marketing November 2007

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What would a Fedora Store sell?
by Máirín Duffy 17 Nov '07

17 Nov '07

Some ideas, let's brainstorm like mad and see what we come up with, no idea is too crazy: - professionally-printed blank DVDs/CDs you can use to burn Fedora to. Comes with a nice blank space for you to write in the version number / arch /etc. - professionally-printed DVD/CD labels again with the blank write-in space. - women's-sized and styled tshirts :) - at least 5 or 6 different tshirts that are stylish, not just a logo and a slogan but something your non-geek friends would actually think looked cool even if they didn't understand what Fedora was. They would pave the way for folks to ask what it is and for you to spread the good word :) - case stickers - sticker sized for laptop - laptop skins - posters... stylish cool designs... stuff that folks can hang up in their cubes or at their school - this one's a bit out there and would take some work but - what if as a Fedora 10 '10 version anniversary' thing we put together a nice book that ran through each release of Fedora with some information about the major features and nice screenshots and artwork for each? E.g. if you bought the special edition of the Final Fantasy 12 game :) It comes with a retrospective of all the games before 12 with a little summary of the plot and screenshots... I'm thinking something like that but in book form. - along similar lines, maybe a DVD of the videos that have been recorded of talks at various FUDcons - tie clasp, cufflinks, pin - something that can be worn more formally - tie!! - winter scarf and matching hat with a bright blue pompom!! ~m

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Another Fedora 8 review
by Rahul Sundaram 16 Nov '07

16 Nov '07

Hi http://adventuresinopensource.blogspot.com/2007/11/another-day-another-dist… "The first thing that strikes you about Fedora is the artwork, it's beautiful and it always has been, even in earlier releases I thought. For me though true beauty runs much deeper than looks alone, nevertheless if you can't abide an "ugly" desktop then Fedora will probably please you." Rahul

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Intro & observations
by Alejo Cerrat0 16 Nov '07

16 Nov '07

Hi, my name is Alejo Cerrato, and I'm Marketing Director of a medium size company in SoFla. I'm very interested in improve my skills on Linux and colaborate with the Fedora Project. So far I've found that if you are not very skilled in Linux it is hard to follow all the steps as they are indicated to succesfully become a contributor. And I guess that there may be people willing to colaborate, but without the minimum Linux skills to do so. For some reason (and I'm not trying to get any help here in this list) I can't validate my CLA. I wonder how many people got discouraged in becoming a contributor because of the complexity of the process, and the intrinsec bureaucracy. I understand at the same time that it has to be done in a secure environment. I'm going to keep on trying and get my CLA validated asap. But at the same time I'll like to help make this process easier for the contributors-to-be, people that may lack Linux knowledge but have other skills that could help. AlejoCerrato.//

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meeting summary from Store SIG
by Max Spevack 15 Nov '07

15 Nov '07

We had the first meeting of the Store SIG today. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Store The wiki page has been updated with open action items, a meeting log, and a meeting schedule. We will meet again next Wednesday at 18:00 GMT in #fedora-mktg Thanks, Max

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Fedora Unity releases Fedora 8 Everything Spin
by Jeroen van Meeuwen 15 Nov '07

15 Nov '07

The Fedora Unity Project is proud to announce the release of new spin, the Everything Spin. Included in this spin are all the packages available at the time Fedora 8 was released. The Everything spin has been long anticipated[1] and is now available for download. The ISO images are available for i386 and x86_64 architectures starting Thursday, November 15th, 2007. This release, unlike the Everything Spin for Fedora 7[2], is made available via Jigdo[3]. We have included CD ISO image sets for those in the Fedora community that do not have DVD drives or burners available, and just because it's fun using them[4]. This spin also includes 3 DVD images for each architecture, as well as 2 DVD Dual Layer images for those who are able to use them. Please mind that the second DVD Dual Layer ISO images is actually small enough to be burned onto a normal DVD. If you are interested in helping with the testing or mirroring efforts, please contact the Fedora Unity team. Contact information is available at http://fedoraunity.org/ or the #fedora-unity channel on the Freenode IRC Network (irc.freenode.net) Go to http://spins.fedoraunity.org/ to get the bits! To report bugs in the Re-Spins please use http://bugs.fedoraunity.org/ Kind regards, Jeroen van Meeuwen Fedora Unity Founder kanarip(a)fedoraunity.org Fedora is a trademark of Red Hat, Inc. [1] "Everything Spin?" -thread on fedora-advisory-board m-l. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-advisory-board/2007-May/msg00028.html [2] Fedora 7 Everything Spin Torrents http://fedora.kanarip.com/torrents/ [3a] Releasing Fedora via Jigdo http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/JigdoRelease [3b] Using Jigdo http://fedorasolved.org/post-install-solutions/jigdo/ [4] Screenshot of Everything (*) Installation using CD images http://kanarip.fedorapeople.org/Fedora-8-Everything%20CD%20Installation%20M…

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Text to Speech Reader Idea for Fedora 9 and beyond
by Markus McLaughlin 15 Nov '07

