marketing September 2007

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I will be HAPPY to distribute Fedora 8 Live CD in New England USA! :D
by Markus McLaughlin 23 Sep '07

23 Sep '07

I will be happy to distribute/mail Fedora 8 Live CD (the day after it is on the servers) if 100 people out here in New England USA request it. As part of linuxglobe's (linuxglobe.wordpress.com) mission to make Linux known in USA, I will be honored to take up the task! CDs are very inexpensive and Live CD's are the way to go to introduce Fedora without ruining a Windoze PC! :D So PLEASE put my e-mail (hudsonman35(a)gmail.com) address on your Free Media Distribution List, I don't know how that works anyway, ha ha! I hope I can be a worthy Fedora Ambassador via linuxglobe! Mark McLaughlin linuxglobe.wordpress.com Hudson, MA

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F8 Build Up - Interview 2
by Jonathan Roberts 22 Sep '07

22 Sep '07

Hey all, Just to let you know I've put the second interview of the feature preview series up: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Interviews/MartinSourada This one's about Nodoka, the new default theme making its debut in Fedora 8 Test 2 and is a good read... If you think it's an interesting read, or just want to help Fedora get a bit of extra attention, visit Digg and give it your vote (it would be hugely appreciated :p): http://digg.com/linux_unix/Fedora_s_new_theme_Nodoka Enjoy! Jon

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RPM Fusion
by Rahul Sundaram 22 Sep '07

22 Sep '07

Hi We are discussing with Red Hat Legal the possibility of linking to the free software portion of the repository for codec buddy and in our documentation. I am hopeful that this will happen. http://lwn.net/Articles/249324/ "The RPM Fusion Project was announced this week. Three repositories, Dribble, Freshrpms and Livna will merge to provide Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux users with add-on software packages." "This will actually be separated into two repositories. One for free and the other for non-free software (as defined by the Fedora Packaging Guidelines). The free repository, presumably hosted outside the U.S., will contain software that cannot be packaged by Fedora because of U.S. restrictions (patents), but is considered free in other parts of the world. The current thought is that it should be possible for Fedora to link to this repository from the main Fedora site, although I don't think that the Red Hat legal department has had its final say." Rahul

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Fedora reaching out to new niches
by Rahul Sundaram 22 Sep '07

22 Sep '07

Hi This article covers the ongoing efforts on making it easier to create new spins with missing out potentially important new effort that is ongoing to make it easier to do rebranding of Fedora via a generic logos package. Amoung the points made in the conclusion in a positive way is a statement that Fedora has had a reputation for not working in the community. I would be interested to hear from contributors and users if they have indeed felt that way and why. http://lwn.net/Articles/249251 "It remains to be seen if any of these spins become popular, but it may be a good way to introduce new users to Fedora. It is unlikely that power users will find a spin that covers all of what they use, but they just might find one that serves as a good starting point. They can either customize their own spin from there or use the usual repository tools to grab whatever extras they need. For a distribution that, until recently, had a reputation for not working with the community, this effort may go a long way towards erasing that history." Rahu

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Create custom versions of Fedora by 'respinning' it with Revisor
by Rahul Sundaram 22 Sep '07

22 Sep '07

Hi A nice detailed review of revisor in Fedora 7. Note that revisor now supports a command line interface, RHEL 5 too and is in the EPEL repository. http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/2415-7343_11-157495.html "I was skeptical about Fedora 7 when it first came out, but the Revisor tool removes any of the skepticism brought about by the idea of "spins." Revisor will allow you to truly create your own version of Fedora: you can create KDE-only, GNOME-only, or no-GUI-server-only. I was very close to dropping Fedora as my OS of choice, but Revisor has, well, revised that opinion" Rahul

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Question about our Brand
by Mike McGrath 21 Sep '07

21 Sep '07

Do we have anything like an official brand book? Could someone answer the following questions (and tell me how we're promoting others to do them?) 1) Should we refer to ourselves as "Fedora" or the "Fedora Project"? 2) When someone asks "What is Fedora" what is our official answer? 3) How do we know our ambassadors are sending a consistent message? Do we even want them to? 4) When someone asks about the Fedora Project's relationship with Red Hat what do we say? 5) When someone asks about Fedora's relationship with RHEL what do we say? I'm sure I could come up with a whole list of questions but you get the idea. I may be missing some history there too as I'm not normally active in marketing (because I have no background/training in it :) -Mike

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GITEX 2007 (The Final Post)
by John Babich 21 Sep '07

