marketing September 2007

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Fedora 8 Buildup
by Jonathan Roberts 15 Sep '07

15 Sep '07

Hey all, As I mentioned in the earlier thread, I'm going to try and put together a series of pieces about Fedora 8's features. As far as the plan goes for now, I intend to do e-mail interviews with the developers behind each of the features, and where applicable do a "preview" of it with either screencasts or screenshots. I'm working through https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/8/FeatureList sending e-mails to the feature owners and asking them if they'd like to take part. So far I've done the first three and they've all agreed. Once they've agreed I'm writing questions and sending them along as a text file for them to fill their answers in. I'm aware as well that it will be good to get in touch with art/trans/docs as well and get their input at some point along the line. Any feed back on this plan? Where will be the best place to put these online - a page on the wiki perhaps? Also, if anyone wants to help me out immediately, the BuildID feature is pretty technical and if I ask the questions I'm going to struggle to make them interesting or relevant! Any takers to write 5/6 questions Re: this feature? Cheers all, Jon

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Animated fedora logo
by Maxime Carron 14 Sep '07

14 Sep '07

Hi guys Just to let you know what have been done by a french fedora user : 3 animated logos. http://forums.fedora-fr.org/viewtopic.php?pid=192754#p192754 Maxime

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ReviewLinux.Com: Quick Look at the New Fedora Core 8
by Rahul Sundaram 14 Sep '07

14 Sep '07

Hi A hurriedly written glimpse of Fedora 8 test 2. http://www.reviewlinux.com/index.php?m=show&id=7017 "We decided to have a quick look at the new Fedora Core 8. With its GNOME Desktop we found this distribution easy to install. Check out our short Flash Video about Fedora Core 8!" Rahul

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GITEX 2007 Presentation
by John Babich 14 Sep '07

14 Sep '07

As requested, I uploaded my GITEX 2007 Presentation, which was quickly done as an exercise in code reuse, in this case, Greg's Linux Asia 2006 slides. Thanks, Greg! I did, however, update it for Fedora 7 and added a few pithy insights of my own. I put in transitions to show off OpenOffice.org Impress. I also think it's important to explain that this was produced completely in OOo Impress on a Fedora 7 system, especially at a commercial ICT exhibition. The intended audience is the open-minded, non-FOSS ICT professional. Mozilla Firefox and OpenOffice.org, not explicitly mentioned in the presentation, are two FOSS apps which are an excellent bridge from using a certain proprietary OS to switching to Fedora. I used them as examples in my talk, I think, to good effect. The wiki page link is http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Presentations. and the title under the OVERVIEWS section is "All About Fedora (GITEX Edition), John Babich". Best Regards, John Babich Fedora Ambassador

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Thanks from linuxglobe!
by Markus McLaughlin 13 Sep '07

13 Sep '07

I wanted to thank Fedora for posting a live cd for PPC of F8 Test 2! I plan to review it for my site and try to convert more regular folks into linux users.... That is one of linuxglobe's main goals! When I purchase my Imac in early November, I will also have on it, VMware''s Fusion so I can install Fedora 8 on my MAC, running alongside Leopard 10.5! :D I will have Fedora 8 hosting my linuxglobe site, writing with OpenOffice Writer, publishing with Scribus, creating short podcasts with Audacity, and doing some artwork with GIMP! Keep on creating GREAT free software, Fedora!!! :D Mark McLaughlin linuxglobe.wordpress.com

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Infinite Possibilities = Ultimate FREE Resources
by Markus McLaughlin 13 Sep '07

13 Sep '07

I am back from vacation and I love the slogan "Infinite Possibilities" for Fedora 8! When I think of that I keep thinking of that VAST image of the Jedi Library from Episode 2, it's like the biggest Library in the world, at least in the Star Wars universe. Libraries has always been the best FREEST resource for expanding your world. I truly think, Fedora 8, 9, or 10 should be targeting Libraries all over the world, since both Fedora and a Library represent infinite possibilities and truly FREE resources to expand your knowledge and world! Don't just show images of horizons, but of libraries of books that encompass so many ideas and thoughts. I keep seeing in my mind a Library of images representing ideas converging into a dark blue horizon, almost like a sunset. You may think that sounds crazy but I love these images appearing in my mind now. So I thought share them here... Mark McLaughlin - linuxglobe.wordpress.com

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F8 graphics for marketing
by Nicu Buculei 13 Sep '07

13 Sep '07

With the desktop graphics for F8 (the Infinity theme) almost done, probably is the time to start talking about the graphics needed for marketing materials. We at the Art Team have a to-do: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/F8Themes#head-8008c22393767fe950d2cf6… but it is defined generic as "marketing materials". To jump-start the discuss, I made a few very simple web graphics (probably not polished enough to go to the wiki): http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/2007/09/f8-infinity-web-banners-and-buttons.ht… -- nicu :: http://nicubunu.ro :: http://nicubunu.blogspot.com Cool Fedora wallpapers: http://fedora.nicubunu.ro/wallpapers/ Open Clip Art Library: http://www.openclipart.org my Fedora stuff: http://fedora.nicubunu.ro

