marketing meeting
by Marc Wiriadisastra
Where does this marketing meeting take place. I'm an onlooker with ideas
although very minimal talents :(
However I'm in Australia
I'm just curious as to how to contribute and also whether there will be a
'report' type thing put somewhere for other people to read who are
interested in contributing.
BTW hey all my first mail
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Marc Wiriadisastra
18 years, 9 months
ANNOUNCEMENT: Marketing meeting
by Colin Charles
Be there or be square
Yes, the times are:
THURSDAY JULY 15, 15:00 UTC
THURSDAY JULY 14, 11:00 Eastern US
THURSDAY JULY 14, 08:00 Western US
THURSDAY JULY 15, 17:00 Berlin
FRIDAY JULY 15, 01:00 Melbourne (UTC+10)
The agenda is from my post on July 1st (pasted here for posterity)
Be on irc.freenode.net at #fedora-marketing. This should be expected to
last a total of 1 hour.
See you there.
==agenda==
So for our inagural meeting (to which time we ought to decide for),
let's discuss:
1. Our goals
(greg has suggested "explain, promote and recruit for
individual Fedora projects.")
2. A logo competition
- have a panel to decide on (non-)goat-like content
3. Swag/goodies
- what do we want, after we've achieved (2)
4. How do we reward contributors
- who is a contributor?
- what levels do we have...
- how do we give away (3) conveniently
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18 years, 9 months
notes from LWCE planning meeting 13 July 2005
by Karsten Wade
Rough, but ready:
LWCE planning for August 2005 SF
13 July 2005
Attendees:
==========
Jack
Greg
Jesse
Karsten
Warren
Spot
#################
Equipment:
==========
Table skirt
Jack has to get to RDU
Vinyl sign
Logo treatment? not much can be done
Greg still to talk to Marketing, if need to
Jack look for local to SF vinyl sign provider
Hand-outs
Take to Marketing meeting
T-shirts
Greg to send
DVDs
Greg has this PITA
Live CD
Jack waiting to hear from Elliot/Summer of Code
Jesse to make sure hardware includes CD burner
Gift cert and one-offs
Greg has to do
Greg must send handful of travel mugs, Red Hat water for special needs
(to booth)
PPC
Spot to bring his MacMini
Pogo system
Sounds like system is coming
Projector
rental in SF?
Monitors
Jack waiting for POC at AMD
Karsten back up CRTs to lug
KM
Spot bring keyboard/Mouse for Mini
AP
Warren to bring his
Power strips
Warren has this one
Shipping
All covered currently
Presentations:
==============
Call for papers
Spot - building good packages
Extras - what it is, why it is (Spot)
Webbink?
Marketing:
==========
Advertising our booth
Fedoraproject.org mag
Greg ongoing
Red Hat Magazine
Copy due this Friday, 19 July to go in
Free passes
Going out this coming Friday
Handout
Description of project, sub-projects, URLs
Jack/Greg, Karsten formatting clean-up
BOF
9 Aug. 5:30 - 7 pm (Jack arranged)
Loc. Unknown BOF room
Show prize entry
Jack has
Greg to confirm no conflicts with Red Hat entries
Presentation coordinator
tabled until needed
Message for the show
Tabled
community involvement - extras, documentation
Logo type fun
follow-up later
Staffing (aka Manpower):
========================
Exhibitor badges
Jack has covered this
Warren added
Setup/Tear down
8th - booth available by 11 am, 6 pm finish
All - put in your availability schedule
How to get reliable manpower
Solicit fedora-maintainers
Greg - get us the list of RH booth people to solicit
Karsten - solicit MTV
Schedule - 27th set in stone
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18 years, 9 months
FUDCon in London?
by Alex
Hello guys,
I am organizing the booth for Red Hat at LinuxWorld Expo, and my idea
was to piggyback a FUDCon on LWE UK. The event is on October 5-6, and
takes place in London, Olympia.
LWE UK is also eager to cooperate with us and have promised to look
into how much support they can give us--a couple of rooms, PA system,
projector, etc.
Michael Tiemann will very likely be in town at the same time, so we
could benefit from that by asking him to give a keynote.
On my side, I promise undivided attention and all support I can give,
including lobbying Red Hat into giving us some money for this FUDCon,
like they did for the FUDCon II.
What do you think? Should we go for it?
a
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the name "fedora"
by Thilo Pfennig
Hi,
I tend to like the idea to interpret the name "Fedora" primarily as a
female name. I think it would be nice if Fedora distinguishes itself
from other distros to be somehow pro equal rights. A Linux that is not
made for men as primary focus. I think this is important. Anybody has
seen the speech of Jeff Waugh (GNOME) at the GUADEC 2005 in Stuttgart?
(Theora:
http://stream.fluendo.com/archive/6uadec/Jeff_Waugh_-_Project_Topaz.ogg )
He had some good points about righting software for girls... ;-) watch
this video its nice. I think what counts for GNOME also kinds for any
distribution.
