalDas iWolf: JeffreyTadlock Thijs_H: ThijsHulshof JorgeTorres: JorgeTorres FrancescoUgolini: FrancescoUgolini thl: ThorstenLeemhuis greendisease: JackAboutboul gregdek: GregDeKoenigsberg puneet_batura: PuneetBatura mether: RahulSundaram McGiwer: PawelSadowski
Regrets: SankarshanMukhopadhyay
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/Schedule
item 1 events http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents
1.1 Mar 13-16, 2006 Jornada de Divulgación Científica y Tecnológica owner: JoseTarazona owner is not present
1.2 Mar 18-19, 2006 Fedora Core Open Days Owners: MateuszHalaba PawelSadowski PawelSadowski has submitted an update Fedora Core Open Days are on 18-19 March. Pawel and Filip Klebczyk (one of the main co-organizers) are already planning to organize next event like that in the future. Pawel was recently at Network Security GigaCon in Poland (didn't have a speech, it was rather event in which companies were advertising themselves, but maybe next time at Linux GigaCon he'll try to make something ;)) and he would like to ask -- if I'll be on next event like that, can I write the Fedora Foundation as my company?(they require to write the name of company that you are from). lxmaier: yes, you can say you are a member of Fedora Ambassadors Project
1.3 Mar 18-19, 2006 glugc FLOSS Meet 2006 owner: KushalDas kushal: talked with sankarshan, he will give kushal some handouts & tshirts kushal: Still need FC5 cds (at least a live one). That I need most.
1.4 Apr 3-6, 2006 LinuxWorld Boston 2006 owners: MatthewMiller, JackAboutboul greendisease: okay, so we have secured the .org booth. actually we have secured it for both boston and san francisco. they like us so much, they offered me advanced booking and i took it. we will have a number of people there already, seeing as that the westford office is right down the road and we will have machines from pogo linux. and spot's mac mini. otherwise, gregdek, should we make a new banner with the new logo? as far as our install pavilion, i have a meeting with the expo people at 1 to design a setup that comes in under budget. i was thinking 2 large tables, 10 chairs, some carpet and electricity, etc. i am personally not planning on presenting. although i do have a projector we could use against the backdrop. and we will have one large 24' lcd in the booth. Our BOF (Birds of a Feather) is on the schedule, they havent given me the date yet. someone (warren) usually does a fedora presentation at the rh booth and points people to us; we did a few presentations on Fedora booth last time in SF, and it didnt work so well. in the install booth though, we should be able to. the problem is, no mics allowed in the .org section. but the install pavilion is anything goes. The space in the .org area is limited and having 40 people listening to your presentation starts to block traffic. idg complained. i think it is wiser to do presentations oin the install pavilion.
1.5 Apr 7, 2006 FUDCon Boston 2006 owners: MatthewMiller JackAboutboul greendisease: yeah, so all is well. logistics are complete. we have rooms and schedules. the cfp went well. we got about 15-20 topics. and we will try and choose the best 15 or so. 2.5 tracks, since one is the morning and two in the afternoon. we will be having some great talks. registration opens on Monday Mar 6. the presentations we have so far come from xiph foundation, levanta, pogo linux, mysql, the catalonian government, mit opencourseware. the schedule we have will go up and the announcement will go out on monday. and we are pretty much all set. the last few things to figure out are the AV equipment and do a test stream. and we should be golden.
1.6 Apr 11, 2006 Local LUG - Campux France, Lille. owner: ThomasCanniot MrTom: i have to work on the translation, but it's no big deal. i'm used to talk to these people in France :) it will be a "small" event then. and all the french community will have news about it on French websites.
1.7 Apr 19-22, 2006 FISL 7.0 owner: RodrigoPadula not present
1.8 May 3-6, 2006 LinuxTag/FUDCon Wiesbaden 2006 owners: GeroldKassube FlorianBrand GeroldKa: sorry for this: we have no more informations about the organisation team and his decission. Florian stays in contact with the founder to get the decission as soon as they made them. In the meantime we are planning in the background :-) Another question in that case: Which Ambassador will attend the Linuxtag in Wiesbaden? I know from ChitleshGoorah, FlorianBrand, JensKuehnel, ThorstenLemhuis and me. Anyone other???? lxmaier: depending on many factors I might be able to come to linuxtag
1.9 May 15-16, 2006 LinuxWorld Italy 2006 owner AndreaMaurizioGnerre FrancescoUgolini: yep, i've to said one thing about this event. i have an update for the italian may event, i will not avaible. I wish that the things can change and i will be free for this event, but for the moment i'm blocked. i've send Andrea an email, now i'm waitng for a reply.
