UMEET 2007
by Rodrigo Padula de Oliveira
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Hi All!!
Yesterday I presented a talk about the Brazilian Fedora Project at UMEET
http://umeet.uninet.edu/
Beste Regards!
Rodrigo Padula de Oliveira
http://www.projetofedora.org
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16 years, 4 months
Where to go with marketing next?!
by Jonathan Roberts
Hey all,
So, following on from the previous thread, I think it would be useful to
try and figure out what the marketing team is currently doing well, what
we're doing less well, and what we can do in the immediate future (i.e.
the next month) to improve.
I realised this was long and rambly, here's a brief conclusion:
So, in summary: digg more, try and focus our efforts together a bit more
if possible (i.e. FWN CMS or something similar), and pick up the work of
picking out features and builiding press for them earlier in the release
cycles.
What do peole think? What ever you think, I think we should "just do it"
and become pragmatists! Here are some of my immediate thoughts in longer
form:
What we're doing well:
- keeping a tab on all of Fedora's coverage in places
- FWN I would count as marketing and I think do a great job
- the interviews for F8 I think were good
- the release summaries are also super
What we're doing less well:
- Getting stories about Fedora out to the press as a whole (I know
there's been some threads about this, particularly with regard to
working with Red Hat to get more press releases done)
- "viral" marketing: would be cool to see Fedora turning up in more
people's blogs and more on places like Digg and Slashdot
- Not enough talk to with developers
How we can improve immediately over the coming months:
- There's talk of setting up some kind of CMS for FWN that will allow
comments, regular blog posts etc? I think this would be awesome, as
although the weekly summaries as they are rock, one place where we can
post interviews, news as it emerges, weekly summaries would generate a
lot more buzz than it being spread out all over - I think.
- The above is useless if we don't do more to talk with developers and
find out what we should be talking about! Maybe if we accept that they
might not want to blog etc and just monitor feature pages, chat/e-mail
developers regularly when the feature pages show something worthwhile
talking about!
- Places like Digg and Slashdot are community based, they have the idea
that you'll want to digg stories similar to your friends - i.e. other
Fedora users. We should try and make better use of this and put out more
shouts and submit more Fedora related stories :D All the stuff that we
get sent to the marketing-list about Fedora in the news, we should be
digging these stories as well (heh, at least the positive ones!)
16 years, 4 months
Distrowatch on Fedora this year
by Rahul Sundaram
Hi
Do we have a overtly technical image? What we need to do to change it?
http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20071217#news
The positive:
"Fedora was perhaps the most pleasant surprise of the year. Its two
releases (versions 7 and 8) were well-received by reviewers and end
users alike as it continued on its well-established, but highly
innovative development path. Its new artwork team in particular deserves
high marks for its work, but the effort spent merging the "core" and
"extras" repositories before Fedora 7 and the growth of the volunteer
developer community were equally impressive"
Critique
"But despite all these positives, the distribution still fails to
attract first-time Linux users who sometimes complain about the lack of
a central configuration utility or the overly technical nature of the
operating system."
Rahul
16 years, 4 months
The search for a new Fedora leader
by Rahul Sundaram
Hi
http://lwn.net/Articles/262142/
Max Spevack, who has led the Fedora project through a period of great
change and improvement, has announced that the time has come to move on
to other (Fedora-related) challenges. So the project is looking for a
new leader. "The Fedora Project Leader is a full-time Red Hat position,
and so we need to go through a full interview process, etc. None of this
is being done ad-hoc or randomly. The Fedora Board is part of the
process, as is Red Hat's CTO and other managers within the engineering
organization and human resources."
Rahul
16 years, 4 months
FUDcon, Fedora 9, Windoze Games Support Ideas!
by Markus McLaughlin
This is how future FUDcons should take place :
Have a FUDcon for each continent! Have them
all connected virtually so anyone can attend in
that sense! Perhaps, have 2 days devoted to
each FUDcon or a FUDcon that takes place
in each continent at the same time.
As far as marketing, have small ADs printed
in every High-Tech column of every newspaper
in every continent!
As far as Fedora 9, I sure hope Windoze Games
from Win 98 to XP will be supported in WINE or
something similar so we Windoze Gamers won't
be left out!!!
Happy Holidays and a Happy Fedora New Year!
Onward and forward!
Mark McLaughlin
linuxglobe.wordpress.com
Hudson, MA
16 years, 4 months
Re: Voting System Conflicts
by Karsten Wade
(Evilly cross-posted to f-docs-l and f-marketing-l.)
On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 07:06 -0800, Karsten Wade wrote:
> As per this consensus, we'll proceed until the previously decided
> nomination closing time (23:59 UTC today) to see if enough candidates
> appear to stand for FDSCo election. If not, we'll postpone FDSCo
> elections until the end of the month, freeing up the voting system for
> others to use.
We are on the path to having an election. Four people have
self-nominated:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/SteeringCommittee/Nominations
Unless the consensus changes, we'll close the nominations in four hours
and move to the voting phase in two days.
I hope this doesn't put too much of a twist in FAMSCo's plans. FWIW, it
was never clear to me/us why the request was made.
- Karsten
> On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 08:41 +0300, John Babich wrote:
> > On Dec 12, 2007 5:44 AM, Robert 'Bob' Jensen <docs-list(a)fedoralinks.org> wrote:
> > > Paul W. Frields wrote:
> > > > On Tue, 2007-12-11 at 18:33 -0800, Karsten Wade wrote:
> > > >> Moving over to f-docs-l for discussion.
> > > >>
> > > >> FAMSCo is politely requesting our slot to do their elections, since they
> > > >> are now ready; details below.
> > > >>
> > > >> If we had a full slate of candidates, I wouldn't want to move our
> > > >> election and would ask them to take it up after the 24th of December.
> > > >> However, we're a bit shy on candidates.
> > > >>
> > > >> Should we take the extra time?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks for bringing this to the list. FWIW, I think we should decide at
> > > > nomination closing time, 2359 UTC on 2007-12-12. If we don't have
> > > > enough nominations, no reason to make a logjam.
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > > I agree with Paul.
> > >
> > > Robert 'Bob' Jensen
> > >
> > +1
> >
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16 years, 4 months
