Introduction
by Nick Bebout
Hi Everyone,
I think most people already know me, but I just joined this mailing list.
nb
8 years, 3 months
"Year in Review" Series: Collecting responses
by Justin W. Flory
Hey all,
Bee and I were discussing in IRC this morning about the "Year in Review"
series we are planning on doing into 2016. I was planning on having the
announcement article prepared by our next meeting.
However, it came up about the best way to (1) spread word to the other
subgroups about writing an article and (2) how to best collect data for
each subgroup to provide them an image-with-data.
I feel like the best way to spread the word about this would be posting
to each subgroup's mailing list... but I'm a little unsure of that and
wanted to see what the rest of you thought.
As for collecting data, this is easier with code contributions that are
easily trackable in numbers. But for advocacy and other not-so-numbery
tasks, like Ambassadors, Design, and Marketing, it makes their
contributions to the Project a little more difficult to track.
Curious to get some more input on this.
For those celebrating, happy Thanksgiving as well!
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Cheers,
Justin W. Flory
jflory7(a)gmail.com
8 years, 3 months
Top YouTube review of Fedora 23
by Justin W. Flory
Hey all,
I was flipping through YouTube reviews of Fedora 23, and I thought the
second top-viewed hit for a review was worth sharing:
https://youtu.be/o-ABwueBMtY
Overall, the reviewer only had very positive things to say about the
distro, saying it was one of the best Fedora releases he's used and
praising how far the distro has come over the years (the top hit is just
a generic, neutral "what's new" video, didn't seem as personal).
I'm also CC'ing the social-media list as I think this might be a good
idea to share out across the channels!
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Cheers,
Justin W. Flory
jflory7(a)gmail.com
8 years, 3 months
CommBlog - Permissions update
by Justin W. Flory
Hey all,
Just wanted to share a small update on some changes I made to the
permissions tonight. I wanted to mirror the Magazine's article approval
process while making it more lenient for new contributors.
I made the new default role for the CommBlog a "contributor" that does
not have access to publish, but should be able to write new posts, edit
them, and access the panel.
The idea is that once they write their article, they can email the list
asking for approval and can have it reviewed. After one or two articles
with this approval process, they can be granted "author" privileges,
which includes the ability to self-publish and moderate comments.
If anyone feels it should be different, I'm open for discussion!
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Cheers,
Justin W. Flory
jflory7(a)gmail.com
8 years, 3 months
WCIDFF? Refresh!
by Remy DeCausemaker
https://whatcanidoforfedora.org
This is a *sweet* tool in our toolbox. https://github.com/fedora-infra/asknot-ng
It is our Fedora Sorting Hat to help new contributors find their way
to the places where their interests and Fedora's needs align. It is a
rewrite of a Mozilla repo, and our rewrite has since been forked and
is in use by GNOME. Really cool story :)
After speaking with mattdm earlier today, we wanted to be sure we were
being proactive about refreshing our join site.
Some things that we discussed:
- Adding more leafs to the decision tree (other SIGs and WGs, etc...)
- Adding a new/intermediate/advanced/wizard head at the top of the tree?
- Updating the questions and responses with more clever things (it's
already pretty clever :) )
Perhaps we can file a ticket on the tracker, as per mailga's prompting
today to use our trac more fully going forward :)
Good work this week folks, and I'll probably catch you more or less
after the Holiday here in the US.
Looking Forward,
--RemyD.
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Remy DeCausemaker
Fedora Community Lead & Council
<decause(a)redhat.com>
https://whatcanidoforfedora.org
8 years, 3 months
Fedora Elections - Volunteers needed :)
by Jan Kurik
Hi CommOps people,
I am looking for some volunteers to help me with publishing Q/A
articles with nominees in currently running Elections on Community
Blog.
What exactly I need is a few people getting in touch with nominees and
help them to publish their answers to questions in Election
Questionnaire [1].
A note: There is no question for FAmSCo team in the questionnaire. As
the FAmSCo team should hand over their responsibilities to FOSCo, it
makes probably sense to help nominees formulate their own ideas on how
FAmSCo should transform to FOSCo.
As such, for FAmSCo there probably will be more work on the article as
it will be a "free text".
Please let me know off the list if you are interested in this work.
bee2502, keekri: Are you still willing to help me ?
Thanks and Best Regards,
Jan
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Jan Kuřík
Platform & Fedora Program Manager
Red Hat Czech s.r.o., Purkynova 99/71, 612 45 Brno, Czech Republic
8 years, 3 months
Re: 5tftw status
by Justin W. Flory
On 11/24/2015 11:10 PM, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 10:34:40PM -0500, Justin W. Flory wrote:
>> Just wanted to ask about the 5tftw series and check in about the status
>> of the next upcoming article. There's a nice, healthy amount of
>> information available on the Piratepad that we've drafted up, so you
>> should have a nice queue of information to pick from when writing your
>> next article.
>
> Hey, thanks! I was hit with computer tragedy (it was a hardware
> problem! I'm a software person!) and just got all my stuff back up
> today. I saw all the awesome stuff there -- thanks. I was gonna write
> it up tomorrow. If I fail at that for some reason, I'll let you know.
> :)
Hardware failures are the worst - glad you're back up and running!
Thanks for the update.
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Cheers,
Justin W. Flory
jflory7(a)gmail.com
8 years, 3 months