marketing March 2006

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30 minutes presentation
by Chitlesh GOORAH 04 Apr '06

04 Apr '06

Hai there, These days, Im kinda busy, It might happen I wont be present for tomorrow's meeting. Tomorrow, I have a 30 minutes presentation to first year undergraduate kids at my university. Just to let you know :) http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ChitleshGoorah/LicenseESA My impress presentation is uploaded there :) The theme (For me) will be LIVE CDs, the overall topic is "opensource and you" I built a livecd, added gcc and man pages as my lecturer wished. There will be 12 copies of this livecd available which will be launched on our lab's computers. Eventually if someone wants to have a copy, will have one too. The presentations will be held in a computer lab which can accommodate about 25-30 humans. Afterwards, there might be a chance the afterwards my uni will give my access to host my livecds :) but that's only words for the moment, we'll see afterwards. for the package list, the wiki doesn't seem to like the list b'coz it threw python exception over me. Ill see afterwards to add it again. tchung you may move the wiki page http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ChitleshGoorah/LicenseESA to the Marketing/** to a proper place but do leave a forward at ChitleshGoorah/LicenseESA please. thanks Ive added it this little event to FedoraEvents; Cheers, Chitlesh GOORAH -- http://clunixchit.blogspot.com

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Rethinking the Freemedia problem
by Greg DeKoenigsberg 02 Apr '06

02 Apr '06

Just free thinking here. Stop me if I'm an idiot. :) We've clearly got LOTS of demand. What we need is more participants. BUT... we don't want to burden participants like we've burdened poor Thomas. :) Maybe we need more structure and tools to scale participation -- and a way to "guarantee" response times. So let me bounce this structure off you: 1. THE RECRUITER PAGE. Maybe we make a real easy webpage that says something like this: Join Up! Lots of messaging here about how you're sharing the fun! Tell us: * Name and email; * Where you live; * Whether you prefer to send CDs, DVDs, or both; * Where you're willing to send CDs/DVDs; * How many per week you're willing to send. 2. THE INPUT QUEUE. Same as what we have now, except the request goes into a simple database that tracks address, date of request, and who's handling it, if anyone. 3. THE REQUEST ENGINE. Basically, it goes through and matches volunteers to requests -- at a rate that precisely matches the volunteer's desire to help. If someone can send one DVD / set of CDs a week, that's exactly what we ask them to send. 4. THE BACKLOG. We show the backlog on a webpage, and given the number of requests we have, we estimate a delivery time for every single CD/DVD request we have in the queue. 5. THE RATING. :) Once someone promises to send CDs/DVDs to someone, we need a way to find out if it happened. Actually, what we *really* need is a way to find out if it *didn't* happen. Maybe an "Oops!" counter. If someone accumulates a few Oopses, they'll get a gentle reminder that they made a promise. If they accumulate a bunch of Oopses, they're dropped from the rotation. ===== So. Thoughts? There's some work here, but for a reasonably competent web programmer... it's really not tough. Just requires someone with hands and time. :) Might also be nice to donate such an application to the community at large... --g ------------------------------------------------------------- Greg DeKoenigsberg || Fedora Project || fedoraproject.org Be an Ambassador || http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors -------------------------------------------------------------

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LAN Welche
by Chitlesh GOORAH 31 Mar '06

31 Mar '06

Hai there :) Well, Im invited to give a speech on free software/opensource to about 60 18-years old kids on 22-23 april 2006 http://www.teamfr.com/lanwelche/ Of course, a village nearby Strasbourg, France Place: Salle des loisirs de Lapoutroie (next to the church) This event is about video games on lan, CounterStrike 1.6 (5 vs 5) and Warcraft 3 (1 vs 1) Each participant needs to subscribe for a 7 € ticket which includes. - a sandwich, a drink for one euro - unlimited coffee, just to keep the rhythme - Free Parking - and much more. This event is organised by my friends, who happen to be those to whom I've introduced Fedora :) This explains my invitation :) So about my speech :) My speech will be mostly on opensource software equivalent to propriety softs. Sure, of course more than once the word "fedora" will come out of my mouth. Afterwards those little geeks will eventually have time to ask me questions or share their doubts. Cheers, Chitlesh GOORAH -- http://clunixchit.blogspot.com

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SharedMedia Up and running
by Karlie Robinson 31 Mar '06

31 Mar '06

Yesterday, I was able to bang out the last few details for our Fedora listing with the options of allowing someone to checkout with a disc for someone on the FreeMedia list. The listing is here http://on-disk.com/product_info.php/products_id/97 Please note the start of a FAQ at http://on-disk.com/content.php?citem=on-disk/2006/Fedora-FreeMedia.php As we go along and learn about this new program and get feedback from users, we'll be able to tweak the process. We'll also be adding CD sets with the Media Project Options so we can ship CD sets as well. -- Karlie Robinson Owner, Webpath Technologies On the Web at: http://webpath.net http://on-disk.com http://portal.on-disk.com

