Re: Self introduction - fale
by Justin W. Flory
Hi Fabio, and welcome to the Marketing team! I will reply in-line to
your email.
On 01/18/2016 05:56 AM, Fabio Alessandro Locati wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm fale, a Fedora user, ambassador and packager.
> You can find basic information about me on my Wiki page [0], so I'll not
> repeat those.
I think it's great that you're deciding to get involved with Marketing
in addition to those areas. You bring a unique perspective both as
someone active in the code of Fedora and also in the field as an
Ambassador. Having this additional perspectives can help add to your
contributions in Marketing. :)
> I'd like to help out more in the marketing side, because when I'm out
> there as an ambassador, I often find myself to think that the
> communication is not always clear due to some inconsistencies that are
> present in the documentation, wiki, websites of the project itself.
> Therefore I'd like to help out addressing those issues.
> Another thing that I noticed is that sometimes people make comparison
> between Fedora and other distro/OS based on what they read on their
> favourite blogs/twitter/planet and solely based on those thing they make
> their idea about the quantity of available software as well as it's
> quality. For this reason I'd also like to help out speaking (like on the
> Magazine) about some packages I'm taking care of.
>
> For those reasons, I'd like to help out the Marketing team.
> The first things I'd like to do are:
>
> - clean up/sort/order the outreach wiki pages that are pretty messy
> (I've seen that the Italian community has tens of pages that are
> completely outdated laying around)
Wiki gardening has been a hot topic lately, and it's something that the
Fedora Community Operations (CommOps) team is helping handle and
improve. Specifically on the topic of Outreach, this is an area that
we've been working closely with, especially with Fedora's recent
involvement with the Outreachy program.
I recommend that you also check out the CommOps team too and see what's
going on over there. You may find that there are things that you may be
able to help with there too. :)
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/CommOps
> - an article about AWS CLI and boto3 that just arrived to Fedora (I'm
> working toward bringing those to EL too)
> - an article about NSD4 that is in testing right now
That's awesome that you're looking to contribute to the Magazine! There
are a few resources in place that will help you get started writing.
Firstly, read this page about the writing process for the Magazine and
the different stages of articles. Everything starts off as a pitch, and
to help prevent wasted time, your article "idea" starts as a pitch, then
becomes a draft, and then will be ready for editing and review before
final publishing.
https://fedoramagazine.org/writing-an-article-for-the-fedora-magazine/
Writing a good pitch is also helpful not only to help clarify your idea,
but it's also a good time for you to plan out a rough outline of what
you want to write about. See this page about writing a good pitch.
https://fedoramagazine.org/writing-a-new-pitch/
> I hope to be able to help out a lot,
> Best regards,
> Fabio A Locati
>
> [0] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Fale
Looking forward to seeing you more in Marketing! If you're free on
Thursdays at 22:00 UTC, you should come to the weekly Magazine editorial
board meetings.
Also, check out this poll and add your free time to it for helping plan
2016 Marketing meetings. We're looking at picking these back up soon, so
it's not too late to add your times.
http://whenisgood.net/fedora/marketing/2016/newmeeting
--
Cheers,
Justin W. Flory
jflory7(a)gmail.com
8 years, 3 months
[Magazine] Fedora "Year in Review" article scheduled
by Justin W. Flory
Hello all,
"What is a Fedora “Year in Review”?" is drafted, edited, and scheduled
for tomorrow at 8:00 UTC. The article should be complete, but any second
looks, as always, are appreciated!
https://fedoramagazine.org/?p=11572&preview=true
Since I only started the draft today, there was no where to put a
featured image yet, but I noticed the one that Paul committed two days
ago. I loaded it up in Inkscape and exported it as a PNG and just used that.
--
Cheers,
Justin W. Flory
jflory7(a)gmail.com
8 years, 3 months
[Reading] What makes a good community?
by Justin W. Flory
Hi all,
I stumbled across this article by Sarah Sharp, a former Linux kernel
developer. There was a lot of controversy stirred up after the
explanation of why she left the Linux kernel community, which is also a
good read if you aren't familiar.
