Now more than ever, LINUX needs to be known!
by Markus McLaughlin
With the economy on the brink of recession, LINUX could save the day for
everyone needing a reliable Operating System! We need to reach out to
Windoze/Mac Users who haven't taken the plunge yet.
What can we do to lure them in?
Markus McLaughlin
linuxglobe.wordpress.com
Hudson, MA
15 years, 6 months
Re: Wikipidia - Goodbye Red Hat and Fedora
by Kam Salisbury
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-----Original Message-----
From: Steven Moix <steven.moix(a)axianet.ch>
Subj: Re: Wikipidia - Goodbye Red Hat and Fedora
Date: Fri Oct 10, 2008 9:27 am
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To: For discussions about marketing and expanding the Fedora user base <fedora-marketing-list(a)redhat.com>
On Fri, 2008-10-10 at 09:42 -0300, Rodrigo Padula de Oliveira wrote:
> Hello Guys!
>
> Read this bad news:
>
> http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php/id;1474805050;fp;16;fpid;1
>
> This is happening frequently. I think we will have to revise some things
> within the project, particularly the creation of a Legacy project or a
> Fedora LTS.
>
> The brazilian government, one of the biggest Fedora Case of the world is
> changing from Fedora/ Red Hat to Ubuntu/Debian.
>
> We need to think and create a solution to give support by a long time or
> the fedora user will decrease!
>
> My 0,02
Frankly, that's what RHEL/CentOS are for. Taking Fedora as a long term
server solution was a mistake in their side IMO. Fedora Legacy exited
and died due to a lack of interest.
Steven
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Re: Wikipidia - Goodbye Red Hat and Fedora
by Kam Salisbury
I am hesitant to use the word reccommend concerning a specific operating system. Educate is a better word when the focus is about choice.
Everyone is different and likewise their solutions to technology problems will be different. it should be our first goal, when discussing Linux, to educate that there are alternatives - Fedora being one of them.
My .02
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-----Original Message-----
From: Rodrigo Padula de Oliveira <rodrigopadula(a)projetofedora.org>
Subj: Re: Wikipidia - Goodbye Red Hat and Fedora
Date: Fri Oct 10, 2008 9:52 am
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To: bochecha(a)fedoraproject.org;For discussions about marketing and expanding the Fedora user base <fedora-marketing-list(a)redhat.com>
Mathieu Bridon (bochecha) escreveu:
>> Hello Guys!
>>
>> Read this bad news:
>>
>> http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php/id;1474805050;fp;16;fpid;1
>>
>> This is happening frequently. I think we will have to revise some things
>> within the project, particularly the creation of a Legacy project or a
>> Fedora LTS.
>
> There is a Fedora LTS. It's called RHEL or CentOS.
So, we are working here to recommend Red Hat and CENTOS ??
That's the question, Ubuntu has a LTS, Fedora don't! That's the main
problem of the Fedora Project.
Today, we have many users! With this idea to recommend Centos and Red
Hat, we will have a lot of users in the future ?
Thinking in this way, we will hear frequently "Fedora is a beta tester
version to add and improve technologies for Red Hat EL ".
For me and for marketing, it isn't a great decision!
Now i'm presenting lectures in all Brazilian states and i can't talk
about this.. USE CENTOS OR RHEL. I have to recommend Fedora.
I'm here to represent and spread fedora, not Centos or Red hat EL.
>
>> The brazilian government, one of the biggest Fedora Case of the world is
>> changing from Fedora/ Red Hat to Ubuntu/Debian.
>>
>> We need to think and create a solution to give support by a long time or
>> the fedora user will decrease!
>
> Or maybe Fedora is not a suitable system for production use. Think about
> it: updating all your servers (and in the case of Wikipedia there must be
> hundreds) each year ?
>
> Do you know what system the Fedora Infrastructure is using ? At least for
> Fedora People, that's CentOS, not Fedora (and the contrary would be really
> surprising).
>
>
> ----------
>
> Mathieu Bridon (bochecha)
> French Fedora Ambassador
>
> ----------
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> safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." ~Benjamin Franklin
>
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15 years, 6 months
Five second boot mod for ASUS Eee PC
by Rahul Sundaram
Hi,
http://www.slashgear.com/five-second-boot-mod-for-asus-eee-pc-0618430/
"Netbooks would be a whole lot more believable as companion devices if
they switched on as fast as, say, a smartphone or PDA. However the
combination of Intel’s Atom and generally wheezing specs tend to make
starting-up - or resuming from standby - measure more around the one
minute mark than anything less. Two Intel engineers might be looking to
change all that, though; at a recent Linux conference, they demonstrated
an ASUS Eee PC that could boot to a Fedora desktop in just five seconds"
Rahul
15 years, 6 months
FOSS.my 2008
by syamsul anuar
Greetings All,
The Open Source Community Malaysia will be hosting FOSS.my 2008 on the 8th
and 9th of November 2008 (more info http://foss.my) to showcase the best of
Open Source in Malaysia and the world. All of you are welcome to attend this
event and hope to see you there!
Fedora Ambassador Malaysia team will be hosting a booth during the event. As
this is our first time doing any kind of event (as we are a quite small team
compared to Ubuntu Malaysia team) we would like some suggestions, Live
Media's (100-200 pcs would do) and any kind of assistance for the event. We
are also unclear regarding the procedure to request any amount of money or
other type of sponsorship / CDs.