item 2 FedoraLibraries Owner: ChitleshGoorah Description: Inform about this project. Bring up with some ideas. What do we lack for this project Owner not present
item 3 Promotional material for Kadischi Time critical. Within 10 days maximum. Will have to be ready for FC5 Compilation of material like presentations, help and videos would be good. lxmaier: i was not the one who added this to the list, and i am not sure i want to take responsibility for this project. do we ahve anyone who would like to coordinate this effort? ke4qqq: I'll help... I'll start with pres, and help...... videos after that. FrancescoUgolini: i've an ideas of a possible promotional video (30s) that talk about how the world is Open from the begging to the simple things and this is the reason to choose fedora. it's based on black background and white text, lxmaier: FrancescoUgolini, ke4qqq, would you mind building a team together and covering this whole area, Kadischi, FC5 virtual tour and all? (09:50:32) ke4qqq: that would be great from my perspective.... puneet_batura: i will be also developing a video for fedora5....
item 4 Fedora tour at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Tours/FedoraCore5 Owners: RahulSundaram and anyone interested lxmaier: looks like FrancescoUgolini and ke4qqq will be joining in mether must have stepped out, no status report
item 5 Schwag pipeline Owner: GregDeKoenigsberg Targer Date: End of March 2006 Description: Need to make sure that the schwag pipeline is functional. This is separate from the actual stuff we send; this is just making sure that the stuff we send actually gets to the places it needs to go. gregdek: 1. DVDs. Looks like we're going to be burning 2-sided, with source on one side and binaries on the other. This is (a) because people can't play with source if they don't have it, and (b) helps get the FSF off our back a bit, which is good. The cost will go up, which means that there will be fewer to go around -- but it's The Right Thing, so we'll deal with it. 2. Cost of kits is established, I'm meeting with our logistics guy today to get the final timeline on store availability in the US. Regions outside Americas will lag by 2 weeks to a month. For emergencies, though, we'll just ship from the US store for events. We'll take the cost hit. Here's a fact of life: we will *never* have mass DVDs within 2 weeks of the FC release. *Ever*. So at release time, we *must* figure out how to burn and distribute locally. So that's my update. More and better news next week, I'm sure.
item 6 Presentations for Ambassadors Owner: AlexMaier Description: We need to provide Ambassadors with some slide decks for various presentations. We should probably aggregate the ones we already have and make them available. We should also figure out our policy for licensing these presentations! lxmaier: i will remove my name from there. i do not really lead this effort, but someone can volunteer to do that. gregdek: Proposed policy is OPL, right? I mean, we're basically doing this, aren't we? tchung: lxmaier, I think mether would be good lxmaier: yes, we are all for OPL :)
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On Tuesday 07 March 2006 17:06, Alex Maier wrote:
gregdek: 1. DVDs. Looks like we're going to be burning 2-sided, with source on one side and binaries on the other. This is (a) because people can't play with source if they don't have it, and (b) helps get the FSF off our back a bit, which is good. The cost will go up, which means that there will be fewer to go around -- but it's The Right Thing, so we'll deal with it.
Why is this The Right Thing? Most people don't want or need the source. Why should we waste money on giving it to people, when we can use that money on getting _more_ disks to more people?
Clair
Alex Maier wrote:
1.3 Mar 18-19, 2006 glugc FLOSS Meet 2006 owner: KushalDas kushal: talked with sankarshan, he will give kushal some handouts & tshirts kushal: Still need FC5 cds (at least a live one). That I need most.