21 Sep '07

As the organizer of Fedora's first presence at GITEX - now that I have had a week or so to reflect on (recover from) the show - what went well and what can we do better? WHAT WENT WELL * PLANNING: By giving Red Hat plenty of advance notice, Red Hat graciously provided us with a demo pod and HP desktop. The desktop with integrated Intel graphics allowed us to wow the passers-by with wobbly windows and rotating cubes - eye candy, but eye-catching, important at a large show. A special thanks to Veronique Borel, who organized Red Hat's presence at GITEX. * BLOGGING: Posting about the Fedora Project at GITEX was well worth the effort. Incidentally, we were the top page rank for GITEX on Google for quite a few weeks. Thanks to the Fedorans who encouraged me to blog. * ONE-ON-ONE: Lloyd Almeida and I, as Fedora Ambassadors, spoke to dozens of people about Fedora and FOSS. Lloyd, who works in Dubai, made contacts for the linux user group he hopes to start up soon. Thanks, Lloyd, for your invaluable help and enthusiasm. * MEDIA (CDs and DVDs): All told, we distributed hundreds of media to the crowds. Red Hat shipped about 400 Fedora 7 DVDs to the show, which were put to good use. Red Hat and the RH partners were very helpful in spreading the word about Fedora. They gladly handed out Fedora DVDs and Live CDs. Thank you to my fellow RedHat EMEA, OpenNet MEA, Margirus, AMD and IT University booth dwellers. * BROCHURE: The Fedora Project flyer in both English and Arabic was a great tool. The excellent artwork gave a very positive impression of the Fedora Project. Thanks, Ahmed Kamal, for your bilingual design. * OLPC: The OLPC XO laptop was well-displayed and caused quite a stir. I was able to speak to several VIPs about this significant educational project. Yes, the technology is cool, too. Thank you to the Red Hat and Fedora people involved in the OLPC project. * BUDGET: On a personal note, I stayed within my modest budget in a very expensive city. Thanks, Bill, for putting me up and putting up with me. WHAT WE CAN DO BETTER * I personally printed the two-sided flyers on a deskjet printer at Bill's villa. Next time, I'll get them professionally printed. * More Fedora ambassadors would be very welcome. Lloyd and I could only cover 3 out of 5 days of the show. (We did have some ambassadors who volunteered, but were unable to attend due to the prohibitive cost of flights and hotels in Dubai.) * I would like to present a booth talk on the One Laptop Per Child, perhaps in a more official capacity. CONCLUSION Going to the GITEX commercial exhibition, with a little help from my friends, was definitely worthwhile. I believe we, as Fedora Ambassadors, were able to inform people about the advantages of free and open source software. I found it personally rewarding to demonstrate the OLPC XO laptop and to introduce people to the Fedora Project. Best Regards, John Babich Fedora Ambassador

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Xen Fedora 7 How to
by Marc Wiriadisastra 21 Sep '07

21 Sep '07

http://www.howtoforge.com/xen_gui_fedora_7_desktop While the how to is related to marketing in a sense. What I found most surprising was that it was on the front page of Digg. I haven't seen a lot of Fedora info on the front page of Digg (linux/unix) so I thought I would post this to the list to just point this out. Seems like Fedora is being significant inroads in the contribution of the tools for Xen. Good work to the devs. Cheers, Marc

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GNOME 2.2 and Fedora 7 & F8 Test 3 Inquiries
by Markus McLaughlin 21 Sep '07

21 Sep '07

How does one upgrade to GNOME 2.20 on Fedora 7? Will F8 Test 3 be using GNOME 2.20 and will it be under 700 MB? I couldn't test out Test 2 of F8 so I hope Test 3 will run better as a Live CD on PPC machines as well as Installations on the other systems... linuxglobe is always looking for Fedora and RHEL Users/Developers who are willing to share their experiences... Mark McLaughlin - linuxglobe.wordpress.com

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First stickers
by Giacomo Succi 21 Sep '07

21 Sep '07

Following the suggestion of Mo I've put all my stickers on the Wiki. I hope you like them. Obviously critics/comments/suggestions are welcome^^! http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/MarketingCollateral Happy Fedoring x)! -- Giacomo Succi -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- Contacts: eMail: giacomo_succi(a)email.it; AIM: Anandir82 Y!: anandir82; ICQ: 135781176 J: Anandir(a)jabber.org; MSN: anandir(a)email.it Skype: anandir82 GPG: 0x52CDCA27 GPG Server: pool.sks-keyservers.net -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-

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