In October, she published an article about what makes a good (and
healthy) open source community. In light of our recent discussion about
women in computing and the article that we have planned for the
CommBlog, I thought this was a good resource to check out.
http://sarah.thesharps.us/2015/10/06/what-makes-a-good-community/
--
Cheers,
Justin W. Flory
jflory7(a)gmail.com
8 years, 3 months
Year in Review - CommOps Special Edition
by Justin W. Flory
Hello all,
Today, in #fedora-commops, Remy, Bee, myself, a few others helped
collaborate on a rough outline of our own 2015 highlights and goals for
2016. Since we are the ones helping push for this across Fedora, it is
important that we get our own Year in Review as soon as possible - we're
looking as early as Thursday!
To help expedite the process, I'd like to ask you all to please view
this Etherpad and give a quick review. Although the minimum we required
was three 2015 highlights and one 2016 goal, we are doing a few more to
set a precedent that although that is the minimum, you don't *have* to
just three + one.
http://etherpad.osuosl.org/fedora-commops-yir-2015
To summarize the Etherpad:
**2015 Highlights**:
1) Community Operations is now an official subgroup
2) Community Blog offers a cumulative source of all news "Fedora",
from inside the project
3) CommOps involvement with 2015 December Elections increased
participation and made it the fourth most participated in Election of
all time
**2016 Goals**:
1) Increased centralization of the Fedora Project community with
the Community Blog, increased availability of metrics, and support for
different subgroups
1.1) Increasing content and traffic on the Community Blog by
doubling our content and traffic by the end of 2016 (?)
2) Instrument the unification of communication channels
(auto-publishing of approved Fedora content on social media channels,
Fedora Hubs deployed and new face of community by 2017)
3) Reaching more diverse types of contributors in Fedora
3.1) Goes hand in hand with Outreachy and more Graphics / Docs /
Translation / Games people. This needs a number to be a true "goal" -
shouldn't be an empty number but should also be realistic. Would be good
to get mizmo, tatica, and bee2502's thoughts about where we should target!
4) Onboarding badge series for all subprojects
This is all open to discussion, hoping to get some feedback about these
highlights and goals. :)
--
Cheers,
Justin W. Flory
jflory7(a)gmail.com
8 years, 3 months
CommOps Weekly Meeting Recap 2016-01-12
by Justin W. Flory
Today was a *super* packed meeting! Definitely recommend reading through
the summary and / or logs if you weren't able to attend today. There's a
lot on the horizon for CommOps!
Meeting ended Tue Jan 12 18:05:18 2016 UTC.
Minutes:
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-2/2016-01-12/commops.2016...
Minutes (text):
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-2/2016-01-12/commops.2016...
Log:
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-2/2016-01-12/commops.2016...
* * *
==========================
#fedora-meeting-2: CommOps
==========================
Meeting started by jflory7 at 17:02:47 UTC. The full logs are available
at
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-2/2016-01-12/commops.2016...
.
Meeting summary
---------------
* Roll Call (jflory7, 17:03:10)
* Name; Timezone; Subprojects/Interest Areas (jflory7, 17:03:15)
* Justin W. Flory; UTC-5; CommOps / Marketing / Fedora Join /
Ambassadors / etc. (jflory7, 17:03:41)
* decause; UTC-5; CommOps, Council, Ambassadors, * (decause,
17:03:42)
* aikidouke (aikidouke, 17:04:01)
* Tickets (jflory7, 17:06:08)
* === Ticket #8 - https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-commops/ticket/8 ===
(jflory7, 17:06:14)
* * CommBlog Article: Flock Call for Bids (jflory7, 17:06:20)
* ACTION: jflory7 / decause: Make sure people with the social media
powers are subscribed to the social-media mailing list (jflory7,
17:08:52)
* === Ticket #15 - https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-commops/ticket/15
=== (jflory7, 17:09:13)
* * Hook up email posting functionality for CommBlog (jflory7,
17:09:20)
* ACTION: jflory7 Ask puiterwijk about this, see if ticket should be
filed in Fedora Infra Trac (jflory7, 17:09:26)
* AGREED: Assign puiterwijk Ticket #15 in CommOps Trac (jflory7,
17:12:24)
* === Ticket #17 - https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-commops/ticket/17
=== (jflory7, 17:12:47)
* * Interview Fedora's Diversity and Inclusion Advisor, tatica
(jflory7, 17:12:51)
* ACTION: decause/jflory ping tatica, invite her to commops list
(decause, 17:15:15)
* LINK: https://opensource.com/how-conduct-interview-opensourcecom
(decause, 17:16:26)
* AGREED: Contact tatica_ about the plans to conduct the interview,
begin the process of bringing everything together (cc her on Trac
ticket) (jflory7, 17:19:55)
* ACTION: jflory7 CC tatica on Ticket #17 (jflory7, 17:20:08)
* === #Ticket #20 - https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-commops/ticket/20
=== (jflory7, 17:20:53)
* * Year in Review - CommOps Retrospective (jflory7, 17:21:00)
* LINK: http://etherpad.osuosl.org/fedora-commops-yir-2015 (jflory7,
17:21:04)
* ACTION: jflory7 Raise Ticket #20 priority (jflory7, 17:22:27)
* AGREED: Finish outline for CommOps YiR article today, begin porting
to a CommBlog article today / tomorrow, get feedback in channel
while working on this and on mailing list once finished (jflory7,
17:24:27)
* ACTION: decause/jflory7 post request for YiR input to announce list
(decause, 17:26:05)
* LINK:
https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/share-your-year-in-review-with-fe...