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My introduction
by Pawel Sadowski 31 Mar '06

31 Mar '06

Hi, I am Pawel Sadowski and I am from Poland. Actually I am 18. I am Fedora Ambassador in Poland, I just love this operating system ;) I want to promote Fedora and try to convince everybody to use Open Source Software. That's my main goal :) Regards, Pawel Sadowski

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I'm on Holiday!!!
by Tejas Dinkar 30 Mar '06

30 Mar '06

Hey all, I'm going to be unavailable until the 10th, as I'm going on holiday. I WILL have limited access to gmail, so if you have the sudden urge to flame me, or to generally get my attention, please send a mail to tejasdinkar AT gmail DOT com, or CC me if you are sending to the list. Thanks a Load Gja

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New Member introduction
by Karlie Robinson 29 Mar '06

29 Mar '06

Good evening, all. Greg DeKoenigsberg suggested I join this list and introduce myself. First off, I'm Karlie Robinson. I am the Owner of Webpath Technologies in Rochester, NY, USA. Our current focus is On-Disk.com and the Developers Portal at http://portal.on-disk.com What makes On-Disk.com different from the countless other FOSS-on-a-disc vendors, is that we want to be a vehicle for independent software and digital media developers. Allowing them to fund their projects when a user orders a CD/DVD with their release. I won't trouble the list with all the details since most of them can be found on our websites. But, please feel free to email me with any questions you may have. I'm happy to answer them. Now to the reason Greg asked me to write... Background - On-Disk.com will do custom downloads to disc and we get requests for Fedora. So I asked Greg about listing with us via the portal. Due to the vow never to monetize Fedora, listing with us doesn't really work. Since C5 was released, the requests for custom burns warrants adding Fedora to our catalog (which isn't done yet). Today while I was digging in the wiki for fodder for the listing, I came across the FreeMedia project and had an idea. Below is the email I sent to Greg for you to comment upon. (FYI, Todd is my husband/business partner/*nix monkey) I look forward to talking with you, Karlie Robinson On Sun, 26 Mar 2006, Karlie Robinson wrote: > I'm finally beginning to write the Fedora listing for On-disk.com. > > While I was digging around in your wiki for the listing, I came across > more on the FreeMedia project. > > What about using On-Disk.com as a Fedorian Embassy? (yes, I know. > Todd's sense of humor sneaking in) > > You've got people who want to donate money to Fedora, but you're also > saying that you don't have the capacity to keep up with the FreeMedia > requests. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FreeMedia > > Now on to the raw idea... And keep in mind there is probably more than > one way to go about this. > > The price of the DVD at On-Disk will be at the minimum of $4.99 plus > $1.76 Domestic shipping. > > We can add an option to the disc listings so that people ordering Fedora > C5 could add to the price they pay. Say they add $5.75... They would > get the disc they paid for, plus now, they've paid for someone else to > get a disc via the FreeMedia Project. > > Another Option would be someone not wanting a disc from us... they could > pay for a disc and change the ship-to address to trigger it as an > ambassador disc (Fedorian Embassy c/o Fedora Foundation...) > > What we would need to figure out is the reporting system so that > everyone can be on the same page and that we can get discs out in a > timely manner. > > Will it fit within the guise of a contributor willing to burn the DVD's > at their own expense? Just that we'll have a way to get users with > money hooked up with the Ambassadors and more discs out via the > FreeMedia project. > > Your thoughts? > > -- > Karlie Robinson > Owner, Webpath Technologies > On the Web at: > http://webpath.net > http://on-disk.com > http://portal.on-disk.com >

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Yet another review of FC5
by Rahul Sundaram 28 Mar '06

28 Mar '06

Hi More of a installation than a review but take a look anyway. For once, I dont feel compelled to write a response. http://www.partha.com/ Rahul

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FC5 Review
by Tejas Dinkar 28 Mar '06

28 Mar '06

http://www.linuxforums.org/reviews/fedora_core_5_review.html Nice Review Gja

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Re: [ANN] Release Notes Errata - Wiki Freeze
by Jeremy Katz 28 Mar '06

28 Mar '06

On Mon, 2006-03-27 at 17:57 -0600, Robert 'Bob' Jensen wrote: > One question I have for Development is can we then roll these new > updated release notes and translations in to a package update for our > users? Traditionally, we haven't done updates to the fedora-release package to avoid some potential confusion/snafus. It's something we could consider doing I guess. Jeremy

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