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Editorial on competition and choice
by Rahul Sundaram 11 Sep '07

11 Sep '07

Hi http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20070910#feature "The first step would be for Spevack (and other distribution project managers) to admit that Ubuntu has done something right. The second would be to recognise that popularity isn't "fanboyism." It's all very nice to say in an interview that "our distribution is the best and that people will eventually notice." The uneasy truth is, however, that people aren't choosing Fedora, Mandriva or openSUSE, they are choosing Ubuntu. And while it's great to see so much enthusiasm for a Linux distro, I feel uneasy about the growing dominance of one sole project, no matter how good, user-friendly or innovative it is." Rahul

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OSS in non tech business at the United Nations
by Karlie Robinson 11 Sep '07

11 Sep '07

Good morning everyone. I received the email below and I was wondering if any of you know of non-tech businesses using OSS? If so, could you please contact Mr. Eckenrode directly? While this seems to be an Ubuntu related project It could be an opportunity to expand the scope beyond Ubuntu and show the flexibility of OSS. Thanks, Karlie -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Enquiry from On-Disk.com Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 01:15:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Nathan Eckenrode <n8k99(a)newyork-ubuntu.com> To: On-Disk.com <on-disk(a)on-disk.com> I am looking for people who are involved in businesses in New York, preferably non IT related businesses who have switched to using Free and Open Source Software. If you know of anyone who fits this description who would be willing to share their experience with the United Nations on Oct 16, would you please facilitate communications between us so that arrangements can be made for this to happen. Much thanks!

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Minority: helping upstream to market their product
by Chitlesh GOORAH 11 Sep '07

11 Sep '07

Hello there, In any linux event, contributors from various distributions talk about their particular distribution. No one talk about opensource projects for electronic simulation. In fact it can be considered as a minority in the opensource world. It is sad but it is the truth. However I want to push (with your help) these projects forward in terms of marketing and distribution. For the moment, Fedora is the Leader in terms of distribution of opensource electronic CADs. (thanks to various fedora contributors) http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/FedoraElectronicLab If one is familiar with proprietary electronic CADs he/she will notice that: * open source CADs lacks many features * proprietary electronic CADs companies are changing various languages such as VHDL, verilog implementations and standards in order to protect their property. * 98% of proprietary electronic CADs built and shipped their products under RHEL. Their Installation manuals includes RHEL as well. In other words, RPM distros are well known for electronic simulations. * proprietary electronic CADs are installed on RHEL/fedora or its clones. * Proprietary electronic CADs are expensive and those using them having more that 20 computers running these CADs. Thus at least 20 computers running RPM based distributions. As for the open source projects for electronic simulations, their developers are neither geeks nor full time software developers but electronic engineers and university lecturers. There are very few developers. These days, projects such as gEDA and gnucap are active and paving their way to attract professional designers/engineers. If one will follow gEDA user mailing list, he/she will notice most of them are fedora users. As for their developers are some individuals scattered around the world. They can't not afford to prepare a booth for an event and talk about their product. Thus I'm asking everyone reading this mail, please take some time to think and tell me how can fedora help these projects knowing that more than 60% of their user base is fedora users. I'm proposing during any event that Fedora is present, we could let some individuals (upstream of these electronic simulators) stay at our booth and talk about their product. Possibly if fedora lacks contributors to give speech, we can allocate some time to them. Surely, we give fedora contributors the priority first and use fedora banners at our booth. In the past, in Germany(Chemnitz), we let Centos distribute their flyers at our booth and share good relationships with Centos. Perhaps we can do the same for the minority projects. If everyone agrees, we could propose something like: every fedora ambassador preparing an event decide whether he/she is willing to let upstream to join his/her team at the booth. Things that I think we shouldn't do is: * using fedora money to pay the hotel/voyage of those upstream * print flyers for upstream Many opensource advocates the use of opensource file formats or implementations. 90% of the time, they talk about microsoft office/OOO, mp3/ogg, png ... But everyone forgets the Hardware Description Languages such as VHDL,verilog and SystemC. If one google verilog, he/she will find various verilog from various vendors. Why ? I think you can figure it out by yourself. Fedora talks about innovation. Can Fedora Marketing/ambassadors afford a little innovation in terms of spreading the word about opensource ? I understand that it is a fair new subject for many of you here. I'll try to find time and prepare some notes and OOO presentations of these languages/softwares before F8's release. The developers of active opensource electronic cads (I know of) are * 2 from France: (piklab&alliance) * 1 from Germany/Swiss german, next to Gerold :) (gEDA) * 4 from USA (gEDA & gnucap) Lately, I've been promoting the next "Fedora Electronic Lab" livecd near these upstream. Most of the university lecturers (the developers) said that they will recommend it to their students. Thus we will not only expand the fedora user base, but will also have upstreams do the marketing for fedora. Meanwhile, I'll wait for your suggestions on how we can proceed,... Chitlesh -- http://clunixchit.blogspot.com

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