(jflory7, 17:27:19)
* EoW = End of Week (decause, 17:29:37)
* ACTION: mailga ping mktg list again on retrospective to be completed
by end of week (decause, 17:30:48)
* === Ticket #22 - https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-commops/ticket/22
=== (jflory7, 17:31:15)
* * Publishing graphics tools / resources via Fedora Magazine Images
Repo (jflory7, 17:31:22)
* LINK:
https://fedoramagazine.org/creating-a-featured-image-for-a-fedora-magazin...
(jflory7, 17:32:06)
* LINK: https://unsplash.com/license (aikidouke, 17:35:16)
* LINK: https://unsplash.com/ (jflory7, 17:36:19)
* ACTION: jflory7 Add Unsplash.com as a resource for finding images to
"Writing for CommBlog" page (jflory7, 17:36:38)
* AGREED: Fedora Magazine Images repo in CommOps toolbox, to be
mentioned / added to "Writing for CommBlog" - still an ongoing
discussion, details will be added to ticket for further discussion
(jflory7, 17:38:01)
* Wiki Gardening (jflory7, 17:38:26)
* ACTION: NewMembers Add your timezone / interests on CommOps Wiki [
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/CommOps ] (jflory7, 17:38:31)
* LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Community_Leader (decause,
17:39:38)
* ACTION: commops create a ticket to create a wiki page for Release
Manager, RelEng Lead, and Diversity and Inclusion Advisor (among any
other new Fedora Leadership postions not on the wiki yet) (decause,
17:42:57)
* ACTION: jflory7 Add clarification about Magazine vs. CommBlog to our
toolbox, add section to Community Blog wiki page about CommBlog vs.
Magazine specifically (jflory7, 17:43:11)
* ACTION: jflory7 Open ticket on Trac about starting initiative /
movement to encourage subgroups to merge related wiki pages
(reducing clutter) (jflory7, 17:47:15)
* ACTION: jflory7 / mailga: Create and discuss a ticket about the
Marketing retrospective and its usefulness for the Year in Review
article as well (jflory7, 17:48:35)
* Community Blog (jflory7, 17:54:21)
* === This Week in CommBlog === (jflory7, 17:54:26)
* * “Top Badgers” of 2015: Robbie Harwood (rharwood) (jflory7,
17:54:31)
* LINK:
https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/top-badgers-of-2015-robbie-harwoo...