15 Nov '07

Text to Speech Integration Idea for Fedora 9 and beyond An idea occurred to me when I was walking my Dog last night, there is NO text to speech RSS reader available in Linux! What I mean by that is I am a NEWS Junkie, it would be so SO cool if there was an Open Source Text to Speech RSS Reader which converts a News RSS feed to speech which is then processed into an OGG, AAC, or MP3 file that can be put on any mp3 player! So for instance Late Breaking News is available from the BBC News RSS feeds, a text to speech reader would translate the feed to a male or female British accented voice, which is then recorded instantly to mp3, aac, or ogg! Then the reader moves the file to an Ipod or any other mp3 player out there via built-in Ipod compatible plug-in. It would also be able to do the same with CNN with American accented female or male voices. I hope this idea doesn't fall on "deaf" ears, I think it would be a great free or low cost tool to have on Fedora! Mark McLaughlin linuxglobe.wordpress.com Hudson, MA, USA

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Fedora 8 sees strong adoption in first week
by Rahul Sundaram 14 Nov '07

14 Nov '07

Hi, Digg it: http://digg.com/linux_unix/Fedora_8_sees_strong_adoption_in_first_week http://arstechnica.com/journals/linux.ars/2007/11/12/fedora-8-sees-strong-a… "The latest version of Fedora—codenamed Werewolf—was released last week. According to statistics released this morning by Red Hat, Fedora 8 has been already been installed over 54,000 times in only four days." Rahul

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Re: Fedora 8 sees strong adoption in first week
by Ama M 14 Nov '07

14 Nov '07

Hi Mauricio What do you mean by "Going to Nigeria!!!" ------------------------------------- Ama Mgbeoji http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/AmaMgbeoji ------------------------------------- ----- Original Message ---- From: Mauricio Pretto <mauricio(a)projetofedora.org> To: For discussions about marketing and expanding the Fedora user base <fedora-marketing-list(a)redhat.com> Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 1:11:50 AM Subject: Re: Fedora 8 sees strong adoption in first week http://www.drm.info/ Pretto http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MauricioPretto Davidson Rodrigues Paulo wrote: > 2007/11/13, H. Guémar <karlthered2(a)gmail.com>: >> There are a lot of reason that people don't send their profiles. > > Why not automatically send profiles (if network is up and internet is > reachable) after installation? Privacy issues? > -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list(a)redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list ____________________________________________________________________________________ Get easy, one-click access to your favorites. Make Yahoo! your homepage. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs

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Other language reviews - Fedora 8
by Rahul Sundaram 14 Nov '07

14 Nov '07

Hi I don't have much of a clue what it says though. If anyone can read and give a brief summary especially criticisms, that would be great Czech http://www.root.cz/clanky/fedora-8-nekonecno-na-dosah-ruky/ Hebrew http://linmagazine.co.il/fedora/11/11/2007/fedora-8 German http://www.heise.de/open/artikel/98600/ Italian http://www.tuxmind.altervista.org/?p=419 Rahul

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Store SIG meeting reminder
by Max Spevack 14 Nov '07

14 Nov '07

The Store SIG will have its first meeting on Wednesday at 18:00 GMT in #fedora-marketing. We are going to try to set some goals, and at the end of the meeting I want us to have a target in mind of "what we want to achieve by December 4th, which is 3 weeks away. Here's a few things to get us thinking -- we can talk about them on the list here, or in the meeting tomorrow. (1) I'm glad that people took the contents of the What Should the Store Sell thread and transferred it to the wiki. I would really like it if one or two people could volunteer to be the maintainer of the Store SIG's wiki space, and keep making sure that important things that are discussed over email can get back on the wiki for everyone to see, like, for example, getting tomorrow's IRC log up on the wiki, etc. (2) Ambassador/Event kits. There are two parts to these -- one part is having a way for actual hardware (computers, OLPCs, video cameras) to be sent from event to event. That is a little bit outside the scope of this this SIG right now, because it requires money UP FRONT. But from a swag perspective, what we want is a way for an event organizer to see a list of swag that is available, and buy a whole bunch of it in bulk (therefore getting a cheaper price) and have it shipped to some location. (3) Quality. Lots of complaints about CafePress sucking. That's fine... we don't have to use them. It was just an initial idea. But we need to figure out a way that we can get the AUTOMATION that CafePress offers some other way -- and in a way that can be global. Here is the important thing to remember, as it is the underlying question that we must ask at every step of this process: IS WHAT WE ARE PROPOSING AUTOMATED? If the *entire* process cannot be achieved via the internet, then we are DOING IT WRONG. All previous attempts at swag distribution have failed because they required people to go around mailing shirts and CDs all over the place. No one wants to do that, and it doesn't scale. The first thing that we have to identify is a vendor that can take our designs and handle the actual physical production and shipment of the goods, giving the profits to us and taking a cut for their trouble. We need it to be automated, and high quality. Maybe there are multiple vendors, and the "Fedora Store" just serves as a clearing house that points people in the right direction. spreadshirt.net to me looks like it's exactly the same stuff that cafepress offers. Red Hat uses Brand Fuel, but my main complaint with them is that there are too many middle-men between the designer and an actual product being sold. It's not agile enough to serve the needs of our community. The second thing we have to ask ourselves is "what should the process for creating a new product look like, from the designer's perspective?" I want to make a product-creation process that is as easy as possible for someone like Nicu or Mairin.

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