Do all the ambassadors get kits after every release? What does the kit include?
item 2 FedoraLibraries Owner: ChitleshGoorah Description: Inform about this project. Bring up with some ideas. What do we lack for this project Owner not present
Start with yourself Chitlesh. Talk to your local library and see what can be done.
item 3 Promotional material for Kadischi Time critical. Within 10 days maximum. Will have to be ready for FC5 Compilation of material like presentations, help and videos would be good. lxmaier: i was not the one who added this to the list, and i am not sure i want to take responsibility for this project. do we ahve anyone who would like to coordinate this effort? ke4qqq: I'll help... I'll start with pres, and help...... videos after that. FrancescoUgolini: i've an ideas of a possible promotional video (30s) that talk about how the world is Open from the begging to the simple things and this is the reason to choose fedora. it's based on black background and white text, lxmaier: FrancescoUgolini, ke4qqq, would you mind building a team together and covering this whole area, Kadischi, FC5 virtual tour and all? (09:50:32) ke4qqq: that would be great from my perspective.... puneet_batura: i will be also developing a video for fedora5....
Pretty much zero intake on this so far. I would like to see people here volunteer to get this done as a tour in the wiki. Time is running out.
item 4 Fedora tour at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Tours/FedoraCore5 Owners: RahulSundaram and anyone interested lxmaier: looks like FrancescoUgolini and ke4qqq will be joining in mether must have stepped out, no status report
See above.
item 6 Presentations for Ambassadors Owner: AlexMaier Description: We need to provide Ambassadors with some slide decks for various presentations. We should probably aggregate the ones we already have and make them available. We should also figure out our policy for licensing these presentations! lxmaier: i will remove my name from there. i do not really lead this effort, but someone can volunteer to do that. gregdek: Proposed policy is OPL, right? I mean, we're basically doing this, aren't we? tchung: lxmaier, I think mether would be good lxmaier: yes, we are all for OPL :)
I will take care of the presentation deal sometime soon.
item 3 Promotional material for Kadischi Time critical. Within 10 days maximum. Will have to be ready for FC5 Compilation of material like presentations, help and videos would be good. lxmaier: i was not the one who added this to the list, and i am not sure i want to take responsibility for this project. do we ahve anyone who would like to coordinate this effort? ke4qqq: I'll help... I'll start with pres, and help...... videos after that. FrancescoUgolini: i've an ideas of a possible promotional video (30s) that talk about how the world is Open from the begging to the simple things and this is the reason to choose fedora. it's based on black background and white text, lxmaier: FrancescoUgolini, ke4qqq, would you mind building a team together and covering this whole area, Kadischi, FC5 virtual tour and all? (09:50:32) ke4qqq: that would be great from my perspective.... puneet_batura: i will be also developing a video for fedora5....
Pretty much zero intake on this so far. I would like to see people here volunteer to get this done as a tour in the wiki. Time is running out.
Chitlesh and I have divvied up some of these responsibilities on IRC. See: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Kadischi/Schedule Hope to upload a substantial portion of this to the wiki this evening.
I'm working on litlle flash presentation (spot) and some banner to put in web pages to promote fedora.
Wehn they will be avaiable i send an email with attached the files.
See ya Il giorno 07/mar/06, alle ore 18:54, David Nalley ha scritto:
item 3 Promotional material for Kadischi Time critical. Within 10 days maximum. Will have to be ready for FC5 Compilation of material like presentations, help and videos would be good. lxmaier: i was not the one who added this to the list, and i am not sure i want to take responsibility for this project. do we ahve anyone who would like to coordinate this effort? ke4qqq: I'll help... I'll start with pres, and help...... videos after that. FrancescoUgolini: i've an ideas of a possible promotional video (30s) that talk about how the world is Open from the begging to the simple things and this is the reason to choose fedora. it's based on black background and white text, lxmaier: FrancescoUgolini, ke4qqq, would you mind building a team together and covering this whole area, Kadischi, FC5 virtual tour and all? (09:50:32) ke4qqq: that would be great from my perspective.... puneet_batura: i will be also developing a video for fedora5....
Pretty much zero intake on this so far. I would like to see people here volunteer to get this done as a tour in the wiki. Time is running out.
Chitlesh and I have divvied up some of these responsibilities on IRC. See: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Kadischi/Schedule Hope to upload a substantial portion of this to the wiki this evening.
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On 3/7/06, Francesco Ugolini francesco.ugolini@fedora.redhat.com wrote:
I'm working on litlle flash presentation (spot) and some banner to put in web pages to promote fedora.
Wehn they will be avaiable i send an email with attached the files.
Banners ? cool Maybe they might be useful for my index.html on the next livecd :)
Hi All,
I was expecting some more progress on the Press Release to announce our FC5 Lanuch Media Plan, but time is running out.