Also after the creation of DebianWomen there is also GnomeWomen:
http://live.gnome.org/GnomeWomen .
Thilo
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18 years, 9 months
Fedora Boot for LWCE:SF
by Jesse Keating
Now that FUDCon2 is over, and we've pretty much decided to not have a
FUDCon3 in SF can we put some serious resources into planning the Fedora
Booth for LWCE:SF?
We've had a couple booths under our belts now, and I think it's time for
us to progress beyond the 'tossed together last minute' feel of the
booths that I've seen. Not to take away from any great effort that
booth people have put in in the past, just having a booth is an amazing
amount of work. But with more and more people willing to help out I
think we have the opportunity to do a bit more.
Having some systems in the booth is good, having them DO SOMETHING is
even better. Since we're not going to have any FUDCon talks, I thought
doing some mini presentations in the booth using the systems might be a
good way to draw some people over and show them what it really is.
Personally, I'd love to do a mini talk on kickstart complete with a
system being kickstarted. By the same token somebody (or myself) can do
a talk in just regular installs because I feel that the installer is one
of the best parts of the distribution, and it is unique. Rather than
talking about 'and this is how the new openoffice.org looks on OUR
distro! See the widgets!?' we can talk about what really sets the
distribution aside.
In past LWCEs I've been to, the majority of the crowd are 'why would we
use your distro' and not 'how can we contribute to your distro', so I
think pitching our mini-presentations toward _users_ and if they proceed
to ask about contribution, then we can have side discussions about
contribution. Maybe we could score a little round table or something so
that people that want to talk contribution and project stuff can sit
down and take a load off instead of stacking up in front of the booth
and blocking the way for people that want to take a look at the shinys.
I also think we should have a good diversity of arches represented, an
Intel box, an AMD box (dual cores anybody?), I'll have my Apple laptop
but maybe a mac mini would be cool for the table. I'd like to do what
some other booths have done, have one system (or maybe all systems w/ a
switcher) plugged into a projector and the projector projecting on the
back wall of the booth or the corner of the booth or something like that
so that people bring their eyes up and look ahead instead of stooping to
look at table level monitors or whatnot. It could also free table space
for systems instead of having a bunch of (heavy) monitors stacked up.
Of course, there is the swag aspect too. I assume we'll have t-shirts
galore again (do they HAVE to be white?), CDs or DVDs of the distro
(maybe we can ping vendors again for vendor branded ones rather than
paying to master them ourselves), but what about some higher class items
for the people that have a sit down talk about contributing (maybe even
an extras contributor account sign up kiosk)? We won't advertise the
items so that we don't get freeloaders just faking a talk to get swag,
but for those that have a genuine interest we can give them something to
thank them for their time?
Anywho, these are my thoughts for now, I'm sure I'll have more soon.
I'd like to start a wiki page for the booth planning, anybody have a
preference where this page goes?
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18 years, 9 months
Technetra:Review: Fedora Core 4
by Rahul Sundaram
Hi
http://www.technetra.com/writings/recent/review_fedora_core4_html. This
was originally published in Linux for you in India
"
Every Fedora Core release outshines the previous one, Fedora Core 4
maintains this pattern with an excellent collection of the latest open
source packages and improved performance. Two areas that still need some
work are out-of-the-box sound mixing and package management.
My hope is that future releases of Fedora Core will attract even greater
community participation, especially as the Fedora Foundation takes shape."
regards
Rahul
18 years, 9 months
reports from FUDCon2?
by Paul Stauffer
Anyone who attended FUDCon2 care to give us a report on how things went?
- Paul
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Computer Science Department
Boston University
18 years, 9 months
Re: Cool Fedora schwag idea
by Greg DeKoenigsberg
So here's the meat of the argument:
On the one hand, you want to recognize people. Why?
* To thank them for their achievements.
* To hold them up to the world as exemplary.
* To encourage others to follow their example.
But on the other hand, such recognition is inherently exclusionary --
because some achieve, and some don't.
The letterman's jacket is, I see clearly now, too highly charged for too
many people. I liked the idea because of the "geeks inherit the earth"
message, all the way down to the letterman jackets, but I see clearly that
it's too easily misinterpreted, and as much as I'd like to disagree, I
can't.
Still, I think that the notion of pins/letters/merit badges/etc. is a good
one, and I would argue that it *should* be exclusionary. Either you
earned it, or you didn't.
So maybe just the pins, awarded for excellence. Wear them on your Fedora
ballcap brim, or your T-shirt, or hanging from your pierced left nipple.
How does that idea feel to people? A bit less ugly-clique-ish?
***
As an aside: to me, this is the real value of this group -- discussing
ideas like this. Figuring out "all of the messaging behind Fedora" is a
strategic problem that will take time to figure out. But working out
tactical questions like "better schwag" and "names for FC5" and
"fund-raising activities" is an ideal use of this group's time, IMHO.
So thanks for all of your helpful input. Thanks even to Seth for the
public ass-whipping. :)
--g
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