(jflory7, 17:54:36)
* Total Views (Jan. 7 - 11): 30 (jflory7, 17:54:40)
* ACTION: bee2502 file a ticket on Commops to update Fedora women wiki
page asap (bee2502_, 17:54:43)
* === Coming Up in CommBlog === (jflory7, 17:54:51)
* More "Top Badgers" articles scheduled (jflory7, 17:54:55)
* CommOps Year in Review - already discussed in Ticket #20 (jflory7,
17:55:04)
* Women in Computing article - discussed earlier (jflory7, 17:55:15)
* ACTION: jflory7 / decause Add "Top Badger" article to bkp email
about social-media (jflory7, 17:55:38)
* "Year in Review" articles for CommOps and other subgroups is top
priority on the CommBlog for the next few weeks (jflory7, 17:56:54)
* LINK: http://threebean.org/videos/fedmsg2gource/webm/ (threebean,
17:57:24)
* LINK: http://threebean.org/videos/fedmsg2gource/webm/ (decause,
17:57:49)
* ACTION: decause find out if there is a place for Fedora Videos like
YouTube or Vimdeo (decause, 17:59:33)
* Flock (jflory7, 18:00:17)
* CommOps will be playing a larger role in Flock Planning this year
(jflory7, 18:00:23)
* Flock-planning meeting call tomorrow at 19:00 UTC. Will report back
to list, cc commops list (jflory7, 18:00:54)
* bex will be doing a site visit in Krakow this weekend, will report
back with more financial details next week (decause, 18:01:26)
* Open Floor (jflory7, 18:01:55)
* ACTION: jflory7 / decause Follow up with bkp about if Fedora has a
YouTube (jflory7, 18:03:00)
Meeting ended at 18:05:18 UTC.
Action Items
------------
* jflory7 / decause: Make sure people with the social media powers are
subscribed to the social-media mailing list
* jflory7 Ask puiterwijk about this, see if ticket should be filed in
Fedora Infra Trac
* decause/jflory ping tatica, invite her to commops list
* jflory7 CC tatica on Ticket #17
* jflory7 Raise Ticket #20 priority
* decause/jflory7 post request for YiR input to announce list
* mailga ping mktg list again on retrospective to be completed by end of
week
* jflory7 Add Unsplash.com as a resource for finding images to "Writing
for CommBlog" page
* NewMembers Add your timezone / interests on CommOps Wiki [
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/CommOps ]
* commops create a ticket to create a wiki page for Release Manager,
RelEng Lead, and Diversity and Inclusion Advisor (among any other new
Fedora Leadership postions not on the wiki yet)
* jflory7 Add clarification about Magazine vs. CommBlog to our toolbox,
add section to Community Blog wiki page about CommBlog vs. Magazine
specifically
* jflory7 Open ticket on Trac about starting initiative / movement to
encourage subgroups to merge related wiki pages (reducing clutter)
* jflory7 / mailga: Create and discuss a ticket about the Marketing
retrospective and its usefulness for the Year in Review article as
well
* bee2502 file a ticket on Commops to update Fedora women wiki page asap
* jflory7 / decause Add "Top Badger" article to bkp email about
social-media
* decause find out if there is a place for Fedora Videos like YouTube or
Vimdeo
* jflory7 / decause Follow up with bkp about if Fedora has a YouTube
Action Items, by person
-----------------------
* bee2502
* bee2502 file a ticket on Commops to update Fedora women wiki page
asap
* decause
* jflory7 / decause: Make sure people with the social media powers are
subscribed to the social-media mailing list
* decause/jflory ping tatica, invite her to commops list
* decause/jflory7 post request for YiR input to announce list
* jflory7 / decause Add "Top Badger" article to bkp email about
social-media
* decause find out if there is a place for Fedora Videos like YouTube
or Vimdeo
* jflory7 / decause Follow up with bkp about if Fedora has a YouTube
* jflory7
* jflory7 / decause: Make sure people with the social media powers are
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* jflory7 Ask puiterwijk about this, see if ticket should be filed in
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* jflory7 Add clarification about Magazine vs. CommBlog to our
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* jflory7 / decause Add "Top Badger" article to bkp email about
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* jflory7 / decause Follow up with bkp about if Fedora has a YouTube
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* mailga ping mktg list again on retrospective to be completed by end
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8 years, 3 months
End of Year Marketing Retrospective
by Remy DeCausemaker
mktgs,
Across the Project, one of the tools we use to get better at what wedo
is a Retrospective. This is a report compiled by contributors that
more or less lists the things that went well/not-so-well, and ideas
for improvement. You can find examples on the wiki (QA has some recent
pages like https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_21_QA_Retrospective
and https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_21_Retrospective)
Marketing Retrospectives were once based upon SOPs (Standard Operating
Procedures) for doing marketing tasks like creating the alpha/beta/final
announcements, briefing ambassadors, and other interesting and crucial
work. Some are a bit dated, but you can find them here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Marketing_SOPs
Since we didn't totally stick to an SOP for releases this year, we're
just going to gather extra 'after the fact' feedback and data to make
improvements to our process, going back to Fedora 22 when possible.