Our idea as of now is selling and giving away T-Shirts, Live USB demo /
Revisor and some install fest. Would like more idea from the community
regarding this matter.
Kindly pls assist.
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15 years, 6 months
Re: Getting out the vote for the Fedora 10 election season
by Nigel Jones
Apologies in advance for digging up an old subject but I only just
remembered about this discussion and I'd like to weigh in a few
thoughts/notes...
Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> Okay lets agree on a timeline for when we have to think about going
> with a wiki based plan B for candidate Q/A. I know Nigel is
> superhuman, but things happen, and if the functionality for the voting
> doesn't make it in time I don't want to have this block on pushing him
> to get it done. And I don't want to drive people to two different
> locations, if I can avoid it.
>
> If the the voting app doesn't have the Q/A functionality by Nov. 7
> should we just go ahead and tell people to use the wiki for Q/A?
> it would help if we could firm up the actual election date, but the
> actual timeframe (Dec vs Jan) seems to depend on whether F10 slips
> too much or not.
I'm currently working on the elections application now to do this, I may
not get it done this week, but I can sure try :)
Unlike Jeff's suggestion I'm not superhuman, but I'll try my best to do
it by November 7 :)
Jonathan Roberts wrote:
>> As a start is there a general need to raise the awareness of the
>> election and voting process we are using?
>> Can we generate general interest material covering topics like:
>> Why vote? How do you qualify for voting? What's this range voting
stuff?
>
> Yes. I'd suggest this is something we should tackle *now*. I'll even
> volunteer to write something tomorrow and bring it to the mktg meeting
> tomorrow for feedback.
This is actually something I've been working on myself @
http://nigelj.fedorapeople.org/feg
It is _very_ raw and I still have not imported the XML into git (I
should the repo is there and ready), if anyone from Marketing wants to
help let me know, I'll also post a note to fedora-docs-list soon
(I should note that it needs a massive update before it'll be correct
for the new election)
I have one final request for now...
If there is ANYTHING you can think of that can make the elections
experience better for candidates, voters or anyone in general, please
file an RFE at https://fedorahosted.org/elections after checking that
someone hasn't beaten you to it
(https://fedorahosted.org/elections/report/1).
It'll make it a lot easier for me, not having to guess what people want,
and if I can do it in time, it should appear for the Board elections!
Cheers,
Nigel Jones
Elections Guru
(Turns out that it helps to send from the right account...)
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15 years, 6 months
Re: FWN: Facebook page
by Pascal Calarco
Paul W. Frields wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 05, 2008 at 09:47:26AM -0400, Pascal Calarco wrote:
>
>> I thought I would try to raise the visibility of FWN a bit by creating a
>> Facebook page for FWN, as a 'communications product' type of Fan page.
>> Not high impact, but another vector that advances the publication, the
>> project, and the brand.
>>
>> Suggestions and revisions most welcome!
>>
>> http://www.facebook.com/pages/Fedora-Weekly-News/33564906746
>>
>
> The splintering of pages on Facebook continues to be an issue with a
> lot of FB users. Have you considered getting added to the existing
> Fedora groups somehow, and submitting stories to those pages instead?
>
> http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=11454680248&ref=ts
> http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=2205138518&ref=ts
>
> I don't know that much about Facebook groups and how they operate, so
> maybe there's a way to "subscribe" your group to the others, in which
> case it wouldn't matter whether it's separate or not. Good luck!
>
Agreed. Search for 'Fedora' in Facebook and you get many pages with a
wide variety of utility and authority. Perhaps a few of us in the
marketing list could work on what Paul suggests here? Anyone up for
this? There is also a semi-official Fedora Ambassadors page on FB that
would be good if it could be made official.
- pascal
15 years, 6 months
FUEL: An initiative in language standardization via collaboration
by Rahul Sundaram
Hi,
http://www.linux.com/feature/149038
"FUEL (Frequently Used Entries for Localization) aims to solve the
problem of inconsistency and lack of standardization in computer
software translation in a new and unique way. Initiated by Red Hat, the
project is trying to give a better experience to end users of a
localized desktop by resolving the issues of standardization and
inconsistency."
"FUEL is an attempt to standardize terms for the whole desktop instead
of concentrating on different applications separately. At present, FUEL
incorporates representative entries from the GNOME desktop,
OpenOffice.org, Firefox browser, Evolution email client, and Pidgin
instant messenger, so that it can have at least all the entries that a
normal user uses very frequently. Later, on demand from communities,
FUEL can incorporate more applications in its list from different projects."
Rahul
15 years, 6 months
"Fedora Remix" etymology
by Paul W. Frields
I've seen one or two comments popping up on some news sites in
response to the "Fedora Remix" proposal that indicate people
mistakenly believe this term originated with Canonical and/or Ubuntu.
That is not the case. During the run-up to release of Fedora 7, back
in the spring and summer of 2007, we were already talking about the
remix concept being a part of Fedora. In fact, those tools were a
major release feature.
I wanted to put this information out in B&W for the Marketing team so
you can discuss how we can best put the idea forward. I would rather
this be more of a pro-active move than having to find misinformation
and step on it.
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