Please check: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FC5LaunchMediaPlan
. chillout.tar.gz is a 100% opensource-localizeable-web-promo. Feel free to use it and also to localize it in your own language (GUIDELINES: open file with inscape; click on the text tool; translate text; then click file -> export bitmap, making sure "page" is selected in dialog window, choose resolution, click browse and choose destination, then click export)
. impress.tar.gz brings a couple of slide templates. 1st and content pages. Again, feel free to localize it
This page outlines all communications activities involving the launch of FC5. A big worldwide splash I envisioned some time ago, and was willing to coordinate with Ambassadors worldwide on a timely manner (I know it's not perfect but can be improved).
Truth is we are VERY LATE with all these. Someone needs to pick the highest points from the user perspective of FC5 and write a proper press release (max 3 pages) in the next two days so we'll have time to translate it in various languages and send it to the media. Or maybe two press releases: one for the masses and another one for techies.
Remember! Not everyone has the same knowledge you have. Whats seems easy for you, can be quite hard and worky for others.
Hope I have helped.
Best, -- db
David Barzilay wrote:
Hi All,
I was expecting some more progress on the Press Release to announce our FC5 Lanuch Media Plan, but time is running out.
Please check: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FC5LaunchMediaPlan
. chillout.tar.gz is a 100% opensource-localizeable-web-promo. Feel free to use it and also to localize it in your own language (GUIDELINES: open file with inscape; click on the text tool; translate text; then click file -> export bitmap, making sure "page" is selected in dialog window, choose resolution, click browse and choose destination, then click export)
. impress.tar.gz brings a couple of slide templates. 1st and content pages. Again, feel free to localize it
This page outlines all communications activities involving the launch of FC5. A big worldwide splash I envisioned some time ago, and was willing to coordinate with Ambassadors worldwide on a timely manner (I know it's not perfect but can be improved).
Truth is we are VERY LATE with all these. Someone needs to pick the highest points from the user perspective of FC5 and write a proper press release (max 3 pages) in the next two days so we'll have time to translate it in various languages and send it to the media. Or maybe two press releases: one for the masses and another one for techies.
Ahem this draft press release was written a few days back and announced here for feedback. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FC5PressRelease. Only concern for me and some is that it looks more like a release announcement rather than a press release now. Turn this into a release announcement. Rewrite the press release or polish it?. Less technical details and more eye catching summaries?. I am open for suggestions. Its a wiki anyway so edit it yourself if you want to.
Remember! Not everyone has the same knowledge you have. Whats seems easy for you, can be quite hard and worky for others.
Share the precious knowledge and make it easy for everyone then.
Hi Rahul and All,
Em Qua, 2006-03-08 às 10:34 +0530, Rahul Sundaram escreveu:
David Barzilay wrote:
Hi All,
I was expecting some more progress on the Press Release to announce our FC5 Lanuch Media Plan, but time is running out.
Please check: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FC5LaunchMediaPlan
. chillout.tar.gz is a 100% opensource-localizeable-web-promo. Feel free to use it and also to localize it in your own language (GUIDELINES: open file with inscape; click on the text tool; translate text; then click file -> export bitmap, making sure "page" is selected in dialog window, choose resolution, click browse and choose destination, then click export)
. impress.tar.gz brings a couple of slide templates. 1st and content pages. Again, feel free to localize it
This page outlines all communications activities involving the launch of FC5. A big worldwide splash I envisioned some time ago, and was willing to coordinate with Ambassadors worldwide on a timely manner (I know it's not perfect but can be improved).
Truth is we are VERY LATE with all these. Someone needs to pick the highest points from the user perspective of FC5 and write a proper press release (max 3 pages) in the next two days so we'll have time to translate it in various languages and send it to the media. Or maybe two press releases: one for the masses and another one for techies.
Ahem this draft press release was written a few days back and announced here for feedback. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FC5PressRelease. Only concern for me and some is that it looks more like a release announcement rather than a press release now. Turn this into a release announcement. Rewrite the press release or polish it?. Less technical details and more eye catching summaries?. I am open for suggestions. Its a wiki anyway so edit it yourself if you want to.
Yeah, I'm subscribed to that page. It looks to me more like release notes than a press release, so my suggestion is doing exactly what you said, "Rewrite the press release" with "Less technical details and more eye catching summaries".