Here are a few questions we'd like to take a stab at answering on our wiki page:
- What did we do right?
- What can we do better?
- Where did we have gaps?
- How did we bridge them?
After we've gotten this retrospective fleshed out, we'd like to
reinstate regular mktg meetings on IRC in early 2016. Keep an eye on
the lists for updates.
If folks have any questions about this email, or additional questions
they think would provide value to the retrospective, please update the
wiki before Friday 12/18 (or even just respond here, and commops will
update the wiki from this thread.)
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/2015_marketing_retrospective
Looking Forward,
--RemyD.
P.S. --
Too often FOSS Communities must take care not to settle into negative
feedback loops. Below is an excellent quote from some further reading
on the subject of pointing fingers and blamery, recommended to me by
mattdm:
"...it's like peeing in your pants. You feel relieved and perhaps even
nice and warm for a little while, but then it gets cold and
uncomfortable..."
~Sydney Decker, "A Look at Looking in the Mirror" by J. Paul Reed.''
http://www.slideshare.net/jhand2/its-not-your-fault-blameless-post-mortems
https://codeascraft.com/2012/05/22/blameless-postmortems/
Retrospectives are all about identifying direction and moving forward
in a positive manner :)
--
Remy DeCausemaker
Fedora Community Lead & Council
<decause(a)redhat.com>
https://whatcanidoforfedora.org
8 years, 3 months
Re: Using the fedoramagazine-images repo
by Remy DeCausemaker
On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 1:56 PM, Joe Brockmeier <jzb(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> On 01/07/2016 06:10 PM, Paul W. Frields wrote:
>> If you want to try your hand at making a banner image for the
>> Magazine, start by using the templates that Ryan has helpfully
>> provided. You'll need the Inkscape app installed.
>>
>> 1. Open a terminal.
>>
>> 2. (optional) Change directory to the folder where you like to store
>> your project work.
>>
>> $ cd projects # or some other folder
>>
>> 3. Clone the repository
>>
>> $ git clone https://pagure.io/fedoramagazine-images.git
>>
>> 4. Open Inkscape, and choose File > Open... (or Ctrl+O). Navigate to
>> the project folder, then into "fedoramagazine-images", then into
>> "images." Choose the "template.svg" file.
>>
>> 5. Save this as a *new* file with a different name.
>>
>> You can use the assets inside this file to start with the right sized
>> document, with some pre-configured backgrounds. Feel free to look at
>> other SVGs for guidance. Try to stick with fonts and motifs that you
>> see in recent banners. But also feel free to experiment. For
>> instance, use photographs (freely licensed, such as CC-BY or CC-BY-SA)
>> with a text overlay for a nice look.
>>
>> If you'd like to post your work somewhere, it's helpful to convert it
>> to a JPG first. Save your SVG in the "fedoramagazine-images/images/"
>> folder as above. Let's say it's called "mybanner.svg". Open a
>> terminal, go to that directory, and type "make mybanner.jpg" and that
>> will create the correct sized JPG for you. You can post that online,
>> and post the URL of the JPG to this list.
>>
>> * Don't attach files to email to this list -- URLs are preferred.
>
> Does this content live somewhere like the community blog? Cause...
> that'd be a cool thing to put there.
>
> Best,
>
> jzb
Agreed! Publicizing our Open graphics as a tool available to Fedorans
who are contributing written content, or looking to promote our
content visually is an excellent idea.
#action commops add a link to "Fedora Magazine Images Repo" to
"commops toolbox" wiki entry
(https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/CommOps#Toolbox)
#action commops add this (as a ticket?) to be discussed during "Wiki
Gardening" on the meeting agenda for next week (1/12)
As far as adding it to the CommBlog, I think we should add it into our
"How to write for CommBlog" article that we point folks to.
#action commops add "Fedora Magazine Images Repo" section in the "How
to write for CommBlog" article
(https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/writing-community-blog-article/)
Good Call,
--RemyD.
--
Remy DeCausemaker
Fedora Community Lead & Council
<decause(a)redhat.com>
https://whatcanidoforfedora.org
8 years, 3 months