I'd love to edit the wiki myself, but I'm still struggling with the CLA process, what stops me from editing wiki pages including my own (I know it sounds stupid and may even be, but here's what I meant by different people having different sorts of knowledge).
Remember! Not everyone has the same knowledge you have. Whats seems easy for you, can be quite hard and worky for others.
Share the precious knowledge and make it easy for everyone then.
No dramas in sharing the knowledge, but a press release is not the best way to do this. My thoughts points us to this plan:
. Sending press release worldwide in as many languages we can, approaching FC in general, then focus on FC5 improvements (remember this might be the 1st time some people come across this sort of info as we are broadening our actions scope now)
. Press release points to a URL (fedoraproject.org or the local website) where people can have more details and learn more about FC and FC5
. The referred websites bring a web promo, http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FC5LaunchMediaPlan, linked to a fully- dedicated page for FC5 launch, that brings all major achievements and thorough explanations. Also including links to other sub-projects, how to contribute, etc
How does these sound?
If someone can tell me what are the **5 main "kick-ass-features" of FC5 from a user perspective** and also provide me with their explanations, I'll write the press release.
Thanks for listening!
Best, -- db
David Barzilay wrote:
No dramas in sharing the knowledge, but a press release is not the best way to do this. My thoughts points us to this plan:
. Sending press release worldwide in as many languages we can, approaching FC in general, then focus on FC5 improvements (remember this might be the 1st time some people come across this sort of info as we are broadening our actions scope now)
. Press release points to a URL (fedoraproject.org or the local website) where people can have more details and learn more about FC and FC5
. The referred websites bring a web promo, http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FC5LaunchMediaPlan, linked to a fully- dedicated page for FC5 launch, that brings all major achievements and thorough explanations. Also including links to other sub-projects, how to contribute, etc
Here are some links that can be useful.
Overview - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Overview Projects - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Projects How to contribute - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/HelpWanted Communicate - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate I18N websites - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/CommunityWebsites
How does these sound?
Sounds good.
If someone can tell me what are the **5 main "kick-ass-features" of FC5 from a user perspective** and also provide me with their explanations, I'll write the press release.
Depends on what the end user is using Fedora for, there are a huge number of improvements in the desktop, server and development world. The overview presents most of the important details
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Beats/OverView
Once this new press release is written, polish it with the feedback from this list and others and publish it for translation. Then we can probably link to it from the release announcement and viceversa in sync.
Did you check out the proposed press release draft?
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FC5PressRelease
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On Wed, 8 Mar 2006, David Barzilay wrote:
Hi All,
I was expecting some more progress on the Press Release to announce our FC5 Lanuch Media Plan, but time is running out.
Please check: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FC5LaunchMediaPlan
. chillout.tar.gz is a 100% opensource-localizeable-web-promo. Feel free to use it and also to localize it in your own language (GUIDELINES: open file with inscape; click on the text tool; translate text; then click file -> export bitmap, making sure "page" is selected in dialog window, choose resolution, click browse and choose destination, then click export)
. impress.tar.gz brings a couple of slide templates. 1st and content pages. Again, feel free to localize it
This page outlines all communications activities involving the launch of FC5. A big worldwide splash I envisioned some time ago, and was willing to coordinate with Ambassadors worldwide on a timely manner (I know it's not perfect but can be improved).
Truth is we are VERY LATE with all these. Someone needs to pick the highest points from the user perspective of FC5 and write a proper press release (max 3 pages) in the next two days so we'll have time to translate it in various languages and send it to the media. Or maybe two press releases: one for the masses and another one for techies.
Remember! Not everyone has the same knowledge you have. Whats seems easy for you, can be quite hard and worky for others.
Hope I have helped.
Best,
db
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Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote:
Did you check out the proposed press release draft?
That has already been pointed out earlier in the discussion.
item 2 FedoraLibraries Owner: ChitleshGoorah Description: Inform about this project. Bring up with some ideas. What do we lack for this project Owner not present
Start with yourself Chitlesh. Talk to your local library and see what can be done.
Gregdek was supposed to write a letter ?
Pretty much zero intake on this so far. I would like to see people here volunteer to get this done as a tour in the wiki. Time is running out.
Ive started to add some materials on my livecd as i sais before in my mail. abhisek will bring on an enhanced html for me. As well, Davidnelly talked with me and decided to make some videos for livecds
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